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DeSL announces the delivery of a specialized platform for companies operating in the retail, fashion, apparel and footwear sectors. This new functionality allows DeSL customers to efficiently digitalize all their core processes from product development right through to delivery of finished products. Speed to market, vendor collaboration, product costing, quality and sustainability, are all core pillars of the solution.

The platform combines DeSL’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and PO solutions, and comes with pre-configured business processes which are especially suited to SMB’s. It can also be tailored to suit specific needs, along with a suite of integration methods for popular ERP, finance, and e-commerce platforms.

Integrating PO management into DeSL’s core PLM platform automates and simplifies the supply chain, giving companies visibility of purchase orders and tech packs at the same time. Each step is tracked along the critical path, eliminating unknowns and granting brands and vendors understanding of how their deliverables and deadlines are progressing in one place. Combined with DeSL’s powerful PLM features, this solution streamlines procurement and accelerates product development while improving communication and agility throughout the supply chain.

Quickly Implement PLM with PO Management

DeSL, market leader in digital transformation and Product Lifecycle Management software solutions, continues to drive innovation by extending software capabilities for the evolving retail, fashion, apparel, and footwear industries. To learn more about quickly implementing PO Management with PLM, request a demo with a DeSL representative.

Discover e-Solutions (DeSL) showcases Fast Product Management, a productivity tool for improving and streamlining fashion development. Fast Product Management is among DeSL’s most popular tools due to its powerful and versatile features for retail, fashion, apparel, and footwear brands.

Fast Product Management’s unique configurable, grid like view allows users to manage virtually all aspects of the product lifecycle from a single intuitive screen. With quick access to an entire portfolio, season or category, users can work on multiple styles editing data and completing tasks from a single user interface. Fast Product Management streamlines and accelerates the development processes.

Styles can be grouped, sorted, and filtered to provide live data relevant to the user. Products can be worked on at the style or color level. Functionality is easily accessed for mass updates, and side-by-side comparisons from one screen. Critical path views allow users to see and complete their tasks.

Comprehensive and detailed costing and quoting analytics are also available through Fast Product Management. The highly configurable interface pulls costing data directly from request for quotes (RFQs) for sourcing teams to review. Tool features include breakdown of costing details and configurable costing calculations. Designed specifically to optimize workflow, multiple quotes can be reviewed at once within the same screen to accelerate the process.

DeSL, market leader in digital transformation and Product Lifecycle Management software solutions, continues to drive innovation by extending software capabilities for the evolving retail, fashion, apparel, and footwear industries. To learn more about Fast Product Management, request a demo with a DeSL representative.

Frogg Toggs® has selected Discover e-Solutions (DeSL) to deliver Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software technology. DeSL is a market leader in digital transformation solutions including integrated end to end PLM software for the retail, fashion, apparel, and footwear sectors.

As the world leader in waterproof outerwear, hunting and fishing wadewear, performance footwear, cooling products, and accessories, Frogg Toggs is challenged to remain flexible, responsive, and agile in all aspects of product creation and management. From concept to delivery, Frogg Toggs is focused on being the most dependable source to customers.

“With so many channels, markets, and SKU’s, product management has always been a challenge and a segment that consumes considerable resources. We are excited to implement this resource saving technology into our product management strategy,” attests Will Fowler, President and Director of Marketing at Frogg Toggs. Fowler listed several key factors that led Frogg Toggs to the selection of DeSL as their PLM provider.

• Simple and complete integration of technical, development, and design data onto a single, centralized digital platform
• Low storage impact, cloud based software solution provides data access flexibility from multiple locations and platforms
• Improve resource performance by providing streamlined processes, procedures, operational responsibility, workflows, and reduced redundancy between departments
• Allows all resources to access real time data, communications, and progress during the product life cycle, allowing each department to plan for and complete product assignments more efficiently
• Facilitates operational efficiency, internal cost savings, resource reallocation, and a more effective overall business model

With the signing now complete, DeSL is ready to begin the implementation process with Frogg Toggs’ team. DeSL looks forward to the continuous long term partnership with Frogg Toggs and is committed to supporting the brand’s ongoing technology improvements. To learn more, request a demo with a DeSL representative.

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About Frogg Toggs

Frogg Toggs® was founded in 1996 with a core mission of providing affordable rainwear to the masses. They have held true to this concept in all product creations. If they cannot provide the most performance at the best price, they simply won’t make the product. Frogg Toggs have grown into the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of waterproof outerwear, hunting and fishing waders, personal cooling products, footwear, and outdoor accessories.

www.froggtoggs.com

Discover e-Solutions (DeSL) announces the launch of Digital Approvals Dashboard for fashion sampling. A key element of full digital transformation is the ability to vastly reduce the number of physical samples of either garments or materials. The efficiency this will bring companies, from both the demand and supply side, will be significant in terms of time to market and costs. This not only relates to the product development stages as currently managed by PLM solutions, but will also significantly improve procurement and selling business processes.

