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Please tell us more about the ERP/PLM solutions that your company offers. In what ways are they unique? The CGS BlueCherry enterprise suite is an end-to-end supply chain management solution tailored to the fashion, apparel and consumer Products market. BlueCherry ERP and PLM can operate as standalone solutions and can also be fully integrated to increase supply chain transparency and increase speed-to-market. Our ERP has built-in OMS functionality to support today’s omnichannel demands...

Please tell us more about the ERP/PLM solutions that your company offers. In what ways are they unique? Centric Software PLM—a cloud-based, out-of-the-box platform—empowers internal and external teams by giving them a single, actionable version of the truth, enabling information transparency—a fundamental pillar of Industry 4.0. By giving teams access to all product-related data in real time, Centric PLM eases communication, reduces errors and accelerates decision making. Centric PLM is enhanced...

Please tell us more about the ERP/PLM solutions that your company offers. In what ways are they unique? Bamboo Rose’s retail Product Lifecycle Management Solution offers design, development, and testing of private label and branded merchandise. Our PLM enables retailers and suppliers to develop quality merchandise and reduce cycle times. Whether the design is done in-house, collaboratively with partners, or products are bought directly from suppliers, Bamboo Rose can support the simplest...

Please tell us more about the ERP/PLM solutions that your company offers. In what ways are they unique? Aptos’ PLM solution differentiates in the marketplace for the following characteristics: Specifically tailored to the needs of fashion, it also serves ‘fashion-like’ sectors such as eyewear or furniture where the design aspect is strong. In this way it offers proven support to all retailers pursuing brand extension strategies. The solution delivers truly end-to-end capabilities from line...

Among other things, blockchain can introduce an element of transparency in the supply chain--another demand that wears heavily on the apparel-fashion industry. Where does blockchain fit into both ERP and PLM solutions? Charness: ERP and PLM will not need to handle actual blockchain chains. But they will need to accept information from those chains to use, and will need to be able to pass information to write to a chain. Blockchain solutions themselves will handle the reading and writing. ERP...

Business processes in every industry sector are unique. Technology is changing the way these business processes crystallise, mutate and are reborn again to keep pace with everything else in that industry sector. But each industry has its own singularities and needs. This demonstrably poses challenges to tackle which the textiles-apparel-fashion industry needs to look outwards. Challenges Galore The biggest challenge, according to Kate Munro, vice-president for marketing at Bamboo Rose, is the...

Technology is developing at a frenetic pace, reshaping life everyday as we know it. Technology is also reshaping the global textiles-apparel-fashion industry in ways that one cannot even imagine. But technology does not develop in isolation; new technologies also mean new ideas and new materials. For those in the industry, ShanghaiTex 2019 would be a heaven-sent opportunity to look at some of them before they eventually come into play and disrupt lives all over again. This November, ShanghaiTex...

If the fashion industry has to go truly circular, it will need to pick up the thread from where the longwinding value chain of the industry currently trails off--in the humongous piles of post-consumer textile waste, an estimated 92 million tonnes generated annually at the last count. It would need a colossal effort on part of industry to turn that waste back into acceptable fashion. And, it would need to be done in a creative and stylish manner. Or else, how could that be fashion? The world...

Why, do you think, Suvin has not been able to get the recognition that it deserves? After all, it was released for commercial cultivation way back in 1974. What has gone wrong? It has been 45 years since Suvin was introduced in India. Till the 1990s it was predominantly consumed by domestic mills in India for production of finer yarns of 120s counts and above for use in manufacturing super-luxury lustrous fabrics. Suvin cotton production had peaked to about 30,000 bales (170 kg / bale) in the...

You have taken over as ED of SAC at a very critical juncture. How do you assess the responsibility that comes with the new job? What would be your immediate priorities? I am honoured to be in this new role. It’s an exciting time at the SAC. The path we started on ten years ago was unchartered for any industry. The kind of collaboration the SAC has achieved in bringing the industry together to standardise social and environmental sustainability is groundbreaking. We hope it’s an example of how...