Apparel and Footwear
The challenges for the apparel and footwear industries include increased global competition, the need to target new markets and create new revenue streams, customer demands for more innovative products, and pressures to reduce new product development costs.
The ENOVIA Apparel Accelerators are a commercially available, off-the-shelf, Product Lifecycle Management solution for apparel design companies.
ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator
For Design and Development
ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator for Design & Development provides a single environment to manage an Apparel company’s product, project, color, material, line plan, and vendor data. It effectively allocates and manages resources across all functional teams by tracking seasonal line planning calendars, approvals and responsibilities. Companies using the ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator for Design & Development can quickly react to shifts in seasonal requirements, industry trends and consumer tendencies by leveraging robust and flexible workflow and planning templates visible to all product/project team members.
ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator for Design and Development enables companies to rapidly deploy a state of the art, scalable enterprise solution for apparel design and development to take products from trend to design to sourcing to manufacturing to the customer. The Accelerator comes complete with industry specific best practices for apparel design including pre-defined work processes, industry specific data models, reports, role-based user interfaces and document management capabilities.
ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator for Design and Development has been optimised based on ENOVIA’s track record of helping fashion product design companies solve the strategic challenges of increasing global competition, shrinking product lifecycles and reacting to ever-changing seasonal consumer demands.
Features Include
- Season & Line Planning
- Component & Standards Development
- Product Development
- Artwork Management
- Notification of Changes
Key Benefits
- Reduce and eliminate costly inefficiencies caused by managing product development information and processes
- Replace multiple and disconnected systems used to manage product, project, color, material, line plans, vendor and sourcing with a single, global, product lifecycle management system
- Incorporate the expertise and knowledge in your supply chain early in the product development processes
- Effectively allocate and manage resources across all functional teams by tracking seasonal line planning calendars, approvals and responsibilities
- Quickly and dynamically react to shifts in seasonal requirements, industry trends and consumer tendencies
ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator
For Supply and Production
ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator for Sourcing and Production seamlessly connects global sourcing and production offices to brand and retail headquarters. It enables enhanced collaboration, process control, and risk management within the sourcing and pre-production processes. A broader user base from within and outside of the organisation can now participate in the full sourcing process to ensure compliance to corporate growth, business, and financial goals within their global sourcing strategies.
ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator for Sourcing and Production supports the sourcing, costing, and pre-production processes. It can effectively create, issue, and manage requests for quote (RFQs). Quotation responses can be captured in an open or sealed bid process and easily transformed into supplier unit costs for simple cost comparisons and negotiations. Production office’s can capitalise on the brand headquarters’ sampling process and aggregate demand across brands and divisions for streamlined communication and tracking with vendors and providers.
ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator for Sourcing and Production is targeted for traditional Apparel markets. These include large global enterprises as well as fast growing Apparel brands. The solution is targeted to sourcing executives, production managers, and sourcing office product developers. The primary business processes addressed in this offering are costing, vendor profiling, sampling, and sourcing office resource management.
Features Include
- Sourcing Organisation and Vendor Management
- Component & Standards Development
- Product Development
- Sample and Test Request Management
- Request for Quotation
Key Benefits
- Improve gross margins by allowing more control over the cost analysis and negotiation with vendors
- Increase management control and reduce risk of unexpected delays by providing visibility beyond product development activities into pre-production and production
- Optimise merchandise opportunities and cost control through on-line requests for quote
ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator
For Sourcing and Production Partners
ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator for Sourcing and Production Partners provides partners, external to your organisation, an online environment for suppliers and agents to access and update assigned information. Collaboration with supply chain partners occurs electronically during the sourcing and production processes.
Downloads
Datasheet: ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator for Design and Development (1.0Mb)
Datasheet: ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator for Sourcing and Production (1.2Mb)
Datasheet: ENOVIA Apparel Accelerator for Sourcing and Production Partners (1.1Mb)
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