Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to evaluate and minimization of Fabric Waste by
optimizing garment production procedure in Small and Micro Enterprise in Nekemte City.
Among obtaining three Enterprises, Walin Garment Production Enterprise (WGPE),
Lishani and Senayit Garment Production Enterprise (LSGPE) and Habtamu and Haile
Garment Production Enterprise (HHGPE), random sampling was used to select sample
respondents. To address the objectives of the study both primary and secondary data
sources with quantitative and qualitative data collection methods were used to collect
data from 45respondents through questionnaires. There was an observation of fabric
wastage of different productions of both men’s and women’s trousers occurred in
different stages of the enterprises production. In the three MSEs it was observed that
less Marker efficiency with maximum applications of 66.5 %in both men’s and women’s
trousers garment productions. Less marker efficiency in these enterprises increases
fabric wastages in garment productions. The improvements applied with pattern making
procedures and operations in the marker efficiency of fabric utilizations improves the
marker’s efficiency to 77 % and improve wastage by 15%. Sewing and finishing defects
also need to be improved in the MSE enterprises in trouser garment productions.