LA SWEING PRODUCTS CONFERENCE EXPLORES HOW NEW TECH MAY AID RESHORING AND NEAR SOURCING
April 19th, 2024
The supply chain problems by Covid-19 and worsened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing conflict in Gaza have made clothing and textile companies look hard at near-sourcing and reshoring production. Luckily for them, recent major innovations in digitisation and artificial intelligence have made such plans more practical. Just Style attended a Sewn Products Equipment and Suppliers of the Americas (SPESA) association’s Advancements in Manufacturing Technologies Conference on April 11, where such strategies were explored by experts (1). It was ...
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