Abstract
Recentlythe concept of fast fashion is drawing attention as customer needs are diversified and supply lead time is getting shorter in fashion industry. It is emphasized as one of the critical success factors in the fashion industry how quickly and efficiently to satisfy the customer needs as the competition has intensified. Because the fast fashion is inherently susceptible to trend, it is very important for fashion retailers to make quick decisions regarding items to launch, quantity based on demand prediction, and the time to respond. Also the planning decisions must be executed through the business processes of procurement, production, and logistics in real time. In order to adapt to this trend, the fashion industry urgently needs supports from intelligent quick response(QR) system. However, the traditional functions of QR systems have not been able to completely satisfy such demands of the fast fashion industry. This paper proposes an intelligent quick response system for the fast fashion(IQRS-FF). Presented are models for QR process, QR principles and execution, and QR quantity and timing computation. IQRS-FF models support the decision makers by providing useful information with automated and rule-based algorithms. If the predefined conditions of a rule are satisfied, the actions defined in the rule are automatically taken or informed to the decision makers. In IQRS-FF, QRdecisions are made in two stages: pre-season and in-season. In pre-season, firstly master demand prediction is performed based on the macro level analysis such as local and global economy, fashion trends and competitors. The prediction proceeds to the master production and procurement planning. Checking availability and delivery of materials for production, decision makers must make reservations or request procurements. For the outsourcing materials, they must check the availability and capacity of partners. By the master plans, the performance of the QR during the in-season is greatly enhanced and the decision to select the QR items is made fully considering the availability of materials in warehouse as well as partners' capacity. During in-season, the decision makers must find the right time to QR as the actual sales occur in stores. Then they are to decide items to QRbased not only on the qualitative criteria such as opinions from sales persons but also on the quantitative criteria such as sales volume, the recent sales trend, inventory level, the remaining period, the forecast for the remaining period, and competitors' performance. To calculate QR quantity in IQRS-FF, two calculation methods are designed: QR Index based calculation and attribute similarity based calculation using demographic cluster. In the early period of a new season, the attribute similarity based QR amount calculation is better used because there are not enough historical sales data. By analyzing sales trends of the categories or items that have similar attributes, QR quantity can be computed. On the other hand, in case of having enough information to analyze the sales trends or forecasting, the QR Index based calculation method can be used. Having defined the models for decision making for QR, we design KPIs(Key Performance Indicators) to test the reliability of the models in critical decision makings: the difference of sales volumebetween QR items and non-QR items; the accuracy rate of QR the lead-time spent on QR decision-making. To verify the effectiveness and practicality of the proposed models, a case study has been performed for a representative fashion company which recently developed and launched the IQRS-FF. The case study shows that the average sales rateof QR items increased by 15%, the differences in sales rate between QR items and non-QR items increased by 10%, the QR accuracy was 70%, the lead time for QR dramatically decreased from 120 hours to 8 hours.
최근 패션산업에서는 고객의 니즈가 다양해지고 공급 리드타임이 크게 단축됨에 따라 최신 유행을 즉각 반영한 디자인, 빠른 상품 회전율로 승부하는 패스트 패션이 각광받고 있다. 또한, 기업간 경쟁도 심화되면서 얼마나 신속하게 효율적으로 고객의 니즈를 만족시킬 것인가가 패션산업의 중요한 성공요인으로 강조되고 있다. 따라서, 다품종 소량 신속생산이 강조되는 패스트 패션 산업에서는 트랜드 변화에 신속 대응을 지원하는 지능형 신속대응시스템(Intelligent Quick Response System : IQRS) 구축 및 지원을 절실히 요구하고 있다. 본 논문은 패스트 패션 산업 IQRS 구축에서 요구되는 신속대응 프로세스 수립, 지능적 판단을 지원하는 신속대응 기준 및 실행, 신속대응 물량 산정 및 시기 의사결정 모델을 제시하였다. 또한, 신속대응 의사결정의 합리성을 검증할 수 있는 KPI(Key Performance Indicator)를 설계하여 모델의 신뢰도를 향상시켰다. 제시된 각 모델은 A사의 ERP 구현사례를 통해 실용성을 검증하였다.
