Recently, a video has become popular in the circle of friends of textile people. In the video, the salesmen are crowded in the office of the dyeing factory, waiting for the relevant person in charge of the dyeing factory to come up with the plan, and the desk of the person in charge of the dyeing factory What was piled on top were urgent orders one after another.
Urgent orders refer to when the dyeing factory’s order list is full, in order to make some more urgent orders, the textile company pays some extra money to have its own orders done first. , the dyeing factory moved some less urgent orders to the back, which in a sense was a kind of “queue-jumping certificate”.
Therefore, to a large extent, the emergence of urgent orders means that the market conditions are hot.
The recent emergence of expedited orders is caused by multiple reasons.
Traders stock up in the early stage
When the price of raw materials increased at the beginning of the year, traders purchased a large amount of gray fabrics, and weaving companies originally had high inventories of gray fabrics. A big part of it was cleaned up.
Because they are relatively cheap and are conventional products, most of these gray fabrics will eventually become well-known market products. Mr. Yang, the head of the weaving company, said that at the beginning of the year, some old customers almost bought out his polyester taffeta and pongee stocks, and took them directly to the dyeing factory after buying them. Therefore, some time ago, I saw that the door of the dyeing factory was full of gray cloth. It’s full.
Although the delivery time for this part of the distribution is not urgent, they are all big customers and have long schedules. At the same time, because of the large volume, they occupy most of the dyeing factory’s production capacity.
The rise of ready-made supermarkets
Due to the rise of “fast fashion”, there are more and more ready-made supermarkets on the market. Behind every spot supermarket is a large amount of fabric inventory, and these customers overlap with the traders mentioned above to a certain extent.
However, as the number of fabric spot supermarkets increases, the market demand for all kinds of spot fabrics is also increasing, and this part of the spot needs to be prepared in advance, and they are also It is a big customer of the dyeing factory and therefore occupies the load of the dyeing factory to a large extent.
Orders are coming in one after another
Half of March has passed. It is the traditional peak season of the market. It is normal for orders to come. Yes, it’s strange that no orders have come. However, because the current production capacity of the dyeing factory is occupied by some large-volume conventional products, looking at the piles of gray fabrics that have not been entered into the warehouse at the entrance of the dyeing factory, you know that the queuing time will not be short.
What should I do if the customer has some urgent orders or wants some special specifications or colors? Either wait, or if you can’t wait, you can only rush.
Does the arrival of urgent orders mean that the market has really improved?
Trader Mr. Zhang said that there are indeed more fabric orders now than before, but there is no such hot phenomenon as in previous peak seasons.
A large number of regular orders are diluted
Compared with the traditional fabric sales model, the spot supermarket model requires cash to be settled In addition, due to its scale effect, it has great advantages in price, cost, quality and process, etc.
In previous peak season orders, orders for conventional products accounted for the vast majority, but now many downstream companies can directly choose to purchase spot goods, which means that when demand remains unchanged, the market The number of orders in circulation has instead decreased.
In the past, the work given by enterprises to dyeing factories was concentrated during the peak season, but now it is distributed throughout the year, so the busyness of dyeing factories will naturally slow down.
Terminal demand has not fully recovered
As of March 14, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide exceeded 119.2 million. Among them, the death toll exceeds 2.65 million, and the number of new confirmed cases every day still exceeds 300,000. Under this situation, there are still certain doubts about the recovery of demand in the foreign textile market in the short term, which has also greatly affected traders. Motivation to continue placing orders.
Editor’s note: March is the traditional peak season for the textile market. At this stage, the production capacity of dyeing factories is being reduced by some large enterprises. Customers account for the majority, and when an order comes, Boss Bu can only rush it. It is foreseeable that as time goes by and there are more and more orders on the market, there may be more and more urgent orders in the future. </p
