Interviews

Please tell us more about the ERP/PLM solutions that your company offers. In what ways are they unique? Coats Digital's VisionPLM is a highly intuitive PLM solution for fast, efficient product development and collaboration. From design to delivery, VisionPLM goes beyond the conventional PLM systems, offering core PLM and best in class functionalities. It helps in streamlining and integrating the critical business processes, from design, material, and product development to supplier capacity...

Please tell us more about the ERP/PLM solutions that your company offers. In what ways are they unique? The CGS BlueCherry enterprise suite is an end-to-end supply chain management solution tailored to the fashion, apparel and consumer Products market. BlueCherry ERP and PLM can operate as standalone solutions and can also be fully integrated to increase supply chain transparency and increase speed-to-market. Our ERP has built-in OMS functionality to support today’s omnichannel demands...

Please tell us more about the ERP/PLM solutions that your company offers. In what ways are they unique? Centric Software PLM—a cloud-based, out-of-the-box platform—empowers internal and external teams by giving them a single, actionable version of the truth, enabling information transparency—a fundamental pillar of Industry 4.0. By giving teams access to all product-related data in real time, Centric PLM eases communication, reduces errors and accelerates decision making. Centric PLM is enhanced...

Please tell us more about the ERP/PLM solutions that your company offers. In what ways are they unique? Bamboo Rose’s retail Product Lifecycle Management Solution offers design, development, and testing of private label and branded merchandise. Our PLM enables retailers and suppliers to develop quality merchandise and reduce cycle times. Whether the design is done in-house, collaboratively with partners, or products are bought directly from suppliers, Bamboo Rose can support the simplest...

Please tell us more about the ERP/PLM solutions that your company offers. In what ways are they unique? Aptos’ PLM solution differentiates in the marketplace for the following characteristics: Specifically tailored to the needs of fashion, it also serves ‘fashion-like’ sectors such as eyewear or furniture where the design aspect is strong. In this way it offers proven support to all retailers pursuing brand extension strategies. The solution delivers truly end-to-end capabilities from line...

Among other things, blockchain can introduce an element of transparency in the supply chain--another demand that wears heavily on the apparel-fashion industry. Where does blockchain fit into both ERP and PLM solutions? Charness: ERP and PLM will not need to handle actual blockchain chains. But they will need to accept information from those chains to use, and will need to be able to pass information to write to a chain. Blockchain solutions themselves will handle the reading and writing. ERP...

Why, do you think, Suvin has not been able to get the recognition that it deserves? After all, it was released for commercial cultivation way back in 1974. What has gone wrong? It has been 45 years since Suvin was introduced in India. Till the 1990s it was predominantly consumed by domestic mills in India for production of finer yarns of 120s counts and above for use in manufacturing super-luxury lustrous fabrics. Suvin cotton production had peaked to about 30,000 bales (170 kg / bale) in the...

You have taken over as ED of SAC at a very critical juncture. How do you assess the responsibility that comes with the new job? What would be your immediate priorities? I am honoured to be in this new role. It’s an exciting time at the SAC. The path we started on ten years ago was unchartered for any industry. The kind of collaboration the SAC has achieved in bringing the industry together to standardise social and environmental sustainability is groundbreaking. We hope it’s an example of how...

Has GenNext of the Indian textiles-apparel industry changed the way business is done? I strongly believe the newer generation of India’s fashion/apparel industry has changed the industry narrative in many ways. For instance, we have embraced the online business model in a much wholehearted way from the start. Traditionally, the apparel industry (along with other sectors of retail such as groceries) prioritised the offline mode and organic growth. The internet changed this and brought about a...

Subir Ghosh spoke to eight dynamic personalities who have remained in the news for the cutting-edge initiatives they have been taking, bringing about a change in the way business itself is done. There were two questions they were posed: * Has GenNext of the Indian textiles-apparel industry changed the way business is done? * How much do you think India's GenNext is geared up to changing things in the global context? The responses. Dhiraj Agarwal CEO and Co-Founder Campus Sutra Dhiraj Agarwal is...