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Supplier Management and Sourcing in the Fashion Industry – Under the Spotlight

Jaggaer

Digital transformation is delivering benefits to many of the world’s leading fashion companies, especially in Italy, where roughly half of the leading fashion concerns have implemented JAGGAER solutions. The world’s leading apparel groups are listed and open to scrutiny by regulators, the media and the general public.

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GrandVision: “We are changing completely as we become demand driven”

Supply Chain Movement

Now we have 4,000 SKUs carefully segmented into 21 exclusive high quality brands, which we sell globally, and 16 suppliers that are currently in China and Italy. We are transitioning our Chinese supplier base to other regions such as Bangladesh and Vietnam for labour cost and quality reasons.

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Guest post: Sustainable monitoring in supply chains: it’s time for companies to reconnect with their stakeholders.

EcoVadis

Jury is currently Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bergamo University (Bergamo, Italy), focusing his research on Sustainable Supply Chain Management. or the recent catastrophe in Rana Plaza, Bangladesh, Surewiecki, 2013). We’re glad to welcome a guest post written by Jury Gualandris. The case of Levi Strauss and Co.

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How Europe is Coping with Supply Chain Disruption

Jaggaer

In Italy, for example, approximately 150,000 agricultural labourers are from abroad, according to the Italian statistical office, Istat. Sectors such as apparel, which have shifted production to countries such as Vietnam and Bangladesh, may see reshoring in the long run. And of course, the problem is acute right across Europe.

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Ethics in Procurement – Simple, but Not Always Easy

Logistics Bureau

Between 2007 and 2010, during attempts to win firearms supply contracts with law enforcement and military agencies in Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Turkey, gun maker Smith & Wesson’s sales employees allegedly embarked upon a spate of unethical transactions, via third-party representatives, with foreign officials.

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Honk, if You’re Driving Green This Earth Day

Arena Solutions

Water pollution shrank or completely stopped on the beaches of Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Maldives. The Grand Canal of Italy turned clear, and the reappearance of many aquatic species returned due to clear waters and the absence of sediment resuspension caused by lack of boat traffic.

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Supply Chain Leadership Series III: Andrew Olah – Changing the Denim Industry One Brand at a Time

NC State SCRC

As the industry has grown, it moved over to Japan, Italy, Canada, and other flowed from there to Mexico, Europe, Portugal, Turkey, than Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Indonesia – and eventually settled in China and in Bangladesh. That is where most of the business goes today – Bangladesh and Pakistan.