1 Title Page

Course: Supply Chain Analytics (ANOP311)
Assignment: Apparel Industry Analysis (R Markdown)
Student: Your Name
Date: January 28, 2026

Executive note: This report summarizes supplier geographic concentration, supplier group dependence, and workforce composition using the provided dataset (Sheet 1).


2 Introduction

(Table of contents in side pane…toc: true with floating nav via toc_float: true.)


3 Supplier Concentration

This section reports on dependence structure of PUMA, by a specific measure (count, sum etc.) and variable (country, workers etc.).

3.1 Concentration by Country

Purpose: Identify which countries dominate the supplier footprint and how concentrated the network is.

Required outputs - Top 10 countries by factory count (table) - Top-3 share % (inline value) - Interpretation paragraph: what this implies for risk/resilience

puma <- read.xlsx('puma-global-factory-list-2024.xlsx')
colnames(puma) <- puma[1,]
puma <- puma[-1,]

3.2 Concentration by Worker count

n_distinct(puma$Location)
## [1] 40

4 Summary Insights and Assumptions

From this study we find that

5 Conclusion

Although this study is limited by the available dataset…

6 Appendix