Solutions for furniture

BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Get a competitive advantage thanks to your data

Increase the involvement of your customers by exploiting all the data and doing in-depth analysis. Business intelligence tools allow you to quickly view and explore the relationships between complex data sources, to achieve better business results and a consistent competitive advantage.

ERP

Complete integration with ERP

Ensure optimal management with complete integration with ERP management systems (TeamSystem, Sap, Stealth, Navision, Dynamics ax, As400 …)

COLLECTION PLANNING

Plan the collections, create always updated catalogs that are, for the entire sales network and merchandising

Market-oriented planning and objectives, this is the goal of PLM Crea Solution, integrating together the design, merchandising and marketing functions.

Creating online catalogs that are always up to date throughout the sales network, available on smartphones and tablets, has never been so simple.

Creating assortments ensuring a harmonious image of the products presented

• Multi-language translations
• Creating assortments based on pre-established segmentation and clustering parameters
• Assortment planning and order comparison
• Custom selling prices
• Planning resulting from analysis of sales points / online

QUALITY CONTROL

Check the quality of production all over the world, observing ratings and ranking of suppliers

The Crea Solution PLM simplifies the quality management procedures, gives ratings and ranking of all suppliers to guarantee constant quality and safety levels, assigning objectives relating to these parameters from the phase of receipt of raw materials to production.

PRICING MANAGEMENT

Manage all prices and analyze the mark-up without errors

The Crea Solution pricing platform integrated in the PLM is able to automatically generate constantly updated price lists with currencies from around the world and based on various infinite criteria such as lines, models, geographical area, area code, color variant …

Every company has different needs and for this reason Crea Solution is able to customize the pricing platforms based on all the criteria that are necessary for the customer to determine prices.

• Sell-in, sell-out price management
• Target costing
• International currency management and multiple price lists
• Outlet prices and massive operations on the price lists
• Calculation of prices from desired mark-up
• Integration with e-commerce
• Integration with ERP
• Automatic management of static and seasonal collections

COSTING

Simulate costs, carry out consumption calculation forecasts and get the Target Price

The definition of costs is important from the beginning in the product development process. Thanks to the amount of data that the PLM Crea Solution manages, it is possible to automatically estimate the cost of a pattern during its development so that pattern makers know beforehand the economic effort that a certain item or line will entail and eventually operate in order to hit the ‘target price’.

• integration with ERP and / or other applications via API;
• Import/export of data with Microsoft Excel;
• management of custom attributes, fields and formulas
• analysis and reporting of costing project on different cost and size categories;
• It is possible to do simulations and comparisons.

SAMPLE DASHBOARD

Analyze and track all product samples

Through the Crea Solution PLM dashboard it is possible to track the progress of prototypes and samples through the perfect synchronization of all the info. This allows effective communication with every single company department.

CAD 2D/3D

All patterns data in your tablet, prototypes approval with a click

Draw in the CAD Create environment while remaining directly connected with the PLM. Build the patterns database, fabrics master data, multiple size charts for intermediate and qualitative product controls thanks to complete integration with  pattern making CAD, displaying the patterns created directly by the PLM.

It is also possible to approve or modify the patterns thanks to the virtual fitting with 3D CAD, moreover you can capture the images of the products during the fitting and make an immediate request for fitting in just a few clicks.

SKETCHING

Take advantage from the integration with Tex Design, Adobe Illustrator, Coral Draw and many others …

Take advantage from the PLM Crea integration with over 12 sketching software for clothing and manage the entire collection design directly from the PLM. In this way the communication between the design department and the pattern making department will be improved in a very sensitive way. Crea Image Server offers a complete and automatic way to modify file formats so that your sketches or images can be available to all the players in the supply chain involved. By accessing a central archive of colors, designers are given the opportunity to develop ‘pallets’ of reusable seasonal colors for fabrics, garments, accessories and other elements. The same can be done with the textures, the accessibility and modifiability of colors and textures in their respective folders allows the company to easily create variations on the fabrics of the garments and to modify, even in the most advanced stages of the product, and with a few clicks, an entire theme of the collection if not even an entire production line by adding or removing from the collections one or more colors, one or more styles.