Digitizing Supply Chain Data for Global Compliance
Apparel and footwear companies are under increasing pressure to comply with a growing set of global regulations. From PFAS reporting under TSCA and REACH, to the New York Fashion Act and EU Digital Product Passports, requirements are evolving quickly—and demand consistent, reliable data from across the supply chain.
The webinar focused on what brands, retailers, and suppliers need to prepare: how to structure data for compliance, how to connect certification and testing information, and how to manage reporting across jurisdictions. The attendees were introduced the Global Textile Scheme (GTS) as one example of how the industry is beginning to organize and share data in a more systematic way. The webinar illustrated a clearer picture of the data infrastructure needed to align with current and emerging laws.
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EPR, AGEC & E-Tailers: The Weighty Connection
With the rise of extended producer responsibility (EPR) regulations — such as the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024 (SB707), Anti-Waste for a Circular Economy (AGEC), and packaging mandates across the EU and North America — brands face increasing pressure to collect accurate weight data for textiles and packaging. The challenge lies in connecting the dots and creating a systematic process to meet these demands efficiently.
Trimco Group’s experts, Camilla Mjelde and Kelly West, guide attendees through aligning the requirements of EPR, AGEC, and e-tailers, showing how a single streamlined approach can address them all. Attendees learned the most basic yet impactful steps to implement weight data collection, explore real-world brand examples, and discover how to simplify compliance while staying ahead of industry expectations. Whether you’re navigating new regulations or looking to optimize your processes, this session provided actionable insights to help your brand succeed.
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Risk Mapping Strategies for a Responsible Supply Chain
Discover how to safeguard your supply chain against today’s unpredictable challenges. This session explored practical methods for strengthening your organization’s resilience. Attendees learned how to discover hidden vulnerabilities, enhance transparency, and make informed decisions about their supplier network. Insights were shared about using risk intelligence tools, mapping supplier relationships, and establishing effective risk management frameworks.
By the end of the webinar, attendees were equipped to identify their most critical suppliers, evaluate potential risks, and implement strategies that ensure their supply chain remains agile, sustainable, secure, and ethically responsible, in the face of disruption.
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How to Gain Business Confidence Amid Trade Uncertainty
Global trade uncertainty can cloud decision-making and execution when strategies are built on assumptions instead of verified insights. Oritain’s Ana Hinojosa, Executive Director of Government and Regulatory Affairs and Former Executive Director of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and Ben Tomkins, VP Retail Sales, spoke to attendees for an insightful session on tariffs, free trade agreements (FTAs), latest enforcement trends, hidden risks in moving production to unfamiliar locations, and how reliable, verified data can empower leaders to make confident, well-informed decisions.
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AI in Apparel: Myth vs Measurable Impact
AI in apparel and footwear is often clouded by buzzwords and lofty promises—but what is truly delivering measurable value? This webinar revealed how generative AI and machine learning are actively transforming forecasting, product development, and customer experience in the fashion industry.
Discover how leading brands are embedding AI into PLM, ERP, and 3D workflows to digitize the design-to-delivery process, accelerate product cycles, and reduce waste. Infor unpacked real-world use cases and actionable strategies that turn AI from myth to measurable impact.
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Textile EPR Readiness: Regulatory Insights and Perspectives
Regulations are catching up to the fashion and textile world—and fast. With new Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws rolling out for textiles across the globe and PFAS reporting gaining momentum, brands and manufacturers are facing growing pressure to stay ahead of compliance.
In this webinar, attendees learned what they needed to know now about textile EPR and PFAS regulations. Attendees heard from compliance experts and industry leaders who were already in the thick of preparing for these changes. This webinar also dove into what’s been learned from packaging EPR reporting and how that experience can shape smarter strategies for textiles.
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Where & How Counterfeiters Target Fashion Shoppers in 2025
The 2025 Counterfeit Buyer Teardown is the largest study of its kind, commissioned by Red Points. It analyzes the behavior of 2,000 U.S. consumers who purchased counterfeit products online. The study shows that a whopping 61% bought fakes unintentionally, and among them, 52% ended up with fake fashion items.
In this webinar, Red Points broke down:
- What made e-shoppers trust fake listings and websites?
- How counterfeit fashion products are most commonly discovered.
