There is no inventory in this world. If there is too much backlog, it becomes inventory – not what Lu Xun said
This year’s textile market is weaker than in the past two years. Polyester cannot be sold, gray fabrics cannot be sold, fabrics cannot be sold, and even clothes cannot be sold. Not going out anymore.
Is it true that no one buys clothes? Impossible. Straight men like me bought no less than 10 pieces of various clothes in the first half of this year, not to mention those girls who love shopping. They feel uncomfortable if they don’t add a few clothes to their shopping carts in a day.
Then why does it feel like it’s hard to sell anything this year? It all comes down to that word – inventory.
Polyester production and sales are “beating the chicken blood”, and the polyester industry chain is shaken
Since last weekend, polyester filament has been experiencing “chicken blood” for several days. Not only has the price of polyester filament stopped falling and rebounded, but even the upstream PTA has increased. .
Of course, you don’t need to over-interpret this matter. In fact, the weaving company is purchasing a round of raw materials at the end of the month. It happens that the price of raw materials has been relatively low recently, and everyone happened to be purchasing raw materials at the same time. .
In fact, if you think about it carefully, although the weaving side has been having a hard time recently, the machines are still running. Even if there are rumors that some companies will suspend production in June, they are just rumors.
Besides, there are so many new water-jet loom production capacities in peripheral areas, all of which require the use of raw materials. The rigid demand still exists.
But just because of such an explosion of production and sales that lasted for three or four days, the inventory of the polyester factory was cleared for 5 or 6 days, but it triggered a disruption in the entire polyester industry chain. Big shock.
Prices have to be reduced, profits should be reduced, and the impact of inventory on the market is evident.
The inventory of gray fabrics is under great pressure, and the sale is in tears at a loss
Speaking of gray fabric inventory, it is much worse than polyester inventory.
On the one hand, with the rise of peripheral looms, the production capacity of water-jet looms suddenly became excessive, and conventional products on the market were in a situation of oversupply.
On the other hand, the polyester factory has expanded its business, and the raw materials now have to be purchased in cash. Once the market goes bad, the gray fabric will not care whether you owe money or not. ?
“The one who has the order is the boss, the price is easy to negotiate, and Boss Bu becomes the fish on the chopping board” is not just talk.
According to the author’s chat with a cloth boss, taking a 325T polyester taffeta lining as an example, the price of this cloth was 2.15 yuan 2 months ago. / meter, but now it is only 1.84 yuan / meter. In just two months, the price has dropped by 0.31 yuan / meter. And this kind of lining itself is a small profit but quick turnover. The drop of 0.31 yuan / meter is definitely in I sold it in tears at a loss.
But considering that there are still a few months of off-season, and the market situation in the second half of the year is not very optimistic, the oversupply of conventional products in the market will be difficult to alleviate for the time being, so we can only do our best. Went to clear inventory.
The future market is unclear, fabric companies are cautious in stocking up
During the visit, the author found that although the overall market environment is relatively average now, those trading companies that do not have their own factories are relatively having a much easier time. Many cloth bosses said that although the business this year is not as good as It can’t compare to last year, but overall it’s actually pretty good.
Although the order size is a bit small, at least it is still available. Because the price of gray fabrics has fallen sharply, the profit is not bad. Moreover, the market is not showing signs of improvement, so there is no need to stock up on a large scale. In the near future, the main focus is on proofing and developing new products.
Using a popular meme:
It is impossible to stock up. It is impossible to stock up in this life, and there is no The pressure of the factory is to keep making prototypes and develop new products in order to maintain a living.
On the other hand, the current orders given by clothing companies are larger than in the past They are much smaller. Most of the orders on the market are small orders of about a kilometer. Orders of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of meters like before are very rare.
So fabric companiesIn addition to some regular high-end products, we don’t stock too many other varieties. After all, no one knows which one will become popular next.
Taobao sales impact, clothing inventory is huge
I can always see the news recently, saying that so-and-so Large clothing brands have closed many physical stores, the inventory of a certain clothing company has exploded again, and there are even news that some clothing brands have burned their inventory of clothes.
In fact, it is not too strange. The action of burning clothes is the same as what I learned in junior high school politics class. When there is an economic crisis in capitalist countries, the meaning of pouring milk into the river is to maintain the product. s price.
After all, everyone who makes fabrics knows how much the fabric of a piece of clothing costs. Even if it is a better fabric, it only costs tens of dollars per meter, including design fees. There are also expenses for clothing factories, etc. The actual cost and the price sold in shopping malls are completely different concepts. The most expensive ones are channel fees and brand premiums.
But now with the rise of online stores such as Taobao, there are more channels for people to buy clothes, and the quality generally does not have major problems, and some domestic clothing brands do not lack their own quality. Core competitiveness and sales will naturally be affected.
Because of this, even some well-known brands now often only place orders for a few hundred or even kilometers when placing orders for fabric companies, because they can’t afford the products and can’t sell them. The backlog of inventory has been reduced.
I looked up economics and found that this economics has no era. The words “supply and demand” were written crookedly on each page. I couldn’t sleep anyway, so I read carefully for half the night, and then I saw between the words that there were two words “inventory” written all over the book! ——This is not what Lu Xun said
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