Apparel Magazine names two Lectra customers among top 40 innovators

02 Jul '09

5 min read

For more than twenty years, leading Canadian children's wear manufacturer Please Mum has been creating innovative garments for children -- newborn to age 10 with a focus on fashion and quality at an affordable price. The company has over 90 stores across the country (Canada) and employs 1,000 employees, including 150 in its Vancouver headquarters. In addition to their four major seasonal collections every year, Please Mum also has small deliveries of entirely new styles introduced into its boutique-style shops every month.

Their designers take inspiration from the fashion trends of Europe and add kid-friendly features such as Double Trouble knees that provide added durability and grow-roll cuffs that allow a perfect fit. With its entrepreneurial spirit, Please Mum is known for its speed-to-market and its innovation as well as its award-winning philanthropic missions.

A company that "connects" with its customers, Please Mum is growing at a rate of 10 stores per year. Lectra Fashion PLM and Kaledo Collection have enabled Please Mum to streamline their processes, making both their work more efficient and more consistent. Improved efficiency also means more growth opportunities for Please Mum.

The combined aspects of Product Data Management and Workflow Management of Lectra Fashion PLM have allowed for better communication and more efficiency. "As a result, more information is shared and decisions are made faster. There is less opportunity for error and much more time and energy to move forward effectively," said Stephen Lee, vice president of corporate development at Please Mum.

Please Mum's designers are benefiting from improved productivity with Lectra's solutions. What used to take a whole day to design certain products can now be done in an hour because they're able to pull up pre-existing designs straight from the system and re-use them.

"Lectra is proud to have two of our customers as recipients of this prestigious award," according to Jerry Inman, Vice President of Marketing for Lectra North America. "The Children's Place and Please Mum are great examples of how companies are using Lectra's value-added solutions to innovate while improving their design process, growing their businesses, all while reducing costs."

Lectra Fashion PLM: The most comprehensive and high-performance Product Lifecycle Management solution for the fashion sector.

A real performance accelerator for fashion professionals, Lectra Fashion PLM facilitates the management of individual activities, tasks, and collaborative work throughout the whole product lifecycle -- from the designer's first ideas to the finished product, ready for sale. Lectra Fashion PLM offers a truly collaborative working environment for the design, development, and manufacturing of all fashion products (apparel, footwear, accessories) as well as optimal collection management. It is the only PLM solution to incorporate applications for whole process management -- line planning, product design and development, strategic sourcing, workflow management -- and renowned state-of-the-art applications for design (Kaledo), pattern-making (Modaris and PGS), virtual 3D prototyping (Modaris 3D Fit), and marker-making (Diamino and MGS).

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