Lectra Fashion PLM enables companies to manage their collections and product lifecycles from A to Z. 

Specifically developed for the fashion markets, Lectra’s PLM offering enables companies to reduce delays and costs associated with the conception of products in a context of permanently renewing collections.   

Providing continuous decision-making support, the offering rationalizes and improves the reliability of product development processes, and assures the synchronization and traceability of information flows. In addition, it optimizes the collaborative modes used between contractors and suppliers.   

Fully configurable and built on a 100% Web-based platform, Lectra Fashion PLM comprises specialized, integrated applications: 

• Product Development

• Line Planning

• Workflow Management

• Management Dashboard

Lectra Fashion PLM optimizes the competencies and collaborative work and improves the performance of all participants within the company and in its ecosystem. Lectra Fashion PLM integrates perfectly with its applications for design, pattern making and prototyping, and interfaces with enterprise management applications such as ERP, CRM, SCM, and HRM. 

Specialized, integrated applications to optimize the management of product and collections lifecycles 

• The Product Development application: to accelerate the development of your products 

 

At the heart of the new PLM offering, the Product Development application allows companies to organize, manage and share all data related to the development of products and collections. The application enables the management of iterative processes of sourcing (prototyping management, Request for Quote, and costing) and quality assurance. 

• The Line Planning application: to optimize your collections planning 

 

The Line Planning application defines and organizes collections around the strategic and business objectives of the company. In order to assure the relevance and coherence of the product line, it simulates and evaluates the financial and commercial impact of choices relative to different product lines. 

• The Workflow Management application: to master your collections development processes 

The Workflow Management application organizes and controls activities related to collections projects, synchronizing the work of all participants involved in the product development process and identifying bottlenecks and potential delays, all in real time. This efficient management of workflows allows companies to improve responsiveness by defining priorities and necessary actions. 

• The Management Dashboard application: to make the right decisions quickly 

The Management Dashboard application represents a genuine piloting tool that provides decision makers with invaluable personalized performance indicators on all product activity.        

A native integration with Lectra’s fashion-dedicated applications 

Lectra’s PLM offering is linked to the company’s various applications for design, pattern making and prototyping, permitting the optimization of collections development processes. 

These world-renowned applications assure optimal quality and execution speed of all tasks related to the creation and development of products.   

The design applications enable the conception of trend boards, fabric and textile motifs, models and silhouettes for simulation, and the visual presentation of collections plans and product lines by theme. 

The pattern-making and prototyping applications permit the design of patterns and the rapid realization of physical prototypes. These applications will soon allow 3D visualization and validation of virtual prototypes.   

Synchronisation with enterprise management applications    

Lectra’s PLM offering is based on an open technology platform that is 100% Web-based and fully configurable, supporting market technologies and standards including J2EE, Web Services and JDBC, Oracle databases, SQL Server or DB2.   

The offering synchronizes with other customer enterprise applications (CRM, SCM, ERP, and HRM) through an ETL/EAI (Extract Transform Load/Enterprise Application Integration) application.      

A 100% Web-based platform   

Each participant in the product development cycle can access Lectra Fashion PLM 24 hours a day, seven days a week, from anywhere in the world via the Internet. 

This easy access is essential in the world of fashion, in which companies may have hundreds of partners and suppliers spread across the globe. In order to secure data access and ensure that only strictly necessary information is available externally, precise user profiles and access rights can be easily defined.