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Nowadays, market unforeseeability and increasing competitive pressure require firms to be capable of adapting to different contests and making an ongoing effort towards a reduction of costs and an improvement of quality of products offered and services provided.

For those firms belonging to the textile and clothing industry, these objectives must be achieved within a scenario that, in comparison to other sectors, is made more difficult by the following factors: continually changing products due to fashion, the fight against time in order to fulfil delivery orders, the scarce organisational frameworks and extremely decentralised production.

Within this contest, the course aims to promote for textile and clothing firms the knowledge of concepts, systems and tools for managing the textile business, with a specific focus on those aspects useful for:

• Improving customer service
• Reducing the risk of unsold goods
• Containing current assets investment
• Reducing production inefficiencies

The course is addressed to those firms operating within the textile and clothing industry and in particular to those who have organisational and managerial responsibilities such as:

• Controlling production and logistics costs and developing actions for reduction
• Defining standards for customer service, forecasting sales and acquiring orders from customers
• Planning production and purchases and filling the orders
• Developing organisational and information systems indispensable to business in order to reach important goals of improvement

Even if within firms different managers are in charge of these processes, the knowledge of the whole set of problems and their solutions is important to operate with an inter-functional point of view, to assure the validity of one’s behaviour outside the specific business area and to stimulate the improvement the whole firm.

The course is an important chance to increase managerial competencies and compare ideas and operational approaches with others colleagues and experts. The course helps to increase capabilities for identifying and managing projects focused on cost reduction and service improvement.

The course has been specifically designed for the textile and clothing sector, and deals with matters of management common to different processes that characterise this industry, such as spinning, weaving, dyeing, finishing, manufacturing. The participation of firms that are different for product, type and process verticalisation, means different topics are examined from a different perspective that goes behind the specific business borders, with a view to more integration between customer and supplier.

Teaching methods represent the most important element in order to motivate participants to study. During the course several case studies are analysed, with a particular focus on the textile and clothing industry.

The course is divided in two cycles whose main contents are the following: 

• The profitability of textile business
• Cost accounting
• Cost accounting for decisional purposes
• Cost management
• Budget
• Reporting
• Management accounting
• Strategic control

• Service control and improvement
• Production planning within textile business
• The forecast of sales
• Production planning
• Sizing and launching production batches
• Managing the stocks
• Production scheduling
• Information system

Information about the Course can be obtained from the Course Secretary ( Dott.ssa Alda Acanfora) at:

Centro Camillo Bussolati
Dott.ssa Alda Acanfora
c/o LIUC - Libero Istituto Universitario Carlo Cattaneo
Corso Matteotti, 22 21053 - Castellanza (VA)
Tel : 0331/ 572.211;
Fax: 0331/572.260;
E-Mail: ccb@liuc.it

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