There is less than a month left before the Spring Festival. Looking back at this time last year, textile people couldn’t wait to go crazy before the end of the market. They stocked up on goods and grabbed orders when it was time. There was even a phenomenon of postponing the holiday. It’s all about making the most of this period of time before the end of the year.
But looking back this year, the textile and apparel market seems to have been forced into a state of shutdown. The surge in demand brought about by the optimization of epidemic prevention and control policies is like a “flash in the pan”, and orders suddenly “die” as soon as they pick up. What happened to the market?
Express delivery is not fast, logistics and transportation become an obstacle
Are your packages arriving on time these days?
I believe many people have discovered that the recent express delivery either failed to be delivered, or the transit was abnormal. Finally, it arrived at the receiving place, and was piled up at the site without anyone to deliver it. The transportation of goods encountered layers of obstacles, and merchants could only be anxious.
At the peak of logistics and transportation business, the pressure on terminal delivery has suddenly increased. Even the State Post Bureau is calling on consumers to be more understanding. As an important carrier connecting upstream and downstream, logistics and transportation are crucial to the textile industry. From the input of raw materials to the output of fabrics, it is inseparable from its support. Therefore, any disturbance in logistics and transportation will attract the attention of textile people.
According to past rules, even if weaving companies and dyeing factories have suspended production and holidays, traders can still fight to the end.
According to a trader, last year there were still goods to be shipped even two days before the Chinese New Year. As long as the freight company could deliver the goods normally, the goods would be shipped even if the price increased. But this year, the situation is really uncertain. Express companies have stated that they cannot guarantee delivery time in the near future. Some addresses cannot even be sent, which leaves me with a deep sense of powerlessness!
A clothing seller said that due to the recent extreme instability of express delivery, it has become increasingly difficult to deliver goods. The store has decided to take a few days off to rest and wait and see. If it cannot deliver, it will directly ask customers for a refund. As a seller, whoever wants to push the customers who come to their door is really forced to do so!
Even if you want to take orders, you can’t take them. Logistics and transportation have become obstacles. The textile and garment industry can only press the “pause button” and start to “lay down”!
Insufficient staff attendance affects all aspects
In addition to the external factor of poor logistics and transportation, there is another factor that cannot be ignored and comes from the company itself.
According to initial predictions, the periodic high start-up of the textile industry’s production links will last until December at most, and a new round of load reduction will start from late December to early January.
According to monitoring data from Silkdu.com, last week, the operating rate of looms in Jiangsu and Zhejiang continued to rise. However, this week, the operating rate failed to continue the upward trend and gradually began to decline. Entering this weekend, the downward trend suddenly expanded.
As the number of COVID-19 infections continues to increase, many employees have been infected collectively in a short period of time, resulting in a serious shortage of labor force in the enterprise. Equipment load reduction, weaving factory shutdown, dyeing factory shutdown, etc. have followed one after another, and this situation may become increasingly serious. . Affected by this, the operating rate of all aspects of the textile industry has inevitably declined sharply, causing the textile market that had initially improved slightly to rapidly cool down.
It is reported that in some areas, the wages of substitute workers have been raised to 400 yuan/shift for spraying and 500 yuan/shift for extra bombs. However, such high daily wages still cannot guarantee the attendance rate. It is so difficult to maintain all aspects of production that companies have to activate “emergency plans.” Some factories that originally planned to postpone the holiday until around New Year’s Day are forced to take the holiday in advance, while other factories that need to rush orders have no choice but to reduce their workload.
The disguised “labor shortage” has swept across, and the already “people-oriented” production link has encountered a major test, making the traditional industry in tatters even worse.
Afterword:
During the fluctuating development of the epidemic, many uncertainties broke out one after another, and the textile industry ushered in a new round of production suspension and load reduction. But “the body is the capital of revolution.” The most important thing at the moment is to be the first person responsible for your own health and strengthen your confidence to fight the virus.
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