Apparel

Apparel Wholesaler Gets Retail Customers In and Out With Their Purchases Quicker with RFID Technology

August 21, 2014

Brazilian children's clothing wholesaler Brascol is tagging the merchandise that retailers buy at its wholesale outlet, and has installed RFID-enabled checkout system to enable faster purchases by those customers. The RFID system, supplied by iTag Technology, relies on RFID tags made with NXP Semiconductors' Ucode7 UHF chips to quickly identify a shopping cart's contents.

Centric Software Opening First Asia Office in Shanghai

August 18, 2014

Centric Software Inc.

Centric Software Inc., a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software for the retail, apparel, footwear, luxury and consumer goods industries, has opened its first Asian office, in Shanghai, China.

Arena Solutions Partners With SiliconExpert for BOM Assessment

August 14, 2014

Arena Solutions Inc.

Arena Solutions Inc., a vendor of cloud-based applications for product lifecycle management, has integrated Arena PLM with the electronic components information database of SiliconExpert Technologies.

Icix Creates Cloud-Based App for Product Safety Compliance

August 12, 2014

Icix

Icix, a vendor of applications for global supply-chain risk management, has developed Direct Test.

Omni-Channel Retail: Top 3 Logistics Challenges

August 6, 2014

Kewill

Apparel Manufacturers' Management of Raw Materials Has Come Long Way, But Needs to Evolve More

August 5, 2014

Apparel

A 2010 University of Florida study found humans began wearing clothing 170,000 years ago. Someone made those clothes from something, and that was the start of raw materials management. One could liberally argue early cave paintings of fur-bearing animals were the first inventory monitoring systems. RMM has come a long way, but we can do better.

Modernizing EDI: Drivers, Options, and Success Factors

July 25, 2014

Jim O'Leary

Is Best-of-Breed Breaking Your IT Backend?

July 25, 2014

Kristin Zhivago

Picking Methods and Technologies: Making Sense of the Strategy and Technology Options

July 23, 2014

FORTE

Find the Right Picking Strategy to Meet Your Growth Challenges

Making the Case for In-store Pickup of Online Orders

July 18, 2014

Apparel

It's no secret that the apparel, accessory and lifestyle world has long led the way in driving digital innovation across the retail frontier. Considering early initiatives around the convergence of in-store and online channels, several apparel pioneers come to mind – Macy's, Bloomingdales, Nordstrom, Gap.

Apparel

The latest supply-chain news, analysis, trends and tools for executives in the apparel industry — which consists of companies that manufacture clothing, accessories and footwear. Learn how apparel companies and their suppliers around the world are managing the flow of products across all channels of the enterprise. Experts sound off on forecasting and demand planning, supply-chain visibility, logistics outsourcing, inventory optimization, transportation management, warehouse management, supply-chain security, corporate social responsibility and more.