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Polygon Software Launches The First Apparel Specific
Production Scheduling Solution Integrated with PLM/ERP
PolyPM Production Planning helps retailers, brands and manufacturers
easily balance production capacity with time to market optimization
using a graphical, fully customizable planning board.
Baltimore, MD – July 7, 2009 -- Polygon Software, a leading developer of Product
Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions
for apparel businesses, today 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 an easy to understand and use 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.
PolyPM's color coded Planning Board lets users instantly get the
status of hundreds of production orders in a single glance.
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.
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.
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