When it comes to digitizing the complex apparel supply chain, the fashion industry has been slow to adapt, often because of hard-to-break manual habits. But the benefits of end-to-end digitization hits many touchpoints, including design and development, cost optimization, production planning, fabric control and shop floor execution.

In this fireside chat, Lauren Parker, branded content manager of Sourcing Journal, sits down with Akash Shah, managing director of solutions provider COATS Digital to discuss this “connected technology software arm” of Coats Group, and why the fashion supply chain urgently needs a digital transformation of the fashion supply chain.

Watch the fireside chat to learn:

·      Why COATS Digital more recently acquired technology companies FastReact, GSD and ThreadSol and how the new “connected whole” is greater than the sum of the parts.

·      How COATS Digital integrates production planning, method time-cost benchmarks and fabric optimization.

·      How digitization and a connected supply chain boosts sustainability and mitigates product waste

·      What is holding the fashion industry back from truly digitizing and how to reverse old-fashioned mindsets

·      Why end-to-end digitization is challenges along complex supply chains, and what to focus on first

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