Information Systems for the Fashion and Apparel Industry

Professor Tsan-Ming CHOI (Jason) is a management scientist, operations researcher and systems engineer. He is now Chair in Operations and Supply Chain Management, and Director of the Centre for Supply Chain Research at University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS). He has published extensively in leading journals in the fields of operations management, engineering management, logistics, and supply chain management. His recent research has been funded by many external funding bodies such as Research Grants Council (HK), University Grants Council (HK), M.O.E. (TW), and M.O.S.T. (TW). He is also serving the academic community as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, a Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management, and Decision Support Systems, a Department Editor of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, an Associate Editor of Decision Sciences, and IEEE TSMC-Systems, and an editorial board member of International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, and International Transactions in Operational Research. He is currently an external member of the engineering panel, Research Grants Council (HK) in which he helps handle reviews, give recommendations and monitor the progress of General Research Fund (GRF) proposals and funded projects. In two consecutive years under two different chief editors (2013 and 2014), he received the best associate editor awards of the IEEE SMC Society (USA). Over the past two decades, he served as an officer/exco member/secretary/treasurer of professional societies such as Production and Operations Management Society (HK), IEEE SMC Society (HK), and IEEE TEM Society (HK). Since 2020, he has been consistently ranked by p-ranking as a top 20 most productive researcher (in business and economics) in all related journal ranking lists in the world (including CABS). He is also listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate (Web of Science) and a Top 2% scientist by Stanford University. Most recently, in February 2023, he received the JOM Ambassador Paper Award 2023 for his Journal of Operations Management paper on "green supply chain with quick response technology" published in 2020. Before joining ULMS, he taught at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and National Taiwan University (NTU), altogether for over two decades. In particular, he was honoured as a Yushan Fellow Professor at NTU, a President’s Award Winning Professor at PolyU, and a distinguished alumnus of CUHK's Faculty of Engineering.

Preface

1. Introduction: key decision points and information requirements in fast fashion supply chains

Part I - Principles of fashion information systems

2. The use of fuzzy logic techniques to improve decision-making in apparel supply chains

3. Using radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies to improve decision-making in apparel supply chains

4. The use of evolutionary optimization techniques to improve decision-making in apparel supply chains

5. Using artificial neural networks to improve decision making in apparel supply chain systems

Part II - Applications of information systems in the fashion and apparel industry

6. Smart systems for improved customer choice in fashion retail outlets

7. Intelligent procurement systems to support fast fashion supply chains in the apparel industry

8. Intelligent demand forecasting systems for fast fashion

9. Fashion design using evolutionary algorithms and fuzzy set theory – a case to realize skirt design customizations

10. Intelligent systems for managing returns in apparel supply chains

11. Vendor-managed inventory (VMI) systems in the apparel industry

12. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems for use in apparel supply chains

13. Intelligent demand forecasting supported risk management systems for fast fashion inventory management