Tariff volatility has pushed brands, retailers and suppliers into unusually frequent talks, with procurement teams renegotiating contracts at a pace Infinity Loop says is far beyond normal. Nithin Mummaneni, the company’s chief executive, said negotiations have risen as much as sevenfold over the past four…
Digital Product Passports revolutionise transparency in textile and apparel supply chains
The textile and apparel sector is moving towards a new era in which product information may matter almost as much as the garment itself. At the heart of that shift is the Digital Product Passport, or DPP, a secure digital record designed to carry verified…
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Europe’s digital economy is becoming harder to separate from Europe’s security policy, and that is precisely the point of a growing debate in Brussels. The argument, set out by transport economist Andrea Giuricin in Euronews, is that the continent can no longer treat telecoms, cloud services, data centres and software…
Aftermarket parts planning has long been one of the hardest problems in supply chain management. Demand is uneven, part ranges are vast, and service expectations are often unforgiving. For many companies, the result is a familiar pattern: too much stock in one location, too little…
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Artificial intelligence is moving supply chains into a new phase, where the aim is no longer simply to spot what is happening, but to decide what should happen next. In logistics, where delays, demand swings and geopolitical shocks can rapidly ripple through networks, that shift is proving especially significant. In…
PING, the Phoenix-based golf equipment maker founded by engineer Karsten Solheim in 1959, has long built its reputation on innovation. Its latest modernisation effort has been less about club design than about the machinery behind the business: bringing demand and supply planning into one coherent…
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View AllImporters often focus on the freight rate because it is the number they can see first. Yet, as freight procurement specialists repeatedly point out, that figure is usually only the beginning of the bill. Charges accumulate at every stage of the journey, from origin handling to customs clearance and last-mile…
UK retail suppliers still failing to provide workers with formal grievance channels, EcoVadis finds
More than half of the suppliers judged highest risk for UK retail and consumer goods firms are still failing to provide workers with a formal and secure way to raise labour concerns, according to analysis from EcoVadis that points to a widening disconnect between policy…

