UK Fashion & Textiles: Data-driven platform, enabling manufacturing supply chain real-time decision-making, effective track & trace & sustainability

英国时装和纺织业每年为英国经济贡献320亿英镑，但这是一个面临重大挑战的行业。消费者对行业的需求--从价格具有竞争力的快速时尚到制造奢华、高质量的产品，都需要确保可持续性和道德规范，并满足从商业街到在线门户网站的多种渠道的需求。然后，新冠肺炎扰乱了制造业供应链和零售业，产生了未售出的库存，给许多企业带来了财务压力。这加速了以不同方式做事的需要；利用技术、改变关键流程、重新设计供应链；通过更可持续、更少浪费和更具成本效益的流程更好地重建，使客户需求与正确的产品更好地匹配，并支持所有制造供应商、物流组织和原材料生产商实现增长。这样的能力将使英国行业成为真正的全球领导者。该项目将建立一个新的行业数字平台，直接解决这些问题。它将使制造商和零售商能够满足新兴的客户需求，更有效地管理日常业务交付和全球供应链，为系统注入更多洞察力和透明度，使用新的数字技术绘制组织业务图，并帮助他们使用一套新的数字工具原型重新平衡供需。这些相同的数字工具将使我们能够解决该行业长期存在的环境和社会影响，将英国时装与纺织品公司转变为世界上最可持续和最具弹性的生态系统之一，加强英国的竞争地位和加速经济增长。最后，这一方法还将有助于“未来证明”的交付，使英国退欧需求等问题能够作为解决方案的一部分得到管理。定义的框架将允许任何规模的英国金融时报企业参与，提高整体行业竞争力和弹性。该项目财团是由ISCF资助的九个创意产业集群计划之一的未来时尚工厂计划聚集在一起的。

The UK fashion and textile industry contributes \>£32bn pa to the UK economy, yet it is an industry facing significant challenges. Consumer demands on the industry -- from fast fashion at competitive prices to manufacturing of luxury, high quality products, there is a need to ensure sustainability and ethical practices as well as address the needs of multiple channels from high-street to on-line portals. Then COVID-19 disrupted manufacturing supply chains and retail, creating unsold inventory and placing financial pressure on many businesses. This has accelerated the need to do things differently; leveraging technology, changing key processes, redesigning supply chains; to build back better with more sustainable, less wasteful and more cost effective processes, that better match customers needs with the right products, and supporting all manufacturing suppliers, logistics organisations and raw materials producers, to grow. Such capability would make the UK industry a true global leader.This project will build out a new industry digital platform that directly address these issues. It will allow manufacturers and retailers to meet emerging customer needs, more effectively managing day-to-day business delivery and global supply chains, infusing the system with more insight and transparency, using new digital technology to map organisations businesses and help them re-balance supply and demand using a new prototype set of digital tools.These same digital tools will enable us to address the long-standing environmental and social impacts of the Industry, transforming UK Fashion & Textiles into one of the most sustainable and resilient eco-systems in the world, strengthening the UK's competitive position and accelerating economic growth. Finally, the approach will also help to 'future proof' delivery, enabling issues such as the demands of Brexit to be managed as part of the solution.The defined framework will allow any size of UKFT business to participate, improving overall industry competitiveness and resilience. The project consortia has been brought together by the Future Fashion Factory Programme, one of nine ISCF-funded Creative Industries Cluster Programmes.