In the past, most companies in the European apparel industry focused on minimizing manufacturing costs in the design of supply chains in conjunction with long-distance shipping from production sites in the Far East and relatively long production cycles. Today, for some market segments, the speed...

In recent decades, the apparel industry has received substantial attention from both practitioners and from researchers. This interest has been fueled by the desire to shrink product lifecycles as well as by the increasing competition in the apparel industry due to globalization and...