Retailers are making a fundamental shift in the way they do business by creating value networks that coordinate processes and technology to understand, shape and respond more efficiently to consumer demand. Leading supply chain organizations recognize the link between responsive networks and improved supply chain performance.

The more information the sourcing and product development teams can share simultaneously, the more efficiently apparel manufacturers can serve their ever-changing customer needs. One way to make this possible is to establish organic integration through the fusion of sourcing and product lifecycle management within your existing enterprise framework.

Dynamic Worldwide Logistics, which offers a comprehensive menu of services to the apparel industry, found that manual management of its crushing growth in information would no longer suffice. It needed an innovative approach to accessing data.

APL Logistics and Con-way Freight designed an innovative service that provides a new shipping option between ocean and air, combining the cost savings of ocean containerships with the certainty of airfreight, but at a quarter of the price.