Strategies to Achieve Labor Flexibility in the Garment Industry
With the astonishing technological progress in industry during
the current epoch, companies are facing a dynamic unpredictable
market environment that makes survival to a certain extent
difficult for them. Consequently, flexibility seems to be the best
approach to enable companies to have an effective response to
environmental threats such as economic crisis, growing
competitors and market demand fluctuation. Among different
types of flexibility, labor flexibility seems to have a determining
effect in making a system flexible, since labors are one of the
most important resources of a company. This project tries to
present a new method to achieve labor flexibility as an effective
strategy for garment manufacturing companies that faces market
demand fluctuations. The final result of the project shows the
proposed algorithms are capable of finding the optimum strategic
solution for applying labor flexibility on the production line of
the case study.
Keywords: Labor Flexibility, Optimization Algorithms,
Simulation
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