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Strategic sourcing is an iterative process, requiring ongoing monitoring, evaluation, and adaptation to ensure optimal supplier selection and value realisation for an enterprise. A step-by-step guide on how to go about sourcing strategically.

In early February, southern Türkiye and northern Syria were devasted by a series of earthquakes, with the most severe reaching 7.8 on the Richter scale. Over 1,600 garment and close to 1,300 textile companies operate in the 11 affected provinces, with a third of the country's apparel and textile workers employed here. As Türkiye's textiles-apparel industry steps out of the ruins, it is in dire need of business.

Looking to go for a new age career? Are you cut out for one? Especially, a competent luxury manager? Read on to know if you fit the bill.

What is luxury? What is ‘Luxury Brand Management’? What role does a luxury brand manager play? Here are some answers to these questions and more.

Building the necessary circularity knowledge base within an organisation and implementing circular practices takes time and effort, but remains key to facilitate the transformation to a more circular operating model.

A collaborative system that reintegrates manufacturing into product and process development is critical to help the global textile industry emerge as a better steward of our planet, our people, and our products. And, there are many small and incremental steps that can be taken without major capital investments to improve safety and reduce the negative environmental impacts of existing textile manufacturing and wet processing facilities.

As synthetic fibres represent over two-thirds (69%) of textiles, a share that is projected to skyrocket in the future, they have become a huge cause of fashion’s ongoing waste crisis, which shows no sign of dwindling. And, instead of phasing out their addiction to synthetics, fashion brands are turning to greenwashing tactics.

The theme of the just concluded COP27 was a focus on implementation. The pledges agreed upon in the past must give way to rapid action on tackling climate change and preparing for its effects. This also includes fashion companies, which are experts at talking the talk, but slow to walk the walk. A first-person account from the event.

The 8th Africa Sourcing and Fashion Week was organised in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa earlier this month. Organised by Trade and Fairs Consulting GmbH, it is one of the key trade events in the continent. A first-person account from the man behind the event

If the just-concluded COP27 at Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt is anything to go by, the fashion industry has cut a sorry figure. The industry has made progress in recent years, but all that pales into insignificance given the goal that shifts farther by the day. Add to that the rampant greenwashing, the constant self-adulation, and the abject failure in not letting the Global South into the entire process. A texfash.com take on the Conference.