December, 2012

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Apparel Logistics & the Impact of America's Trucking Shortage

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For apparel manufacturers, there's a new challenge undermining the all-important speed-to-market and posing new fashion logistics obstacles. According to USA Today : A worsening shortage of truck drivers is pushing up freight rates and delaying some deliveries, defying the weak economy, high unemployment and falling gasoline prices. "It's getting harder to get drivers," says Mike Card, president of Combined Transport of Central Point, Ore., and incoming chairman of the American Trucking

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Supply Chain Management:Indicators from the 2012 Holiday Buying.

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Fashion Logistics for an Integrated World

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Here's how the future of fashion will be: More rapidly changing. More global. More integrated. More technology-based. And (as always) full of fabulous, fantastic color. Flawless fashion logistics will be key. According to Mashable: Ever stared at your closet in the morning, fraught with indecision over what to wear? A new web app can make sure that never happens again.

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Looming Port Strike Reflects Need For Apparel Supply Chain Management

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Supply chain disruptions that stem from events outside companies' control can catch them most off-guard and be the most damaging. This week strike negotiators reached an agreement to end a week long strike at ports in Los Angeles and Long Beach, California but a looming port strike among workers in nearly three dozen other ports up and down the Atlantic and Gulf coasts shows just how much.

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Rethinking warehouse work culture: Can automation create better workplaces?

Heico Sandee, CEO of Smart Robotics, explores how automation redefines warehouse culture. By shifting repetitive tasks to skill-based roles, automation improves safety, fosters collaboration, and makes warehousing more appealing to today’s workforce.

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Apparel Logistics in China: Beware of Fake Brand Knockoffs

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A year ago, Chinese officials began shutting down a slew of Apple stores around the country. No, this had nothing to do with any sort of Google-esque trade dispute with the government. Rather, these were imposter stores that looked like real Apple stores and quacked like real Apple stores ( with pretty impressive detail ) but that were, in fact, rip-offs.

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