Companies all across the world have battled with optimizing production inputs.

In a competitive

market, a company's capacity to manufacture high-quality items at the lowest possible cost is

critical to its survival (Kumar, 2010). In the article “The Optimization Problem of Product Mix

and Linear Programming Applications: Case Study in the Apparel Industry” Gera Workie

Woubante (2017) examined the effect of applying linear programming models in apparel

industry. While this article produced significant results showing that applying linear

programming models using the data that have been collected from the company in apparel

industry could improve the profit of a company.

Woubante (2017) collected the data relied on face-to-face interviews to the members of the

management and supervisors in accordance with existing records. The concepts relevant to the

resources held and consumed, as well as the production volume of each product in the case

company, were merely finalized. The researcher summarized the relevant information on the

number of resources used per unit of each product during the month and found that the

profitability of actual manufacturing vs production utilizing LPP models reveal significant

differences. From this perspective, the apparel company should employ quantitative research

methodologies like as linear programming to identify their ideal product mix and to improve its

objectives.

Gera Workie Woubante discussed an important topic, where using the process of Linear

Programming could improve the profit and objectives of apparel company, however, adopting

LPP provides only three types of products. On the other hand, researcher used face-to-face

interview method that made it accurate and received better response rate.
With the specific collected data in the resources needed per unit of product of the case apparel

from fabrics used, threads, labor and finishing were accurate. Also, the participants in this study

were from Ethiopia Apparel Company restraint the generalizability of these findings.

This article focused on apparel industry but optimizing linear programming is allowed for all

kinds of businesses to determine optimal product mix. One of the barriers apparel industry face is

the limited types of product to be offered and denying the customers, however, this could

generally improve their profits and goal as a whole.