During the last 40 years, Rhenus has been monitoring developments in the fashion industry. We have combined our knowledge, logistic skills and human resources in order to develop top notch and tailored services and solutions to the fashion industry. These are based on the challenges, which the fashion industry offers, and result in benefits to our customers.

Fashion industry challenges:

• Shortening of the design-to-sale lead time
• Smaller production orders
• Hyper competition
• Focus on cost and efficiency
• Environmental issues
• Minimize redundant inventory
• To create a responsive, reliable and agile supply chain
• Outlet specific order preparation (in-shop delivery)
• Strong season pattern

Our services and solutions for the fashion industry:

• Value added services (conditioning, commissioning, re-labelling)
• Returns handling

Customer benefits of our fashion services:

• Shortening of the design-to-sale lead time
• Suppliers are prepared to produce smaller production orders
• Strong focus on customer-driven and tailored solutions
• Dedicated and skilled team (fashion desk) that supports and understands the fashion industry
• Reliable, time-definite services supported by our worldwide network
• Cost effective rates, optimised warehousing services and logistic concepts to reduce inventory in the supply chain
• Safe and secure warehouses
• Total supply chain visibility
• Outlet specific order preparation (in-shop delivery)
• More and more retail channels are organized pan-European
• Strong season pattern benefits outsourcing
• Dedicated transport services to retail shop directly