SupplyCompass launches a first-of-its-kind moodboard tool that’s free for fashion brands during COVID-19 4 min read Apr 16 All photography by SupplyCompass by Roxane Nichols in Press LONDON, 16 APRIL 2020: With businesses across the country largely working from home as a result of COVID-19, technology and team management tools are now vital in order […]

by Flora Davidson Co-Founder at SupplyCompass As Co-Founder and Head of Product at SupplyCompass, Flora Davidson is responsible for the vision and direction of this platform. With a background in innovation and ethnographic market research, she’s wholly focussed on being customer-driven (brand and factory!) in her approach to what technology they build, how and why. […]

Oct 13 2021 House of Baukjen wins the UN Global Climate Awards Blog, Production We are so thrilled to announce that our customer and BCorp, Baukjen, has won the 2021 UN Global Climate Action Awards and have been hailed as Carbon Negative Circular Leaders in the fashion industry.   We urgently require solutions and actions […]

Apr 20 3 min read Introducing our free Moodboard for Fashion Tool Blog, Platform Our Fashion Moodboard Tool is free to use and helps teams design together digitally, while they can’t be together physically. The Moodboard for fashion is synonymous with the start of the design development process. For too long, it has been an […]

Sep 16 4 minutes SupplyCompass and the SDGs Header Image: UN SDGs Blog, Thought Leadership SupplyCompass and the SDGs Back in 2015, all 192 United Nations member states came together to commit to tackling 17 ambitious global goals – the Sustainable Development Goals – by 2030, to achieve peace and prosperity for all. With specific targets […]

The goal is the same but we’ve decided to change the game we’re playing. 4 minutes Jul 14 Header Image: Visualise Value by Gus Bartholomew in The Right Thing, Thought Leadership The goal is the same but we’ve decided to change the game we’re playing. TL;DR – We have stopped our sourcing agency service. This […]

Apr 28 3 min We’re Joining Farfetch’s Dream Assembly Alongside Leading FashTech Startups from Around the Globe All photography provided by Farfetch Blog, Press LONDON, 28 APRIL 2020: SupplyCompass is thrilled to announce it has joined the fourth Dream Assembly powered by Farfetch, alongside a cohort of innovative start-ups making impactful change in the fashion […]

Fashion Supply Chains Emerging out of COVID-19 8 min read Aug 17 Header Image Source: SupplyCompass by Srishti Dhawan in Production As the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic slowly recede, fashion supply chains across the world are finding new priorities and ways to reorganize themselves. Creating safe workplaces for garment workers, discovering new ways […]

Aug 23 The Right Thing #3 Blog, The Right Thing It’s been a while that I’ve been pretty obsessed with the concept of collaboration and how to do it well. What is collaboration? We all hear this word bandied around a lot. The Latin root of the word, collaborare, means to work with. Basically, the opposite of giving orders and then […]

Structured data, easily accessible information & shared systems play a key role in the sustainable transformation of fashion. Here’s how. 4 minutes Jul 30 Header Image: Nayanika Bharadwaj by SupplyCompass in The Right Thing, Thought Leadership Structured data, easily accessible information & shared systems play a key role in the sustainable transformation of fashion. Here’s […]

Aug 11 The Right Thing #2 Blog, The Right Thing Systems are complicated. But for survival, it’s crucial we understand them. In our last letter, I touched on systems thinking and why it’s so important for fashion. Since then we’ve been on a company away-day together in Bath (fun times!), discussed our role in the fashion (eco) system, […]

Digital Supply Chains in Fashion – 5 Tips to Build Efficiency 5 min read May 19 Header Image: SupplyCompass by Nayanika Bharadwaj in Technology As COVID-19 has unleashed a wave of uncertainty and anxiety across the world, the fashion industry is sinking in a quagmire of its rundown systems that have simply been unable to […]

What the fashion industry can learn from systems thinking 4 minutes Jul 27 Header Image: Nayanika Bharadwaj by SupplyCompass in The Right Thing, Thought Leadership First up, what is systems thinking? Systems thinking is an approach — or philosophy — to problem-solving that views ‘problems’ as part of a wider, dynamic system. A more holistic […]

Webinar: Navigating Uncertainty in the Fashion Industry 45 min webinar, 15 min Q&A Apr 27 Webinar took place on 12 May at 4:30pm BST. by SupplyCompass in Events What to expect? Announcing our webinar, in partnership with Common Objective and Techstyler, on navigating uncertainty in the fashion industry as the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

Top 5 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Softwares for Fashion: A Comparison Jan 20 Image: Unsplash by SupplyCompass in Technology Product Lifecycle Management or PLM softwares were originally designed for the automotive industry but has been adapted over the decades to service other industries. Due to the complexities of product development and supply chain as well […]

10 Tips for Effective Project Management of a Garment Order Jan 20 Image: Unsplash by SupplyCompass in Production For effective garment project management, modern fashion companies need many skillsets to stay on top of their game. The pressure to deliver better clothing faster means improving their operational and supply chain efficiencies constantly. Here are a […]

The Motus Projects Case Study The Motus Projects is a British clothing brand that strongly believes in the unity of the parkour community. Their mission is to support its growth through funding community projects, events, and sponsoring upcoming athletes through the sales of high-quality streetwear for the sport. Every Motus collection has a certain theme—whether […]

The State of Packaging: Inks 4.5 min read Jan 6 Header Image: Unsplash by Flora Davidson in Production Ink has three basic components: varnish, oil, and pigment. Most people believe ink to be a pigment, but pigment often accounts for only 20% of its volume. What’s the environmental impact of ink? The type of ink used to print on packaging […]

The State of Packaging: Polybags in the Fashion Industry 5 min read Jan 5 Header image: Arthur & Henry by Flora Davidson in Production In a 2017 survey by Packaging Digest and the Sustainable Packaging Coalition, brands said the questions they were most commonly asked by consumers were: Why isn’t their packaging sustainable? Why do they […]

Supply Chain Finance: Top Tips for Fashion Brands 8 min read Jun 19 Header image taken by SupplyCompass at our Manufacturing Partner in Tamil Nadu, India. by SupplyCompass in Production We sat down with Srishti Dhawan, Head of Supply Chain at SupplyCompass, and Liv Khan, Co-Founder of The Lacuna Collection, to ask the top supply […]