Production Issues

The value of working with Jessica as a production manager of your fashion collection is her extensive knowledge and over 20 years of experience not only having her own manufacturing consulting company but she also spent over a decade in corporate NY  resolving production issues for big box brands as a design director. In those corporate years, she travelled 3+ times per year to China factories to oversee the development, as well as, manage production issues for multi million dollar corporations.

She is an expert in strategically resolving issues with the fashion supply chain as well as managing bulk order problems with the factory.

It is very common, in apparel manufacturing for their to be issues on bulk orders. While her team does perform a quality control check prior to shipping the clients goods, some things often go unseen and human error can occur.

Usually any delays on in production, Jessica's production team will notify her of the delay and they will find a hopefully fast solution to fixing the issue. 

Some common supply chain issues are:

  1. Shortage of fabrics or trims and need to re-stock the fabric which causes delays
  2. Trim or fabric supplier sends the factory the incorrect fabric & trims and it goes unnoticed
  3. Poor quality elastic or trims are shipped to supplier and used on the goods
  4. Printers or embroidery companies did a low quality print job which can delay production.

Some common bulk order issues:

  1. Delay in production time due to supply chain being out of stock of items
  2. Construction of garments taking longer to assemble than planned
  3. Factory running short on labels and trims and having to stop production to reorder those items
  4. Factory workers missing a main detail on a design or sewing the wrong colors together
  5. Hardware being attached incorrectly
  6. Damage to goods while being shipped (factory always buys insurance so client gets reimbursed) but causes a delay

Jessica's clients upon receiving their bulk orders have 30 days to review all of the items they receive. In the event that something needs to be fixed, is missing or needs to be replaced, Jessica works on behalf of her client(s) to get all the items fixed and to come to a amicable solution. Design to Produce's client orders are covered by 30 day trade assurance to come to a favorable resolution. 

While clients may loose time in the process of a human error on a delivered production order, usually Jessica is able to negotiate with the factory some sort of discount or credit towards a future order and usually the clients end up with extra (incorrect) goods to sell and always get their products replaced and resolved. Due to Jessica's 13+ years working partnership with her factory partners from whom, depend on her multi-client repeat business, they feel terrible when something isn't right and work their best to make sure everyone is happy in the end.

This is a huge advantage because quite often when a not experienced designer with no factory relationships goes manufacturer with a production issue, they may not even know how to resolve it or take the risk that the factory stops responding and does nothing as they have no guarantee. Then the worst case scenario happens and the not experienced designer looses all their invested money. Jessica ensures her clients that that always get their requested order.