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.

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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3D Fashion Design Platform

A key requirement for PLM software, and digital technology overall, is the ability to work with 3D fashion designs, virtual products, samples, and digital approvals. DeSL’s Digital Platform integrates interactive 3D modeling from any 3D software provider and extends into key PLM, procurement and sales business processes.

The 3D platform for fashion is an integral part of DeSL’s overall Digital Platform. It is designed specifically to enable fashion companies to take full advantage of the latest digital technology to change the way they operate today in order to drive growth and efficiency in existing and new markets.

The technology is so powerful that it can stream multiple 3D apparel models simultaneously to enable users to have side by side visualization of their virtual products and provide a rich and compelling interactive experience.

Enable Users to

Prototype

• Quickly prototype product changes such as different colors and materials.

3D Collections

• Present compelling 3D collections to prospective customers over the Internet and take sales orders and feedback.

Approvals & Rejections

• Perform product approvals/rejections with the ability to annotate models and relay to vendors in real time.

Product Reviews

• Host real time, interactive product reviews with multiple users from all over the globe simultaneously.

Drag & Drop

• Drag and drop 3D product models to quickly create lines and collections.

DeSL’s 3D platform is changing the way retail, fashion, apparel, and footwear brands view and interact with collections. 3D tools join DeSL’s PLM functionality covering all key business processes starting at product concept and reaching through to final sale and delivery. To learn more, request a demo with a DeSL representative.

DeSL leads the market in solutions including integrated end to end PLM for retail, fashion, apparel, and footwear sectors directly supporting sustainability initiatives. Our wide range of software solutions are critical tools for today’s progressive and forward thinking companies, seeking greater sustainability control and innovative digital transformation efforts. Modular design provides flexibility and scalability to leverage digital technologies from SMB to Enterprise level businesses.

Reduce Carbon Emissions with Digital Color Approvals
Improves communication with suppliers, providing real-time control over color specifications, and reducing waste and carbon emissions associated with shipping numerous lab dips.

Virtual Samples Reduce Waste
Digital 3D samples without the time consuming and waste associated with physical samples.

Carbon Emissions Management
Track carbon emission from samples to full production.

Certification Tracking to Build Trust
Granting stronger supply chain responsibility and customer transparency with tracking of product and material certifications.

Factory Audits for Sustainable Sourcing
Ensure suppliers organization, practices, and processes are in compliance with multi-tiered vendor management and reporting.

Sustainability Is No Longer Optional
DeSL recognizes the necessity for improvement within the retail, fashion, apparel, and footwear industries and is dedicated to delivering the features and tools to support sustainability initiatives. DeSL offers a variety of technological tools to improve communication, increase quality, reduce waste, and speed up workflow.

Contact us to learn more about the PLM benefits towards apparel sustainability and to arrange a software demo.

The retail, fashion, apparel, footwear, and clothing industries must drop its reliance on outdated software and manual processes to move rapidly into total digital transformation if it wants to survive and thrive in a post COVID 19 era. Today’s progressive companies now realize that they must fundamentally change the way that they have previously operated and perform a paradigm shift to go digital from end to end. Digital transformation means using technology to change the way companies operate in order to drive growth and efficiency in existing or new markets and add more value to their customers.

Once true digital transformation has been achieved, companies can implement these digital processes and apply them to new markets, opportunities, products, differing customer requirements, and easily appoint and work with new vendors/factories with no disruption. It’s not a matter of asking, “how much faster can we do things in the same way?” It’s about what digital technology is capable of achieving, and how we can change our business to make the most of this opportunity?

Key Attributes

End to End
Tools for managing suppliers and covering all procurement processes

Virtualization
Switch to digital assets and automated workflows for increased accuracy and speed

Real Time Data
Improved decision making backed up by machine learning and artificial intelligence

Integration
Seamless integration of key data into manufacturing equipment or vendor systems

In the coming years, digital transformation innovations will help drive the next phase of advancements for the retail, fashion, apparel, and footwear industries. Businesses wishing to compete will need to be able to properly leverage the deployment of these new digital technologies and integration of mission critical data. DeSL provides these solutions to fully exploit the potential improvements by deploying a digital cloud based ecosystem covering all major business processes from product concept right through to end consumer.

Contact us to learn more about the benefits of digital transformation and to arrange a software demo.