Pivot88

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

According to McKinsey’s 2019 chief purchasing officer (CPO) survey , sustainable sourcing at scale is the fashion industry’s new must-have. Supply chains are complex and there are a lot of moving parts. Where do they source their products? Contact Pivot88 to know more about supply chain digitization.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 14, 2023

The Supply Chain Matters blog features our April 14, 17, 2023 edition of This Week in Supply Chain Management Tech , a synopsis capsule of noteworthy supply chain management focused technology news. This tech provider was more recently named as the Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023.

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Supply Chain Matters

JULY 6, 2022

During this unprecedented period of non-stop global supply chain disruption, the Supply Chain Matters blog provides readers with additional industry specific examples, along with their implications. The company’s products have reportedly been in high demand but outpacing available supply. General Motors.

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Supply Chain Matters

APRIL 4, 2024

Supply Chain Matters features its latest full edition of This Week in Supply Chain Tech , a compilation of funding, partnership and other noteworthy announcements related to supply chain technology support. Our last full edition was published on February 14. billion in Generative AI start-up Anthropic.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Consumers, activists, and investors increasingly want to know the products they buy are sourced sustainably and ethically. They are demanding more supply chain transparency. What is supply chain transparency? ” You might be thinking, “That sounds like supply chain visibility. .”

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Supply Chain Matters

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Supply Chain Matters highlights the increasing realities of declining global trade and freight rates that are occurring in the first-half of 2023. Background Global wide transportation and logistics costs increased at unprecedented rates during 2021 and 2022.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Supply chains used to live in the past. Thanks to the more advanced forms of supply chain analytics like predictive analytics, supply chains are proactively looking into the future and prepping for “what is to come” rather than only ruminating over “what already happened.”

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Gravity Supply Chain

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Sourcing: Mitigate risk during periods of supply chain disruption, such as those caused by the Coronavirus outbreak, by using digital technology. . The post Sourcing – What You Need To Know About Coronavirus Supply Chain Disruption appeared first on Gravity Supply Chain.

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Logility

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Over the years, the fashion industry has championed a movement toward sustainable apparel, environmentally friendly production practices, and the elimination of forced labor. But a new layer of complexity now presents another existential topic: the chain of custody. But it’s not that simple for the fashion industry.

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20Cube Logistics

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Though fashion and apparel is an indispensable part of the human lifestyle and one of the basic necessities, we can also say that it has gone beyond the scope of being one and has become a yardstick to judge an individual’s personality. Delays in transportation led to the supply chain sphere incurring huge amounts of loss.

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Locus

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Add to this the unpredictability of the Covid-19 pandemic and we have a pretty temperamental supply chain environment for fashion retail. While the top apparel and accessory brands agree that product quality should get better with time, inventory priorities are always fluctuating. A 3PL solution for the fashion supply chain.

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20Cube Logistics

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Air travel is not only convenient for traveling a long distance in a short span of time, but it is also the one-stop solution in the supply chain industry for the swiftness in operations it offers. With most of the industries taking advantage of ocean freight, it has become an extremely traditional model for transportation.

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Supply Chain Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Supply Chain Matters calls reader attention to a published report that indicates for one retailer, the sudden shift in consumer demand this year may not have been that sudden. Instead, a detailed analysis of consumer buying and general apparel and clothing trends buying trends proved beneficial in limiting overall inventory exposure.

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Talking Logistics

APRIL 21, 2017

Now, moving on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… Amazon won a patent for an on-demand clothing manufacturing warehouse (Recode). JDA Unleashes New Levels of Supply Chain Visibility Across its Portfolio with TransVoyant. Source: Amazon patent. So all is good in my little slice of the world.

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Supply Chain Matters

AUGUST 30, 2023

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. supply chain activity. imports peaked at 21.6

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 28, 2022

Practitioners, students and of supply chain management are likely quite familiar with Spain based fashion clothing retailer Inditex and its various retail brands including Zara. Many supply chain management case study curriculums include the notions of how this retail chain pioneered what is today termed “ fast fashion.”.

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Freightos

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Whether it’s agile sourcing of hoverboards or finding the perfect gift for the person who has everything, technology is fixing the problem for good. Join the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come as they visit the Xmas supply chain. We have reached the era of the on-demand, responsive supply chain.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Distributing product in Brazil involves endless transportation choices. When shipping product into a country as large and complex as Brazil, the choice of transportation routes has a critical impact on supply chain costs. A new model helps shippers to choose the best routes. Pictured is the Port of Santos, Brazil.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Here, I postulate that the supply chain dragon is data. Supply chain leaders are drowning in data and low in insights. The focus is on growth, but supply chains are not fit for purpose. My stepson calls them tidy whiteys) Imagine a boring, basic apparel item. How many supply chains today are stuck?

