In today’s highly technical, data-driven fashion environment, the limited functionality of spreadsheets and other outdated, manual-entry tools often result in significant time lags, data inaccuracies, linear sequential processes, and an inability to integrate with shared data libraries. When the greatest asset a fashion manufacturers can have is getting new ideas to consumers quickly, manufacturers can’t afford to let technology slow them down.
That’s why fashion companies need Infor CloudSuite™ PLM for Fashion—a modern, product lifecycle
management (PLM) solution that can handle the fast-paced demands of a 21st-century fashion business. It can help brands develop new styles with increased speed, greater flexibility, and more consistent quality.
Based in the cloud, CloudSuite PLM for Fashion lets you work from anywhere, on virtually any device.Innovate faster. Infor CloudSuite PLM for Fashion is a powerful PLM and collaboration platform that can help fashion manufacturers and their value chain partners innovate faster, make processes more efficient, and easily share information. As a result, fashion manufacturers will have the tools they need to create exciting fashions and deliver them to consumers faster.
Here are the top seven ways fashion manufacturers can replace the limitations of spreadsheets and other manual-entry tools with the advanced, fashion-specific functionality of Infor® CloudSuite PLM for Fashion.
1. Collaborate internally
When the creative talents of your designers are in sync with the analytical talents of your manufacturers—beautiful things can happen. With CloudSuite PLM for Fashion, design, technical, and commercial teams can share information through an intuitive, common interface. By bridging the gap between creative and analytical thinking, brands can. develop exciting new ideas faster, while remaining within realistic financial and operational constraints.
2. Share information with
your suppliers Today’s business is global—a typical fashion brand may have executives in New York, designers in Milan, and manufacturing managers in Asia. With CloudSuite PLM for Fashion’s Partner Collaboration module, teams can share specifications such as measurements and images—as well as requests for quotations and samples for testing—with supply chain partners around the world. To help speed up this global supply chain collaboration, CloudSuite PLM for Fashion’s Partner Collaboration module is available in US English, Chinese, Spanish, and French, with more languages in development.
3. Incorporate planning into design
With raw materials to source and store, retailers to replenish, and new seasons to plan for, CloudSuite PLM for Fashion allows for functionality planning at every stage of the fashion process—so you can avoid the manufacturing bottlenecks that slow down production. The built-in flexibility of CloudSuite PLM for Fashion allows designers to either work to a merchandising strategy or generate new and exciting styles, which in turn can be mapped to a plan. As well as helping create the right mix of products from the outset, the powerful analytics in CloudSuite PLM for Fashion help your commercialization teams quickly identify shifts in demand and make adjustments along the way.
4. Streamline design
Your designers and developers need to be able to do their best work—so your brand can stay ahead of trends and release exciting new styles and collections. CloudSuite PLM for Fashion is an effective platform and collaborative hub that allows teams to more efficiently create new styles and collections, like designing and developing finished goods, components, trims, and materials such as fabrics, leather, and other raw materials.
5. Work concurrently
You’ve launched a new collection, and it’s selling well. Now you need to make the most of your inventory to replenish retail racks and ensure that profitably meets demand. With shared access to data, the entire organization can plan, design, develop, and source multiple collections in real time, no matter where staff is located.
CloudSuite PLM for Fashion allows you to collaborate both internally and externally with your manufacturing teams and partners around the globe. That way you can pass information on as soon as it becomes available to the people who need it, rather than only share information at specified points stipulated by a sequential model. With these information flows, it’s easier to manage and track the critical path of different phases, so schedules can be revised and updated whenever needed.
6. Work the way you live
Being able to facilitate true collaboration across the business means giving your team members the ability to configure the software to their individual roles and personal preferences. With a list interface similar to that of Excel®, it's simple for first-time users to learn how to use CloudSuite PLM for Fashion. And, with a personalized homepage and beautiful design, Infor Fashion PLM helps to create a superior experience across the organization.
7. Be integrated
Design, development, and manufacturing teams need to be able to make accurate decisions on the fly. To help make this possible, CloudSuite PLM for Fashion efficiently integrates both Infor and third-party applications with smooth and seamless connectivity. The powerful and scalable framework helps eliminate operational silos, dramatically improve exception management, and achieve unparalleled end-toend efficiency.
Innovate faster
Infor CloudSuite PLM for Fashion is a powerful PLM and collaboration platform that can help fashion manufacturers and their value chain partners innovate faster, make processes more efficient, and easily share information. As a result, fashion manufacturers will have the tools they need to create exciting fashions and deliver them to consumers faster.
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