- To what extent does AI influence counterfeit discovery and purchase decisions?
- Whether shoppers come back after being duped or walk away for good.
- Top techniques infringers use to mislead shoppers into buying fakes online.
As fake fashion products become harder to detect and easier to scale with AI, understanding shopper behavior is more important than ever. Attendees gained exclusive insights to future-proof their protection strategy and strengthen consumer trust in 2025!
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Closing the Loop: Polyester Recycling for Circularity
There is a tremendous amount of production and consumption in the fashion industry resulting in alarming amounts of textile/garment waste. In order to bring this waste back into the economy, circularity is becoming increasingly important, and hence the usage of recycled materials becomes even more prominent.
This session explored the evolving landscape of polyester recycling in the textile industry. Covering both mechanical and chemical recycling technologies, their benefits, limitations, and role in supporting circularity, this webinar highlighted key global regulations—such as the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles and the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR)—that are accelerating innovation and shaping industry practices.
Participants gained insight into the challenges faced by recyclers and manufacturers, as well as the growing opportunities for scaling recycled polyester through innovation, market demand, and circular business models.
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Improve Data Accuracy for Packaging EPR Reporting
Accurate data is the cornerstone of successful EPR compliance and risk management. RLG experts walked attendees through the essential steps to review data for accuracy in order to improve precision in future EPR reports.
With improvements in packaging data accuracy, businesses may see decreased EPR fees and a stronger foundation for cost-savings through business intelligence. Don’t be reliant on poor-quality data for future reporting and decision-making.
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How Carhartt Uses Forensic Science for Cotton Traceability
Traceability starts long before the factory floor – it begins with knowing where your cotton comes from, how it is grown, and who is involved along the way.
As expectations grow around material-level data and sourcing integrity, brands are rethinking how they verify the raw materials that go into their products. In this webinar, hosted by AAFA and Oritain, attendees learned why traceability needs to begin at the material level (not just tiers), what the three key pillars of risk mitigation look like in practice, and how leading workwear brand Carhartt is using forensic science as a cornerstone of its traceability strategy to ensure a clean cotton supply chain.
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Isotopic Origin Verification: Strengthen Your Supply Chain
Proving the true origin of raw materials is one of the toughest challenges importers face today. Isotopic origin verification is a proven and reliable method for evaluating origin claims independently of traditional supply chain mapping tools, as well as ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. Recently, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued guidance recognizing isotopic testing as a powerful tool for supply chain traceability and confirms the agency’s increased use of this technology to identify imports linked to forced labor.
This webinar by Oritain, in collaboration with AAFA, explained what isotopic testing and origin fingerprinting is, why it’s a trusted method for origin verification, and what it can reveal that other tools cannot. Whether you want to better understand your supply chain, demonstrate due diligence, or prove the source of raw materials in your final products, this webinar is for you.
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Beyond Compliance: How Brands Are Redefining Sustainability
Supply chain transparency has evolved beyond regulatory requirements—it's now a cornerstone of building trust, fostering partnerships, and exceeding consumer expectations. In this webinar, the CSR and sustainability teams at Faherty and Cobalt shared how they're transforming their supply chain strategies to drive meaningful impact.
This webinar provided attendees with real-world advice for navigating regulatory pressure and staying ahead of new requirements.
If you're ready to learn from brands leading the charge in sustainable supply chains, this conversation is for you.
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EPR in Fashion & Footwear: Compliance & Sustainability
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations are rapidly emerging in the United States and globally. Apparel and footwear producers who manage packaging and product end-of-life responsibilities are being regulated to be accountable for end use product stewardship. As more EPR laws are implemented, producers must adapt by improving data collection efforts and circular economy strategies to avoid penalties and ensure smooth operations. This webinar broke down the fundamentals of EPR, highlighted key legislative updates impacting the industry, and provided actionable steps for producers to navigate compliance and simultaneously find innovative ways to reduce product packing throughout their supply chain.
Attendees gained insight into how EPR policies affect packaging and how to prepare their supply chain with strategies for integrating sustainability. Whether you're new to EPR reporting or want to refine your approach, this session equips you with the knowledge to stay ahead of regulatory changes and align with best practices for responsible material management.
