The critical importance of manufacturing excellence

Unprecedented volatility, increasingly fragmented order books and a move to on-demand production, is driving greater complexity and margin pressure in the fashion supply chain. As brands and manufacturers respond to these challenges, driving successful manufacturing excellence programs will depend on the digital transformation of business critical processes to drive data insights that are essential to sustainable supply chain partner performance and the achievement of brand strategic objectives.

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Increase speed

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Reduce costs

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Drive sustainability

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Why change?

Digital transformation, a catalyst for sustainable supply chain partner performance

Despite investing in some form of ERP, most manufacturers still rely on largely manual methods, disconnected systems and excel spreadsheets to manage business critical manufacturing processes which have a disproportionate impact on operational and financial performance. This approach is inefficient, time consuming and unsustainable.

In order to respond to unprecedented industry challenges, and build the resilience, agility, speed, efficiency and sustainability that is critical to meeting brand strategic objectives, brand manufacturing excellence teams are working with key supply chain partners to optimise and digitize business critical processes.

Typical business benefits

The optimisation, automation and digitization of business critical manufacturing processes, drives significant, measurable and sustainable improvements in manufacturer performance, supporting supply visibility and security, and the achievement of brand supply chain objectives. Typical business benefits include:

10 − 30 %

Improvement in OTDP

2 − 5 %

Reduction in fabric cost

10 − 30 %

Increase in speed

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Drive Operational Performance with Manufacturing Excellence

Enhance efficiency, delivery and speed through LEAN methodology.

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What our customers say

Delivering real results

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Denimville selects VisionPLM to streamline product development

Guatemala’s leading fashion denim producer improves the efficiency and speed of key product development processes including sampling, costings, and bill of materials.

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MAS Active achieve substantial performance improvements with FastReactPlan

The top sportswear supplier dramatically improved performance to plan, increased factory productivity and enhanced customer service

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Epyllion Group reduces fabric buying cost by 2% with IntelloBuy

Using advanced technologies, IntelloBuy automated 70% of Epyllion’s fabric booking processes, enabled informed decision making and provided business intelligence through accurate reporting.