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A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing - Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries Abernathy, Frederick H. (Lawrence Professor of Engineering, Lawrence Professor of Engineering)
A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing - Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries
Abernathy, Frederick H. (Lawrence Professor of Engineering, Lawrence Professor of Engineering)
Explains the major changes in the textile and clothing industry that are taking place mostly in the USA. Shows the central role of information systems in providing data on sales at the retail level that is communicated back through the system to garment distributors, manufacturers, designers, and to the starting point: the manufacturers of the cloth from which the garments are made.
384 pages, 39 line drawings
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 29, 1999 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195126150 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 384 |
| Dimensions | 162 × 237 × 34 mm · 778 g |