AI-Enabled Planning: How Vietnamese Factories Forecast Better Than Competitors
As another busy week begins in Ho Chi Minh City, a merchandiser sits down at her workstation and immediately notices something different. Instead of wrestling with overflowing Excel sheets or scrolling through a cluttered trail of overnight messages, she is greeted by a dashboard that has already done the heavy lifting for her. It outlines […]
SMV Optimisation in Apparel Manufacturing: Why Every Minute Matters More Than We Realise
Walk through any garment factory during the morning shift and a familiar choreography unfolds. Operators settle into their stations with practiced precision, supervisors ready their clipboards, helpers move bundles along the line, and the rhythmic hum of needle and presser foot takes over the floor. It looks efficient, synchronised, almost seamless. Yet beneath this orchestrated […]
Why Linear Supply Chains Are Obsolete in a Circular World
Take a moment and imagine this: A cotton T-shirt, born in a field in India, dyed in a mill in China, stitched in Bangladesh, sold in London, and discarded in Ghana. That’s the typical life cycle of apparel today — a straight line from resource to waste. But the world no longer moves in straight […]