Introducing woventa: AI Beyond PLM for Fashion Brands
Textile Solutions Group (TSG) has launched woventa, a new AI platform designed to connect data and intelligence across enterprise systems, including DeSL PLM, Datatex NOW, and third-party ERP solutions.
For fashion, apparel, and footwear brands, critical business information often resides in multiple systems. While each application serves an important purpose, understanding how information across product development, purchasing, production, and financial operations connects can be challenging.
woventa is designed to bridge these systems, enabling AI-driven insights across the broader business.
The Challenge: Your Business Data Lives in Different Systems
Fashion brands manage an enormous amount of information throughout the product lifecycle. Product specifications, bills of materials, supplier information, costing, purchase orders, inventory, and production schedules are often maintained across different applications. Even when systems are integrated, understanding how information in one area impacts another can require significant manual effort.
For example, a material cost increase recorded during product development may have implications for purchasing and profitability. A production delay could affect delivery commitments. Changes to product specifications may need to be reflected in downstream processes.
The challenge isn’t necessarily a lack of data. It’s bringing the right information together to support better decisions. This is where connected AI can make a difference.
AI Within DeSL PLM: Intelligence Where Product Development Happens
DeSL already delivers AI capabilities directly within its PLM platform through AI Assist and AI Orchestration. DeSL’s AI capabilities work with product, supplier, compliance, and costing data within PLM, allowing teams to query information in plain language and move from insights to action.
Together, these capabilities help brands make better use of the product information already managed within PLM. But product development is only one part of a much larger business operation.
AI Across the Enterprise: Where woventa Fits
Developed by TSG, woventa takes AI-driven intelligence beyond individual business applications by connecting information across DeSL PLM, other TSG solutions such as Datatex NOW, and third-party enterprise systems.
Rather than replacing existing software, woventa provides an additional AI layer that enables businesses to analyze information across product development, purchasing, inventory, production, and financial operations.
For fashion brands, this helps uncover relationships, risks and opportunities that may not be visible when information is viewed within individual systems. For vertically integrated businesses using multiple TSG solutions, woventa offers the potential to connect intelligence across more of the textile and apparel value chain.
What This Means for Fashion Brands
Connecting AI across enterprise systems opens the door to a range of practical business applications. Consider a brand developing a new collection in DeSL PLM while managing purchasing, inventory, and production through an ERP system. By connecting this information, woventa could support AI-driven analysis across the broader product lifecycle.
For example:
- Material Availability and Production Planning
Information from PLM and ERP could be analyzed together to identify potential material shortages or availability constraints that may affect planned production. - Cost Visibility and Margin Management
Product costing information from PLM could be evaluated alongside purchasing and financial data to highlight cost changes and potential impacts on profitability. - Production and Delivery Risks
Connecting product development milestones with production schedules and order information could help identify risks that may affect delivery commitments. - Compliance and Traceability
Product specifications, supplier certifications, and production records could be brought together to support traceability and simplify the process of gathering compliance documentation.
These examples illustrate potential cross-system AI applications as woventa capabilities and integrations evolve. Specific functionality will depend on the connected systems, available data, and configured workflows.
Building on Your Existing Technology Investments
One of the important aspects of woventa is its ability to complement existing enterprise applications. DeSL PLM continues to manage product development, sourcing, costing, quality, and related processes. ERP systems continue to manage their respective operational and financial functions.
woventa is designed to connect information across these applications without requiring businesses to replace their existing software. Each connected system remains responsible for its own records, while woventa enables AI to work with information across authorized business applications.
For DeSL customers, this creates an opportunity to extend the value of their PLM data into broader business intelligence initiatives.
Availability and Next Steps
Read more about the platform on the woventa page at TSG.
For businesses interested in exploring the potential of AI, an AI Readiness Assessment is a practical starting point. The assessment reviews existing data, systems, and processes to identify opportunities for improvement and develop a roadmap for AI adoption.
Request a demo to start the conversation.
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