A Holiday Order Sprint Air Freighted to Cambodia
An urgent order landed days before a national holiday with a fixed 10 May deadline and an air freight booking already made. The factory rescheduled the break rather than move the date.
Client Background
A garment and accessory manufacturer operating a factory in Cambodia
The Challenge
The enquiry arrived just before the Labour Day holiday with the completion date already fixed at 10 May and air freight to Cambodia already planned. The whole team had booked travel home for the break.
Customer Pain Points
- A delivery date that could not move because freight was already booked
- A public holiday sitting directly across the production window
- Pre-production steps that had to finish before anyone left
- No margin at all for a re-dye or a re-run
What We Did
Rather than negotiate the date, the team worked overtime before the break to complete every pre-production process, so that manufacturing could run without interruption through the holiday. Experienced technicians volunteered to stay at the factory and keep the looms running.
How It Ran
- All pre-production steps completed before the holiday started
- Experienced technicians rostered to remain on site through the break
- Continuous weaving across the holiday period with no changeover gaps
- Inspection and packing run in parallel rather than after weaving finished
- Handover to the customer's air freight booking on the agreed date
Result
The order was completed and delivered inside the window. It was the front-loading of pre-production work, not heroics at the end, that made the deadline reachable.
What A Buyer Can Take From It
For a buyer, the transferable point is that a tight date is usually won or lost before production starts. Tell us the immovable date at enquiry stage and we will tell you honestly whether the pre-production work fits in front of it.
Ranges Involved
Polyester Webbing
Dimensionally stable polyester tape for straps that must hold their shape, their colour and their rated load outdoors.
Polypropylene Webbing
The lightest webbing in common use, dope dyed for colour that cannot wash out and priced for high volume assembly.
Jacquard Webbing
Your logo woven into the strap itself on computer jacquard looms, so the branding cannot peel, crack or wash off.
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Questions This Order Raises
Can you work to a fixed delivery date that cannot move
Sometimes, and we will say which. Standard production runs 7 to 15 days after sample approval. When a date is immovable, tell us at enquiry so the pre-production steps can be scheduled in front of it.
Do you arrange air freight
Customers usually book their own freight and we work to it, as happened here. We ship on EXW, FOB or CIF terms depending on what suits your arrangements.
Bring Us The Awkward Order
A fixed date, a contractor in another country, a colour that has to match something from three years ago. Those are the interesting ones.