FB PLM NIFT Presentation

Influence of IT in Retail
List of Technologies used in Retail

Business
• Enterprise Resource Planning –(ERP)
• POS-Point of sale
• Merchandise Assortment Planning-
(MAP)
• Planogram
• Design Tools
• Product Life Cycle Management- (PLM)
An Introduction to
Product Lifecycle Management
(PLM)
© Copyright Ptex Solutions, 2007

PLM approach…
Global Product
Development
Rationalize of
Fast Fashion Suppliers
Improve Internal /
Line Plan External
Management Collaboration
Improve Control
over Product
Information
PLM include many components:
Product Data management
Line Planning
Material Development and Management
Bill of Material
Costing Scenario Workflow &
Measurements Event Tracking
Internal and Vendor Collaboration Collaboration
Concept
tion
Initiation &
Sample Management
ora
Development
Col
lab
Design
labo
Quality Assurance & Sample
Proto/Fit
Col
Material Iterations
Iterations
ra ti
Library Spec/PDM
on
Workflow and Process tracking Sourcing Line
& QA Planning
Data Libraries Co
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Design and Product development in
Fashion Industry
Apparel product Life-Cycle
Sourcing
& Production
Pre-production
Material
Management
Product
Development
Designing
Planning
Concept
Fashion Product Life Cycle
Trend Design Mood Board
Development & Line Planning Sketches
& Research Artwork
Automatic generation
Creating Costing Creating BOM Specification Sheet
Template Package
Sample Management Quality Assurance Sourcing Production

PLM and Fashion
Key players
 Designer
 Merchandiser
 Planner
 Garment Engineer
 Patternmaker
 Quality Assurance
 Vendors
Planner
Develops the initial range plan
Communicate requirements to designer
Checks the line planning

Designer
Research silhouettes, shape and fit

trend
Develop Theme, Mood, Brand &
Concept Boards
Develops designs according the range

requirement (Silhouettes, CADs,
Artworks)
Provides Designs to Merchandisers
Alters the Designs according the

commercial requirements
Merchandiser
Provide feedback on Designs
Creates Bill of Materials
Does garment costing
Deals with vendors
Provide feedback on Sample

Garment Engineer
 Provides technical feedback on designs
 Develops construction details
 Creates measurement chart
 Garment Operation breakdown
 Provides feedback on samples
 Creates Techpack or Specpack and

provides it to Vendors
Pattern Maker & Sample Developer
 Creates garment pattern
 Makes marker
 Manufacture samples
Vendors
 Manufacturers various samples
 Provide Samples to QA
 Provide Labdips for approval
 Provide quotation
 Receive order for bulk production

Quality Assurance
Validates all specifications,

consumptions and samples sent by
vendors at various different stages.
Builds QA report
Sends QA report to Designers,

Merchandisers and Garment
Engineers
Apparel Development Stages
 Concept development
 Design development
 Product development
 Material development
 Sample development
 Approved product
 Sourcing
Concept Design Product Material Sample Approved
Sourcing
Development Development Development Development Development Product
Concept Development
 Get inspiration from Fashion Forecast agencies like
Trendstop, WGSN etc.
 Attend Fashion shows, Fabric shows, Trade shows.
 Competitive Analysis
 Color research, create color themes/palettes
 Research silhouettes, shape and fit trend
 Develop Theme, Mood, Brand, Concept and Color Boards

Sourcing
TREND
FORECAST

Sourcing
COLOR
FORECAST

Sourcing
Sourcing
Design development
Developing body (the Silhouettes, Design)
Developing new fabrics (Structures, Designs, Colors)
Developing value additions (Prints, Logos, Embroideries)
Co-ordinate information internally with product

development team

Sourcing
Sourcing
Product Development
Making a design commercial
Developing Bill of materials (BOM)
Developing specification sheet
Review meeting to discuss the design
Review meetings to discuss line or range
Creating costing scenario
Initiating sample development

Sourcing
Sourcing
Material Development
 Develop new Fabrics
 Develop Trims
 Fabric & Trim Sampling & Testing
 Maintain Fabric & Trim Library
Concept Design Material Sample Approved

