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Amazon supply chain management pushes retail to the limit

Kinaxis

Amazon is even entering the transportation space, signing agreements with the Air Transport Services Group and the Chinese government to enter into the freight cargo business – effectively cutting out the middleman. Amazon makes up about 7% of the US apparel market, and according to reports , that figure could increase to 19% by 2020.

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Added Evidence of Emerging Regionalization of Global Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

The Ferrari Consulting and Research Group, via its affiliated Supply Chain Matters blog calls reader attention to two recently published research papers that address evidence of ongoing shifts in global supply component and end production sourcing. The above seems to imply, from our lens, the movement toward China Plus sourcing activity.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 17-21, 2017)

Talking Logistics

This morning apparel retailer Bebe Stores announced that it is closing all of its stores by the end of May. By aggregating orders from various geographic locations and coordinating apparel assembly processes on a large scale, the embodiments provide new ways to increase efficiency in apparel manufacturing.”.

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Beyond Trade Compliance

Logistics Viewpoints

We work with a number of very large global apparel manufacturers,” Mr. Woods explained. If a supplier is engaged in activities that could hurt the brand, subscribers can use Datamyne’s intelligence tools to speed up sourcing with new companies. There’s certainly a slave labor component to that.

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The Real Winner at the 2022 World Cup? Supply Chain.

BlueYonder

Food, beverages (for example, beer, health drinks, and water), consumer goods, and apparel will not only be in high demand — but these products will have to be matched very accurately to the preferences of soccer fans converging on Qatar from every corner of the world. Soccer and supply chain are both team sports!!

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Supply Chain Matters This Week in Supply Chain tech April 14 2023

Supply Chain Matters

Founded in 2000, German based Transporeon provides a digital freight platform the supports more than 1,200 shippers, 100 large retailers, and over 120,000 logistics services providers and carriers. The reported benefit has been avoidance of merchandise markdowns by positioning apparel to the right location and channel at the right time.

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The Fashion Retail Supply Chain is a Speed Game Now More Than Ever

Locus

While the top apparel and accessory brands agree that product quality should get better with time, inventory priorities are always fluctuating. A recent example of this is the Suez Canal blockage , when a container ship was wedged in the canal, bringing freight movement to a halt and leading to delays in deliveries. million by 2025.