PI Apparel 2018 | Sponsors

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialised skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network –

Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 459,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at Accenture

Digital Transformation & Sustainability Focused PLM Software Solutions for the Fashion Industry 

DeSL offers a full suite of software solutions including integrated end-to-end PLM addressing all stages through the complete fashion and apparel supply chain. Modular software design provide flexibility and scalability to leverage digital technologies from SMB to enterprise level businesses. Each module prioritizes key steps in the business, automates workflows, improves accuracy, supports sustainability initiatives, and is aligned with digital transformation strategy. 

Color Lifecycle Management enables real time communication of color concept and specification, between brand, agent, and mill. Maximize the latest tech by integrating the design team’s 3D modelings directly into key PLM, procurement, and sales business processes. 

DeSL recognizes the necessity for improvement within the fashion and apparel industries and has curated a set of tools and systems to jump start businesses and propel their sustainability initiatives forward with its Sustainability Accelerator Programme. 

Design It  |  Source It  |  Sell It 

For more information, please visit https://www.desl.net or follow DeSL on LinkedIn and Twitter.   

Kalypso is Rockwell Automation’s digital services arm. We take a holistic view of capabilities across your end-to-end value chain, from concept to customer, and re-envision them as a seamlessly integrated digital thread powered by virtualization, automation and analytics to deliver transformative value. Brands that were built over generations are facing rapidly changing consumer needs, manufacturing constraints and supply chain challenges. But this isn’t new. What is new, and leading organizations are realizing it, is that digital transformation in all areas of the business - from discovering ideas to creating prototypes to making finished products and even selling them to consumers - can and will unlock speed to market, improve response to consumer needs, manufacturing productivity, and agile operations. We are innovators, strategists, data scientists and technologists. We are product people, driven by digital solutions. We look forward to meeting you!

With almost 50 years of experience, Lectra is the global leader in fashion technology with a strong focus on digitalisation solutions, further strengthening its position with the acquisition of Gerber Technologies in 2021. Through the power of cloud technology, Lectra™s Next Gen collaborative PxM platform offers an adaptable ecosystem for PLM, PIM and DAM, supported by native integration to AI-powered competitive benchmarking and D2C marketplace syndication.

Lectra is already a digital transformation partner of choice for 21,000+ fashion retailers, brands and manufacturers globally, helping them respond with efficiency and speed in order to deliver the ultimate consumer experience.

EFI Optitex is the world's leading provider of an integrated 2D/3D software platform that enables customers to quickly create true-to-life 3D digital garments. EFI Optitex empowers apparel and soft goods companies to revolutionize the way they develop, produce, and market their products. Brands, retailers, and manufacturers can now view their collections in all styles and colours months earlier, and leverage digital garments to collaborate, market, and sell better than ever before.

Since its founding in 1988, EFI Optitex has worked to keep thousands of companies and tens of thousands of users at the forefront of fashion design software technology, enabling them to greatly reduce their time to market and costs, and increase their competitive advantage.

Retail's leading extended supply chain management solutions provider, TradeBeyond helps brands and retailers streamline product development and sourcing all the way through order, production, and delivery. Through innovative sourcing management, product lifecycle management (PLM), and production and order management solutions, TradeBeyond empowers more efficient, responsible supply chains for many of the world’s largest retailers. TradeBeyond is also the provider of Pivot88, retail’s most trusted quality, compliance, and traceability platform.

PTC enables global manufacturers to realize double-digit impact with software solutions that enable them to accelerate product and service innovation, improve operational efficiency, and increase workforce productivity. In combination with an extensive partner network, PTC provides customers flexibility in how its technology can be deployed to drive digital transformation – on premises, in the cloud, or via its pure SaaS platform. At PTC, we don’t just imagine a better world, we enable it. For more information, please visit www.ptc.com

3dMD develops and markets the most widely-deployed, high-speed static-3D and temporal-3D (motion) camera systems for human subject input applications that demand anatomical image precision including healthcare, wearable technologies, apparel, anthropometrics, human factors, AR/VR, and security. Combining subject workflow efficiency with the ability to generate a progressive 3D sequence of high-quality motion images of the face, head, hand, foot, or full body, 3dMD supports many innovations from clinical findings to the creation of new wearable technologies, clothing, accessories, and footwear that precisely adapt to fit to a person’s unique shape enhancing comfort and performance.

Our solution combines enterprise-class software, trade content sourced from government agencies and transportation providers in 145+ countries, and a global supply chain network connecting our customers with their trading partners, including suppliers, testing/auditing firms, freight forwarders, customs brokers and transportation carriers.

Our customers use the on-demand platform to collaborate with suppliers on sourcing, risk/quality assurance, factory production, import and export, international carrier bookings and tracking, and duty management through trade agreements and FTZs.

Bamboo Rose is the leading collaborative product development, sourcing, and supply chain platform for global retailers, apparel, and consumer brands. Our retail management platform enables fashion and apparel retailers to bring winning products to market quickly. Efficiently collaborate with internal and external partners across a single platform to achieve your business objectives.

