Supply Chains

Amazon has updated its Supply Chain Standards according to which all products sold in the Amazon Stores or products or services provided to Amazon must be manufactured, produced, or provided in accordance with the Standards and all applicable laws. 

ACT's Accountability and Monitoring Framework 2021 report indicates that the industry needs more than bold commitments, and that there is an urgent need for accountability to ensure meaningful industry collaboration. A texfash.com report.

The current level of supply chain transparency in the leather and allied industries is dramatically low. Only 29 of the 100 major companies surveyed provide some information about their supplier base. And no, luxury brands are not frontrunners. A texfash.com report.

Seventeen individual nations and the European Union have decided to cooperate on strengthening supply chains, working to reduce and end near-term disruptions, and building long-term resilience in the backdrop to the shocks to global supply chains from pandemics, wars and conflicts, extreme climate impacts, and natural disasters.

Swedish retail giant H&M will leverage Google Cloud's extensive data analytics capabilities and secure sustainable global infrastructure to further enhance its customer experience and supply chain enablement.

The bane of the apparel industry is its highly fragmented and disjointed supply chain. There is an urgent need to integrate the entire supply chain to make it agile, responsive, robust and efficient. Is it doable?

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the US Department of Commerce has updated its cybersecurity guidance for supply chain risk management as a response to an executive order. It addresses cybersecurity risks throughout the supply chain at all levels of an organisation.

At the start of 2022, the biggest question was when the supply chain would return to normal. there is still no definitive answer. However, major retail container ports in the US have begun to catch up with the backlog of cargo seen over the past several months, and could experience another surge this summer.

Traceability all the way to the cotton farm remains a challenge. Yet, cotton is a critical raw material for the garment and footwear sector and its cultivation may involve negative human rights impacts. In this context, how should brands implement due diligence when it comes to cotton? Can sustainability standards play a role? The second in a series.

Cotton cultivation takes place in a rural context and the agricultural sector is quite remote from the realities of the fashion industry and on which brands often feel that they have limited influence. The cotton value chain is a long and complex one. How can one ensure that due diligence regulations will not inadvertently exclude smallholder cotton farmers from global value chains? The first in a series.