While the fashion industry, hit by the COVID-19 crisis, is reorganizing itself towards a "new normal", consumer tastes have already changed. It emerged from the survey, conducted by McKinsey of over 2000 European consumers, that the market has become aware of the issue of environmental...
An integrated IT workflow able to process MTM orders also from third party customers and the total digitalization of production This is the goal of Impatt, a vertical consultancy company on the production of tailor-made garments for the world of clothing. Ivan Marin, head of the IMpatt...
Crea Solution announces the new release 13 of the CAD suite for creating and modifying patterns with new functions and improvements applied to drawing, pattern making, size grading, automatic nesting and artificial intelligence functionalities. As for the other releases, it is a product born from...
Browzwear e Crea Solution annunciano l’ultima release del CAD 3D per l’industria dell’abbigliamento, migliorato per aiutare sempre più le aziende ad incrementare l’efficienza, ridurre la produzione dei campioni ed accelerare il time to market. Fold and Hang Workspace Created to meet customer demands for additional ways of...
Millennials make up the largest percentage of demand for affordable on-demand or personalized clothing. They are the first truly global generation but with strong customization needs. As paradoxical as it may seem, since it is a generation with many purchasing alternatives, millennials are a target...
In the current scenario, fashion is very volatile, trends are very dynamic, consumer preferences are increasingly rapid: is it really possible to adapt to rapidly changing trends? Many fashion houses adopt the Just In Time (JIT) programming method, which minimizes stock levels and the waste of...
The current needs of the fashion industry can be very demanding. The ability to meet calendars in a fast and creative way, while at the same time dealing with fashion fairs, corporate and customer presentations, commercial and production requirements, are the standard factors of success....
Whatever the kind of implementation and the interface with which the PLM system for bags and accessories is presented, it aims to provide immediate access to information about a product - be it, for example, technical specifications for its development or distinct bases for its...
The need to guarantee an adequate fitting to the entire customer target has encouraged over the years the study of the "size grading", or the method to vary the "prototype" (the garment on the basic size tested and presented in the samples). To obtain garments...
What is a PLM? There are multiple definitions for PLM software that can vary widely since the processes underlying the product lifecycle management and the supported requirements differ significantly depending on the industrial sector. PLM is the acronym of Product Lifecycle Management, and can be defined...
Plan the collections, create always updated catalogs that are, for the entire sales network and merchandising
Market-oriented planning and objectives, this is the goal of PLM Crea Solution, integrating together the design, merchandising and marketing functions.
Creating online catalogs that are always up to date throughout the sales network, available on smartphones and tablets, has never been so simple.
Creating assortments ensuring a harmonious image of the products presented
Check the quality of production all over the world, observing ratings and ranking of suppliers
The Crea Solution PLM simplifies the quality management procedures, gives ratings and ranking of all suppliers to guarantee constant quality and safety levels, assigning objectives relating to these parameters from the phase of receipt of raw materials to production.
Manage all prices and analyze the mark-up without errors
The Crea Solution pricing platform integrated in the PLM is able to automatically generate constantly updated price lists with currencies from around the world and based on various infinite criteria such as lines, models, geographical area, area code, color variant …
Every company has different needs and for this reason Crea Solution is able to customize the pricing platforms based on all the criteria that are necessary for the customer to determine prices.
Simulate costs, carry out consumption calculation forecasts and get the Target Price
The definition of costs is important from the beginning in the product development process. Thanks to the amount of data that the PLM Crea Solution manages, it is possible to automatically estimate the cost of a pattern during its development so that pattern makers know beforehand the economic effort that a certain item or line will entail and eventually operate in order to hit the ‘target price’.
Analyze and track all product samples
Through the Crea Solution PLM dashboard it is possible to track the progress of prototypes and samples through the perfect synchronization of all the info. This allows effective communication with every single company department.
Forecast the sales with real-time data
The Crea Solution Merchandising Plan analyzes and makes comparisons of sales data from previous years (divided by season, product, geographical area, collection, department, line and many other personalized criteria) to align the strategy with performance objectives and estimate sales in extremely realistic way.
Once the strategic objectives have been defined, the PLM Merchandising Plan Crea Solution will separate these objectives for different clusters for a more organic planning that also includes financial and image objectives.
Once the Crea Solution Merchandising Plan is set up, it will simulate sales based on real and continuously updated real-time data.
All patterns data in your tablet, prototypes approval with a click
Draw in the CAD Create environment while remaining directly connected with the PLM. Build the patterns database, fabrics master data, multiple size charts for intermediate and qualitative product controls thanks to complete integration with pattern making CAD, displaying the patterns created directly by the PLM.
It is also possible to approve or modify the patterns thanks to the virtual fitting with 3D CAD, moreover you can capture the images of the products during the fitting and make an immediate request for fitting in just a few clicks.
Take advantage from the integration with Tex Design, Adobe Illustrator, Coral Draw and many others …
Take advantage from the PLM Crea integration with over 12 sketching software for clothing and manage the entire collection design directly from the PLM. In this way the communication between the design department and the pattern making department will be improved in a very sensitive way. Crea Image Server offers a complete and automatic way to modify file formats so that your sketches or images can be available to all the players in the supply chain involved. By accessing a central archive of colors, designers are given the opportunity to develop ‘pallets’ of reusable seasonal colors for fabrics, garments, accessories and other elements. The same can be done with the textures, the accessibility and modifiability of colors and textures in their respective folders allows the company to easily create variations on the fabrics of the garments and to modify, even in the most advanced stages of the product, and with a few clicks, an entire theme of the collection if not even an entire production line by adding or removing from the collections one or more colors, one or more styles.
