CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
7 July 2009
Product News
Polygon Software Launches the First Apparel Specific Production Scheduling Solution Integrated with PLM/ERP
Polygon Software, a leading developer of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions for apparel businesses, announced PolyPM Production Planning, the first apparel specific production scheduling solution fully integrated with PLM and ERP. PolyPM’s Production Planning helps retailers, brands and manufacturers achieve the delicate balance between time-to-market and production schedules. Working from either an enterprise, or production line view, businesses work with a Planning Board that lets them instantly see the status of thousands of production orders in a single glance. PolyPM’s Planning Board includes numerous visualization tools that help users make the best scheduling decisions.
"Production scheduling is a continuing nightmare our customers have to constantly deal with. Matching labor, sourcing or raw material resources for thousands of orders at one time is a daunting task, which few businesses get right,” stated Louis Wohlmuth, chief executive officer of Polygon Software. “The end result is lost opportunity and increased production costs. PolyPM’s Production Planning helps businesses get control of their scheduling by letting them easily view and modify the production schedule, while managing a constantly changing environment. Businesses can easily obtain an ROI that’s measured in months.
As the first apparel specific production scheduling solution fully integrated with PLM/ERP, businesses will realize a faster return on their investment through real-time material resource planning (MRP) integration, greater flexibility to adjust to changing labor, sourcing and raw material resources and customer demands. PolyPM Production Planning provides instantaneous feedback at all levels of the enterprise when changes are made, marking the first time apparel businesses can obtain the benefits of production scheduling without having to setup production planning in an application that is separate from their ERP.
Web-enabled, using Microsoft SQL database engine, PolyPM integrates all aspects of the design through production process: product development, costing, sourcing, manufacturing, inventory, sales, distribution and now production planning. By integrating business processes and people anywhere in the world, businesses use PolyPM to realize more efficient workflow, improved productivity and cost reductions. PolyPM creates an environment that lets management get decision making information when and how it needs it, to ensure faster time-to-market and exploit new business opportunities. Plus, PolyPM is flexible enough to change with business conditions, so management won’t need a cadre of programmers to customize and restructure the system as business conditions change. Key features in PolyPM’s Production Planning solution include:
- A fully customizable, color-coded Planning Board showing the relationship between required and available resources for thousands of production orders at a glance.
- A two-level interactive planning structure that enables management to develop weekly plans at the enterprise level months ahead and plan specific daily production at the line level.
- Color coded alerts for material availability in MRP, on-time and late delivery with fully customizable tool-tips that instantly show detail on any production item.
- Automatic and manual planning of production items that greatly simplifies the planning process when hundreds of new production orders are added.
- Ability to view the Planning Board according to forecast and scheduled production. Scheduled production shows over and under capacity while forecast production shows actual production given current capacity.
- Production analysis based on standardized production units or based on actual units projected to be produced.
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