Design Outsourcing
Communicate Effectively with Outsourced Team Members
During the past decade, we have seen the rapid growth of Design Outsourcing as a key operational driver for cost savings, productivity increases, and competitive differentiation. Design Outsourcing – the process of engaging with a third party to deliver a system, sub-system or component design, or a set of engineering services (such as drafting or analysis) – is used to achieve a diverse set of tactical and strategic business objectives, including increased revenue, reduced time-to-market, and organizational transformation. Gartner Group studies show that about 50% of outsourcing deals end in failure, due to the expected ROI and other non-financial benefits not being achieved.
The success of the outsourcing practice can be dramatically improved with better alignment of goals and agreement on how to measure success between the client and the supplier. A well defined outsourcing strategy will provide access to the skilled pools of labor and result in global reach uninterrupted by organizational structures, time zones, and cultural differences. Deploying standard company business processes across the extended enterprise accelerates the integration of partners and ensures best practices are adopted. Sharing of data is streamlined between partners, information duplication is eliminated, errors are reduced, and part standardization is enabled.
The collaboration and process management capabilities are enhanced by the visualization and markup capabilities combined with workflow-driven process automation deliver a perfect collaboration environment needed for successful Design Outsourcing. FastFit360 is the answer to collaborative success.
Detailed Design
Deliver high performing detailed design specifications
Detailed Design is the process of developing a fully defined product design from a clear set of requirements while creating deliverables and documentation appropriate for product manufacturing. Global competition, distributed product development, decreasing product development lifecycles, and increased product complexity put pressure on companies to improve their detailed design process to meet the increasing customer demands for innovative, high-quality products.
Today’s detail design process presents enormous challenges. Most companies are operating in a distributed environment, requiring the coordination of design partners and multi-disciplined design teams across time zones and language barriers. Engineers must balance risk and trade-offs while rapidly delivering high performance detailed design specifications that work reliably and offer value. Changes to requirements are frequent and incorporating those changes into the design process in a managed and controlled way is difficult. Balancing requirements with cost and quality pressures further complicates the process. Design reuse and process automation would be a big help in streamlining what has become an increasingly complex process.
Utilizing FastFit360 allows the complete product information to be managed in a single, structured, cross-discipline product data repository that gives a globally dispersed product development team timely, role-based access to the latest product information and visual 360 degree view of multiple samples as they are constructed.. External partners can be integrated securely and seamlessly into development activities.
Fast Fashion
Deliver High-Quality, Fashion-Right Products Quickly
Enabling companies to track, manage and share seasonal line plans and product specifications across a global supply chain to accelerate speed-to-market and design closer to delivery.
In today’s fast-paced retail environment, consumers expect to see fashion right products of high quality delivered at a low cost. For retailers and brands to survive in this intensely competitive market, they need to be masters at delivering products in the shortest possible timeframe at the right price. This involves coordinating a complex apparel product development process across a global supply chain.
Retailers and brands require up-to-the-minute views of the seasonal line plan as well as detailed status of individual products. Modifications or missed deadlines need to be instantly shared with a global team so all members can react quickly. Solutions for this industry should enable global collaboration, change management, and robust workflow for managing the complex interdependent relationships of colors, materials, products, colorways and sizes.
FastFit360 is the only company that offers an industry-specific solution allowing all pertinent information through its document portal available to partners online. Documents such as story boarding, assortment planning, line planning, raw materials development, product specification development, sampling, costing, sourcing and vendor management is all in one place available online. In order to deliver fast fashion, all fashion product development processes must be in sync. Customer best practices have been successfully applied to handle the needs of multiple product categories and diverse distribution channels.
Today, FastFit360 provides the only quick, easy to install solution that is Web-based, fully configurable, scalable and able to manage complex workflow processes of a trend-based industry.
Concept Development
Create & Develop Concepts That Shape the Future
Companies engage in the Concept Development process when they want to define alternate product concepts, investigate product feasibility, and ultimately select one or more candidates that will be pursued during product development. These days, there are no second chances. You either select the right concepts to develop, or your product fails, resulting in lost market share and dissatisfied customers, not to mention the money and time poured into a losing product. Companies need to be agile enough to explore many concepts and quick enough to narrow down the options to the concept most likely to succeed.
It’s crucial to encourage innovation and set the stage for creation of big, revolutionary ideas. Capturing and formalizing concept development and involving all relevant stakeholders in the design is another challenge. It’s important to “get it right the first time” by reaching customers and including their voice in review and selection of concepts. Ensuring concept designs meet the requirements during shortening design cycle times often prevents thorough exploration of alternatives.
FastFit360 delivers all the essential tools for authoring and managing a complete digital product definition. Digital concept 360 degree views enable brainstorming and exploration of design ideas and development of product concepts within a single environment. Concept product information is managed in a single, structured, cross-discipline product data repository that gives timely and role-based access to a globally dispersed product development team. Customers can be integrated securely and seamlessly into collaborative environments to ensure concept designs meet requirements.
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