PolyPM

Integrated PDM/PLM, ERP and Sourcing

Polygon Software, the founders of apparel CAD, introduces PolyPM the first fully integrated Product Data Management (PDM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution for the sewn-goods industry. Available as a standalone PDM/PLM solution or integrated with ERP, PolyPM is based on today’s client/server and Internet technology. Click on the following links to learn more about PolyPM's capabilities:

PDM/PLM
Style Development
Global Sourcing
Fabric and Trim
Measurements
Instructions
Workflows
Messaging

ERP
Orders
Inventory
Purchasing
Manufacturing/Sourcing
Shipping/Invoicing
Shop Floor
EDI

PolyPM enables your entire enterprise to integrate all aspects of the product development, supply chain and manufacturing processes. Focused on all phases of a product's lifecycle -- from style development to production and distribution – PolyPM allows brands, manufacturers and distributors to collaborate with anyone within the organization and/or with customers and suppliers during the product development and delivery process.

If you are committed to improving competitiveness, reducing errors, controlling inventory costs, improving customer service and shortening delivery schedules, then PolyPM can help you. High-end sewn-goods manufacturers have been reaping the benefits of integrating business processes across the entire enterprise for years. PolyPM makes this same technology available to small to mid-sized manufacturers, so they can achieve the same benefits as the high-end businesses.

Taking a unique approach of integrating product development, sourcing and manufacturing into a single solution, PolyPM takes two traditionally separate applications and integrates them into a single solution that is easy to implement and learn. Using a comprehensive information management solution such as PolyPM, data generated or updated by one process is immediately and consistently available to other processes. This is a major improvement from manual solutions or from a collection of overlapping applications provided by different vendors. PolyPM delivers these benefits:

• Reduce errors resulting from duplicate data entry
• Control inventory costs by reducing waste and minimizing production errors
• Style development using product data management techniques to manage and publish documents
• Improve customer service by being able to provide accurate and real-time responses
• Analyze sales cycles and buying trends to project manufacturing requirements
• Shorten delivery times with accurate tracking of purchased and contracted goods
• At order time, allocate items directly from finished goods or WIP

PolyPM uses a centralized SQL client/server database to provide manufacturers the product and process knowledge that can be leveraged throughout an organization. The central database eliminates the need to enter identical information more than one time. The PolyPM database lets users, with proper authorization, view and edit style, inventory, labor, costing, orders, cut planning and manufacturing information. Once a change is made anywhere in the database, it’s instantly available for collaboration with all users in the enterprise.

Collaboration throughout a production cycle gives an organization the power to communicate effectively, avoid costly errors and achieve dramatic productivity improvements. Whether, for example, it's the sewing floor checking manufacturing specifications, or the cutting room reviewing a BOM, or responding to a customer request for an order status, the PolyPM information management system provides the answers in real-time without requiring additional unproductive processes. Highly productive manufacturing and effective communication is only possible when a company's combined product and manufacturing information is readily available to all authorized team members throughout the entire product development and manufacturing process.

PolyPM includes information from across the entire product-life-cycle and supports these typical information management functions:

• Style configurations and specifications including BOM, grading and quality control measurements
• Costing and/or PSV based on labor, materials, accessories, and contracted items
• Manufacturing process plans and assembly specifications
• Production costing or production sales value (PSV)
• Style, fabric, assembly, notions and trim images
• Provides for over/under production with cut planning
• Complete order tracking, work-in-process, shipping and invoicing
• Raw material, work-in-process and finished goods inventory management
• Product revision (Style and Order history)
• Collaborative information for each class of item
• Contextual database searches
• Report generation

Polygon is committed to providing information management solutions, which encourage innovation, reduce costs, increase quality, reduce time-to-market, and enhance overall competitiveness. Polygon supports these goals by providing solutions focused on solving today's data management and manufacturing process challenges. We help apparel manufacturers bring focus to product development, manufacturing, and distribution through PolyPM, our integrated PDM/ERP solution.