Shipping Assignment

Ways:
Railways
 This is one of the major paths for domestic movement and transfer of goods
 International route is also offered
 This is the most budget transportation both for passengers and goods
Merits
 Large carrying capacity

 It is economical
 It is all weather modes
 It has containerization
 It links international markets
Demerits
 Costlier over short distances

 Slower movement
 Inordinate delays
Roadways
 This is the middle range offer of transportation

 This segment is preferably used to cross comparatively short distance
 This section is time effective but bit costly than railways
Merits
 Economical over short distances

 Speedier movement
 Touching for-flung markets (facility out from rail coverage)
 Lesser conditions of service
Demerits:
 Non-economical over long distances

 It is fair weather friend
 Not suitable for bulk transport
Airways
 Highest time effective path

 Highly expensive
 Provides higher means of restrictions over nature and types of consignment
 Provides higher means of security
Merits
 Fastest means of transport

 All weather friendly
 Consumer satisfaction
 Reduced inventory holdings
Demerits
 It is costlier means of transport

 Limited coverage
 Limited cargo capacity
Waterways
 Time consuming
 Greatly depends on weather and natural changes
 Good cost efficient
 Most of lands are connected
 Provide great opportunities to transport from under developed sections around the globe
Merits
 It is cheaper means of transport

 Most suitable for heavy and fragile products
 Loading and unloading facilities
 No problem of congestion
Demerits
 Slow speed
 Unreliable
 Limited service
Pipe-Lines
 Pipe-lines are the specialized means of transportation designed to move the items like crude-oil,
petroleum, chemicals, coal, lime-stone, iron-ore, copper concentrates and gas
Merits
 Economical
 Uninterrupted service
 No danger of wastage
 Underground
Demerits
 Initial heavy investment

 Point of attraction of enemy attacks
 Chances of sabotaging/ revenge
 Leakages cause great inconvenience around the total service
Work order
It is usually a task or a job for a customer that can be scheduled or assigned to someone. Such an order
may be from a customer request or created internally within the organization. Work orders may also be
created as follow ups to Inspections or Audits.
A work order may include one or more of the following:
 Instructions
 Cost estimates
 Forms
 Date and time to execute the work order
 Information about the location and entities to execute the work order and
 The person to whom the work order is assigned
Work order process
It is the systematic way in which a new job and its tasks are moved through your various operational
steps
T&A
Time and Action (TNA) is one of the most important tools for managing a project. In garment
manufacturing each order is not less than a project to a merchant because from order receiving to
completion of an order it involves a number of tasks of various timelines and utilization of various
resources. T&A defines the ideal date/time period within which the major activities of an order should
occur against a scheduled delivery window.
T&A in Garment Industry
Garment pre-production and merchandising functions are characterized by people in an organization

doing multiple activities. While some of the activities are dependent and follow each other, a few others
are independent. Every garment company takes enormous care during the planning of an order. Every
little detail is interwoven into the planning system. It consists of short term and long term plans.
T&A is a most effective communication tool that proves it to be useful to this task. The chart consists of
time frames listed for every action planned (major ones) and these actions need to be earned out on
time.
Structure
 Process flow of an order with the list of task which need to be performed
 Production capacity of cutting, sewing, washing and finishing
 For sewing – batch wise and product wise capacity (production per day per batch)
 Lead time of activities, e.g. raw material lead time, sampling lead time, etc.
 Shipment date or planned ex-factory date
Importance
 It helps to streamline the pre-production activities

 Easy understanding of order processing
 Clear understanding of timelines given by buyer
 It gives the clear idea about the minor or sub activities
 TNA gives the idea about the status of running order and talks about delay or deviation
 TNA gives the dates at which raw material need to be sourced in optimized way
 TNA also reduces the risk of delivery delay
Factors need to be considered while preparing T&A
 Production capacity of plant

 Style type of merchandise
 Festivals of manufacturing country
 Holidays
 Shipment details
 Festivals of country from where raw material is imported
 Logistics facilities
 Lead time estimated by buyer
 Style complications
 Fabric and trims manufacturing complications
 Buffer required from each department
 Political stability of the country
 Flexibility of freight forwarder
 Response time from buyer at different stages
 Lead times of various activities like L/C payment, custom clearance, etc
 Cut off dates for shipments
 Absenteeism

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Ways:

 Large carrying capacity

 Costlier over short distances

 This is the middle range offer of transportation

 Economical over short distances

 Non-economical over long distances

 Highest time effective path

 Fastest means of transport

 It is costlier means of transport

 It is cheaper means of transport

 Initial heavy investment

A work order may include one or more of the following:

Work order process

T&A in Garment Industry

Garment pre-production and merchandising functions are characterized by people in an organization

 It helps to streamline the pre-production activities

Factors need to be considered while preparing T&A

 Production capacity of plant

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