Apparel brands are looking for ways to shorten development and production timelines, and nearshoring, aided by automation, could be the answer, according to McKinsey & Company. Karl-Hendrik Magnus, partner at McKinsey and Company discusses the opportunities with Reebok VP of product operations; Erika Swan, Under Armour chief supply chain officer; Colin Browne and Ramesh Fernando, CEO of MAS USA.

Alberto Candiani, the global manager of Candiani Denim, the famed 80-year-old Italian denim mill, shares how he's pushing his family's business into a new era of sustainability, innovation and transparency.

In this week’s episode, we discuss the challenges of getting fit right, the consequences when brands and retailers don’t, and how the industry can help consumers find products that work for them.

John Kernan, managing director for retail and consumer brands for Cowen and Company, talks off-price, emerging direct-to-consumer brands and the continued success of athleisure.

Avani Patel of the Ember Company shares what it takes to launch a new brand in the current consumer climate, how to identify white space in the market and what new companies bring to the retail landscape that many established players can learn from.

This episode focuses on traceability in the cotton supply with David Greenstein of Himatsingka, one the largest cotton wholesalers in the United States, as well as cotton farmer and chairman of the California Cotton Growers Association, Cannon Michael.

In this week’s episode, we discuss made in the U.S.A. and innovation with Dov Charney, founder of Los Angeles Apparel, and Ram Sareen, CEO of Tukatech, a provider of fashion technology solutions.

This episode highlights what makes a disruptor a disruptor in a sea of new upstart brands from the perspective of Pano Anthos, founder and managing director of XRC Labs, an innovation accelerator for the next generation of disruptors in the retail and consumer goods sectors.

This episode focuses on the futility of setting sustainability goals without including traceability, how doing good can also be good for the bottom line and the technology that promises to get us there.

This Sourcing Journal podcast episode focuses on the dominant factors impacting cotton supply and demand, how the U.S. stacks up against other cotton growing nations and the advances taking place on the sustainability front.

How digitizing operations allows for better collaboration and relationship building between brands and retailers and their suppliers

The importance of transparency in the supply chain, how brands and retailers are going about it today and how it relates to other key industry initiatives like sustainability.

This episode of Sourcing Journal radio focuses on on-demand manufacturing, how it works, the current capabilities and limitations, and why it’s a necessity today.

This episode of Sourcing Journal Radio focuses on data and how apparel and footwear companies can use it from both the product development and allotment side as well as from a marketing and personalization standpoint.

This Sourcing Journal Radio episode focuses on speed to market and how the industry’s pre-occupation with emulating fast fashion could be doing more damage than good.