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Push for Inditex to Disclose Zara Supplier Transparency

Supply Chain Matters

Background Many students and practitioners of supply chain management are quite familiar with Spain based fashion clothing retailer Zara and its corporate parent Inditex. Inditex itself annually publishes the number of suppliers among 12 core sourcing countries but reportedly does not provide names of individual suppliers.

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Global Wide Manufacturing Output Strengthens in March 2024

Supply Chain Matters

Business sentiment has reportedly remained close to a nine-month high with noted added optimism in the intermediate and investment goods industry sectors. The March report was headlined with Mexico’s manufacturing industry broadly stable in March with stronger expansions in new orders and production levels. order demand. order demand.

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Bringing Freight Online with WebCargoNet and Freightos

Freightos

An Industry On The Verge Of Change. In many respects, this should be a good time for the logistics industry. There’s unprecedented volumes of global shipments , growing international trade, more flexible supply chains, and easier sourcing than ever before (Alibaba, anyone?). They never looked back.

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Inditex Achieves Added Business and Supply Network Accomplishments

Supply Chain Matters

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. Industry watchers continue to cite a condition among large retailers for having excess inventories at a time where consumer spending may shift to more muted levels.

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Global PMI Levels in August Remain Sluggish

Supply Chain Matters

From our lens, the August data further reflects ongoing shifts in production sourcing within specific industry sectors. The four largest European manufacturing economies, namely Germany, France, Ital y and Spain , collectively remained at production contraction levels. in August compared to 57.7

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How to Harness the Economic Power of Logistics Clusters

MIT Supply Chain

The Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain, is based in PLAZA, Europe’s largest logistics park, and both organizations benefit from the relationship. The Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC), Zaragoza, Spain, is celebrating its 10 th anniversary this week. MdL was recently redesigned to meet new regional industry demands.

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7 Rules of Fashion Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Opz

Fashion industry is one of the most primitive form of supply chain management and its practices have been extended, adopted and become the best practices that we use today. This article will show you the development of fashion industry and how one company manages to bring the operations into the next level. Fashion SCM 1.0