Pebblestone Fashion PLM

Whether you are a private label company, sell your own collection, or maybe you do both, you always face the fact that there is a time span between the beginning of the sales period and the actual delivery. In this period it is nice to know how to control the developments of this process. It is even often necessary to know the progress of the process, for instance the approval of samples needed to start the production of the order. Now it is possible to control every possible process. The Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) granule enables you to keep an eye on the time schedule/span and to improve the quality of your service.

Are you familiar with the following scenario: you have a sample for approval but at that moment no action is being taken? Your supplier is waiting for approval and does not start the production yet. There is a chance that the delivery is delayed. You start worrying about the refusal of the delivery by your customer and decide to have the delivery air freighted. This will cost you more money and a lot of trouble. This could have been prevented if you had the right signal at the right moment.

Central registration of activities

To prevent such a situation, you can make reports outside your software solution, with which you communicate with your colleagues and suppliers. A big disadvantage is that these reports are not managed centrally and that they differ: there is no "One Version of the Truth." The Product Lifecycle Management granule enables you to manage all the activities of the production process in one central place.

Activities can roughly be divided into three categories. The first category concerns private label activities, like approval of lab dips, labels and prototypes by the customer.

The second category is about all the activities concerning samples, like producing, receiving and possibly fitting. These activities may not delay the start of production.

The third category of activities concerns the status of your order: have the raw materials been purchased, is your collection already on the cutting table, and are the products ready for shipment. For all these categories of activities, not controlling the different steps of the process can unnecessarily cost you time and money. With the PLM granule you are able to control the process and take action in an early stage in case of a possible delay.

Employees are warned automatically

It often happens that one activity of the whole process has not been carried out in time and as a result the whole process stagnates. The standard integration of the PLM granule with Microsoft Outlook comes in handy. The notifications make sure no activities are forgotten. In case of someone's absence, the notification can be sent to a colleague.

Less effort, more quality

With the PLM granule you can divide the complete order process into logical steps and control each step, to make adjustments with less effort. Because of the notification system nothing will be forgotten. You will experience that, with less effort, the quality of your deliveries will improve considerably and your customers will be more satisfied.