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"Intellimas has helped us get rid of a ton of spreadsheets.  Now we can quickly edit and analyze our data and manage our product development processes by exception.  Costing has been a breeze with Intellimas." 

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We wanted to keep you up to date with some of the exciting ways our customers are using Intellimas.  We always tout the flexibility of this application, but our customers prove it, more than we ever imagined. Here are just a few examples...

  

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              Comprehensive Factory                               Costing

 

The Costing process can vary quite a bit from company to company, but it is never quite as intense as it can be at a factory.  Every penny counts when you are trying to determine the total cost of a garment, especially when the garments are complicated and require lots of labor operations.  This is exactly the situation with one of our newest customers.  They were previously managing their costing for each style in individual spreadsheets, with many tabs for different parts of the cost workup.  We worked together to build an entity that pulls in the bill of material (BOM) components as well as bill of labor (BOL) operations from their new PLM system, and then applies table driven accounting rates for indirect labor, overhead, and other add-on costs.  In addition, the entity was set up to allow for what-if changes of the BOM components and BOL operations so they could quickly determine the cost of different alternatives to meet margin goals.  

  • Problem:  Spreadsheet approach to managing manufacturing costs for each style.
  • Solution:  Intellimas entity that pulls BOM and BOL data from a PLM system and table driven costs from another Intellimas entity.  What-if capability was added which allowed for the swapping of components and operations in order to meet margin goals. 
  • Intellimas Benefits:  Eliminate the piecing together of information for spreadsheet costing and leverage data from the new PLM system that is being input as part of the daily workflow.  Allow for a quick way to do what-if's, retrieve history, mass maintain rate changes, and ultimately review overall margins.  

  

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      Line Planning

 

One of our longest running clients was successfully using one of our older applications for some time, Line Plan. This application allows merchants and designers to collaborate on the same styles but with different views and data for each group.  Line Plan was integrated with their PLM system so that tech packs could be started when the line item in the plan was adopted. Recently, a new requirement came up that our Line Plan application could not handle. Our client needed additional layers of data management for their international business and the data entry effort could not be burdensome, given their massive number of SKU's.  Thus we brought Intellimas to the picture and configured an entity which collapsed their line planning hierarchy to one level and then created a second level in the entity to handle the international style attributes. This quickened the data entry process due to an enhanced copy paste capability and a reduction of hierarchy levels. Just as before, we connected Intellimas to their PLM system so that tech packs could be initiated.  

  • Problem:  New requirement for style attributes for an international business that did not fit well with the hierarchy in Line Plan.
  • Solution:  Intellimas entity that collapses down the hierarchy and adds a new level for the new attributes by country for each style.
  • Intellimas Benefits:  Handle the new business requirement and streamline the data entry effort.

  

 

                    Catalog Management Design Drawing

   

One of the sales channels for our latest customer is their catalogs.  The process to pull together the information for each of their catalogs was a massive effort because of disparate data sources and a highly manual process.  The first step for this client was to implement a strong PLM solution to help manage all of their design and product development data.  Then Singletree was brought in to build an entity to pull the catalog data together from different parts of the PLM. Then we added user defined fields for data that is not captured in the PLM and now Intellimas is the source for the catalog.  

  • Problem: Highly manual process to pull together information for sales catalogs.
  • Solution: Implement a strong PLM system to manage up front data. Create an Intellimas entity that retrieves data from different parts of the PLM system and set up user defined fields for data that is specific to the catalog itself and not meant for the PLM system.
  • Intellimas Benefits: Streamline the catalog management process by leveraging data that is already being input as part of the workflow in the PLM system.
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About us:  Singletree Technologies is a software and consulting company that focuses exclusively on the Fashion Industry. Our management team has over 88 combined years of experience in the business and technology aspects of Fashion. We are experts at providing the right technology solution that provides real business value.
 
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