Apparel

CIPS Partners With Procurious on Social Media

June 8, 2015

Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply

The Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS) is partnering with Procurious, an online business network for procurement and supply-chain professionals, to form a social media knowledge initiative.

Epicor Issues Update of Product-Packaging Software

June 5, 2015

Epicor Software Corp.

Epicor Software Corp. has made generally available its latest version of product-packaging software known as Epicor AVP.

SKU Profiling: Get Better DC Stocking, Picking, Labor Costs

April 23, 2015

FORTE

Lean Six Sigma the Key to Turning Around Struggling Operation

April 16, 2015

Challenge: A Fortune 100 consumer product company struggled to hit target metrics for fill rates, on-time delivery, damage rates and other key distribution metrics. The company needed immediate improvements to satisfy the demands of its retail customers.

E-commerce Enables African Consumers to Buy Products Often Unavailable Otherwise

March 25, 2015

New York Times

Chris and Tope Folayan, two brothers who grew up in Nigeria and attended college in the United States, founded MallforAfrica in 2013. Tope earned an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern. After graduating, he returned to Lagos, while Chris remained in the United States. Their company makes it easier for Nigerians to place online orders for American and British products that are difficult to find in Nigerian stores and that online retailers don't offer directly to most African consumers because of troublesome customs duties and paperwork, shipping costs and the fear of fraud.

Obama Discusses Apparel Manufacturing, Supply Chain Innovation

March 24, 2015

Apparel

President Obama announced nearly $500m in public-private investment to strengthen American manufacturing by investing in cutting-edge technologies through a new, textiles-focused manufacturing institute competition led by the Department of Defense, and by sharpening the capabilities of small manufacturers through Manufacturing Extension Partnership competitions in 12 states. The White House, as detailed in a new report, is also launching a Supply Chain Innovation Initiative focused on building public-private partnerships to strengthen the small U.S. manufacturers that anchor the nation's supply chains.

RFID Makes Great Inroads Into Apparel, General Merchandise Verticals

March 24, 2015

GS1 US

The results of the 2014 GS1 US Standards Usage Survey show that apparel and general merchandise manufacturers and retailers are using item level electronic product code-enabled radio frequency identification to enhance inventory visibility and respond to consumer demands for omni-channel options.

For Third of Manufacturers, Disruption to Supply Chain Is of Huge Concern

March 19, 2015

Apparel

A third (35 percent) of businesses in the manufacturing industry are extremely concerned about potential supply chain disruption, according to research released by BSI, the business standards company and the Business Continuity Institute (BCI).

Delivering a Seamless Customer Experience Demands Visibility

March 17, 2015

SupplyChainBrain

Analyst Insight: Delivering a seamless customer experience will demand a more comprehensive approach to inventory visibility across the entire supply chain. Gone are the days of "offline and online" inventories. Retailers must determine how they will create and leverage one view of all of their inventories, where any location now may become a source to fulfill a customer's order. – Melanie Nuce, Vice President of Apparel and General Merchandise, GS1 US

Waking Up From the West Coast Port Nightmare: Where Do We Go From Here?

March 9, 2015

Robert J. Bowman, SupplyChainBrain

Assuming that the rank and file of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) ratifies the new five-year contract negotiated with terminal operators, West Coast ports can finally focus on getting container-handling operations back to normal. So is everyone happy?