Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 1, 2023

Continuing Disruptions in Transportation and Sourcing Materials After the pandemic, retailers are faced with new challenges and disruptions due to global conflicts, trade restrictions, and now recessions. Here are some highlights from these trends in 2023 and implications on supply chain planning. in 2021 compared to the year before.

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Logility

JANUARY 26, 2022

Customs and Border Protection Agency’s Withhold Release Order (WRO) on cotton products sourced from China and other countries in south-east Asia. Fashion brands can collaborate with suppliers continuously to manage and verify that predetermined environmental and social metrics are being met. Add to this the U.S.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 4, 2021

Digital commerce efficiently requires the digitalization of many customer-facing operations and sourcing and procurement. Supply chain planning involves interaction with different types of information based on internal and external data sources. These data sources are often spread across multiple platforms and come in various formats.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 8, 2019

No metric should be measured in isolation, and functional metrics should be replaced with the balanced scorecard metrics shown in Figure 2. To maximize value—price to tangible book, functional metrics need to be reset to focus on reliability. 5 A Focus on Functional Metrics Throws the Supply Chain Out of Balance.

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Logility

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Demand prioritization is best if you have tiered customers or groups or locations (known priorities), you need to maximize metrics like profitability over equitability, or you need to short supply for the present but have more products coming in future.

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Supply Chain View from the Field

OCTOBER 24, 2014

More and more global luxury brands such as Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and others are promoting themselves as Lifestyle brands, spanning many products including fragrance, home collections, apparel, paint, wallpaper, foods, and many other products. The entire apparel supply chain is driven by these financial metrics.

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Supply Chain Shaman

MAY 14, 2013

This week, at Supply Chain Insights LLC, we published our 11th report in the series titled Supply Chain Metrics That Matter. Apparel is actually moving backwards. When companies look at singular metrics (labor costs or inventory), they have moved backwards. Aligning metrics matters. Aligning metrics matters.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 23, 2021

In light of recent concerns over forced labor in cotton sourcing, many brands now want to address the issue at the most upstream source (the farm or gin), when in reality it’s the textile and spinning mills where traceability is lost. What Is Multi-Tier? Often, sustainability risks are buried deep within a company’s supply chain.

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SupplyShift

JUNE 23, 2021

In light of recent concerns over forced labor in cotton sourcing, many brands now want to address the issue at the most upstream source (the farm or gin), when in reality it’s the textile and spinning mills where traceability is lost. What Is Multi-Tier? Often, sustainability risks are buried deep within a company’s supply chain.

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Logility

MARCH 10, 2022

Many companies now use environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance metrics when setting targets for executive pay, which is a clear indicator that sustainability is moving beyond being a brand value. Every business discusses key issues such as climate change, controversial sourcing, and tax transparency,” observed Curtin.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

JULY 23, 2020

Zara has become Europe’s most profitable apparel brands by building agility end to end in their supply chains. To create flexible and balanced supply chain organisation, it is necessary to integrate strategy, processes, metrics, and technology enterprise wide and across customers, suppliers, and service providers. CONCLUSION.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This means we need more agile, flexible, and scalable planning platforms to process and consolidate new data sources, drive insights using advanced analytics such as AI/ML to drive autonomous decisions, and expand collaboration within and outside our organizations. We need planning platforms to keep up with all the changes.

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Locus

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While the top apparel and accessory brands agree that product quality should get better with time, inventory priorities are always fluctuating. The matters are further complicated by an increasing demand for sustainable sourcing, which puts more pressure on the supply chain. Sources: [link] [link] [link] [link]. million by 2025.

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BlueYonder

OCTOBER 20, 2022

where the various parts were sourced, what are they made of, etc.) For example, would we be willing to wait an extra day or two for our online orders to be delivered if we were to understand the impact of the decision on sustainability metrics? This shows that sustainability concerns are only growing. Where product sustainability (i.e.,

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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. Aligned Metrics. How do you balance the trade-offs between source, make and deliver? Bernstein & Co., Following the conference, Alexia asked for me to share the methodology with over 150 financial analysts.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

My stepson calls them tidy whiteys) Imagine a boring, basic apparel item. These included cloud-based computing, in-memory processing, parallel computation, and open-source analytics. Open Source Analytics: A set of languages, techniques and tactics to enable parallel processing, schema on read, and data insights. Clean Data.

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Supply Chain Insights

JULY 26, 2016

The source data for the analysis is public reporting of balance sheets and income statements. Check out their performance by plotting year-over-year metrics at the intersection of two ratios and look at the patterns. In the analysis of the Supply Chains to Admire, we use PTBV as a proxy metric of value.

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SupplyShift

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

But companies with public sustainability goals will also look at ESG metrics when they decide whether and how much to purchase from you. These metrics may include: Product and material certifications. Responsible sourcing audit scores. As a result, you’ll want to be proactive about your handle on these metrics.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 11, 2019

Source: “Competing on Customer Experience: The Driving Force Behind Supply Chain Innovation,” Adelante SCM & BluJay Solutions, 2018. is deploying robots to retrieve bins filled with apparel, electronics and other products from shelves and deliver them to workers who pick individual items.

