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DeSL is pleased to announce its Small-Medium Business (SMB) Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) partnership with Weartek PTY Ltd. Founded in 2016, Weartek works closely with clients to create high quality, customizable, industry specific uniforms and apparel. With heavy focus on practical design and customization, Weartek needed a workflow software solution to optimize each step of the process.

PLM isn’t just for large corporations, this is why DeSL created a subscription based SMB PLM. DeSL recognizes the success SMBs could obtain with a cloud based PLM to track and manage the supply chain. The web based communication hub eliminates excel and email, gives teams complete access to all product and sourcing information, and allows for easy collaboration with vendors.

“At Weartek, we pride ourselves on our ability to innovate performance workwear and have invested a great deal of time and energy into collaborating with a supply chain that echoes our vision. However, as a small business, managing the demands of the marketplace, frequently changing industries and a global supply chain can be quite a juggle,” explains Nick Pearce, Director of Weartek. “We’re excited to be working with DeSL’s SMB PLM to streamline our workflows so that our resources can be better spent designing and innovating exciting new products and materials. By utilizing DeSL’s cloud based software, we’re able to access everything we need to continue to scale our business, from anywhere in the world.”

DeSL embraces partnerships with SMB clients by providing a scalable PLM solution to support rapid growth for companies such as Weartek, giving SMBs confidence to expand without outgrowing the PLM’s capabilities. Weartek can add additional features when needed to maintain complete control over its entire supply chain.

To learn more about DeSL’s solutions, request a demo with a DeSL representative.

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About Weartek

Weartek is recognized and trusted as the company of choice for customized performance workwear across the mining, oil and gas, firefighting, and emergency services industries. As a full service Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM), Weartek focuses on a practical, design led approach that delivers a fully customizable, industry specific solution to uniform and apparel. Weartek is committed to designing and delivering solutions that deliver premium quality and safety to the workforce. Building upon industry standards, Weartek conducts extensive research and development activities to uncover superior solutions to safety needs across all high performance industries. With personnel safety in mind, all products are specially designed to withstand harsh conditions and are consistently tested for durability and longevity.

www.weartek.com.au

DeSL is pleased to announce its partnership with Augusta Sportswear Brands. Founded in 1977, Augusta Sportswear Brands is recognized as a top name for designing, manufacturing, and producing full lines of performance and athletic apparel and uniforms.

The growing demand for new product development and faster speed to market pressure led Augusta Sportswear Brands to seek out a robust PLM for sportswear software solution to fit its increasing requirements. After an exhaustive search of potential vendors, DeSL was selected as a partner. The implementation encompasses a wide set of tools beginning with DeSL’s Product Lifecycle Management and is backed by Supplier Relationship Management, Enterprise Business Intelligence, and Ai Plug-in modules.

Upon signing Elicia Riley Dorn, Director of Product Design, stated, “We are very excited about our new partnership with DeSL. The process of looking for a new PLM solution began when we realized our current system couldn’t handle our needs as a rapidly growing company. DeSL’s PLM is equipped with tools such as Adobe Plug-in, line planning, and supplier relationship management—to name a few—that will allow us to become faster and more collaborative both internally and externally.” Libby Trentadue, Sr. Product Line Manager, followed up, “And when we are ready to grow PLM into other teams, within our business, we can work directly with DeSL versus finding another source.”

DeSL’s complete PLM solution delivers a true web based, real time, collaborative framework specifically aimed at reducing development time. With the signing now complete, DeSL is ready to begin the strategic implementation process with Augusta Sportswear Brands’ team.

DeSL is revolutionizing the way Augusta Sportswear Brands approaches the design and development processes. To learn more about DeSL’s sportswear software solutions and how your business can benefit, 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

Malta’s most respected name in formal men’s tailoring, Bortex, has selected DeSL integrated solution to support the fashion brand’s fashion development and end to end processes to enable better speed to market capabilities.

DeSL is pleased to announce its partnership with Bortex Global Ltd. Founded in 1964, by a Maltese entrepreneur, Sunny Borg, Bortex is known as a high quality manufacturer of men’s tailored clothing. Bortex has expanded into a vast number of sectors in the fashion industry including manufacturing, private label production, and retail.

Bortex’s recognized its need for a single software provider to offer a solution from design to production to sales. Leadership acknowledged the growth it could continue to obtain with DeSL’s full suite of products including, PLM, CRM, PO Management, SRM, Production Control, and WMS. “It is with great pleasure that Bortex Clothing Industry Limited have finalized terms with DeSL for what promises to be a pioneering end to end software project,” stated Sam Borg, Chief Operating Officer at Bortex.

