Generate Best Practices Across Continents
Mast Industries (Far East) Limited (Mast) is one of the world’s largest contract manufacturers, importers, and distributors of apparel and multi-brand speciality retailers.
Mast consulted TQM for seeking improvement in the productivity of its sportswear purchasing operations in Southeast Asia.
Project Scope
- Liaise with US Mast consultants to identify improvement areas
- Collect & analyze purchase information from Mast SE Asia
Achievements
- Assisted in identifying 29 critical points of sport suits purchasing
- Distinguished value-adding activities
- Redesigned workflow to eliminate non-value adding activities & rectify bad working habits
- Increased 20% time efficiency of purchasing personnel in SE Asia
- Provided 32 practical solutions for further improvement practices