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APPARELPLANNING
PROBLEM STATEMENT
Apparel manufacturers face tremendousproduct innovation pressure both to stayahead of the competition and also to attractconsumers that are driven by style, price, andother buying factors. This means they need tomanage lots of new products and activelydrive business planning with retailers andmanufacturing partners.
While core transactional systems are essentialfor driving manufacturing operations likefabric purchases, collaborative tools areneeded to drive interactions between tradingpartners.
An apparel company was looking to addressthe following business challenges :
CHALLENGESPlanning between merchants, productionteams and vendors was run manually inlegacy systems resulting in long processiterations.
Product lines and manufacturing locationsoverlapped in their data views and theyneeded different planning views for differentusers.
The users wanted an environment wherethey could work with lots of data at once andeasily make updates working offline.
Exchanging data between systems was laborintensive, error prone and did not scale.
Working withTrading Partnersto Improve the SeasonalPlanning Process
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Extending their transactional systems just did notwork for them. Their products changed too oftenand ease of use was essential which meant hardto use and rigid planning tools would not fit.
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THE SOLUTIONThe Boardwalk Digital Ledger (Boardwalk) platform gives this apparel manufacturer a flexibledigital ledger planning platform used for assortment planning & forecasting, seasonal planning,production planning, sizing, and PO generation and order management. Users are able tocollaborate using legacy tools while securely and reliably managing the data across anynumber of desktops and disparate data environments.
By using Boardwalk, this customer is able to leverage patented address level informationmanagement, transaction chaining capabilities, inferencing, and machine learning, plus theability to ensure that all parties only see their sensitive data. Digital Ledger technology ensuresthat the transactional agreements can be trusted and verified which has enabled this customerto gain greater trust, visibility, and transparency across its entire supply chain.
Since deploying Boardwalk, this customers has seen significant business benefits including:
Reduced process cycletimes from 6 to 1-2 weeks
Eliminating manual toucheshas recovered 40 person-months for the 100 usersprocess over a quarterlycadence
Improved frequency of datacollection has resulted in a1-4% reduction in inventory
BENEFITSSales, merchandising, finance, production,and operations teams spread globallyacross multiple time zones can all workcollaboratively using a single, centrallymanaged digital ledger technology
New product lines and changes to existingproducts take a lot less time to executethan with traditional tools
100s of users can work at the same time onthe same data “offline” and share netchanges when ready with the click of amouse
Making changes to lots of demand andsupply data is easily done on the desktopwithout clicking through lots of forms
Two-way integration with manufacturingsystems and ERP means data is sharedseamlessly between multiple environments
Leveraging a digital ledger technologyincreases the visibility, trust, and relevanceof plan data
With time-based transactions, machinelearning can be leveraged to drive coursecorrections within operational processes,thereby continually improving the application
Predict late deliveries 60days in advance, with over90% accuracy; reducingstock-outs
Aggregate annual savings ofseven figures returned to thebottom line to invest back inthe business
