Infor PLM for Fashion

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Reduce time from concept to consumer

Specifically created for the fashion industry, Infor® PLM for Fashion is a complete solution that helps reduce time from concept to consumer—from line planning, design, and development, to sourcing and production.

Key benefits

This powerful product lifecycle management and collaboration platform can help all of your value chain partners innovate more readily, respond more quickly, and act more decisively. With Infor PLM for Fashion, you can:

• Plan, design, develop, and source multiple collections
• Share and engage with partners in co-development or requests 24x7
• Protect your brand by ensuring that the necessary compliance product tests have been executed well
• Track the collection, follow up your critical path style tasks, and use advanced reporting
• View real-time data from configurable role-specific views and personalize those for specific tasks
• Multi-task with mass creation, replacement, and update capabilities, as well as drag-and-drop features
• Access the solution anywhere, anytime using different browsers on PC, Mac®, and mobile devices

Improve the efficiency of your operations

With an exceptional user experience, drag-and-drop capabilities, mass functions, multi-select options, and a personalized, configurable workspace, Infor PLM for Fashion can quickly increase the uptake and productivity of all of your team members. In addition:  

• An Adobe® plug-in allows designers to quickly create new styles and update those already existing. User-configured templates speed up the entire process.
• Advanced capabilities allow you to create new styles or connect existing designs to a line plan whenever you choose.
• You can mass create, update, delete, request, and replace material—saving substantial time developing and fine-tuning new styles.
• Workspace widgets provide drill-down capabilities, notifications, comments, tracking tasks, and queries—giving users and managers a complete picture of the product development process and exceptions.
• By consolidating information about materials and factories, Infor PLM for Fashion vastly improves control, documentation, and tracking of suppliers.

Streamline product development with reusable elements

Infor PLM for Fashion can serve as the platform and hub for your product development team, helping you quickly deliver better products to consumers, while cutting unnecessary costs. Users can configure workspaces, widgets, advanced filters, and list grids throughout the application to streamline information access. These configurations can be saved for future use.

With the solution's processes for product, material, and trim development built upon reusable elements, you can:

• Create and manage various reusable, standardized data elements that can go into products as they are developed including materials and trims, points of measure, grade rules, colors, color palettes, sizing tables, request types, costing elements and cost models, symbols (for care labels), seasons, standardized features/instructions, and suppliers.
• Work with role authorizations and views, general company settings, and hierarchies within the admin and settings menus.
• Work in different languages.
• Create, track, and follow up on requests for samples, tests, and costs. This gives partners and suppliers access to online information directly following the request to start executing their tasks.
• Manage and design your standard company reports, or configure new reports to fit a certain process step.
• Create and edit critical path templates that can be applied to styles for product development tracking, and track progress across all styles using each critical path. Task updates can be automated with Infor ION® workflows connected.
• Print pre-defined reports and export list grids to Microsoft® Excel® in user-defined layouts, filters, sortings, and groupings.
• Upload images from external file folders on a network or stored locally, or re-use images/attachments from the built-in document library. Multiple images can be uploaded at once.
• Design and edit styles with the bi-directional Adobe Illustrator plug-in. Images created in the plug-in are automatically converted to .JPGs for display. The original Illustrator images attach to the style in both plug-in and PLM.
• Define all of your basic tables, including lookup lists, currencies, exchange rates, and unit of measure conversions.
• Define optional business rules for role-based field data entry requirements, ensuring data accuracy.

Improve performance with a modern, cutting-edge PLM solution

Infor PLM for Fashion is a multi-tenant cloud solution built on the Infor OS platform. Infor PLM for Fashion virtually eliminates the need for future additional hardware, local configuration, and support resources, since new innovations are delivered in a frequent cadence without the need for major upgrades. This can help save time-to-value and lower the overall cost of ownership.

With Infor PLM for Fashion, you can reduce lead times, cut costs, and ensure quality, so your original design concepts are communicated clearly and executed accurately through every phase of development, production, and distribution to the end customer.