2024 FDRA Shoe Sourcing Executive Summit
New York Stock Exchange
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
8:15 AM - 3:30 PM
The 2024 Shoe Sourcing Executive Summit is zeroing in on risks across your supply chain, new traceability and sustainability strategies and tools, and the sourcing shifts impacting shoe production across the globe. Industry leaders help us build out the topics. Here is what we will cover this year:
- Retooling to Western Reshoring - Shoe Manufacturing Innovations
- New Sourcing Landscape in India
- Current Challenges and Capacity in China, VN, Cambodia and Bangladesh
- Trade and Import Insights Changing operations
- Looking ahead to help with cost planning on material and shipping
- Tools to better manage supply chains in an age of increased reporting
- Global Conflicts - A review of what could impact shoe sourcing
Thank you to our Summit Sponsors
2023 FDRA Digital Shoe Sourcing Brief
Thursday, July 13, 2023
We know marketplace dynamics are throwing the supply chain into new challenges this summer. Get line-of-sight from experts into current and coming costs, risks, strategy and insights you need as you keep making adjustments and decisions.
This digital event is for sourcing, supply chain, and compliance executives, directors and professionals. Hear from experts and industry leaders discussing strategy and insights on topics including:
- Sourcing Strategy: A look at higher production costs, risks and shifts inside China to enhance strategies
- Production Shifts and Costs: New production and supply chain insights in Vietnam and into Bangladesh, India, Cambodia and beyond
- Supply Chain Costs and Outlook: Shipping costs, port congestion, and transit outlook for holiday 2023 and into 2024
- New ESG Compliance Rules: Discussions on how to best comply with traceability, mapping and environmental rules
- Trade Rules: How the war in Ukraine may continue to impact global sourcing and supply chains and new rules and regulations on trade
- Tech: Technology and software companies are using to optimize operations and help make better choices
Contact FDRA for more information about this digital event.
About the Global Shoe Sourcing e-Series
Countries we focus on for this e-series
China
Vietnam
Indonesia
Cambodia
Bangladesh
Mexico
Columbia
Brazil
Topics covered in the resource center
Supply chain traceability
Digital innovation and automation
Factory worker issues from wages to working conditions
What to keep in mind as you shift your sourcing
Consumer demand impacting factory orders
New trade issues impacting duty costs
