Thursday, 12 September 2013 00:00
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next Sourcing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of next Plc, UK, the retail clothing and accessory giant, recognised and acknowledged its supplier base at the Suppliers’ Seminar held at Park Street Mews Colombo recently.
next Sourcing honoured the top three suppliers for the last fiscal year, recognising the contribution of the supplier base which achieved sales targets, maintaining a highly demanding and attentive production quality.
Commending the excellence of the supplier base, Chanaka Perera, Regional Director for South Asia – next Sourcing stated: “We are honoured to pay tribute to our valuable supply chain in Sri Lanka, who have maintained stringent quality standards producing the best product to our customers throughout the years. The world class production by our suppliers plays a vital role ensuring our quality standards are supreme and most importantly experienced by our valued customers throughout the world.”
The company conducts bi-annual factory evaluations through which the management is able to make the selections for the top three factories out of a comparatively large factory base in Sri Lanka.
Technical Director of next Sourcing Hugh McConnell commending the local production quality said: “Sri Lankan suppliers continue to be the best country in shipping goods that meet the customers’ high quality standards. Code of Practice category ratings for Sri Lanka factories are also among the best of all the countries supplying to next and it is great credit to the supplier base.”
The top performer for the period of 2013, next Manufacturing Ltd. was adjudged the winner of the Gold Medal. Sumithra Garments Ltd. won the Silver and the Bronze was won by Miami Exports Ltd.
General Manager Wilhelm Elias reiterated: “The Sri Lankan office is known for great quality and reliability but over the last three months we have let our customers down on reliability with poor on times. We need all of our suppliers to come together and understand the importance of getting great quality product out fast and on time and this can only be achieved with combined effort.”
The event was attended by the management of next Sourcing including Chanaka Perera, Regional Director – South Asia, Management and the team of next Sourcing Sri Lanka together with representatives from the supplier base.
The seminar featured a performance overview of next sales during the last quarter, with an updated indication on the current performance in line with the Key Performance Indicators set by the international retail giant.
next Retail is a chain of more than 500 stores in the UK and in Europe. next Sourcing designs and sources clothing, accessories and products through its global network of offices and suppliers, negotiating market leading prices and managing production, ensuring on time delivery on behalf of next Plc.
