DeSL

Best of Breed PLM Software for Fashion, Retail, Apparel, Clothing, and Footwear

DeSL’s PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) software is the fashion industry’s most collaborative and versatile software. Designed from the ground up to meet specific demands of the retail, fashion, apparel, and footwear sectors. The end to end fashion PLM solution delivers a true web based, real time, collaborative network specifically aimed at reducing development timelines and increasing quality.

Line Planning
Financial and operational planning, generate placeholders for styles, fabrics and trims, manage progress and assign resources.

Adobe Illustrator Plug-in
Unique real time bidirectional integration to enable full product and tech pack management plus automatic image creation and assignment.

Digital Planning Boards
Visually display your product range as you want, by slicing and dicing your product range to spot gaps instantly from the early planning stage to the final development of the product.

3D Support
Visualise your apparel samples in 3D within fashion PLM before they leave the factory.

Storyboards
Web based for customer review and approval, integrate fashion PLM to Illustrator and MS Publisher.

Product Definition
Build a library of ranges, finished products, fabrics, trims, labels, images, etc

Product Approvals
Any product types e.g. finished product samples, fabrics, trims etc. covering all processes such as concept fits, seals, lab dips etc. combined with real time supplier/customer notifications and tracking of progress.

Tech Packs/Product Specifications
User defined specification content, version and change control, online real time updates, design and technical specifications, grade rules, and required components, etc.

Request for Development
Any product types with multiple suppliers, e.g. finished products, fabrics, trims etc. combined with links to product specifications, real time supplier updates and critical path and workflow management.

Costings
Integrated to product specifications, user defined cost elements, landed cost calculations, margin modelling and what if analysis.

Fast Product Management
A configurable, grid like view allowing users to work from a single screen on a full collection of fashion products.

Collaborative Forums
Real time online discussions with suppliers about key design and development activities delivering full accountability and traceability.

Sample Management
Fast and effective way to produce and manage sample requests including the attachment of sketches, photographs, summary specifications, etc. combined with real time supplier notification and critical path tracking.

Document Management
Linked to key entities such as products, suppliers and customers with multiple security levels, version control, check in/out and document approval/rejection process.

Supplier Self Service
Enable suppliers to sign on to see their time and action calendars, sample and development requests, process quotations, update their profiles and view or upload documents.

Supplier Cost Quotations
Quotes for finished goods, fabrics, trims etc. linked to product specifications along with user defined cost templates and full approval/rejection cycle.

To learn more about DeSL’s PLM for fashion, request a demo with a DeSL representative.

PLM Software for Small Business
DeSL’s PLM software for small business is tailored to fit the demands of SMBs in a scalable, easy to learn, cloud based software suite. DeSL recognizes the essential role Small-Medium Businesses (SMB) play in the fashion industry and is dedicated to providing these growing businesses with powerful digital software. Digital workflows that are standardized and automated will enable companies to increase speed and improve efficiencies. Harness the capabilities of a full featured system with access to the most critical tools to successfully manage your supply chain.

Advantages
DeSL’s software is rooted in creating solutions for the entire fashion supply chain process and to equip SMB brands with powerful new tools for specific pain points encountered every day. Each module prioritizes key steps in the business and is designed to collectively align with the brand’s digital ecosystem initiatives and is built to add on additional features when needed. Every module seamlessly integrates into DeSL’s solutions or existing third party software.

Key SMB Features

• Web based easy to use interface
• Specific modules for individual business requirements
• Expand with scalable modules as business grows
• Integrates into DeSL’s solutions or existing third party software
• Quick implementation

Digital Transformation Packages
DeSL offers three digital transformations packages for Small-Medium Businesses, each package is designed to address specific key areas in the overall process:

• Essentials includes PLM, Ai Plug-In, PO Management & 3D Integration
• Advanced includes Standard Edition plus Sales/Marketing Management OR Digital Color Approvals
• Premium includes Standard Edition plus Sales/Marketing Management AND Digital Color Approvals

A number of financial options are available to SMBs to help reduce the impact of prohibitive up front costs. One option is fast track, remote implementation and setup costs being included in the monthly per user price and spread over the contract term.

Fast Implementation
DeSL’s streamlined implementation plan is lead by an industry experienced team dedicated to getting you live quickly and is supported by ongoing free training webinars. Communication with critical project leaders can be carried out remotely and securely.

To learn more about DeSL’s PLM software for small business, request a demo with a DeSL representative.

Combined Power of PLM & PO Management
DeSL’s best of breed PLM and PO Management solutions are combined into a single innovative platform to deliver full control of products from initial concept to final delivery. The solution is cloud based and designed to digitalize all core processes in the development and procurement cycles. Speed to market, vendor collaboration, product costing, quality and sustainability, are all core pillars of the solution.

Out of the box, pre-configured software and proven processes facilitate a swift and easy implementation.

