Good practices in the global T&C industry

ITC seeks to select a vendor to produce a written guidebook on best practices in the T&C sector worldwide.  This guidebook should describe best practices at enterprise level along the garment value chain, including shop-floor best practices, material sourcing and how to move from “Cut Make Trim” (CMT) to “Free on Board” (FOB) business, product development, developing a merchandizing department, design development and branding, export marketing, social and environmental compliance, etc. Good practices should also be identified and described at the institutional (sector association) level, including the institutional ecosystem supporting the sector, on how to support enterprises to achieve the above in their move from CMT to FOB and full package development. It will be required to:

Identify, describe and relate best practices in the T&C industry to concrete examples in the following areas:

• Lean management at enterprise level
• Quality management at enterprise level
• Reduction of standard minute costs
• How to move from CMT to FoB
• How to move from FoB to a full package approach
• How to start material sourcing
• How to develop product development skills
• How to develop its own product and branding approach
• How to successfully engage in e-commerce
• Good practices in social compliance
• Good practices in starting environmental compliance, resource efficiency and circular production practices
• Collaboration among enterprises that work in the same product category but that realised that working together is more beneficial than competing
• Best practices at institutional level to support companies in the above areas

The vendor is encouraged to identify additional areas of good practices and suggest them to ITC to include it in the guide.