Textile Management A Guide for Technicians

This book covers the core principles of managing textiles, covering everything from sourcing and production to distribution and sustainability.

The objective of this book is to provide relevant information about critical business aspects of the textile industry and its ancillary tools. It covers important concepts of business in a brief and simplified, yet practical way through examples in the form of reports, formats, figures related to respective subjects.

Print edition not for sale in South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka)

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Types of businesses

2. Types of management styles

3. Risk management

4. Accounting

5. Budget

6. Production planning and control

7. Management information system (MIS)

8. Costing and cost analysis

9. Cost reduction

10. Sales and marketing

11. Case study

12. Statutory compliances and audit

13. Import and export

14. Utility

List of abbreviations

Arvind Kumar Upadhyay is techno-commercial textile executive with over four decades of rich experience in worsted, synthetics & cotton industries with a tremendous track record. Through his long career in the textile industry – having gone from a shop floor technical expert to a Business Head, with the largest and most prominent textile companies in India and Africa – the author has had special access to varying levels of information and critical vantage points in the industry and has acquired a comprehensive professional expertise in managing fully integrated textile mills (from fibre to garment) with sharp problem-solving skills.