The Fashion Value Chain – It’s All About Communication
In today’s guest post, Andrew Dalziel, Senior Director, Industry Strategy, Infor looks at the relationship between collaboration and success.
Connected Supply Chain
It is an ongoing challenge to get systems to talk together but the fashion industry needs to better connect with its supply chain. An open industry has been a priority for many retailers and brands in the wake of the exposure of exploitative labour practices and in the context of increasing sustainability-focused measures. The UK’s 2015 Modern Slavery Act is an example of initiatives that work towards this. The Act says that big business will be forced to make public their efforts to stop the use of slave labour by their suppliers. For the textile and apparel supply chain, this is being implemented in a three-tiered approach. Tier one looks at the elimination of slave labour in the final product manufacturing sector, whilst tier two focuses on the manufacture of fabric and monitors mills. And, further down the line, the Act will ensure large businesses source their materials – from thread to buttons – from ethical suppliers.
However, part of the problem has been the complexity of the supply chain. Implementation of connected PLM, throughout the supply chain, could therefore solve this problem.
The posts below will cover the connected supply chain in more detail, and how systems like PLM can help to eradicate the issues we face today.
5 Reasons to Adopt Digital Workflows Across the Supply Chain
Here, EFI Optitex share their first exclusive with WhichPLM for 2019, discussing the numerous benefits to adopting a digital workflow. Optitex develops 3D virtual prototyping and 2D CAD/CAM pattern and fashion design software that is both innovative and easy to use.
Infinite Fashion
Here, our own CEO, Mark Harrop, shares his thought leadership view on the current landscape of any Fashion business – technologically speaking. He delves into what WhichPLM has coined Fashion’s ‘infinity loop’, emphasizing the importance of digital integration. The next wave of fashion technology integration is happening whilst I write my latest article on what […]
Texprocess Americas & Techtextil North America 2018
In today’s guest post, the organisers behind the renowned concurrent trade shows, Texprocess Americas & Techtextil North America, share a sneak peek at what to expect this year – where Sewn Products & Technical Textile Manufacturers, Suppliers and Service Providers Come Together for Three Days of Networking, Education & Innovation. The largest technical textiles, nonwovens, […]
Dig.IT4Fashion 2017: The WhichPLM Report
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 […]
WTiN Report: Inaugural Textile 4.0 Conference provides digital vision
WhichPLM’s own Mark Harrop has recently returned from his role as keynote speaker at WTiN’s first Textile 4.0 conference. Here, Tansy Fall, Editor of Industry Digitalisation for the World Textile Information Network, reviews the conference, which took place in Amsterdam from 25-26 October 2017. The programme explored the potential impact of Industry 4.0 and IoT […]
Dassault Systèmes: Create delightful consumer experiences through social ideation
This guest advertorial from Dassault Systèmes explores the importance of brands socializing with their markets in order to get ahead of the competition, ahead of consumer demand, and to forge new ideas through collaboration. Dassault Systèmes explains just how to do this by leveraging their technology suite.
The Future of Supply Chain Transparency: PLM meets the IoT and Blockchain
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 […]
Design by Social
In her latest exclusive for WhichPLM, Lucy Royle discusses the digital-social way of working that is becoming the norm in the fashion sector. She explores how socially-oriented PLM platforms are helping designers (and other key role owners) to quickly create fashion collections with the consumer very much in mind.
Conversations: Jade Huang, StyleSage
Jade Huang, Co-founder & CEO of analytical ‘virtual assistant’ platform, StyleSage, took some time out in early August to chat to us and share her story thus far, and her views for the future. Jade’s experience in design, technology, and business shines through in this exclusive piece – as does the depth and rapid development […]