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The VF Corporation Invested in Supply Chain Agility Before COVID Made “Agility” the New Buzzword

Logistics Viewpoints

VF Corporation (VFC) is a global apparel, footwear and accessories company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year. Goods move through 25 ports of entry into North America and 10 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

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Bristlecone Flash – May 2020

Bristlecone

Bristlecone has introduced several new fixed-price, fixed-scope offerings for SAP products across supply chain planning, procurement and execution. Application support and monitoring for corporate apparel leader. Procurement Center of Excellence creation for discrete manufacturer. Middle East and North Africa.

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Taking the Hill

Supply Chain Shaman

Apparel is actually moving backwards. In parallel, when supply chain concepts are well-integrated into the design of trading partner relationships by both sales and procurement, there is an acceleration of value. I will be writing the first draft of the manuscript on my way to South Africa on May 30th. Aligning metrics matters.

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Forced labor in cotton supply chains – Key takeaways from our webinar

SupplyShift

With apparel businesses facing increased demands for transparency, fueled by recent scrutiny over Xinjiang cotton, forced labor should be a top priority for any apparel brand with cotton in the supply chain. . However, this does not diminish the need for on-site verification. . On Challenges of Reporting and Monitoring.

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Forced labor in cotton supply chains ? Key takeaways from our webinar

SupplyShift

With apparel businesses facing increased demands for transparency, fueled by recent scrutiny over Xinjiang cotton, forced labor should be a top priority for any apparel brand with cotton in the supply chain. However, this does not diminish the need for on-site verification.

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Podcast: VC Brian Aoaeh on the Future of Supply Chain Investment

Requis

A supply chain is really any network of organizations that work in collaboration to aid the procurement, production and movement of goods from producers to suppliers. I’ve had the good fortune of living in a tiny village in West Africa, medium-sized and large cities in West Africa, and also medium and large cities in the United States.

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Managing the Procurement of Promotional Goods and Services

Claritum

Claritum Article - Procurement Blog. Essential is to get the right specialist procurement technology in place. That is a specialist procure to pay solution built specifically to address this domain. All images courtesy of Kadimah Print South Africa kadimah.com. Introduction. Problems with current sourcing methodologies.