Zweave’s PLM solution for trend-driven consumer goods is the easiest to use, quickest to implement and most domain-specific solution available. Retail, footwear and apparel domain expertise is built into the solution’s data, functionality, process and reporting, ensuring that retail and manufacturing companies who implement Zweave achieve the maximum efficiencies touted by PLM.

Zweave is third generation PLM – technically superior to the competition. Zweave’s solution is built on open-source architecture and code, allowing easy configuration pre and post implementation, seamless integration with other software like ERP and CAD, and 100% up-time. Additionally, Zweave is available both on-demand as Software as a Service (SaaS) and as a traditional software license.

No software solution will work if it isn’t successfully implemented and used by your people. Zweave’s built-in domain expertise and rapid implementation methodology ensures you have a successful implementation, and Zweave was designed and developed by product design, development and sourcing experts ensuring your people will like using the solution.

Zweave: Better product design, development and sourcing demands better software.

Zdesign Studios

• MERCHANDISING STUDIO™
Manage brands, collections, line plans and styles from a central location, gain visibility and control of the Line Planning process and coordinate assortments internally and with your partners.

• ZDESIGN SHOWROOM™ 
Support visualization of your product line, approvals on made to order products and assortments, distribution of marketing content such as catalogues and buy and sell your and client-specific product portfolios during design & production lifecycles.

• FABRIC STUDIO™
Manage fabric R&D through sourcing in one central location.

• MATERIALS STUDIO 
Material Management is elevated to a collaborative partnership between members of the development chain, bringing together people and information throughout the key lifecycle stages and processes of product development.

• TRIM STUDIO™
Structure iterative Trim Management processes and support the distribution of work among partners, TRIM STUDIO™ defines more robust Trim Management processes.

• PACKAGING STUDIO™
Manage packaging R&D through sourcing in one central location as well as improve the management of your activities from research through testing. Visibility and control of the process will be improved for better coordination.

• GRAPHIC STUDIO™
Manage complex Graphic specifications and collaborate in real time.

• COLOR STUDIO™
Monitor reflectance and store digital color information or simply sample your products in the latest color ways. Coordinate color of materials, prints, graphics and other items, by accessing color product data anytime, anywhere.

• DESIGN STUDIO™
Share your designs and manage the samples that require tracking, work in progress reports and status updates to increase the productivity of your teams and partners.

• FIT STUDIO™
Designers, Patternmakers and Merchants share 2D and 3D data, fit libraries and Pattern files, collaborating online on fit development to improve fit-quality and shorten approval cycles.

• SAMPLE STUDIO™
Manage sample development, allocation and tracking in one central location. Improve the management of your activities from tech pack distribution through to vendor fit testing.

• TREND STUDIO™
Manage your trend, color, material and shopping research in one central location to improve the management of trend activities from research through to development.

• COSTING STUDIO™
During all phases of the product lifecycle, teams need to work together to support early sourcing strategies and product costing. From materials to samples and bulk production, costing a product requires access to the latest data. With Costing Studio™, product information from Zdesign’s Material, Design, Sample and Vendor Studios integrates seamlessly with costing activities.

• VENDOR STUDIO™
Provide vendors with their own portal, improving the management of external teams to enable better coordination of tech packs, approvals, samples and testing. 

• PRODUCTION STUDIO™
Seamless integration with product development in the pre-sourcing stage leaves more options open later on. Immediate access to information can trim days, if not weeks, off crucial delivery times.

• MARKETING STUDIO™
Plan from the initial concept for a campaign or page layout to the internal aesthetic or legal sign off, visibility and control over marketing assets.

Zweave's PLM solution was evaluated in July, 2008 by the WhichPLM team of experts. View the high-level results of the scoring (registered users only): Zweave WhichPLM Evaluation High Level Scores.

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