Logility

APRIL 26, 2022

a leader in supply chain innovation powering the sustainable and resilient enterprise, today announced the addition of Next Level Apparel® (NLA) to its customer community. Before implementing the Logility platform in January, Next Level Apparel used a mix of Excel spreadsheets and a legacy proprietary ERP system to manage its supply chain.

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Supply Chain Game Changer

APRIL 20, 2022

Apparel Fulfillment – A Sneak Peek! Apparel supply chain management is a key factor in determining the success of the apparel business. Within the apparel industry, the key operations within the supply chain concern the following: Movement of Raw Materials Human Resources Logistics and Transportation. Email Address.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 10, 2020

Rather than producing uniforms, equipment, and apparel, many companies are now producing masks for healthcare professionals as supplies continue to run low. As sports around the world continue their imposed hibernation, the companies that supply athletes and teams with sports equipment are shifting their focus.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 19, 2024

The apparel industry is a prime example. Within the apparel industry, the waste generated by the fast fashion segment is particularly insidious. In contrast to the traditional apparel supply chain that took months to bring garments made in Asia to market. This waste could fill more than 1.5

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Supply Chain Shaman

JULY 19, 2020

Shown in Figure 1 are the aggregate sector results for apparel retail. Aggregate Results for Apparel Manufacturers for the Period of 2010-2019. The industry progressively slid loosing performance in margin and inventory turns, but did not redesign. This pattern holds for 80% of the 28 industry sectors studied.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JUNE 7, 2018

To make the argument, let’s look at industry orbit charts in aggregate for the period of 2006-2017 for the apparel and chemical companies. For apparel, it was the transition to cheaper labor in the Asian market. (In In the apparel industry 30-40% of the cost of goods is labor.) The motives are not pure. The problem?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JULY 6, 2022

Furthermore, Target stated “ Apparel, Home and Hardlines, we saw a rapid slowdown in the year-over-year sales trends beginning in March, when we began to annualize the impact of last year’s stimulus payments.

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Techgistics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Title: On-demand Apparel Manufacturing Date Filed: December 2015 2017 may well turn out to be a major tipping point in the history of apparel retail. Amazon is expected to surpass Macy’s this year to become the largest seller of apparel in America. I wouldn't be surprised to see an acquisition in this space.

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ToolsGroup

MARCH 3, 2021

The difference between apparel and lipstick. But the future looks brighter, as the global apparel market is expected to expand from 1.5 But the future looks brighter, as the global apparel market is expected to expand from 1.5 trillion U.S. dollars in 2020 to about 2.25 trillion U.S. dollars in 2020 to about 2.25

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Supply Chain Brain

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A new report card on forced labor in apparel supply chains gives brands and manufacturers mostly failing grades in their efforts to put a stop to it.

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Logility

MARCH 29, 2021

During this year’s American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) Executive Summit, I enjoyed moderating a panel featuring industry executives from some of these ‘sustainability-first’ brands. There’s no one magic approach to answer the sustainability and traceability needs that resonate for all apparel and footwear brands.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 22, 2024

But electronics; industrial and manufactured; and apparel, footwear, and textiles make up the bulk of products detained. In the case of Vietnam, it was more likely that Vietnamese companies were making apparel with cotton grown or processed into fabric in Xinjiang. The value of the shipments detained was over half a billion dollars.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 21, 2023

Note that in Figure 1, retail home improvements days of inventory increased 68 days, contract manufacturing days increased 48 days, retail apparel by 28 days, and containers and packaging manufacturing companies by 14 days. Despite investments in planning, today, industries hold 28 more days of inventory than in 2004.

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Kinaxis

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

While the accessibility of online-only ventures is helping the small apparel retailers, bigger companies like H&M, Under Armour and Zara continue to focus on the supply of fashion through both online and bricks and mortar. LogisticsBureao highlights the advantages of vertical integration in apparel supply chains as below.

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AIMMS

MARCH 30, 2020

T he apparel industry, for instance, is bracing for a prolonged period of low activity. The COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on our lives, the kind we have not seen in centuries. It’s taking a profound humanitarian and economic toll , impacting supply cha ins in many ways.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 31, 2014

With the rising costs of labor in China, many apparel manufacturers share that there is only a 6% differential between sewing a garment in China or manufacturing in the United States. The time to service the equipment would be in hours versus days and the amount of inventory to provide the service would be greatly reduced.

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Prophetic Technology

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Supply Chains (SCs) are essential to your company operations; when not well organised, it will bring terrible effects and even lose your partners and customers’ trust.

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ToolsGroup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

A&F Co.) , a leading omnichannel specialty retailer of apparel and accessories, are excited to announce an exclusive discussion highlighting A&F Co.’s NYSE: ANF) is a leading, global, omnichannel specialty retailer of apparel and accessories for men, women and kids through five renowned brands.

