As a rough cut planning exercise,production order allo-cation for offshore manu facturing sites in the clothingindustry has received little attention as does other typesof planning like production planning.This paper outlinesan investigation into the exercise of production order al-location in the clothing industry.We have identified thatpractitioners involving in this exercise are not unanimousin the selection of offshore sites.Part 1 presents thebackground,objectives,process and conceptual model ofproduction order allocation.
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