We offer the ideal solutions to digitalize the Textile and Apparel industry's Supply Chain. And we can prove it.

Collections, shades and garment minute-rates.

Anyone working in the textile and apparel industry knows it is very peculiar. It's a sector with so many special characteristics that make manufacturing and supply chain management extremely complex. The challenges range from specific processes — such as dyeing in the finishing of knits and fabrics and their machines with different capacities and product-type constraints — to sewing processes that usually rely on a network of outsourced companies to perform operations that must be balanced across the production chain.

Companies served in this sector:

Neo supports your entire supply chain planning, from the long to the short term, addressing sector characteristics such as production and inventory strategies by product life-cycle stage, yarn-lot and dyeing constraints, balancing of outsourced sewing, as well as synchronization between the various processes of this vertically integrated chain.

Challenges in this industry:

High Inventory and Low Service

The collection cycle is fast and knit and fabric inventories easily become unbalanced, causing excesses and stockouts.

Synchronization and Outsourcing

Being a very vertical chain but with heavy outsourcing, synchronizing and gaining visibility of internal and external production is challenging.

Materials and Batch Management

The need to control and trace batches, from yarn to weaving and dyeing, is unique. It's a sector where 1+1 isn't always 2.

High Setup Times and Constraints

From dyeing gradients to printing setups, this inefficiency only tends to grow with the increase of SKUs, as do machine and people constraints.

What to expect from our projects:

Inventory Reduction

Better synchronization between operations enables a lead-time reduction, which lowers your WIP and also lets you reduce finished-goods inventory, since replenishment is faster. The solution's agility also allows reacting quickly to demand changes to avoid unnecessary inventory.

Productivity Increase

The scheduling rules will group similar items together, reducing setup times that don't add value. Better synchronization enables a reduction of wait times, generating more value directly to the product and making better use of the company's assets.

Delay Reduction

Visibility, scheduling agility and greater plan accuracy make it possible to reduce delays and stockouts, since they are identified in advance, allowing simulations to take preventive actions and eliminate them — all with scenarios that ensure availability without harming service.

Greater Agility

Harder than planning is replanning. A machine breakdown, rework on a component or a change in an item's demand can trigger a cascading effect to reschedule the whole factory. Responding to that reality quickly and with a good plan lets PPCP work be more analytical and decisive, rather than operational.