FBD_Bmodel Digital Platform: A Web-Based Application for Demand Driven Fashion Supply Chain.

The new consumption behaviors and environmental awareness are pushing the textile apparel industry to profound transformations. Co-design and production on demand are two success factors for this paradigm shift but require efficient and practical tools for companies. In this context, the European H2020 FBD_BModel project provides to practitioner a suitable digital platform. More specifically for the supply chain management, efficient and well-known algorithms are implemented in an user-friendly web-based application composed of two modules. The first module aims at selecting suppliers with multi criteria decision making techniques. This is particularly important to deal with a huge variety of products and a large number of small factories with their own features. The second modules proposed a genetic algorithm-based optimization for order scheduling and supplier allocation. In a demand driven strategy, this task is crucial to reach the requirements in terms of cost and lead time. This paper provides a brief description of the methods implemented in the web-based application. A numerical example, based on real data of the industrial partners of the FBD_Bmodel project, shows the results obtained with the proposed solution.