Blockchain In Retail Industry | Fashion Blockchain

The world is going through yet another wave of digital disruption, which began almost a decade ago with the invention of the Bitcoin digital currency, followed by blockchain and, more recently, “smart contracts”.

We have begun researching, via featured articles and insights, what Blockchain in Retail and Blockchain in Fashion could mean in the future.

Bitcoin was invented in 2008, followed by Blockchain, which was essentially the realisation that the underlying technology that operated bitcoin could be separated from the currency element and used for all kinds of other inter-organisational cooperation, benefitting from the cryptography (the art of writing or solving codes and puzzles) advancements invented to support bitcoin.

Stay tuned for more information around the potential of Fashion Blockchain.

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Creating Frictionless Commerce for the Sci-Fi Shopper

13th June 2019 Lydia Mageean

In today’s guest post, Darin Archer, CMO at Elastic Path, explores today’s ‘sci-fi shoppers’. Later this month Elastic Path will be launching a new report on this topic, drawing on data from over 1,000 consumers and 300 B2C brand marketing professionals, entitled “The Sci-Fi Shopper: How to Future Proof Your Brand for the New Customer”.

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How Technology Powers Sustainability

26th November 2018 Lydia Mageean

Today, frequent contributor Elizabeth Shobert explores how technology can support a sustainable future for fashion. Elizabeth is Director of Marketing & Digital Strategy at StyleSage – an intelligence business, founded on the idea and mission that we can all do better, and that technology has the power to enable smarter decision-making.

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Why Retailers Should Embrace The Blockchain

4th September 2018 Lydia Mageean

In his first exclusive for WhichPLM, PixelPrivacy.com’s Bill Hess, shares some benefits of blockchain for RFA. Bill’s blog is all about making the world of online security accessible to everyone, and prides himself in writing simple guides that can be understood by anyone!

Event Reviews

Dig.IT4Fashion 2017: The WhichPLM Report

4th December 2017 Mark Harrop

Our CEO has recently returned from Florence, where he attended and presented at Dig.IT4Fashion. Here, he presents his coverage of the event, and shares his thoughts on four roundtable panels: Enterprise 3D, Experience, Blockchain, and Data Intelligence. It isn’t often today to come across a retailer, brand or manufacturer in our industry who doesn’t have […]

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The Future of Supply Chain Transparency: PLM meets the IoT and Blockchain

20th October 2017 Mark Harrop

In his latest digital exploration, WhichPLM’s own Mark Harrop shares his thoughts on blockchain, the IoT, PLM, and the consumer as each relates to the modern supply chain. Since PLM entered the retail, footwear and apparel (RFA) industry around the turn of the millennium, I have to admit that I’m disappointed at the lack of […]

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Blockchain: the Next Disruptive Wave after the Internet?

4th September 2017 Mark Harrop

In the second instalment of a two-part exclusive, our CEO builds on his exploration of blockchain for the RFA industry. Mark Harrop continues here by exploring some potential advantages of using blockchain in the fashion supply chain.

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Is the Blockchain Revolution Coming to the Fashion Sector?

29th August 2017 Mark Harrop

In the first instalment of a two-part exclusive, our CEO delves into the world of bitcoin and blockchain. Mark Harrop gives a brief history of the ‘global phenomenon’ here, and in part two will look at what this could mean for the RFA sector.

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