Magazine Editorial

Manufacturing and Brand Power ( October 2021)

Published: October 23, 2021
Author: TEXTILE VALUE CHAIN

EDITORIAL OCT 2021

The Planet environment changes are affecting the health of the population of the world; this is impacting the econ- omy and the way of doing business worldwide, this is im- pacting socio-cultural changes, overall affecting human life. There are many “New Normal” that have come ear- lier and more will come, and business will change its dy- namics from time to time. As humans we need to change and upgrade ourselves at all stages of life.

Economy comprises 3 business activities ie. Manufactur- ing, Trading, Services. All the 3 businesses have their own importance and can’t exist without one another. World is becoming digital where integration of all 3 is very im- portant. Manufacturing industries have a power, as they have more capital investment in machinery, infrastruc- ture, manpower and many more; Technical knowledge requirement is of prime importance in manufacturing. Today many corporates are outsourcing manufacturing to SMES/clusters units and Corporates are mainly fo- cusing on branding since that is a major tool to sell and position a product in the market. Corporate Manufactur- ing industry indirectly moving towards trading who are focusing on selling the products brands through different marketing channels. Common Facility Center for manu- facturing is the new normal for Industry where SME / Cluster based manufacturing units can take advantage of the same. Trading in manufacturing function ie. con- tract based manufacturing where the company is making some other company products exists for marketing and branding which only sells the products. Trading busi- ness is done by individual entrepreneurs / self employed who sell the manufactured product to domestic market or international market , and marketing and sales intel- ligence is required in trading business. Service industry is the service requirement to run manufacturing and trading industry of all business functions, service needs more human touch, healing power and marketing skills. Today, the Digital Era, where new Trading platforms cre- ate a lot of marketing and selling opportunities and cre- ated by online markets, manufacturers are increasingly dependent on new channels, online platforms and many more. Online platforms have their shares but currently it is less than 10% on buying habits. Major chunk of busi- ness is offline buying, and many online platforms are also reversing their value chain by having physical stores like nykka, chumbak and many more. Online Platforms which are purely service oriented, timely distribution is the most important key.

Industry dynamics are changing , so we are… !!!

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