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TSI Holdings standardizes processes and improves collaboration with Kubix Link

The Japanese holding group advances its digital transformation with Lectra’s next-generation PLM solution

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Real-time visualization of processes throughout the supply chain

TSI Holding’s 59 brands had different backgrounds, cultures and processes, which were all managed separately. The company wanted to end inefficient operations and fragmented product information. TSI Holdings also wanted to achieve real-time visualization of processes throughout the supply chain, standardize operations, improve business productivity, and accelerate industrialization speed.

Lectra proposed Kubix Link, its all-inone PLM, PIM, DAM platform. Kubix Link will enable the company to gather and standardize product information coming from all teams involved in the design-to-production process, so that they can collaborate by working with the same data in real time.

 

Managing change at TSI Holdings

TSI Holdings, one of Japan’s leading apparel companies, operates 59 famous apparel brands, including Nano Universe, Margaret Howell, and Stussy. The company has been aggressively investing in digital strategies, including significant expansion of its e-commerce channels, unified commerce, smart factory construction, and logistics robots.

Until recently, TSI Holdings’ brands, self-developed as well as overseas brands that joined the group through mergers and acquisitions, had different backgrounds and cultures; each brand managed its information and manufacturing processes individually. Standardizing processes while maintaining the uniqueness of each brand was one of the company’s primary goals.

In addition to differing processes, TSI Holdings, like other fashion companies, was dealing with the changes in consumer buying behavior. “The mass-production, mass-consumption, brick-andmortar business model is no longer valid. Fixed costs have become such a burden for fashion companies that it’s become necessary to restructure supply chains in order to manufacture efficiently. I believe that fashion companies cannot survive unless they completely change their business structure,” explains Mr. Masanori Maekawa, Director of Supply Chain Management.

TSI Holdings’ management team decided that digital transformation was necessary to resolve both issues. The company wanted to end inefficient operations and fragmented product information. TSI also wanted to achieve real-time visualization of processes throughout the supply chain, standardize operations, improve business productivity, and accelerate industrialization speed.

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