Question

Your product is a recyclable sustainable cocktail dress from REFORMATION, The demographics of the sustainable recycle cocktail dress are middle aged and old women. The reason why they buy the dress is because they are aware of environmental sustainability and by purchasing the recycle cocktail dress they are indirectly contributing to environmental conservation

• when read about sourcing, should be outsource, or offshore, if so where? Why?
• Consider your strategy, your geographical, why choose that place, is there a really good reason for supply channel? Do you think the organization have internal capability to do it?
• Loan/agile supply chains. Do you want to use agent , or factory, or do you want to do everything yourself?
• **better to give a specific factory (big one) to make it**

Answer 1

Considering the product , it is a recyclable sustainable cocktail dress from REFORMATION.

Now let us look into the sourcing types ,

1) Offshore sourcing:- It is basically getting work done in a different country to take maximum advantages when it comes to cost.

2) Outsourcing :- This refers to an organization contracting their work to the third party and getting the work done.

For the above example the best strategy would be outsourcing because the company can look into specialized new skills , new ideas , cost efficient , labor availability and flexibility. The major advantage is that outsourcing can acquire services anywhere in the world which makes the best for operation. Difficulties like certain functions of an organization become operationally uncontrolled ,outsourcing helps to overcome such problem.

REFORMATION has its headquarter at Los Angeles so if the above strategy is used i,e outsourcing , it would be better to supply channel in the same place.

1) Lean supply chain:- It focuses on cutting the cost and producing high volume with low variables.

2) Agile supply chain:- It focuses on customized smaller batches of items responding the market needs.

It is better to go with Agile supply chain where people need change everyday and agile supply chain is very flexible and adaptable in meeting market demands.

A factory would be a better idea when meeting market demands and time duration and many other parameters should be met.