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The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

APRIL 15, 2014

  In a previous blog we looked at online sources to determine which retailers are fast fashion and which are not. These last two elements are particularly important from an operations and supply chain perspective and we postulate metrics to measure their effectiveness. Here we provide a more quantitative answer.

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SupplyShift

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

But companies with public sustainability goals will also look at ESG metrics when they decide whether and how much to purchase from you. As a result, you’ll want to be proactive about your handle on these metrics. By increasing the global percentage of rPET from 14% to 45%, they hope to be a catalyst for apparel and textile change.

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SupplyShift

OCTOBER 13, 2021

While spend and inventory management are undoubtedly the pinnacles of the function, procurement departments have been crucial in innovating new ways to acquire more reliable data and implement responsible sourcing processes. The three main aggregations of sustainability metrics are environmental, social, and governance.

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SupplyShift

OCTOBER 13, 2021

While spend and inventory management are undoubtedly the pinnacles of the function, procurement departments have been crucial in innovating new ways to acquire more reliable data and implement responsible sourcing processes. The three main aggregations of sustainability metrics are environmental, social, and governance.

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Unleashed

JUNE 7, 2024

Benefits of supply chain mapping In today’s consumer-driven market, transparency and ethical sourcing are increasingly important, and supply chain mapping can demonstrate a company’s commitment to these values. Allows you to identify potential risks and optimise your processes. Ensures resilience against supply chain disruptions.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 8, 2023

These analytics techniques serve as essential tools to transform descriptive metrics into actionable insights and informed decisions. A case study that perfectly depicts the use of prescriptive analytics for pricing and promotion optimization is that of a global apparel giant that ThroughPut worked with.

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EcoVadis

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Women hold 60 to 90 percent of global supply chain jobs, particularly in the apparel and agricultural sectors, and represent the majority of workers in low-wage jobs in the lower tiers of the value chain. Increase transparency with better metrics and reporting.

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ThroughPut

MAY 2, 2024

Customer demand is a dynamic metric, which means that you need to keep estimating it based on evolving market forces such as customer preferences, weather changes, and changing industry trends. This up-to-the-minute data fetched from different sources like inventory, sales, marketing, consumer behavior, etc. million per year.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

They must also develop new product ranges, production processes, sourcing strategies and distribution channels. However, innovative manufacturing methods can provide opportunities for textile and apparel recycling too.” And enterprises need to redefine customer relationships and the concept of product obsolescence.

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Supply Chain Shaman

JANUARY 18, 2016

Note that apparel manufacturing is growing and apparel retail is declining. As a result, the architecture for the EACH and chain of custody of products for eCommerce requires HADOOP and non-relational open source technologies like Apache Spark. The difference? The difference? Retail generic products sold through new channels.

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Supply Chain Movement

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Unfortunately, we find most companies are moving backwards on the Supply Chain Metrics That Matter (growth, operating margin, inventory turns and Return on Invested Capital) or are making progress on singular metrics instead of driving performance improvement on a balanced portfolio of supply chain metrics that correlate to market capitalization.

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 28, 2023

tractor fleet and sourcing 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, according to the press release. British supermarkets source peppers exclusively from Spain during the winter months. terawatt-hours of solar power would eliminate more than 112 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually, the report found.

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 6, 2013

It senses, translates, and orchestrates market changes (buy- and sell-side markets) bidirectionally with near real-time latency to align sell, deliver, make and sourcing functions. When this happens, there is greater balance between metric trade-offs and resiliency in year-over-year improvements in corporate performance.

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Material Handling & Logistics

JUNE 25, 2018

So the CSR score too is more of a popularity contest than a consistent metric. Debuting at # 24 is footwear and apparel company Adidas (arch-rival Nike has been a Top 25 mainstay for years). At the end of the slideshow, you’ll also find links to our analyses of previous years’ rankings. Media Type. Media Credit. Privacy Settings.

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Unleashed

JUNE 2, 2022

Enhance customer satisfaction , because omnichannel optimises opportunities for personalisation through collection, analysis and cross-referencing of customer metrics and data, from all channels. Establish what customer wants and needs are being meet by using analytical data, social metrics, and by inviting customer feedback.

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Supply Chain Shaman

APRIL 7, 2016

While traditional supply chain processes evolved from functional excellence definitions for source, make and deliver from the inside-out; to make the digital pivot and become more market-driven, companies need to define new supply chain processes outside-in. This outside-in orientation needs a definition to make it actionable.

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ThroughPut

DECEMBER 6, 2023

For instance, an apparel store can prepare for the upcoming summer by using predictive analytics to identify products most likely to witness higher and lower sales and stock their shelves accordingly. Analytics uses performance metrics to identify potential bottlenecks, delays, or quality issues.

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Logility

MAY 2, 2021

From sourcing and production to logistics to marketing, most companies have long relied on a single foundational key performance indicator (KPI) to dictate how they fulfill their customer needs. This one shortcoming is perhaps one of the most obvious for this forecasting metric.

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