SCM by Hieu Nguyen

Introduction Decathlon is a French sporting goods retailer, they are the largest sporting good retailer in the word. The company's business model is opening wide range of sporting goods at low price to gain mass market. They have 1352 stores located globally in 39 countries as of Dec 2017. The company has several distribution centers in each area  i.e. North Europe, South Europe, EMEA, Asia, America; however retail countries can consider to ship direct from sourcing countries instead of distribution center. As same as strategy of retailer, the company need to expand global sourcing destination, hence there are many sourcing countries in particular Asia. In South East Asia, the company has presented in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar as sourcing countries. How the South East Asia region can manage cargoes to word wide especially to small and new opening retail countries?  What is MCC? Multi-Country Consolidation is a cost effective solution

The global textile and apparel is valued nearly 3 trillion dollars and it contributed 2% world GDP. Everybody needs a shirt, a pant and shoes to wear and it makes textile and apparel is indispensable industry. Have you ever asked what the supply chain flow of your shirt is and how they can manage it efficiency? In a mass market, mostly garment companies have been set 3 priorities of supply chain: (1) Reduce cost as much as possible, (2) Increase speed to market and (3) Flexibility. What are strategies to support these 3 priorities and make apparel companies growing? Global Sourcing Textile and Apparel industry is global, there are millions manufactures over the world from Asia, Europe to America with difference sizes from small, medium to large. To optimize supply chain cost and minimize risk, increasing sourcing is one of the right strategies. The global sourcing is considering both low cost and speed to market, therefore there are two kinds of sourcing: (1) Low cost sourci