OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

Welcome to the first installment of our series exploring the key modules of our traceability platform. With over 1 billion materials tracked across 22 countries, our platform is designed to help brands achieve transparency and efficiency throughout their global supply chains.

As a B Corp, we’re dedicated to leveraging data to foster positive change in the fashion industry. Since our inception, we’ve aimed to support brands and their supply chains by enhancing order management and material traceability. This focus helps streamline processes, reduce inefficiencies, and cut costs. This focus helps streamline processes, reduce inefficiencies, cut costs, and enhance traceability and transparency compliance with today’s and upcoming regulations.

Why Data Matters

In today’s fashion landscape, data is invaluable for several reasons

Demonstrating Commitment through tangible evidence
Environmental Impact: Understanding and minimizing the environmental impact of products and their supply chains.
Building Trust: Ensuring product quality to build consumer trust.
Compliance: Navigating an ever-changing regulatory landscape

This year, we’ve refined our approach to traceability by structuring our platform into three core modules, each tailored to a key fashion brand department:

1- Operations -> Operation Excellence
2- Sustainability -> Responsible Sourcing
3-Compliance -> Legal Compliance

Spotlight on Operation Excellence

Operation Excellence

Improve a 360-degree efficiency and agility of operations all along the Value Chain

Navigating the complexities of supply chains requires having a clear and reliable view of every step, from the sourcing of raw materials to the production of finished products. This is where our Operation Excellence module truly excels. Unlike other systems that depend on secondary data, we focus on collecting primary data directly from your supply chain stakeholders. This ensures that the information is not only accurate but also verified at the source.

Our approach directly involves your suppliers in the data collection process, meaning the data comes straight from those who handle the materials. This direct involvement guarantees authenticity and eliminates the uncertainty often associated with secondary data that other systems might use.

What sets our system apart is the use of both digital and physical tracking methods, creating a double-layer traceability system. We apply QR codes or other smart tags to raw materials and finished products, linking them directly to your ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) systems. This integration ensures that the data aligns perfectly with the actual movements and conditions of your materials and products at the factory level.

By combining physical trackers with digital data collection, we validate all the data collected, ensuring its authenticity and alignment with real-time operations. This approach gives you the ability to comprehensively manage the entire supply chain process, from the procurement of raw materials to overseeing the manufacturing process, optimizing operations, reducing inefficiencies, and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Through these unique features, our Operation Excellence module offers brands a level of traceability that goes beyond mere compliance. It enables full transparency across the supply chain, builds consumer trust, and enhances operational efficiency.

WHICH ARE THE MAIN FUNCTIONS OF THIS AREA?

• Order – Preorder – Forecast & Consumption
• Quality: Finished Product – Raw Material
• Manufacturing
• Claim Management
• MTM (Material Traceability Management) real-time allocation and visibility of suppliers and material processes
• Supplier KPI and Score
• Quality Control
• Physical Traceability

TRACKING

Answers the questions “WHO?” “WHAT?” “WHERE?” “WHEN?” “HOW MUCH”? IN REAL TIME

The tracking of materials focuses on real-time data collection from suppliers, following the production flow through the digitization of operational processes and physical trackers where possible.

DATA GRANULARITY:
• Article • PO – Shipment • Single Piece

Make timely, informed data-driven decisions

Thanks to the KPI Dashboard, you can monitor your supply chain data available 24/7, and also access an automatic traceability report every order

You will visualize all relevant data about the product and the value creation activities: manufacturing, procurement, claims, effective management of orders, bill of materials, delivery lead time, and the forecast of orders.


But also Manufacturing KPIs, through the activation of QR codes directly in the factories, suppliers can give visibility to the brand in real time on the production flow and processing of raw materials up to the finished product.

Main Benefit

Optimization and real-time visibility of processes

Thanks to digitalization and effective data management, the platform allows for the optimization of production processes and the improvement of operational efficiency. This includes real-time monitoring of production progress, inventory management, and order forecasting.
Centralized Document Collection

The platform allows for the gathering of all necessary documentation in one place, such as certifications, declarations, and delivery plans. This facilitates the management and quick access to critical information, significantly reducing the time and resources needed for document management.
Validated and Organized Primary Data

The platform uses primary data collected directly from suppliers, ensuring the authenticity and validity of the information. Once validated and organized, these data enhance transparency and enable informed decision-making, reducing errors and discrepancies in traceability reports.

Read the Tommy Hilfiger case study : CLICK HERE

If you’re interested in transforming your supply chain and experiencing the benefits of primary data traceability, we invite you to schedule a demo with us today to see the difference firsthand!

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