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The Great Sourcing Hedge: China Plus

When a sourcing executive considers placing orders, price, delivery, quality, and reliability become critical in purchasing decisions....

A New Year, A New Blog

The year 2020 may go down in history as an inflection point, a time of significant change when so much went so wrong. But from out of...

How The Apparel Industry Can Become Exceptional

(Co-Authored with April Kappler, consultant to the cotton and textile supply chain.) Thomas Hobbes, the 17th Century English philosopher,...

The Apparel Industry Is About To Change

Two recent articles left me wondering about where our world, let alone our industry, will end up once the Covid-19 pandemic eases. The...

Does Covid-19 Mark the End of Globalization?

Are we witnessing the end of globalization? The simple answer is no. But, there is a more nuanced answer that I'd like to suggest:...

So, Is Near-Shoring A Thing?

In case you hadn't noticed, our industry is changing. For many companies, extended supply chains are out; sustainability is in. Cheap is...

Can Global Supply chains Ever be sustainable?

It's an old story. I've heard it from proponents of Made-in-USA production. How can our industry be truly sustainable if it maintains...

Cotton's Muddled Message

[Editor's note: I wrote this back in 2014, but we're still faced with the same muddled message about cotton today.] As you read this...

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