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Supply Chain Visibility: Beyond the UFLPA
After roughly three years of anti-forced labor enforcement regulation in the U.S. and Europe, visibility into the textile and apparel supply chains has become a standard for import control visibility. As methods for compliance with forced labor regulations evolve and advance, this standard for visibility is increasingly expected of importers in other contexts as well, including environmental risks and tariff-related scenarios. In this webinar, Sayari demonstrated how the success of trade and corporate data in enhancing forced labor risk assessments can be applied to other considerations of import control compliance.
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Remain Resilient - What To Expect For Supply Chain Risk
Supply chain risk is changing more rapidly than ever before, with new regulatory challenges, geopolitical and domestic political issues, and changing sourcing demands having a major impact on companies of all sizes. In this webinar, BSI reviewed emerging risks and threats to supply chain resilience, evaluate the responses that companies can take to mitigate and take advantage of these risks, and use case studies to illustrate successful responses.
The webinar showed attendees the importance of building an overall management system for supply chain risk management that includes relevant stakeholders across the organization, from procurement and purchasing to legal and trade compliance. To ensure continued success of these efforts, BSI discussed how to successfully integrate technology into supply chain risk management and demonstrate return on investment.
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Identifying Hidden Forced Labor Risk in Supply Chains
Sayari presented an informative webinar on strategies for identifying hidden forced labor risk and potential Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) exposure in your supply chain. In this session, attendees learned how publicly available information such as corporate records and trade data can be leveraged to uncover indicators of potential forced labor risk in direct and upstream suppliers.
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Stop Hidden Supply Chain Losses Before Contract Season
Ocean carrier contracts aren't just about rates—they're about strategy. This year, smart importers and BCOs are turning to automation and freight audits to uncover hidden costs, understand their freight under management, and leverage these insights during negotiations.
This webinar by BlueCargo, in collaboration with AAFA, guideed participants on how to automate supply chain cost tracking—giving them full visibility over containerized fees like D&D, drayage, and ocean. With disruptions becoming the new normal, companies that can streamline their data will gain an edge when locking in favorable terms with ocean carriers.
Whether you're in supply chain leadership, logistics, finance, or procurement, this webinar will equip you with the tools to eliminate overpayments, monitor freight spend in real-time, and go into contract season ready to negotiate smarter deals and save some big dollars.
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2025 Compliance Trends for Fashion Brands and Retailers
The fashion and apparel industry is coming off a year marked by global trade disruptions, increased regulatory pressures, and a strategic pivot in sourcing and manufacturing. Looking to 2025, brands and retailers face pressing questions about what’s coming down the pipeline and how to prepare for upcoming challenges.
Does moving manufacturing closer to end markets eliminate risks? Will shifting toward synthetic materials offset regulatory scrutiny? According to Ana Hinojosa, Oritain Advisor and Former CBP Executive Director, even a small percentage of forced labor-tainted cotton fibers in a garment can expose companies to bigger risks.
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Risk Management and Compliance Through Smart Testing
The evolving landscape of regulations and industry requirements—due diligence, traceability, and various testing methods—can overwhelm brands and budgets. Compliance can come at a high cost, but missteps—such as the wrong approach or lack of action—can lead to reputation harm or even litigation. Over-testing, meanwhile, can drain budgets and strain supplier relationships.
With the right partner, customized Smart Testing plans can streamline compliance while targeting higher risk products, supply chains, and markets. This webinar compared three common risk mitigation approaches and learn what considerations lead to effective strategies for protecting people and the planet.
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Tracing Threads: Verification Through Testing
In today’s complex global value chains, every thread tells a story—of opportunities, challenges, and hidden risks. How do you untangle this intricate web to illuminate your value chain and make informed, confident decisions? Attendees joined AAFA for a webinar introducing a strategic, science-backed approach to responsible sourcing. By combining origin verification testing with collaborative partnerships, we’ll explore how to build trust, ensure regulatory compliance, and reduce the risk of forced labor violations.
Attendees learned how testing can engage suppliers, strengthen transparency, and act as both verification and deterrent. Through real-world case studies, legal insights, and lab demonstrations, Eurofins answered key questions on sourcing metrics, recycled materials, and supply chain accountability. Attendees discovered how to move beyond risk mitigation toward positive, data-driven sourcing decisions.
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