Career episode
Mae Ann M. de Leon IndustrialEngineer
[]CAREER EPISODE 1 1
Introduction
CE1.1Project Name
: Embroidery Production Expansion (Capacity Planning)
Chronology
: August 2010 ± Present
Position
: Deputy Manager - Planning
Name of the Organisation
: WestPoint Home (Bahrain) W.L.L.
Location
: South Alba Industrial Area, Askar, Kingdom of Bahrain
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ckground
CE1.2
Currently, our company owns 5 embroidery machines. In addition to thesecapacities, we still source more than 100% of our capacity because of highdemands of embroidery products these days and we cannot accommodate all of iton the specified time. The Company (WPH) is considering an expansion for ourembroidery production department. Factors affecting this proposal are thefollowing reasons:
Embroidered products are giving more profit to the company.
Huge amount of money being allocated for air and sea shipments (exporting-sending of fabric for embroidery/importing back from the suppliers).
Higher price of suppliers compare to our in-house price (approximately 20-35% higher).
Longer lead-time required for sending and taking back the fabric (14 daysFCL or 28 days LCL or 7 days air shipping ± only for one way in addition tousual 4 weeks production of the supplier)
Q uality issues of the embroidered fabric especially if it¶s a new supplier.Since usually our suppliers are overseas, some quality problems weredetected only when the supply already arrived in house (which is usually 2-3weeks before shipment date) which makes our deliveries very critical.
V ery difficult to make an adjustments (if program/order was cancelled orpulled in).
The whole process is very complicated and requires more people to do allthese documentations.
CE 1.3
Considering all the mentioned reasons above, our Managing Director (MD)asked the Planning/Operations Manager, Deputy Manager (me) and the GM -Stitching(who is managing this department) were asked to collaborate and
[]CAREER EPISODE 1 1
Introduction
CE1.1Project Name
: Embroidery Production Expansion (Capacity Planning)
Chronology
: August 2010 ± Present
Position
: Deputy Manager - Planning
Name of the Organisation
: WestPoint Home (Bahrain) W.L.L.
Location
: South Alba Industrial Area, Askar, Kingdom of Bahrain
Ba
ckground
CE1.2
Currently, our company owns 5 embroidery machines. In addition to thesecapacities, we still source more than 100% of our capacity because of highdemands of embroidery products these days and we cannot accommodate all of iton the specified time. The Company (WPH) is considering an expansion for ourembroidery production department. Factors affecting this proposal are thefollowing reasons:
Embroidered products are giving more profit to the company.
Huge amount of money being allocated for air and sea shipments (exporting-sending of fabric for embroidery/importing back from the suppliers).
Higher price of suppliers compare to our in-house price (approximately 20-35% higher).
Longer lead-time required for sending and taking back the fabric (14 daysFCL or 28 days LCL or 7 days air shipping ± only for one way in addition tousual 4 weeks production of the supplier)
Q uality issues of the embroidered fabric especially if it¶s a new supplier.Since usually our suppliers are overseas, some quality problems weredetected only when the supply already arrived in house (which is usually 2-3weeks before shipment date) which makes our deliveries very critical.
V ery difficult to make an adjustments (if program/order was cancelled orpulled in).
The whole process is very complicated and requires more people to do allthese documentations.
CE 1.3
Considering all the mentioned reasons above, our Managing Director (MD)asked the Planning/Operations Manager, Deputy Manager (me) and the GM -Stitching(who is managing this department) were asked to collaborate and