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One of the primary solutions ArcherGrey developed came from the realization that entering external data into the PLM often resulted in manual re-keying, causing delays and errors. Once they settled on ArcherGrey to fulfill this need, the two worked together to develop a roadmap and strategy to pilot the ideas for success. Company leaders evaluated several 3rd party systems that would need to be integrated into FlexPLM to ensure PLM remained the system of record for all product design and development related information. Solutionīrooks Brothers investigated several solutions capable of solving these three challenges. This eliminated the visibility of the data within FlexPLM for the sales offices or sample requesters to have visibility to when the samples were expected to arrive in their office. The tracking details, such as Airway Bill Number and Ship Date, would need to be emailed to a Brooks Brothers associate and uploaded to the outside tool. The current structure of this tool was not enabled with a Vendor Portal and was not leveraging the existing access of FlexPLM Vendor Portal. To facilitate the tracking and receiving details of the seasonal samples, Brooks Brothers was using a tool outside of FlexPLM to enable uploads of the sample information. Due to the time it was taking to request the sample, many sample requests were being finalized after the deadline, causing a delay in the overall delivery. Majority of the time, the samples were being requested directly following a sales meeting. Leveraging the Line Sheet capabilities within FlexPLM, this process was taking users approximately 7 hours per sales account to create these requests.
In total, this process could take up to 2 weeks to complete.įor Brooks Brothers, the Sales and Marketing offices are given an opportunity to request a Sales sample for any newly created Colorway for the season. The final consolidated file would be sent to IT associates, where, leveraging the out-of-the-box Administrator loading functionality, would load the data into FlexPLM.
After the consolidation was complete, the regional office spreadsheets would be submitted to the Brooks Brothers NYC office for further consolidation. In the current process of Material creation, the associates at Brooks Brothers would consolidate Excel spreadsheets contain Material details from each Supplier to one document by the regional development office. The key processes to optimize further were: the creation of Materials and Sales Sample requests and increasing the collaboration of Sample Tracking in “real-time” with the Factory. While reviewing of some key processes, they found opportunities in optimizing the mass creation and maintenance of data within FlexPLM during the peak periods in the season. Opportunityīrooks Brothers consistently looks for ways to optimize their overall process and reduce the time to deliver their product to Market. The company has over 250 retail and factory stores in the U.S. and more than 250 locations internationally. Brooks Brothers prides itself on being a pioneer and innovator in the apparel industry evolving through design, performance, and technology. They have also had the honor of dressing almost every U.S. Brooks Brothers celebrated their 200th anniversary in 2018 - making them the oldest retailer in the United States.
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