In the most amazing combination of revolutionary and totally boring ever, we as consumers have evolved from shopping in stores, to ordering online and waiting, to ordering online and picking up from a locker, back at the store.
Apparel, footwear and accessories brands can have a complex network of sales channels, but they ultimately need one view of their overall business in order to manage it effectively.
This year previous areas of investment should see big return, with social commerce, in-store technologies, and artificial intelligence becoming more widely adopted and fully integrated into the everyday shopping experience.
With an agile, resilient digital supply chain, goods flow unimpeded across international borders in the most efficient, compliant and profitable way, regardless of trade policy disruptions.
PLM software vendors see a chance to disrupt the software market by offering differentiated 3D functionality ahead of their competition. First, though, the industry must recognize PLM as an end-to-end business discipline worthy of advanced strategic thinking and technology investments.
A new digital core can optimize your mission-critical processes, create new capabilities to better understand and anticipate customer needs, and provide a foundation that lets you take advantage of emerging technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
We reveal how your peers plan to drive top and bottom-line business growth and look at the trends, challenges and issues impacting 2018 strategies and beyond
This e-Book will arm you with solid, practical advice for your PLM selection and implementation process -- from the initial RFP to determining business needs and from overcoming disconnects to achieving true successful adoption.
When fashion businesses use the same solution for product lifecycle management (PLM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP), they bring many critical processes into a common technology platform. The benefits can be significant.
Getting the most from digital printing means seamlessly integrating the entire production flow — from the initial design, to pattern making, and then to pattern/image placement on markers— in a streamlined, automated manner using the fewest possible production steps.
The end game now is personalization — an outcome that's constantly evolving as innovative companies find new ways to create meaningful experiences for each individual that fuse the online and offline worlds and strike the optimal balance between transaction and emotion.
Despite the efforts of some major American big-box chains, most retailers continually overlook the opportunity to serve U.S. Hispanic consumers in authentic and resonant ways — especially during the holiday season.
There is an extremely limited amount of data available for the age groups from 6 to 17, and current children's size tables are based off datasets from 1930 to 1970. Size NorthAmerica is a serial measurement survey set out to capture and document the changes of recent years.
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The numbers are in! According to the April 2018 RSR Research Benchmark Report for Merchandising and Pricing, almost 50% of retailers have plans and / or budget to implement an assortment-related technology in the next 18 to 36 months.
This special issue is a guide to suppliers of software and related IT solutions to the apparel marketplace, including vendor contact information, operating system requirements and a round-up of functions and services.
The profile system is based on specific body types that have been created through extensive and “high touch” development processes that involve actually trying various garments on varying body types.
At the Equipment Zone, customers can engage with product experts and run test print samples using their own files on the Epson dye-sublimation, signage, photography and direct-to-garment (DTG) solutions.
