Business Models and ICT Technologies for the Fashion Supply Chain: Proceedings of IT4Fashion 2016 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Book 413)

This book presents high-quality original contributions on the fashion supply chain. A wide spectrum of application domains are covered, processing of big data coming from digital and social media channels, fashion new product development, fashion design, fashion marketing and communication strategy, business models and entrepreneurship, e-commerce and omni-channel management, corporate social responsibility, new materials for fashion product, wearable technologies. The contents are based on presentations delivered at IT4Fashion 2016, the 6th International Conference in Business Models and ICT Technologies for the Fashion Supply Chain, which was held in Florence, Italy, in April 2016. This conference series represents a targeted response to the growing need for research that reports and debates supply chain business models and technologies applied to the fashion industry, with the aim of increasing knowledge in the area of product lifecycle management and supply chain management in that industry. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 A New Research Agenda for Luxury Supply Chain Management?....Pages 3-15 Publication Trends in Supply Chain Management in the Fashion Industry....Pages 17-24 Cross-Cultural Research for Luxury Fashion Brands in the Chinese Market: A Review of Long- Versus Short-Term Orientation in National Culture Dimensions....Pages 25-32 See Now Buy Now: A Revolution for Luxury Supply Chain Management....Pages 33-46 Development of a Fashion Buying Education Program for an Apparel Retail Company....Pages 47-65 Front Matter....Pages 67-67 A Conceptual Design of Intelligent Shoes for Pregnant Women....Pages 69-77 The Adaptive Fitting Room....Pages 79-88 Towards Case-Based Morphological Classification for Fashion Product Development....Pages 89-99 GENDE: GENetic DEsign....Pages 101-110 Turning a Lean Business Model into a Successful Start-up in the Wearable Technology Sector: The Case of Clara Swiss Tech....Pages 111-122 Toward a New Fashion Concepts Design Tool: The vMannequin Framework....Pages 123-133 Smart Wearable Multi-sided Fashion Product Platforms....Pages 135-150 Front Matter....Pages 151-151 Linking Inventory Management Performance and Operational Performance: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Fashion Apparel and Accessory Industries....Pages 153-161 Logistics Solutions to Support Cross Border E-Commerce Towards China: The Case of the Apparel Industry....Pages 163-177 Development of Scheduling Systems for a Shoe Factory Through IDEF0 and RFID Technologies....Pages 179-186 Proposal of a Multi-method Decision Support System for the Fashion Retail Industry....Pages 187-199 Testing and Deploying an RFID-Based Real-Time Locating System at a Fashion Retailer: A Case Study....Pages 201-214 From Financial Merchandise Planning to Supply Chain Design and Execution....Pages 215-223 A Proposal for Supply-Chain Improvements in a Luxury Company....Pages 225-235 Front Matter....Pages 237-237 Integrating Sustainability in the Fashion System Using Association Rules....Pages 239-250 Front Matter....Pages 251-251 Social Media Strategy in the Italian Fashion Industry: A New Model of Analysis....Pages 253-269 Fashion Supply Chains and Social Media: Examining the Potential of Data Analysis of Social-Media Texts for Decision Making-Processes in Fashion Supply Chains....Pages 271-281 Engagement as the Core of Social and Digital Media Strategy in the Fashion Industry....Pages 283-292 QR Code and the Wine Sector: What Contents? An Exploratory Research Study on the Wine Industry....Pages 293-304