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ToolsGroup

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

by Sunil Gupta Abstract Francesco Cavarero, chief information officer of Miroglio Fashion, Italy’s third-largest retailer of women’s apparel, was trying to bring analytical rigor to the company’s forecasting and inventory management decisions. But fashion is inherently hard to predict.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 20, 2022

VF Corporation (VFC) is a global apparel, footwear and accessories company headquartered in Denver, Colorado. VFC’s supply chain sourced over 410 million units of apparel, footwear, and accessories in their last fiscal year. The company’s 12 brands are organized into three categories: Outdoor, Active and Work/Work-Inspired.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2021

KNAPP also mentioned an online apparel retailer that experienced an extended period of peak demand, resulting in extended periods of peak workloads and a need to work in a resilient manner. One Korber customer addressed this increase with a scalable autonomous mobile robot (AMR) deployment that can flex along with seasonal volume peaks.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In the case of grocery and apparel purchases, 40% and 39% respectively said that they would by more from those retailers whose delivery practices were more sustainable than the competition. The study found that only 38% of consumers thought retailers were doing a good job of using sustainable delivery practices (see Figure 1).

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Supply Chain Opz

JULY 1, 2014

In 1984, companies in the apparel business worked together to reduce overall lead-time. The result is lower cost for everyone. 3) Coordination is essential Information sharing requires certain degree of "coordination" (it''s also referred to as collaboration or integration in scholarly articles).

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Supply Chain Brain

JUNE 23, 2024

Is the Chinese online apparel seller Shein a wild success due to an innovative business model — or because of a concerted effort to skirt import duties and workers’ rights?

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SCM Research

APRIL 23, 2023

In the aftermath, many apparel brands committed to improving working conditions in their supply chains. Yet, progress has been slow and uneven. Ten years on, there is still much to be done to ensure that garment workers are treated fairly and with dignity.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 29, 2022

An example of a company looking to adhere to SBTs is SanMar , the largest wholesaler of apparel into the corporate identity, promotional product, and ad specialty space in the United States. SanMar is committed to reducing its global greenhouse gas emissions in line with achieving global warming targets of less than 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Supply Chain Brain

MARCH 12, 2024

To meet changing consumer expectations and comply with new sustainability laws, traceability in the fashion and apparel supply chain is key.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The script will be distributed to CFOs of apparel, consumer packaged goods, and food/beverage companies next week. Bernstein & Co., Following the conference, Alexia asked for me to share the methodology with over 150 financial analysts. So, I wanted to give you a heads-up on their questions, and my answers.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 22, 2023

I was informed of a recent customer case – an apparel retailer located in Denmark. I asked Manhattan about recent examples of customers utilizing the company’s WES functionality. This retailer is utilizing two heterogeneous automation systems in its facility – an Exotec system and a conveyor and sortation automation system.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

AUGUST 20, 2020

Especially for verticals with longer production lead times such as apparel, the full impact of COVID-19 is still materializing. Production and supply chains shut down in China from February 2020, affecting cross-border logistics and e-commerce supply chains. Examining domestic transit time over the first half of the year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Perhaps one reason that retailers have lagged in nailing down their true profitability is that according to a market study by the ARC Advisory Group apparel retailers buy more OOM systems than any other industry. No retailer has this depth of understanding of their store labor fulfillment costs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Starting with apparel, let’s compare the two top performers –Nike and VF Corporation. When compared to pre-recession years, we ended the decade with twenty more days of inventory. Days of Inventory Comparison. Let me make my point by sharing some financial data using client examples from the last decade.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 16, 2021

This is common for apparel and other non-electronic items, where it is easier to get an item back into a selling channel. Companies need to decide what they will do with the returned item, which will vary based on the type of product. Per our survey, 64.2 percent of respondents indicated they re-use the returned item, and sell it “as is.”

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ToolsGroup

MAY 24, 2017

Griswold reports that retailers with less mature planning capabilities are seeking more consistent ownership of the demand signal, which is often fragmented and often owned by merchandising (especially in apparel). They want a single, unified model that allows stakeholder collaboration via “what-if” simulations of trade-offs.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In the case of Apparel and Automotive industries there are slight improvements, but they have shifted inventories to suppliers. Note in Figure 1, that eight industries have gone backwards and four moved forward. In most value networks, downstream partners have progressively pushed costs and waste backwards in the extended supply chain.

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Logility

JANUARY 5, 2021

In the US, 24% of all imports of cotton textile and apparel come from China. As the bill wound its way through House committees in the spring and summer, some apparel brands decided to hedge their bets and began to cut ties with companies that source materials from the region. In other words, more action could come.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 17, 2022

Following her consulting tenure with Silicon-valley based software companies, she brought her Advanced Analytics and Business Process Engineering experience to Apparel Retail where she worked at Gap Inc.

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