Color Accuracy and Control Across the Supply Chain
DeSL’s Digital Color Approvals and Color Lifecycle Management (CLM) bring a modern solution to color management. It supports fashion, apparel, and footwear brands with accuracy, speed, and sustainability. Traditional systems like ERP and PLM often reduce color to a simple attribute.
This creates gaps in accuracy, workflow efficiency, and sustainability. Our color management software solves these challenges with precise tools for every stage of the digital color workflow. It gives brands full control from concept to final approval.
Why Digital Color Approvals Matter
Color is one of the top factors influencing consumer purchasing decisions. Ensuring consistency, accuracy, and speed in the approval process is critical for fashion brands. Manual methods like physical lab dips and shipped samples are slow, costly, and prone to errors.
With fashion color approval software, brands can:
- Eliminate shipping costs and delays from physical samples.
- Reduce waste and carbon emissions by adopting digital lab dip replacement processes.
- Gain a single source of truth for color data, ensuring alignment across design, development, and production.
This digital-first approach increases accuracy across every step of the process. It also supports sustainability by removing unnecessary steps from the supply chain.
Key Benefits of DeSL’s Color Management Software
Our Digital Color Approvals system replaces multiple rounds of lab dips with a single, accurate color standard. Suppliers receive clear, scientific data that speeds up approvals and reduces costly rework.
DeSL’s Color Lifecycle Management integrates with 2D and 3D design tools, ensuring consistent color representation across every platform. Accurate digital color files flow seamlessly from design to production, removing guesswork.
Suppliers can upload results directly through the system, supported by spectrophotometer color matching. Brands gain immediate feedback and visibility, with detailed reports that eliminate subjective decisions.
By switching to digital color approvals, brands cut back on shipping, packaging, and physical samples. This sustainable workflow reduces waste and carbon emissions while speeding up approvals.
Spectrophotometer integration ensures precise color accuracy for CAD printouts, sublimation, and other digital printing methods. This guarantees consistent color quality from concept to final product.
How Digital Color Workflow Operates
DeSL’s digital color workflow guides every step of the approval process:
- Build – Create digital color libraries by importing qtx files or measuring fabric with a spectrophotometer. Organize seasonal collections or trend-based palettes.
- Share – Distribute color libraries across your enterprise. Teams and vendors access the same accurate files within PLM, 2D, and 3D tools.
- Request – Submit development requests, share scientific requirements, and track timelines to keep vendors, agents, and mills aligned.
- Approve – Vendors measure strike-offs or lab dips against digital standards. Automated pass/fail results highlight issues early, reducing errors and ensuring faster signoff.
This structured process creates a reliable, collaborative environment for brands and suppliers alike.
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Supporting Innovation and Sustainability
Modern fashion requires faster product cycles and a sharper focus on sustainability. Color Lifecycle Management helps brands meet both needs. Digitalization removes the subjectivity of traditional processes and ensures teams communicate based on accurate data. The result is faster approvals, fewer wasted samples, and stronger environmental impact reduction.
Brands that adopt digital lab dip replacement gain a full digital color workflow. This helps them stay ahead of competitors while ensuring consistent quality for consumers.
Why Choose DeSL?
DeSL is a recognized leader in digital transformation for fashion and retail. Our fashion color approval software gives brands the control, accuracy, and flexibility needed in today’s fast-moving industry. Brands use DeSL’s color management software as part of our PLM system or as a standalone solution. In either case, it gives color teams the tools they need to succeed.
Request a Demo
Redefine your brand’s approach to color management. Request a demo of DeSL’s Digital Color Approvals and Color Lifecycle Management today. See firsthand how our software streamlines approvals, reduces waste, and supports a sustainable future for fashion.