Sourcing Journal Radio

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. In this episode, you'll hear from: MeiLin Wan, vice president of textile sales at Applied DNA Sciences, a firm that provides tag, test and track molecular-based supply chain authentication for traceability and transparency Jonathan Aitken, director of RFID and digital partnerships at Avery Dennison, which holds more than 800 patents and applications in RFID-enabled technologies which provide greater efficiency, reliability and accuracy to supply chains Julie Vargas, director of digital solutions at Avery Dennison Nina Shariati, project manager for technology and Higg Index at fast-fashion retailer H&M Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. In this episode, you'll hear from: Marleen Vogelaar, founder and CEO of Ziel, an on-demand apparel manufacturing platform and retail service that creates custom, quick-turn private-label apparel collections that alleviates inventory investments for brands and retailers Peter Santora, the chief commercial officer of SoftWear Automation, a company that has developed robots which sew without direct human labor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. In this episode, you'll hear from: Jose Chan, vice president of business development at Celect, a data analytics firm that draws insightful information from big data to improve same-store sales and increase online conversion Guido Campello, CEO of the Cosabella brand, which offers intimates, loungewear, sleepwear and activewear and has recently expanded from solely wholesale into private label, licensing and direct to consumer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. In this episode, you'll hear from: Robert D'Loren, chairman and CEO of Xcel Brands, maker of Isaac Mizrahi, C Wonder and H Halston labels Mark Burstein, president of sales and development and chief strategy officer of NGC Software, an apparel ERP, PLM, SCM and global software solutions company John Thorbeck, former vice president at Timberland and CEO of GH Bass. Currently, he's the CEO and founder of Chainge Capital, which focuses on helping companies improve the first, middle and last mile Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices