Luxury, Fashion & Apparel

The complexity of the fashion business is evident: a market characterized by unpredictable demand, the variability of sizes, colours and fabrics with collections being launched at an ever quicker pace, short lead-times and a globalized supply chain. In a world where innovation and time-to-market are driving factors, the secret of success lies in integrated supply chains, able to keep both time and cost factors under control.

In managing processes end-to-end, TXTPerform tackles typical issues of each business in the fashion industry:

• Apparel, Fashion & Footwear
• Jewellery & Watches
• Textile

Apparel, Fashion & Footwear:

• Full management of the size/color mix
• Integration of budgeting, demand planning, blind orders and production planning processes
• Planning and management of scattered suppliers and sub-contractors (typically local for quality production, typically remote for commercialized production)
• Multi-channel distribution planning, featuring different logics (push-pull-push), and optimized redistribution of products among warehouses and shops.

Jewellery & Watches:

• Collaborative forecasting and budgeting
• Differentiated management of new product launches, promotions and specialties
• Integrated planning of finished products with component purchases
• Consignment stock and tracking

Textile:

• Management of variants
• Planning of in-house and subcontracted production
• Integration of suppliers with the company logistic portal, featuring various communication standards, e.g. MODAML; quality control.