Preface

摘要

The IT4Fashion is an industrial and scientific conference where fashion companies, brand, researchers, and software houses, from all the Europe, have the chance to discuss IT technologies as applied to the field of fashion and luxury. The first edition was in 2011, and the event has constantly grown in terms of numbers, visibility, and importance for the operators in the sector. Managing fashion products is challenging, not only for creatives and stylists, but also for supply chain managers. More and more, customers demand broad product variety and innovative products, and the competition in the fashion industry is ever more centered on the ability to react in a timely manner to changes in the customers' desires. Therefore, fashion companies have to balance the need to reduce lead times of collections, minimize stocks and obsolescence risks, acquire information from big data coming from digital and social media channels, guarantee a high level of quality, and get the customer involved in the processes of product development. Starting from a multidisciplinary approach, the IT4Fashion conference aims to collect and present new or improved supply chain business models and technologies applied to the fashion industry, to share knowledge among practitioners and researchers, and, in summary, to increase knowledge in the areas of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) in the industry.