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

Logistics Viewpoints

VF had committed itself to largely selling goods to consumers in the same region they are manufactured in. In Asia, Vietnam and Bangladesh are more important sourcing locations. VF is having conversations with fabric manufacturers to encourage them to produce more fabric in factories outside of Asia.

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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. For these and many other reasons, the role of purchasing and supplier management is highly strategic in the fashion industry.

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Do You Know Your Suppliers? Counting the Cost of Ignorance

QAD

Supply chain due diligence is a critical topic for manufacturers and enterprises in all industries, especially given three major impacts of recent high-profile abuse cases, new due diligence laws and consumer buying trends. . found that consumers would stop purchasing brands with ethics issues. Let’s break it down. In the U.S.,

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The Importance of Supply Chain in the Apparel Industry!

Supply Chain Game Changer

AWL India is a leading supply chain management provider that offers world-class solutions for managing the supply chain of businesses operating within the apparel industry. Clothing manufacturers make pieces of clothing both for the local and export markets. However, the industrial scale production of clothing is mostly for export.

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Ensuring Workers’ Rights in Global Supply Chains

Supply Chain Brain

Just about every major manufacturer has a supplier code of conduct to ensure that workers are treated humanely. The solution lies in adequate training at the most important level — the workers themselves. “If Management has to feel that this is a tool that it can use to train its employees. in new financing.

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How Europe is Coping with Supply Chain Disruption

Jaggaer

Define your procurement response strategy. Many countries have closed shops for non-essential and discretionary purchases, and even where they are open, consumers may be cautious about venturing to the high street, preferring to shop online. Adapting to the present and future challenges of COVID-19.

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Alternatives to Blockchain in Supply Chain

Logichain Solutions

These systems maintain records from sourcing, manufacturing, processing, to distribution and use unique identifier like part number, lot code, batch code, production line, time frame, or supplier. The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24, 2013 killed over 1,100 garment workers and injured more than 2,000.