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How to Fix Fashion’s Supply Chain? Begin With Culture

Change begins within a company, starting with C-suite executives and the value system they create.

Workers in a warehouse preparing goods for dispatch. — Collaboration, knowledge-sharing and continuous learning are key to repairing fashion’s supply chains. (Shutterstock)

John Thorbeck

18 March 2022

It’s no secret that the fashion industry has a massive supply chain problem. A relentless lowest-cost mindset over the years created fissures between buyers and suppliers, which deepened amid the global pressures of Covid-19. The outcome is a trail of imbalances and one-way practices imposed by brands and retailers on supplier networks to cut their own costs and risks, squeezing factories and their workers. The overhang of lost or damaged trust between buyers and suppliers is still with us, a concern that is a major obstacle to a more sustainable future.

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