This episode focuses on the futility of setting sustainability goals without including traceability, how doing good can also be good for the bottom line and the technology that promises to get us there.

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Additionally, we have Andrew Olah, founder of the Kingpins denim trade shows, which celebrate the heritage and community of this category. Andrew has also launched Transformers, a series of summits focused on helping the market become more environmentally responsible.

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Raw materials are at the heart of so much of what happens in the apparel industry. And as a result the relative health, output and price of cotton is of particular concern for many. To supplement Sourcing Journal’s ongoing market data, this episode focuses on the dominant factors impacting cotton supply and demand, how the U.S. stacks up against other cotton growing nations and the advances taking place on the sustainability front.

Jon Devine, Cotton Incorporated senior economist, details the “volatility and uncertainty” that may lie ahead as a result of a potential change in demand in China, weather related challenges elsewhere and the escalation of the trade war between the U.S. and China.

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This podcast episode will focus on how digitizing operations drives better collaboration and relationship building between brands/retailers and their suppliers. Using Crocs as a case study, Cody Bumgardner, director of product operations at Crocs and Eva Law, deputy manager at Pou Chen will share how employing a PLM system has improved the footwear brand’s ability to easily and efficiently manage products when there’s an unexpected spike in demand and improve on-time/in-full delivery enabling them to be more customer-focused and responsive to consumer demand.

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This episode of Sourcing Journal Radio focuses the importance of transparency in the supply chain, how brands and retailers are going about it today and how it relates to other key industry initiatives like sustainability.

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This episode of Sourcing Journal radio focuses on on-demand manufacturing, how it works, the current capabilities and limitations, and why it’s a necessity today.

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This episode of Sourcing Journal Radio focuses on data and how apparel and footwear companies can use it from both the product development and allotment side as well as from a marketing and personalization standpoint.

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This Sourcing Journal Radio episode focuses on speed to market and how the industry’s pre-occupation with emulating fast fashion could be doing more damage than good.

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