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OGTC holds conference on Apparel & Home Textiles

OGTC organized 11th International Conference on Apparel & Home Textiles on October 31, 2015 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. 354 delegates from the industry, academics and research institutes attended the event. Total six papers were presented in the pre-lunch session followed by six workshops .

The session commenced with R C Kesar, Director General OGTC elabotaing on the theme of the conference. Prashant Agarwal, CEO, Wazir Advisors chaired the session. Nidhi Sood of Madura Clothing presented a paper on People Engagement Practices and Reward and Recognition Systems and Surender Jain on Turnaround Story- Different Facets.

Aisshvarya S. Shah, CEO and Chief Trainer Work Senses, Chennai in her presentation questioned the industry on the goals set for their company and how they look at human resource as a part of this goal. She said “We have to link HR and training to profitability. The efforts to people management in the garment industry have not been great in the past. What is required was not ‘policing’ of workers but ‘performance management’, which is an HR job. But how many companies look at ROI for investments made in people-management?”

In the post tea session Mr. A.N. Singh presented a paper on Value Creation for Customers in Apparel Industry, Mr. Navin Chopra, Aglie Group presented a paper on New Developments in the space of Quality in Indian context and its relevance to Garment Industry and Dr. Archana Gandhi, NIFT presented a paper on Merchandising- Pre and Post Manufacturing.

In this interesting session the debate veered around whether the target of the company should be on ‘value creation’ or ‘money creation’… while AN Singh, a well-known consultant argued that if a company focused on value, profits would follow automatically; Navin Chopra of Aglie Group countered that without the motivation of money, how would anyone even want to work. Both thoughts garnered interest, though both agreed that the goal in both cases was to run a successful business that was responsive to buyer’s demand.

It was stressed by all speakers that old ways of doing business could not carry the industry forward and it was imperative to innovate and adopt new approaches. Even educational institutes were under fire, with many in the audience requesting a re-look at how students were being prepared for the industry.

Lal Sudhakaran, Head MGE Madura Clothing chaired the session on Turnaround- (Focus-Planning). Placing significant importance on the challenging details of the production floor, the conference featured two insightful sessions on pre-production planning and style changeovers. The first session focusing on planning was delivered by Surender Jain and Bhavesh from Wazir Advisors. The session speakers outlined on the tenets of cost and quality for optimum planning, and further detailed on capacity allocation based on deliveries through an activity which required the volunteers to plan four lines for an order of 64,000 bottoms.

The 2nd workshop was held on Understanding of Buyer’s Perspective and Ownership session chaired by Hemant Sagar, MD & CEO Lecoanet Hemant India. The presentation was made by Megha Awasthy, Section Head – Leather Accessories, Lecoanet Hemant, and Aditya Singhal, Founder, IML Jeans. This session focused on how the companies could use merchandising to make their mark in this bustling trade. Megha, through her presentation encouraged the merchandisers to proactively approach the buyers by bringing flexibility and agility in the processes through a few simple steps like minimizing the buyer’s involvement in the whole process at the manufacturer’s facility. After explaining the importance of the customer’s point of view in the process of merchandising, she requested Hemant to explain the buyer’s point of view and Aditya to explain the manufacturer’s point of view on implementing their feedback in the process.

The 3rd workshop, chaired by Rajesh Bheda, CEO, Rajesh Bheda Consultancy, on Turnaround-(Focus-Execution) dwelled on operational excellence. Session speakers Surender and Abhishek Kapoor from Wazir Advisors elaborated on two parameters of operational excellence, namely learning curve and SMED for picking up the peak efficiencies faster and reducing our start-up losses. The 4th workshop, which was chaired by Archana Gandhi, Associate Professor, NIFT Delhi, Anup Gulati, Consultant, NSDC, said rather than the traditional and conventional jargons of merchandising being discussed, the less explored aspects of strengthening a merchandising team were looked upon.

In the HR workshop and CSR Best Practices. Maj Gen (Retd.) N.K. Dhir, Director Alphabet Teletec Chaired the session. Three learned speakers in the field of HR from industry made thought provoking presentation and need to look human resources as assist to the company and not as a cost burden.

The 5th workshop was held on Finance Cost Management – Best Practices. Sanjay Gupta of Impulse chaired the session. Three eminent speakers from the industry in the field of finance made presentations. Finally Kesar informed that the theme of the conference Competitive Innovation attracted many case studies pertaining to manufacturing /HR activities. He announced that the 12th international conference on Apparel & Home Textiles 2016 will be held on October 15, 2016 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.

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