Our latest blog post covers six reasons why enterprises should implement IDM Capture, an add-on developed by Ephesoft and Infor that leverages ML, AI, OCR, and ICR to capture, process, classify, extract, and validate data from multiple sources.

In my previous blog series I discussed how fashion companies could adapt to meet the challenges of the new normal. For the most part, I focused on brands, but the same principles apply to fashion manufacturing. In this blog post, let’s focus on how manufacturers can adapt to the new normal by achieving visibility and collaboration with the right software.

Twenty years ago, I started my career at an Asian apparel manufacturer. Tech-packs would come in from big brands from the US and Europe. We would gather in meeting rooms late into the night, deciphering the documents and pulling together a sample as best we could. If the sample was approved, we would confirm delivery dates to the brand six months in advance.

Corporate sustainability is increasingly becoming a differentiator of business performance and financial success. Not only will sustainability help the planet recover from the harm that has been inflicted by aggressive industrialization, but it will also add value to your brand by attracting eco-conscious customers who demand green products.

Fashion and luxury brands that have adopted dropshipping and e-commerce marketplaces are geared to capitalizing on the collapse of brick-and-mortar retail. In the new digitally-centered world of e-commerce, these businesses can maximize revenue, increase market share, and offer a seamless customer experience through dropshipping marketplaces. Read more in our latest blog post written in collaboration with Absolutelabs.

The fashion industry is easily one of the biggest players in global eCommerce. Although this giant sector has had its fair share of setbacks following the effects of the pandemic, experts are expecting a stellar recovery in the coming years.

Fashion retailers can maximize sales and increase customer satisfaction by establishing a harmonized retail strategy. Read how selecting the right channels, stock fluidity, adaptable software, and analytics can help in our latest blog post.

Omnichannel has been a buzzword across fashion retail for so long that the industry should have moved on to the next big idea by now. Increased digitization due the pandemic, coupled with other challenges of the post-covid retail climate, has resulted in the term omnichannel appearing consistently in retail studies and white papers.

Organizations often demand the on-site presence of techno-functional expertise for critical IT transformation projects. For certain projects, on-site support is not optional. For many, having expertise on-site ensures the implementation progresses as planned—and more importantly, experts foresee risks and mitigate them before they impede the project. The higher the complexity and the scale of the project, the higher the risk associated with the change.

Continuing our two-part blog we delve into how technology can be a key enabler and driver of helping fashion brands improve their sustainability and transparency efforts. It further details the concept of a sustainability score and how it can be incorporated into systems such as PLM to provide visibility and assist with a company’s sustainability initiatives.

In this two-part blog post, we explore the pressures the fashion industry is facing today: supply chain transparency, sustainability, ethical manufacturing, and conscious consumers demanding eco-friendly clothing, and furthermore reveal what businesses can do to increase visibility and how technology can help alleviate some of these concerns.

2020 has challenged us to change the way we work and engage. Read how Fortude has adapted and optimized its people practice collaboration, and service delivery methodology to face the new normal, in our latest blog post written by Oshana Dias, Global SVP – Human Resources, Fortude.