Apparel

Tablets, Lasers and Time to Market: How Levi Strauss Reinvented the Way It Makes Jeans

March 20, 2018

On a quiet street at the very edge of San Francisco’s Telegraph Hill neighborhood is a red-brick building bursting with blue. This 88-year-old structure, which carries no external signage of any kind, is what Levi Strauss & Co., the 165-year-old inventor of the blue jean, calls its Eureka Innovation Lab.

Your Next Sneakers Will Come From Trees

March 16, 2018

Bloomberg

Allbirds, the Silicon Valley startup behind a wildly popular wool sneaker, is pivoting from sheep to trees.

From Big Box to the Last Mile: Tracing Retail's Evolution

March 15, 2018

Matt Powers, Executive VP, JLL

Retail Planning in the Age of Amazon

March 15, 2018

Hank Saiia, Principal Solutions Architect, ToolsGroup

Big Box vs. Amazon: The Retail Battle of Behemoths

March 15, 2018

Colby Beland, VP Sales & Marketing, CaseStack

Trends in Packaging: The State of the Art

March 14, 2018

Dan Dean, VP Consumer Business Development, DHL Supply Chain

What's Disrupting Retail Today?

March 14, 2018

Fab Brasca, Group VP Solutions Strategy, JDA

How Retailers Are Meeting the Amazon Challenge

March 13, 2018

Marc Gorlin, SCB Contributor

China Is Turning Ethiopia Into a Giant Fast-Fashion Factory

March 8, 2018

Bloomberg

Standing in a sunny office in Indochine International’s brand-new factory, Raghav Pattar, vice president of this Chinese apparel manufacturer, is ebullient. It’s November, barely six months since the Hawassa Industrial Park opened, and already he has 1,400 locals at work.

Wool Is Cool Again, and the Prices Are Shear Madness

February 27, 2018

The Wall Street Journal

Wool isn’t just for winter wear anymore, and its use in everything from shoes to underwear briefs is pushing prices of merino, the most popular type of wool fiber for clothes, to near-record highs.

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.