Benefits
PLM & Purchase Order Management offers a real time, collaborative network to enable manufactures and brands/retailers to:

• Reduce timelines
• Ensure product quality standards are adhered to
• Work to agreed products costs and specifications
• Minimize resource requirements
• Ensure agreed deliveries are achieved

Digitally Connecting Your Processes

• Real time product tech packs/specifications
• Integration between line/collection plans and sourcing plans
• Collaborative planning to agree product deliveries at color/size levels
• 3D visualization of products and 3D tech packs
• Manage on-line product costs at multiple levels such as FOB and full cost breakdown

Full Supply Chain Integration

• Digital Purchase Orders quickly created by brands/retailers and easily accessed by vendors via their portal
• Logistics integration and tracking including split deliveries, part deliveries and shipment/container management
• Integration framework to ensure easy integration to 3rd parties such as ERP/WMS solutions
• On-line, remote management of product quality standards including user defined quality check points, AQL and 3rd party assessment

Real Time Data & Tracking

• Critical Path Management starting from the product development stage and extending into the procurement stage
• Automatic tracking and auditing of all changes to products, orders, and deliveries

Notifications & Accountability

• Automatic notifications ensure that all parties know what is required and when
• Accountability for all actions, decisions, and agreements
• Guarantee signed off product sample standards are carried though to production

Full Control from Concept to Delivery with PLM & PO Management
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Digital Showroom for Fashion, Apparel, and Footwear Industries
Digital Planning Boards are a revolutionary merchandise planning tool to empower the creative aspects of the fashion brand, while harnessing financial data to make informed decisions. Create mood boards, analyze financial merchandise plans, and manage live line sheets for the retail, fashion, apparel, and footwear industries. This stand alone digital showroom fashion module integrates with existing or DeSL software to deliver a complete end to end digital solution.

Robust Functions and Tools

• Drag and drop capabilities at product and color level enabling real time creation of assortments
• Collaborative development reviews from prototypes to final samples in digital showroom
• Hierarchical views for managers and teams to work together seamlessly
• Full integration with line planning and production/sourcing planning
• Real time vendor collaboration including digital asset uploads for design selection
• Online catalogue creation and sales order management
• Customer collaboration to review suggested lines and place orders in real time

Stand Alone and Powerfully Connected

• Easily integrates with your existing or DeSL’s PLM
• Integration with Adobe Illustrator equips designers to quickly produce prototypes and designs
• 3D Virtualization with all major 3D client software
• Cloud based, real time collaboration
• Extensive analytic capabilities

Digital Planning Board Benefits

• Improves collaboration with vendors
• Centralized planning
• Automatically creates a visual plan from your line sheet plan
• Increases the efficiency of review meetings
• Assists the sales process

Digital Showroom for Fashion Merchandise Planning for Fashion
Digital Planning Boards are cloud based and reach deep into the fashion supply chain in order to bridge the traditional gap between product development and procurement. The central hub ties large amounts of real time data together in an easy to use visual tool to meet the needs of the design, brand management, tech design, merchandising, and sales teams. Create digital mood boards, analyze financial merchandising plans, and manage live line sheets. Therefore, dramatically reduce the development time taken by delivering real time collaborative decision making.

Digital Planning Boards are one component in a wide offering of software solutions by DeSL. Starting from initial product concept to data driven product specifications, digital color management and IoT workflow driven integration to fabric printers, production machinery, and end customers.

DeSL is a market leader in digital transformation solutions for the retail, fashion, apparel, and footwear sectors. To learn more about digital showroom fashion tools, request a demo with a DeSL representative.

Holistic Approach to Color Management Software for the Retail, Fashion, Apparel, and Footwear Industries

Color Lifecycle Management™ (CLM) represents a brand new paradigm in the management of colors for fashion and footwear products. Colour is one of the key decision making criterion when consumers select products to purchase. Traditionally, enterprise solutions such as ERP and PLM treat colour as a simple attribute of a product. These systems do not provide the management or scientific tools to ensure that a selected colour is what will be delivered. DeSL’s color management software solution resolves this issue, enabling real time communication of colour concept and specification, between brand, agent, and mill.

CLM starts with ensuring that the appropriate colour is selected from the outset and manages all aspects of development, collaboration, and quality assurance right through to product final sale, either in store or on a website.

The Software Manages Key Data Such As:

Workflow Management

As the system has extensive workflow management capabilities, there are many ways to configure the operation of the solution.

Build and Share Colour Libraries

Build your library by importing scientific colour data files, from trend images, colour service providers (i.e. Pantone, Coloro, etc.), or direct measurement of colour samples. Colour palettes are then published to the cloud for use in PLM.

Digital Lab Dip Requests

Create development requests for vendors directly from the web portal for colour and substrate combinations.

Integrated Communication

Centralized communication portal for agent, vendor, and mills to access all required specifications, scientific colour information, and timelines.

Accurate Color Every Time

Mills create requested samples, then use a Spectrophotometer to analyse the sample colours. CLM then compares the spectral values of the achieved colour against the values of the intended colour standard.

Industry 4.0

Seamless integration with manufacturing equipment such as digital and sublimation printers

The Color Lifecycle Management system automatically generates a report based on the intelligent tolerance system providing a pass or fail rating as well as visual representation of the colour variance. Mills can view these reports which can provide insight and guidance for taking appropriate corrective actions to adjust formulas to resolve the variance between the planned and actual results.

Development teams receive physical submits and use a Spectrophotometer to measure the colour(s) to evaluate using the automatic tolerance and correction system. The CLM system then informs the mill of the result.

The brand reviews submits from vendors and has the opportunity to either approve or request modifications. Once submits are approved, fabric is ordered and CLM takes on a new role in the supply chain. Fabrics can be tested for quality assurance to evaluate colour samples and bulk fabric production.

By ensuring consistent colour through controlled and scientific methods involving all parties in the process, businesses can begin to reduce cycle times, improve productivity, reduce costs, and improve quality.

To learn more about DeSL’s Color Lifecycle Management for the retail, fashion, apparel, and footwear industries, request a demo with a DeSL representative.