The pandemic literally galvanised the fashion industry to adopt a digital agenda fast if it stood any chance of surviving an increasingly complex and uncertain future, thus leading to rapid digitisation of the fashion supply chain. It’s fair to say that it’s been a veritable rollercoaster ride for most global apparel manufacturers over the past three years. For those that successfully navigated the Covid pandemic, the subsequent huge rise in costs from materials, energy to shipping, increased geo-political uncertainty and the cost-of-living squeeze affecting global consumers has left most apparel manufacturers shaken as well as resolutely stirred. The truth is that the pandemic literally galvanised the fashion industry to adopt a digital agenda fast if it stood any chance of surviving an increasingly complex and uncertain future. As a result, the rapid digitisation of the fashion supply chain has ensued at a lightning pace. New solutions are evolving fast and existing technologies are being consistently enhanced to relieve the industry of its notoriously outdated and fundamentally analogue ways of doing business, so it can confidently forge a successful future. Many fashion manufacturers have consequently acknowledged that in order to survive, they must digitise their processes as much as possible […]
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