Product Sourcing
Development Development Development Development Product
Development
Fabric development
 Fabric structure
 Fabric properties
 Fabric test standards
 Develop fabric CAD design (solid,

Printed)
 Develop fabric (swatches, yardages, desklooms etc)

Product Sourcing
Development
Product Sourcing
Development
Sample Development
 Receiving sample request for all fit, photo, proto,
salesman people, pre-production , T.O.P sample.
 Requesting fabric samples include (yardage,

desklooms, lab-dip, swatch)
 Developing a garment pattern
 Submitting samples to designer, merchandiser

and garment engineer.
 Receiving feedback from designer and garment

engineer
Concept Design Sample Approved

Product Material Sourcing
Development Development Development Product
Development Development
Sample Evaluation
 Quality assurance
 Feedback from designer, garment

engineers, merchandisers.
 Remake the sample based on style,

fabric changes etc.

Approved Product

Sourcing
 Provides Techpacks to vendors
 Requests for samples from multiple vendors
 Requests for quotations from multiple vendors
 Compares internal costing with quotation from vendors
 Approves the best quotation
 Place an order for bulk production

Introduction to
Freeborders PLM
Typical Product Development
systems using the industry
• Product development information is spread across

many disparate systems
• A combination of various manual processes
• Excel Spread sheets
• Corel Draw / Adobe Illustrator / Adobe Photoshop etc
• CAD Tools
• Telephone calls
• Fax Sheets
• Emails
Source: AMR Research

Collaboration across the
process
Commercial
Systems
Design
Dept
Product Product Supply Chain

Development
Lifecycle / ERP System
Management & Workflow (SAP)
CAD
Dept
Quality
Dept
The Product: Freeborders PLM Suite
Product Pre- Materials Sourcing &

Planning
Design Production Management Production
Business FB Workflow
Intelligence
FB Report Launcher
FB FB
Storyboard Designer
PLM FB FB
FB
Product Product Fabric &
Source
FB Manager Trim
Line FB 3D
Optimizer
Administration & Security

Foundations Common UI
Collaboration
FB Library
Data Management – Common Database
FB Storyboard
FB Storyboard revolutionizes the offline storyboard process and strengthens product
development collaboration
Key Features
FB Storyboard
 White board area for assets
 Asset clipboard
 Asset repository
 Search/organize features
 High-resolution compression
technology for images
 Collaboration and sharing
 Used for creation of mode &
trend boards
 Early visual line plans
Concept Storyboard
FB Line Optimizer
FB Line Optimizer enables development teams to create line plans and analyze cost scenarios to
maximize the financial potential of a company’s product mix
Key Features
FB Line Optimizer
 Line plan creator to run line
scenarios
 Preliminary product
specification forms
 Business modeling
 Template library
 XML import/export
 Merchandising calendar
 Reporting
FB Designer & V-Stitcher
2D and 3D Design applications
Key Features
FB Designer &
 Precise design Sketches
 Mannequin Customization
 Style Book
 True to Scale 2D sketch
FB 3D
 Converts 2d patterns into
3D
 Customize 3D Mannequins
 Drape different Fabrics
FB Fabric & Trim
A one-stop checkpoint for material specifications, sample and cost requests, FB Fabric & Trim
facilitates collaboration with textile and trim suppliers on raw material data.
Key Features
FB Fabric & Trim
 Centralised one-stop
checkpoint for development
 Sample request centre
 Configurable forms
 Template library
 Multi-level searching
 “Where-used” functionality
 XML import/export
FB Product Manager
FB Product Manager is the product development control panel, enabling the creation, review
and approval of all elements of a specification
Key Features
FB Product Manager
 True Web-based product
creater
 Specification data
 Project management
 Advanced costing
 Quotation management
 Sample management
 Issues centre
 Library
 History and rollback
 Reporting
 Configurable forms
FB Source
FB Source is a robust, manufacturer data management and supply chain collaboration
application
Key Features
FB Source
 Selection of suppliers
 Communication of order
requirements
 Evaluation of placement options
 Negotiation of costs and terms
 Capacity planning / sourcing plans
 Vendor management
 Placement of orders for production
 Ethical trading management
 Technical capability management
 Factory auditing
FB Workflow
FB Workflow provides simple and effective time and action calendars to proactively track
progress throughout the product lifecycle
Key Features
FB Workflow
 Automatic and proactive issue
reporting and monitoring
 Task scheduling, allocating
and tracking
 Critical path tracking
 Automatic alerts
 Self-help knowledge base
The benefits of speed are
compelling for apparel Retailers….
 Higher inventory turnover: 5 to 7 times
 Net margin improvement: 15% to 20%
 Greater full price sell through: more than 80%
 Comparable store sales increase: 10% to 12%
 Shopper frequency increase: 12 to 17 times per year
Source: AMR Research

