Apparel Online Bangladesh Magazine Magazine May 2018 | Page 26

EXPORTER STRATEGY
ESSENTIAL
The team from The Delta Group visited Ngai Shing booth during Garmentech ’18 as it looks to diversify in shirt manufacturing
such as buyers’ pressure of reducing
margins that can break or make a
factory. Delta Fashions has dedicated
some specific numbers of lines to the
specific products. 10 lines have been
dedicated to chinos, whereas cargos
are being manufactured on 15 lines.
Interestingly, no other products are
ever diverted to these lines neither
are more lines assigned to these
products in order to balance the lines
and the production of other products.
“Our strategy also includes the line
allocation and, according to us, this
is the only way to sustain in business
else you are out,” asserts Rupak.
Further, the factories have
implemented proper quality systems
as per standards that have helped
Delta reduce the rejections. In fact,
the Defects per Hundred Units
(DHU) at Delta currently stands at
just 4 per cent, which is quite an
appreciable figure.“Generally, people
have 7 per cent DHU which is not
at all reasonable. Right planning,
right tools, right SCM... are keys to
bring the DHU down,” explains a
positive Rupak.
who are at least diploma holders
and matured enough to handle the
expensive sewing automats. “I do not
assign sewing and monitoring task
to the operators who are not diploma
holders as it can cost severe damage
to the expensive machines,” says
Rupak focusing on the company’s
belief that it’s a ‘Right Man’ behind the
‘Efficient Machine’.
Further, once the employees are
hired and have spent some days in
understanding the mechanism of
jeans automats powered by Euromac,
Delta sends them to Euromac’s office
in China for one month so that the
machine’s inventors can guide and
train this manpower in the correct
direction. Considering that training is
a necessary element, Rupak confirms,
“If I invest in machines, first I should
know how to run them. I cannot
depend on the technology providers
to come to our factory and guide us.
I have bought the machines, so it’s
my responsibility to run them and fix
them up.”
Training of manpower
plays key role in growth Efforts towards being a
sustainable garment unit
are exemplary
Getting the right manpower in
garment factories sometimes is a
challenge. Specially, in a country
like Bangladesh where over 4 million
workforce is churning out garments
day in and day out, the challenge
is even bigger due to the rise of
automation. In this scenario, Delta
believes to hire only those people Bangladesh garment industry is
rapidly and perpetually evolving as
far as sustainability in the garment
operations is c