Development of Demonstration Companies (DEMO) on International Best Productivity Practices in the Sports Goods Industrial Sector (Phase 1)

The sports goods industry in Sialkot, Pakistan, has significant contributions in improving the economic and key social parameters at a national level. The highly specialized ecosystem is SME based and is one of the most export-oriented hubs in Pakistan.

However, while the high-quality craftmanship is well recognized and competitive, factors like lack of technical training and upskilling opportunities, rising cost of raw material and energy, streamlining of business processes in augmenting profitability, and emerging regulatory landscape demanding improvement in sustainability- related parameters act as constraints in maintaining long-term growth at sectoral level. Hence, the scope of adoption of conventional productivity techniques including the APO’s Green Productivity (GP) framework exist, which in turn can prove vital in navigating the sports goods sector in current volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous business conditions.

This demonstration project aims to support selected SMEs in identifying productivity gaps and challenges and addressing them through adoption of a tailored productivity enhancement roadmap consisting of productivity improvement tools and techniques with emphasis on GP approaches, resource efficiency, and GHG emission calculations per product. It is in line with the SPP Primer of Pakistan.

The project will be implemented in three connected phases. Phase 1 (Assessment and Planning) will assess demonstration companies, establish baseline conditions, identify resource efficiency, and productivity improvement opportunities, and develop company-specific roadmaps.

The outputs of Phase 1 will form the basis for Phase 2 (Implementation), during which selected GP, resource-efficiency, cleaner-production, process-improvement, and, where appropriate, digital or smart-manufacturing measures will be applied and monitored in participating companies. Phase 3 (Validation and Dissemination) will evaluate the results and productivity gains achieved, document lessons learned and good practices, prepare demonstration case studies/reports by the expert, and disseminate replicable models for wider application in Pakistan’s sports goods sector.

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