Optimizing Costs and Accuracy for Apparel Fulfillment

With hundreds of thousands of SKUs and millions of products, the apparel industry has a constant need for highly detailed inventory management, in addition to extensive warehouse space to accommodate so many products. Our warehousing services include expertly optimized space for efficient access to inventory at a moment’s notice, effective product tracking, and managed overhead costs for inventory storage.

From initial manufacturing, to order fulfillment, to final delivery, apparel has a long and complex supply chain. Design, patterning, production, assembly, labeling, and shipping are all key steps of the apparel fulfillment process. During our long history of successful fulfillment and distribution services, we have optimized our supply chain management to accommodate apparel companies’ requirements for accuracy, detail, and cost-effectiveness.

Apparel businesses engage logistics partners to support their operations to varying levels of product packaging. After manufacturing, we label and package garments to ensure quick and simple identification in the warehouse and optimize order fulfillment. Hollingsworth’s packaging services manage apparel preparation up to multiple layers of packing material, with tracking for each product via RFID to maximize accuracy as orders travel the supply chain.

The development and growing popularity of clothing subscription businesses have presented new supply chain management challenges for logistics companies. However, Hollingsworth has been providing exceptional kitting services for the automotive industry since 1925, and we apply that same level of service to accommodate our customers in the apparel industry. Our process for picking, kitting, and packing orders is constantly improving with the addition of new technologies and optimized processes to ensure a greater degree of order accuracy and rapid fulfillment.

Due to the volume and diversity of inventory, coupled with the need for highly detailed services such as kitting and packaging, the supply chain for apparel businesses often requires an extra element of customer care. Hollingsworth offers extensive, customized program management services to support the best quality of service, identify new opportunities for optimization for cost-effectiveness, and facilitate efficient and accurate order fulfillment.

In the apparel industry, returns are an inevitable consequence of business. Defective manufacturing, surplus inventory, and out-of-season returns require reverse logistics planning to minimize costs. With our specialized reverse logistics services, you can quickly process returns as appropriate, recycle and dispose of defective garments, and return inventory assets to the warehouse to retain their value for resale. We’ve developed our returns management for efficiency and strategic processes to minimize overhead costs.