China's Clothing Logistics: Problems and Solutions

In this paper, the specialities and status quo conditions of China's clothing industry and clothing logistics are analyzed; the logistics cost of the clothing industry is higher comparing to the same industry in the developed countries. From the viewpoint of the whole manufacturing logistics chain, all the problems existed in clothing logistics system are discussed. The processes and solutions, including the model of e-pos optimization are developed in this paper. This study demonstrates that China's clothing logistics system exist a lot of problems which leads to a higher cost and a lower efficiency. If all these problems could be resolved through the methods and solutions mentioned in this paper, China's clothing industry will be more concentrated on its core competence and will improve its competitiveness in the near future.