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Merchants are challenged by factors they cannot control. More than ever, new products must be brought to market, faster, at lower costs, using real data from past performances, anticipating needs before they must be met and fielding them efficiently ...Line Plan Management is a key strategy for Merchants today. Are you a Merchandiser, Design director, Creative director or Portfolio Manager? Find out how Zweave's approach to Merchandising can your improve your bottom line, control, and accountability.

If you manage materials, trims, packaging products or if you handle logos, at work and print, you need to find out how Material Studio is transforming the way Material Researchers and Managers are going about their business. If you are tired of spreadsheets, copy machines and filling out Airway bills this whitepaper will inform you on new automation software designed to support Material management best practices.

You have been trying to collaborate with your partners, agents, factories and vendors to improve color management, color specification, lab dip approvals and color quality and visualization. But so far, the solutions available have not been seamlessly integrated with your other product development activities making color a "second class citizen" of your supply chain processes. Find out more about next generation Color Management tools that integrate color into design and production. This paper is co-authored by Ewarna.

If you are in the business of Fit, and your products need to accommodate people of all shapes and sizes you understand the need for supporting fit business processes with the best tools out there. Today companies manage fit activities from Points of Measure templates and patterns outside the core design activities. It is one thing to use CAD tools to create fit information, but how do you manage it? In this Fit Studio Whitepaper find out how Zweave designed the first Fit Management solution for the industry and how it can change the way you work.

Review Sketches, order samples, select fabric, trims and colors, approve fabric, fit, lab dips and labels.Your team is always on the go. To complete these activities and tasks, 100's of phone calls and faxes, e-mails and packages travel the globe. Of the 1000's of exchanges affecting each style, very little is done face-to-face other than internal meetings and sales presentations. Tech packages go back and forth weekly, while Bill of Material reports (BOM), Work in Progress reports (WIP), fabric approvals and meetings with staff and management crisscross endlessly, with tracking and change problems that never end. Is there a better way? To find out read our Design Studio whitepaper and learn how you can change your business today.

Some days you feel like you wish it would all come to a stop, but it never, ends things keep coming and going, new products and swatches, new fit samples, bulk samples, design samples. In an industry that lives by its samples wouldn't be great if there were new ways to manage the day to day logistics of tracking samples, vendors, trims and more? In fashion today your samples tell the whole story. You must have them, when you need them, in every color, and let's hope they look like what you asked for. Find out why Zweave thinks Sample Managers, pre-production teams and Design teams can manage the sample Development and management process better.

The entire price/quality /trend timing has become democratic: a great red sweater in cashmere in the high-end department store is available at the same time at the discounter in soft acrylic. The hottest jean line used to come out of Paris. It was ours for the price of a plane ticket and the right contact - an instant bestseller! Today, that store is in Soho and everyone in a design office can walk down the street and be in the know. Anybody notice how much their job has changed? Today companies not only follow the trends they create them. Internal trend offices or design teams are creating trend reports, storyboards and visual inspiration faster then they can distribute them. Without the best content management tools it’s like a big crafts project. Find out in our trend Studio whitepaper how you can leverage the best trend management tools and become an editor and publisher too!