After an exhausting search of potential vendors and a grueling selection process, Sam Borg proclaims, “DeSL not only emerged as the preferred PLM partner for Bortex, but excelled in aligning themselves with our vision for an integrated solution which would cover a clothing business in manufacturing, retail, hire, wholesale, made to measure, and corporate wear.”

DeSL is confident its suite of products will bring forth future growth for Bortex as it manages all aspects of its supply chain. Sam Borg said it best for Bortex and DeSL, “we can’t wait to get the project underway!”

DeSL is revolutionizing the way Bortex approaches the design and development processes. To learn more about DeSL’s solutions and how your business can benefit, request a demo with a DeSL representative.

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About Bortex

Bortex is Malta’s longest established and most respected name in formal men’s tailoring. Maltese entrepreneur Sunny Borg established the company in 1964 as a joint venture with the Dutch Van Gils group, it went from strength to strength as a high quality manufacturer of men’s suits, jackets and trousers, supplying the finest retail brands on the European market place. Over the years Bortex diversified into other product areas such as men’s shirts, accessories and sportswear. It continues to supply the best names on the European high street with private label product as well as providing its own brands or a number of international brands under license.

www.bortexgroup.com

Discover e-Solutions (DeSL) is set to release a new fashion module to its PLM software, Digital Planning Boards. Digital Planning Boards are a revolutionary centralized fashion mood board and line sheet tool that empowers the creative aspects of the business while harnessing financial data to make informed decisions.

Digital Planning Boards are a central hub that ties large amounts of data together in an easy to use visual tool. Meeting the needs of the design, brand management, tech design, merchandising, and sales teams. The newest enhancement offers a more versatile planning platform to create mood boards, analyze financial merchandising plans, and manage live line sheets.

Designers can start the design phase by developing digital fashion mood boards with real time editing access, customized layers, and accurate color capabilities. Their line sheets will never become outdated. Edits and changes to color, patterns, and images are made instantly.

Digital Planning Boards also empowers brand managers and merchandisers to streamline seasonal line development. Visually arrange and segment collections by categories such as delivery window, style, fabric, and color. Financial teams can analyze the merch plans by reviewing and receiving instant margin status tracking with the module’s live connection to backend financials.

More About Digital Planning Boards

DeSL’s Digital Planning Boards are revolutionizing the fashion industry’s approach to the design and development process. To learn more about this fashion software and its powerful capabilities and line sheet features, request a demo with a DeSL representative.

Today’s powerful 3D imaging leaves no question that it is the most efficient way of digitally viewing product designs. But, is your company maximizing the value from your 3D fashion software?

DeSL has the ability to import and work with 3D generated images directly within PLM.

Add 3D Files to Your Tech Packs

DeSL knows the importance of a thorough tech pack and designers can agree, the more detailed a tech pack, the less room for error. By having a 3D viewer within PLM, each product can have a 3D tech pack. Designers have the ability to manipulate images by zooming in and out to gain a better view of the style. Comments can be made directly on a specific, highlighted part of the 3D file. 3D images can be used as sample reviews during meetings, giving teams a clear, realistic representation of the garment. This process leads to less back and forth with manufactures, resulting in faster products to market.

Agnostic to 3D Software

Not all designers or tech designers work with the same 3D software. If your brand has embraced one or more 3D tools, DeSL PLM can integrate files from each. DeSL takes an agnostic approach, ensuring each company can use its preferred software. Brands have the ability to bring in multiple 3D files into one PLM system. DeSL’s agnostic approach helps designers and tech designers settle the debate of which 3D tool works best.

Build a Bill of Materials

Generate your bill of materials (BOM) using the 3D files provided by your designer. 3D functionality in DeSL PLM offers the ability to view garments in 3D, add comments, and change materials and color. Garment edits in 3D can link directly to the BOM and costing. Using 3D within PLM synchronizes data while optimizing workflow.

DeSL will be showcasing PLM 3D fashion software functionality at National Retailer Federation (NRF) at Booth #805 in New York City, New York, January 13-15, 2019.

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About NRF

National Retail Federation (NRF) is the world’s largest retail trade association, representing discount and department stores, home goods and specialty stores, grocers, wholesalers, and internet retailers from around the world. The NRF’s 108th annual Convention & EXPO (Retail Big Show 2019) is held January 13-15, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. This year’s event anticipates 36,500 industry professionals representing 3,793 retail companies. The multi level conference is focused on how businesses of any size can make a lasting impact on the consumer.

www.nrf.com