Abstract: Under the competitive market of fashion, with the uncertainty of market demand, there is a very great challenge of ordering the best selling product, in order to make the benefits maximization. With information updating, this paper mainly study the best way of ordering for fashion retailers within a life-cycles. After comparing the strategy of one-time-ordering with three-time-ordering, it shows that three-time-ordering is more productive and the accuracy of the market demand forecast made by retailers before the start of sales period have a very big influence on fashion supply chain benefit.

Key words: information updating, garment supply chain, three-time-ordering, benefits maximization