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

From a digitally-transformed shopping experience to global supply chain disruptions and a pandemic that refuses to quit, there’s one thing retailers can count on: People are always going to shop. Data source: eMarketer. Image source: Bring Me the News. The Retail Trends Shaping How We Shop in 2022. Road trip, anyone?).

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SCMDOJO

APRIL 15, 2024

Services by Amazon Here are some of the key services offered by Amazon: General public: Amazon.com – an e-commerce platform offering a diverse selection of products such as books, electronics, apparel, and groceries. It describes a system for on-demand apparel manufacturing, allowing for custom-made clothes delivered quickly.

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MIT Supply Chain

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Where Governments Fall Short in Combating Forced Labor in Supply Chains ?—?And And How They Can Improve Media reports detailing abuses suffered by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang region of northwestern China cast a spotlight on society’s long-running failure to eradicate the use of forced labor from supply chains.

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Intelligent Audit

JUNE 30, 2022

Retail supply chain management has always been a complicated and complex process. But in the timeframe between 2020 to 2022, a volatile supply chain market showed the weakness in outdated, legacy supply chain execution built on rigid technology or lacking any accurate data that can improve overall decision-making.

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Elementum

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In the 21st century, customer expectations have pushed supply chain and logistics to evolve at unprecedented speed. In 2019, supply chain will be dominated by one key realization: in order to keep up with customers, brands can neither rely on the old ways, nor place their faith entirely in new technologies.

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Supply Chain Matters

MARCH 15, 2022

By now our Supply Chain Matters readers have already viewed headlines of yet another COVID-19 variant induced lockdown of certain manufacturing and port facilities in China. That former is the hub of high tech, consumer electronics and telecommunication product supply networks along with specialized apparel manufacturers.

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Pivot88

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Each quarter, our parent company TradeBeyond publishes its comprehensive Retail Sourcing Report , which is filled with timely research, facts, and analysis to help brands and retailers make the most informed sourcing decisions. Each category will assess a specific type of environmental damage.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 31, 2014

Manufacturing teams used to manage the supply chain group. Today, in most organizations, the supply chain team manages manufacturing. The irony is that fewer and fewer people within the supply chain team understand manufacturing. Many of the partners in the room work on service part supply chains.

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 26, 2022

KION acquired Dematic and Egemin Automation in 2016, forming KION Supply Chain Solutions that operates under the Dematic brand. KION is a publicly-traded company and reports on the Supply Chain Solutions (SCS) segment. Robotics and automation are key innovations for the future of supply chain.”.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

After the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit , I took the time to recharge and took a month off from writing. The presentations from the Summit are posted now on the Supply Chain Insights You Tube Channel. The focus is on the role of supply chain finance in driving supply chain excellence.

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ShipBob

AUGUST 9, 2021

A typical ecommerce supply chain starts with sourcing raw materials to produce finished goods , which are then transported to a warehouse or fulfillment center before they end up with their end consumer. This article covers how sustainability impacts the supply chain, and how you can implement sustainable best practices.

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Material Handling & Logistics

DECEMBER 12, 2018

We are aware that more than 90% of PUMA’s Carbon Footprint is being generated in shared supply chains. If we want to reduce carbon emissions in our supply chains, we need to work together with our industry peers,” said Bjørn Gulden, CEO of PUMA. Hugo Boss, H&M Group, Inditex, Kering, Levi Strauss & Co.,

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Last week was the Supply Chain Insights Global Summit. 110 supply chain leaders attended. In preparation for the summit, we readied the final report of the work on translating balance sheet results into a methodology to judge Supply Chain Excellence. It was great to see old faces at the kick-off.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

With the buzz around blockchain, many important supply chain concepts are being used interchangeably and create confusion. Are companies using blockchain to create visibility in their supply chain, or to trace products downstream and upstream in the supply chain? Supply chain visibility.

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

With the buzz around blockchain, many important supply chain concepts are being used interchangeably and create confusion. Are companies using blockchain to create visibility in their supply chain, or to trace products downstream and upstream in the supply chain?

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

With the buzz around blockchain, many important supply chain concepts are being used interchangeably and create confusion. Are companies using blockchain to create visibility in their supply chain, or to trace products downstream and upstream in the supply chain?

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Logichain Solutions

JULY 30, 2018

With the buzz around blockchain, many important supply chain concepts are being used interchangeably and create confusion. Are companies using blockchain to create visibility in their supply chain, or to trace products downstream and upstream in the supply chain?

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SCMDOJO

JULY 3, 2023

Choose between a broad overview of procurement and a focused course that focuses on certain topics like strategic sourcing, contract management, or supplier relationship management. Take into account things like your current skill level, desired improvement areas, and professional objectives. Procurement and Purchasing Cycle Lesson 7.

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