The Planet Money blog and podcast made a not-so-unusual decision for a public radio program a couple years ago — they decided to raise money by selling t-shirts.
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We talk quite a bit here on The Apparel Logistics Blog about how costly major disruptions such as natural disasters, labor stoppages, political unrest, security risks, economic swings, and so forth can be. Simply put, apparel companies must, must, must, must invest in the type of supply chain flexibility and resilience in order to be able to bounce back from unexpected, hugely costly interruptions.
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As we discussed a few months ago here on our apparel logistics blog, the emergence of "fast fashion" — where companies respond to shifts in fashion as quickly as possible by pumping out new product lines after new product lines — has disrupted traditional seasonal product cycles in the apparel industry.
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But what happens when success is so rapid, so unexpected that a company finds that it can't keep up? Can companies scale up quickly enough to meet demand without bankrupting themselves, sacrificing the quality of their products or abandoning their values?
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We talk quite a bit here on the
Apparel Logistics blog about
how technology is impacting the apparel industry — especially fashion logistics and apparel supply chain management. But one of the great things about apparel and technology is just how much technological innovation is reflected in innovation itself.
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