Fashion Supply Chain Management

Fashion Supply Chain Management Insight

Fashion manufacturing processes depend on effective production planning and control tools.They require a fashion supply chain management (SCM) tool, which supports both material and resource planning requirements, as well as the associated inventory transactions involved in fashion manufacturing activities.     

To meet these requirements Fabacus developed their own fashion supply chain management software – Fabacus Overture. An integrated production planning and control SCM tool developed to run at high performance, offering a cost-efficient solution for fashion garment manufacturers for the high street and beyond.

Fashion Supply Chain Management Insight

The integration Overture offers enables direct transfer of costing and inventory changes from manufacturing to inventory management. The tight integration of customer order entry and central control dashboards provide various status checks and flow controls, empowering personnel from different departments to keep a clear view of current and future developments.

There are several kinds of SCM parameters a fashion manufacturer has to consider, such as sale order demands, inventory level, and estimated replenishment times, all of which are combined in Overture to provide you with sophisticated material requisitioning methods. This fashion Supply Chain Management tool offers you flexible and easy to manage methods for requisitioning warehouses, including reporting on product attributes, such as variants, multiple units of measure and warehouse locations.

Even at the highest levels of business, decision making can be a somewhat mysterious art, part rational and part irrational. But what’s clear is that the key to great decision making is the ability to synthesize the sometimes overwhelming volume of data from separate sources.

Today’s frenetic and intensely competitive global fashion manufacturing market, makes sound decision making even more complex. Manufacturers must deal with constant flux in a regulatory environment, a nonstop news cycle, proliferation of buyer and supplier relationships, and an ever-changing pool of marketplaces.

Fabacus built their fashion Supply Chain Management platform to strategically anticipate future possibilities. This foresight instilling fashion manufacturers with a confidence in their business model, enabling them to grow according to their desired roadmap, always supported by Overture and its ability to manage heavy workloads. The bonus of implementing Overture? You will never outgrow the system as you grow.

The aim of the SCM platform is to increase the usage of automation in manufacturing – especially amongst both B2B and B2C verticals.

The key benefits of using Overture are: its ease of use, which speeds up time to market; no need for your own prior infrastructure; and you avoid heavy capital investment costs and set up fees.

As we have developed our own technology from the ground up, we can further enable the rapid development and deployment of new bespoke applications within platforms, suited for each fashion manufacturer.

As a fashion Supply Chain Management system, Overture stores a huge volume of data from numerous line-of-business applications and spreadsheets, which capture different project and financial details. Without Overture, the complexity involved in compiling data from these numerous, disparate data sources when it came to reporting, made it difficult to deliver accurate, up-to-date business information securely backed-up.

Fabacus wanted to speed up the process of acquiring and integrating the appropriate data, to create a single SCM platform that would allow a diverse set of functions including: planning; sampling; material sourcing; cutting; finishing; inspection through to logistics and marketplaces integrations.

By bringing disparate sources of data under one roof, Overture is improving the quality of data and reducing the time and costs associated with managing it. Improved and harmonized data quality equals improved productivity, and better decision making within the manufacturer’s business environment. Each user can now quickly turn data into insights and apply business rules that support productivity, growth and consistent on-going results.

Key Benefits of Overture:

  • 360-degree visibility across the entire supply chain network
  • Increase profits by ensuring that costs are kept as low as possible
  • Identify and eliminate wasteful processes that increase cost without increasing the value of the final product
  • Improve Supply Chain Network
  • Monitor the status of all activities across all buyers, suppliers, production, storage facilities, and distribution centers
  • Effective management of all related processes, from ordering and acquisition of raw materials, to manufacturing and shipping of finished goods to customers or retail outlets
  • Minimize delays that can result in poor relationships and lost business
  • Ensure much higher levels of on-time delivery across the board
  • Multi-Currency pricing for international trading
  • Improve inventory management and implement just-in-time stock models
  • Improve relationships with vendors and distributors
  • Consolidates Orders/POs and tracks orders progress and status
  • Flexible and customizable workflow driven solution

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