News
Polygon Software Launches Cut Planning
Fully integrated with PolyPM’s PLM and ERP solution, PolyPM Cut
Planning helps manufacturers optimize production and balance labor and
material, while clearly communicating production needs to all team members.
Baltimore, MD – June 3, 2008 -- Polygon Software, a leading
developer of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) solutions for apparel businesses, today announced the
introduction of PolyPM Cut Planning. PolyPM’s Cut Planning module
helps users build an optimum marker plan and spreads for efficient production.
Fully integrated with PolyPM’s Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
module, all aspects of the production process including markers, fabric,
and estimated material requirements are available with each production
order. By working with integrated cut planning, businesses are able
to maintain their production data in one central database which creates
a more efficient operation and reduces errors.
Web-enabled, using Microsoft SQL database engine, PolyPM integrates
all aspects of the design through production process: product development,
costing, sourcing, manufacturing, inventory, sales and distribution.
By integrating business processes and people anywhere in the world,
businesses use PolyPM to realize more efficient work flow, 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.
Cut Planning uses an efficient three-step process that begins with planning
the optimum markers and total plies required. Based on this information,
a spread plan is automatically created that shows the required markers,
marker lengths, material plies, and relationships to the cuts. When
the spread plan is approved, cut orders are also automatically created,
saving the labor intensive time associated with manually building cut
orders. PolyPM automatically calculates the materials required for each
Cut Order and will adjust material requirements based on actual requirements,
rather than estimated requirements. Cut Planning helps businesses reduce
errors and save fabric by:
Automatically calculating required plies and remaining units as markers
are added to a plan.
Reducing cut planning time and generating Cut Orders automatically from
the Marker/Spread Plan.
Calculating material requirements based on actual marker lengths and
automatically adjusting requirements in each Cut Order.
Automatically adjust production quantities with balanced Marker Plan,
adjusting secondary material requirements when primary material quantities
are adjusted.
Integrated material withdrawal enables users to select the best rolls
of fabric needed to complete a cut.
Reports that show Spread Plan, Cuts, markers in a cut, rolls needed
for a cut, actual versus estimated comparisons, plus much, much more
and user-defined reports.
Determine which sizes to put in each marker, fabric plies, marker and
fabric spread sequence.
Work-in-process integration to track cut order production at the
bundle level.
About Polygon Software
Polygon Software has a long and prestigious history of developing advanced
software applications for the apparel industry. Starting in the 1970’s,
the founders of Polygon developed the first CAD/CAM system for apparel
manufacturers, the AM-1. Today this system is the worlds leading apparel
CAD/CAM system. In the 1980’s Polygon introduced PolyNest, the
first open apparel CAD/CAM software running under Microsoft Windows.
PolyNest revolutionized the way apparel CAD was distributed by enabling
end-users to acquire their software and hardware from multiple sources.
Polygon's latest product, PolyPM, is the first product to integrate
PLM and ERP into a single solution, automating the transition from design
to manufacturing. PolyPM transforms the way small to mid-sized brands,
distributors and manufacturers operate, by providing information technology
that previously was only available to the “big-guys”, in
a system that lets users independently customize their installation
to reflect their business practices. For more information, please visit
www.polypm.com.
|
