Future Forum Series: Business Global Team (BizGlobal)

• Innovation Team: “Biz Global”: Organization Global—Traditional vs Emerging Business Models As one executive put it, this is not about shaving minutes off of the production but shaving months off of development.

Future Forum Series: Building Trust and Transparency (Re-Modeling)

• You'll never have speed until you have trust. A major topic of interaction for decades in the AAPN has been true sharing of information up and down the chain.

Future Forum Series: Team Material Sciences (TecMatSci)

• There is a shift in raw materials from no technologies, to technologies, to organic, to sustainable to 3D printing to recyclable and biodegradable.  AAPN members will create the new industry playbook on sustainability and traceability.

Future Forum Series: Technical Systems (TechSys)

• The Future Forum Technical Systems Team (TechSys) surveyed AAPN members in early 2021 to find out how our members and the industry were looking at technology now and in the future. Fewer than 25% of respondents identified their companies as Innovative.

2021 pro:Americas Annual Conference

• The AAPN pro:Americas Annual Conference was held virtually on May 4th.  While the live networking component cannot be shown here the speaker presentations were recorded and are available to AAPN members here.

View AAPN Virtual Events

• Sharing stories from successful leaders who together have built the world class, 21st Century textile/apparel supply chain in the Western Hemisphere.

SUPPLY CHAIN AND VERTICALITY

• Fabrics and Factories; Fiber, Yarn, Fabric, Knitting, Dyeing, Finishing; Trim, Packaging, Supplies

TECHNOLOGY/INNOVATION

• Innovation/ Business Modeling; Digitalization ; Consulting; Pattern Making/Fit Approval; Sample Modeling (Making); Product Development - Tech Packs; Pattern Making; Samples; Design

SOURCING AND PRODUCTION

• Costing; Pre-production; Materials; Capacity; Testing; Manufacturing; Cutting; Sewing; Packaging; Embellishment; Quality; Audits; Logistics; Inventory management; Vendor Managed Inventory.

BRANDS AND RETAILERS

• Those closest to the consumers had always been Retailers but today every brand is a retailer, even factories are selling direct to the consumer. The lines between links in the chain have blurred. This is content about brands/retailers

THE AMERICAS AND GLOBALIZATION

APPAREL INDUSTRY AND THE AAPN

• AAPN has been active in, has influenced, studied, recorded and addressed this industry since 1981. We interact as managers to raise our collective Apparel IQ. These are articles that help us learn forward.

EXECUTIVES AND MANAGEMENT

• Content on the economy; jobs; careers; management insights; Harvard articles; how to give speeches; how to run meetings; business case studies; copies of presentations; tips; the Human Library of fellow members; guidelines for marketing; travel; and other.

Apparel IQ

• We all know what this is when we hear it - a person's proficiency in or knowledge of the apparel and textile industry.  We all have it - some more than others.  There is no set of exams to test AIQ. It comes from formal education but most from experience.

Learn About AAPN Members

• Each AAPN member can by found in our free, online searchable database but it's hard to really get to know a company or an executive through a database listing.  Learn about our members through interviews and videos.

AAPN ASIA/AMERICAS Report Card

• This course contains the 2012 and the 2016 results of the AAPN ASIA/AMERICAS REPORT CARD surveys, plus the draft 2020 survey that was delayed by the coronavirus.