Benefits
 Right to market and Time to market

 Reduces the product development cost and lead times
 Provide comprehensive product information internally and
to supplier
 Enables suppliers, vendors, customers to access up-to-
date product information from one version of truth
 Access of information 24 x 7 any where in the world
 Links supply chain from end to end
 Automatic tracking and notification of key milestones and
improved scheduling between multiple layers of suppliers
 Manages multiple factor, versions and dimensions of
Product development
 Improved management of frequent specification changes
 Proactively spot and fix bottleneck issues
CASE - STUDY
PLM in daily use
 PLM is currently being used to manage 12 active seasons in Fashion
Apparel
 Over 50,000 electronic files are stored in Document Vault (central

information)
 29 Reports and 54 Line Plan views are utilized daily by 500 different
user profiles.
 200 vendors access this information on daily basis.
 9 Apparel milestones are traced as workflow gates.

Line Plan Views
Styles,Size,Color
,Price
Financial
Dashboard
Style Information
Sketch detail
Image edit
Zoom Image
Specification
Grade
Increments
Sample request
Sample
Evaluation
Iteration History
Track
changes
Reports
Workflow
Gantt
chart
To do
list
Ptex Value Proposition
• We Provide :
• Leading PLM Solution
• Industry Best Practice
• Comprehensively Training
• Rapid Implementation
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Influence of IT in Retail

List of Technologies used in Retail

© Copyright Ptex Solutions, 2007

Measurements Event Tracking

Internal and Vendor Collaboration Collaboration

Sample Management Quality Assurance Sourcing Production

Develops the initial range plan

Communicate requirements to designer

Checks the line planning

Research silhouettes, shape and fit

Develops designs according the range

Provides Designs to Merchandisers

Alters the Designs according the

Provide feedback on Designs

Creates Bill of Materials

Does garment costing

Deals with vendors

Provide feedback on Sample

 Develops construction details

 Creates measurement chart

 Garment Operation breakdown

 Provides feedback on samples

 Creates Techpack or Specpack and

 Provide Labdips for approval

 Receive order for bulk production

Validates all specifications,

Sends QA report to Designers,

 Attend Fashion shows, Fabric shows, Trade shows.

 Color research, create color themes/palettes

 Research silhouettes, shape and fit trend

 Develop Theme, Mood, Brand, Concept and Color Boards

Concept Design Product Material Sample Approved

Concept Design Product Material Sample Approved

Concept Design Product Material Sample Approved

Developing new fabrics (Structures, Designs, Colors)

Developing value additions (Prints, Logos, Embroideries)

Co-ordinate information internally with product

Concept Design Product Material Sample Approved

Developing Bill of materials (BOM)

Developing specification sheet

Review meeting to discuss the design

Review meetings to discuss line or range

Creating costing scenario

Initiating sample development

 Fabric & Trim Sampling & Testing

 Maintain Fabric & Trim Library

Concept Design Material Sample Approved

 Fabric test standards

 Develop fabric CAD design (solid,

 Develop fabric (swatches, yardages, desklooms etc)

Concept Design Material Sample Approved

 Requesting fabric samples include (yardage,

 Developing a garment pattern

 Submitting samples to designer, merchandiser

 Receiving feedback from designer and garment

Concept Design Sample Approved

 Feedback from designer, garment

 Remake the sample based on style,

Concept Design Sample Approved

Concept Design Sample Approved

 Requests for samples from multiple vendors

 Requests for quotations from multiple vendors

 Compares internal costing with quotation from vendors