Mark Harrop

With risk and uncertainty persisting far beyond the pandemic, fashion’s traditional supply chain structures are proving ill-suited to overcoming disruption. The solution lies in replacing as many analogue links as possible to create a new, all-digital value chain.

While PLM is a vital investment for many brands and retailers, it’s also a big enterprise decision - not to be taken lightly without proper preparation. We explore the right steps to take before embarking on a PLM project.

sustainability grows, enhanced environmental and ethical commitments, data, and importance of sustainability as a return on investment.

Across the entire, multi-tier, fashion supply chain, brands and their partners are now required to substantiate sustainability initiatives with evidence. The first building block for that disclosure will be rearchitecting relationships to run on data rather than trust and intuition.

To begin to manage, and then mitigate, its impact on people and planet, fashion must first put in the work to understand and quantify the resources used in product creation.

In this, the second part in our focus on defining what a Sustainability Return On Investment (SROI) looks like, we want to provide four distinct examples, each corresponding to a process taken from each of the 1 – 4 tiers of the supply chain. From a brand’s perspective, these examples correspond closely to real-world challenges and scenarios, and all are areas in which consumer and regulatory scrutiny is high, meaning that the potential return on making a measurable improvement is any of them is…

Debating the big question of what it means to bring a physical industry into a spectrum of different digital worlds.