Software designed BY Designers FOR Designers

Imagine If You Could...

  • Manage your Product Development R&D through sourcing in one central location
  • Improve the management of your activities from sampling through testing
  • Improve visibility & control of your product development and design process
  • Coordinate bill of materials within your tech packs
  • Collaborate and manage your suppliers
  • Increase the productivity of your teams and partners
  • Access complete product data information anytime, anywhere

INTEGRATING MATERIAL MANAGEMENT WITH PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND SOURCING IS THE NEXT CHALLENGE

Designers today create more products then ever before. Working with sketches, swatches, sample yardage and trims while managing all of the documentation that you need to put a new style on paper takes away from creativity. Designers, using cobbled together systems and tools are taking 3D concepts and turning them into 2D paperwork. From your drawing and CAD software to your PDM or tech pack systems, you generate hundreds of styles and thousands of pieces of paper. Sharing your designs and managing your samples requires constant and consistent tracking, work in progress reports and status updates. And it never ends, while you work on three seasons at a time…Design is a key strategy for product development organizations today.

With the introduction of Design Studio™, Design and Product Development Management is elevated to a collaborative partnership between members of the product development chain. Design Studio™ brings together people and information while supporting the key lifecycle stages and processes of product development

With Design Studio™ designers and their product development teams will change the way they work.

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Review sketches, order samples, select fabric, trims and colors, approve fabric, fit, lab dip and labels. Your team is always on the go. To complete these activities and tasks, 100’s of phone calls, 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 criss-cross 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.
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Meet Cindy

Cindy is a design director. She manages a team of 50 or more people in her organization...
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Material Studio™ Features:

  • Manages complex, multi-vendor, multi-color bill of material specifications
  • Collaborates real time, leveraging the web through the Design Studio™ portal
  • Supports the visualization of items throughout lifecycles
  • Manages the complexity of style specifications, testing and sampling
  • Supports tech pack, material and sample Vendor Management
  • Manages style and material color specification and testing
  • Supports style libraries with powerful search capabilities
  • Generates complex style reports
  • Supports version control and document management

Material Studio™ Benefits:

  • Structured and iterative Design and Product Development Management processes
  • Systems Architecture able to support the distribution of work among partners
  • More robust and defined Design and Product Development Management processes
  • Well-defined style requirements that can be distributed among Development Chain partners
  • Robust style testing processes
  • Design and Product Development Teams with common access to critical information and Suppliers
  • Incentivized Design and Product Management decision-making processes for Development Chain partners
  • Shared Product Roadmaps