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

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In Asia, Vietnam and Bangladesh are more important sourcing locations. They are looking to take their global end-to-end demand for both wholesale and retail operations, flow that into the o9 solution, and then build one demand plan across their entire supply base. “We

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Podcast: Rob O’Byrne on Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Diversification in Sourcing

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Sourcing is now predominantly overseas: China is one of the big sourcing countries of course, along with India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, Vietnam and Thailand. Using automation better to reduce labour costs, the adoption of sales and operations planning (S&OP), and planning systems have really taken off in the last ten years.