Imagine a world where finished product samples, trims, and new materials are approved through 3D models, and colors are approved without receiving a single lab dip or strike off.

DeSL has now created the ability for this to happen through its innovative Digital Approvals Dashboard.

Complete integration with critical path and workflow capabilities, the solution will enable users to push digital approval requirements and actions deep into the supply chain, covering all areas from initial product prototype, to bulk fabric deliveries.

The dashboard works with any specialist 3D vendor including, CLO, Browzwear, and Optitex to enable the web based visualization of virtual samples. In addition, the solution will enable interaction with the 3D models in a rich, and powerful, interactive environment.

From a color approval perspective, which is often overlooked as a key area for cost and efficiency improvements, the dashboard is fully integrated to DeSL’s Color Lifecycle Management™ module to enable real time digital color approvals.

All roles in the development process are involved in the dashboard. Factories and mills know what they have to do and when, and internal users are able to monitor progress in real time and interact with all areas in the supply chain.

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This solution is a significant step forward in the ultimate end goal of full Digital Transformation for the fashion sector. By cutting out the current manual steps and physical fashion sampling which are so prevalent in the industry today and represent a significant problem in terms of cost, timescales and sustainability. To learn more, request a demo with a DeSL representative.

Augusta Sportswear Brands shares their success post launch of Discover e-Solution’s (DeSL) digital transformation solution including PLM.

Augusta Sportswear Brands implemented DeSL’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) after an extensive search of potential vendors. The brand needed a powerful solution to increase their speed to market and match their growing demands for new product development.

With the software implementation completed, Libby Trentadue, Sr. Product Line Manager at Augusta Sportswear Brands, expresses the benefits the software has provided, “DeSL is a major improvement from our outdated PLM system. Within the short time we have been using DeSL, we’ve already experienced an overall improvement in the organization of information. The Ai Plug-In allows us to turnover tech packs faster, and we have the capability to import worksheets from other styles, which is a major time saver.”

DeSL’s PLM solution includes Fast Product Management (FPM), a configurable, grid like view allowing users to work from a single screen on a full collection of products. Trentadue elaborates, “Product Line Managers are able to see their entire portfolio, seasonal, or category assortment within just a few clicks, by using the FPM view. Product Development Managers can work on multiple styles without having to click into each unique style, it all populates within one window. DeSL couldn’t have been implemented at a better time for our team.”

DeSL believes it’s important that all departments benefit from the different aspects of PLM to deliver true digital transformation to the entire enterprise. To learn more, request a demo with a DeSL representative.

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About Augusta Sportswear Brands

Augusta Sportswear Brands is a leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of innovative high performance activewear and spiritwear for teams, coaches, athletes, and fans. Together, the five brands – Augusta Sportswear, Holloway, Russell Athletic, High Five and now Pacific Headwear – combine to form the largest supplier of youth to adult team uniforms in the industry. Augusta is driven by a mission to inspire a physically fit lifestyle, healthy families and connected communities.

www.augustasportswear.com

Gerson & Gerson partners with Discover e-Solutions (DeSL) to greatly improve accuracy through the implementation of DeSL’s Digital Transformation PLM Essentials package.

Founded in 1935, Gerson & Gerson is a family owned fashion brand, specializing in girl’s apparel. With its sights fixed on moving towards the future, Gerson & Gerson set out to partner with a software vendor offering a configurable solution to meet their specific needs.

In order to survive in a post COVID 19 era, brands must fundamentally change business operations towards a digital approach, which is exactly what Gerson & Gerson did. When asking Barbara Zeins, President at Gerson & Gerson, why she chose DeSL she said, “If the past 9 months have taught us anything, it is that accurate information is the heart of our business and that our success depends on everyone having access to it.” Zeins goes on to explain, “While a technology spend was not really on our radar in what has been an extremely challenging year, DeSL’s configurable software hits most of our long standing pain points and promises to reduce waste, improve speed, and allow tracking of remote teamwork with a high degree of accuracy. The entire product development team at Gerson & Gerson is excited to get started!”

DeSL’s Essentials package includes, PLM, Ai Plug-In, PO Management, and 3D integration features. This package is one of three digital transformation packages DeSL offers in addition to the standalone modules.

DeSL looks forward to the continuous long term partnership with Gerson & Gerson and is committed to supporting the brand’s successful implementation. To learn more request a demo with a DeSL representative.

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About Gerson & Gerson

Family owned since 1935, Gerson & Gerson has been bringing the joy of a new dress to girls around the world. To this day, they adhere to their founder’s philosophy: Make the best product possible, never sacrifice quality and maintain affordable prices. The company’s goal is to make daughters and girls everywhere feel beautiful, whimsical and above all confident.

www.gersonandgerson.com