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Supply Chain AI Strategy: Navigating Apparel Industry Complexities

Logility

Navigating the $5 trillion North American apparel market requires precision, especially when dealing with the intricate complexities of forecasting and inventory management. The Apparel Industry’s Forecasting Maze Mastering the art of forecasting is critical in the apparel industry.

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Eight Practices for Implementing Traceability in Apparel Supply Chains

Pivot88

The apparel industry in particular has pioneered traceability practices that can be adopted across retail sectors. It is a big challenge for retailers and brands to keep up with gathering, managing, and reporting on all this data and the numerous ESG and regulatory requirements that are being adopted globally.

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Improving the Lives of Apparel Workers by Creating an Ethical Apparel Index

NC State SCRC

million) from the Templeton World Charity Fund, that will be used to develop an Ethical Apparel Index and launch a new initiative under the SCRC umbrellas. Unethical working conditions among apparel supply chains present substantial challenges for brands’ pursuit of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and generate systemic dysfunction.

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Open Supply Hub Promotes Supply Chain Data Sharing

Supply Chain Brain

Open Supply Hub, a nonprofit formerly known as the Open Apparel Registry, has debuted as a supply chain mapping data platform for multiple industries. .

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Supply Chain Leadership Model Example in Retail Apparel Industry

Supply Chain Matters

In this posting we provide highlights of a contrasting senior supply chain leadership model, in a different industry, with somewhat similar business process and technology enablement needs, that being branded workwear apparel provider and retailer Carhartt. . Executive Moves. Additional Insights. All rights reserved. .

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Helpful Hints for Apparel Manufacturers

Logility

The apparel industry uniquely combines the characteristics of make-to-stock manufacturing with consumer-driven fashion volatility which can lead to a forecasting nightmare. Speaking with several supply chain executives in the apparel industry, attribute-based SKU-level forecasting is not just difficult; it is often impossible.

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What is Genuinely New in Supply Chain Management?

Logistics Viewpoints

But electronics; industrial and manufactured; and apparel, footwear, and textiles make up the bulk of products detained. In the case of Vietnam, it was more likely that Vietnamese companies were making apparel with cotton grown or processed into fabric in Xinjiang. The value of the shipments detained was over half a billion dollars.