With deep vertical expertise in various industries such as fashion & apparel, food & consumables, and general merchandise, Bamboo Rose offers configured solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of each retailer. Customers are able to streamline processes, provide system control, achieve hyper-accurate costing, and deliver products on time across complex categories and varied channels.

By leveraging the end-to-end Bamboo Rose retail management platform, retailers can achieve scale, streamline logistics and finance, and reduce errors while improving quality. Bamboo Rose acquired Backbone PLM in 2023, furthering our commitment to the success of fashion and apparel-focused organizations.

Trusted by retailers around the world, Bamboo Rose empowers businesses to drive revenue growth, enhance operational efficiency, and manage supply chain complexity with ease. Learn more: bamboorose.com

Bring them together, and great people make great products. BeProduct is built for both. A new kind of fashion PLM platform, made by people passionate about product. And a smart social space, designed for creativity and collaboration.

Browzwear aligns and accelerates digital workflows, from sketch to store.

A trusted partner of more than 1,000 fashion and apparel companies worldwide, Browzwear unlocks digital craftsmanship, allowing the creative act to flow across the entire value chain. Advanced 3D visualization is the foundation for software and services that make it possible to design, produce, and sell with remarkable efficiency. Virtual prototypes are true to life. Sampling and production are streamlined. Ideas come to market faster, with cost and waste reduced at every step of the way. The result is nothing less than the digital transformation of the entire fashion industry. 

From its headquaters in Sillicon Valley and offices in trend capitals around the world, Centric Software provides a Digital Transformation Platform for the most prestigious names in fashion, retail, footwear, outdoor and consumer goods. Centric Visual Innovation Platform (VIP) is a visual, fully digital collection of boards for touch-based devices like iPad, iPhone and large-scale, touch-screen televisions. Centric VIP transforms decision making and automates execution to truly collapse time to market and distance to trend. Centric's flagship product lifecycle management (PLM) platform, Centric 8, delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, buiness planning, quality, and collection managment functionality tailored for fast-moving consumer industries.

For over 30 years, CGS has enabled global enterprises, regional companies and government agencies to drive breakthrough performance through business applications, enterprise learning and outsourcing services. CGS is wholly focused on creating comprehensive solutions that meet clients’ complex, multi-dimensional needs and support clients’ most fundamental business activities. Headquartered in New York City, CGS has offices across North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

CGS’s BlueCherry Enterprise Suite has the built-in capacity to address the fundamental needs of all core management, planning, design and product development, sourcing, manufacturing, logistics and sales functions.

With end-to- end capabilities, the BlueCherry Enterprise Suite enables consumer lifestyle products companies to manage critical business transactions and concept-to- consumer processes to improve speed to market, gain greater process visibility and control, increase productivity and operational efficiency, reduce costs and enhance competitiveness.

BlueCherry Suite Includes:

• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Omnichannel Merchandise Planning
• Supply Chain Management
• Omnichannel Warehouse Management
• Business Intelligence
• Electronic Data Interchange
• Shop Floor Control
• B2B eCommerce

Evolved from the word “clothing,” CLO Virtual Fashion’s mission is to empower every step of the garment journey, from concept to design, manufacturing to marketing, and fitting to styling. With more than 20 years of research and development in accurate garment simulation, CLO is leading the market by digitally creating, merging, and converging all aspects related to digital garments through our state-of-the-art 3D Cloth Simulation Algorithm. 
 
CLO's ecosystem includes 3D garment design software, digital asset management, and a collaborative design platform, along with consumer-facing offerings such as e-commerce virtual fittings. All of CLO's products and services are interconnected to create a seamless user experience. 
 
With our newest 7.1 software launch, users can design garments faster, easier, and more accurately than before, creating hyper-realistic virtual clothing that can be transported into entertainment, games, the metaverse, and real life. 
 
CLO has launched several new initiatives to push the fashion industry forward, including virtual try-on services and showrooms, a Metaverse Converting Service, and a Web3-powered digital fashion marketplace. CLO is confident that our technology will power the future of everything related to garments, and we’re excited to build it together with our user community.

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, is a global leader in sustainable innovation. We provide virtual experience twins based on a collaborative platform that allows customers to create products and services for a more sustainable and desirable world, in three main sectors of the economy: Manufacturing Industries, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Infrastructure & Cities. Within those sectors we support 11 industries. Our customer base includes established and emerging market leaders in each industry.

Our solutions transform the way products are designed, simulated, produced, marketed and supported, leveraging the virtual world to improve the real world. We have helped manufacturers disrupt how products are designed and produced – with 3D design, with 3D digital mock‑ups (DMU), with 3D Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and now with 3DEXPERIENCE. By using virtual experience twins, sustainable business innovation can take places across the full product lifecycle.

Devery is a decentralised ecosystem providing developer tools to utilise blockchain technology to secure supply chain & product verification.

We're currently in the process of speaking and announcing projects building on the protocol. Our team members are fluid and constantly changing with some now leading projects. If you're interested in building on the protocol reach out to contact@devery.io

Founded in 2008, Embodee‘s Orchids was developed to Streamline your Digital Fashion Creation and Publishing for everyone.

We make your 3D easy to share & publish, and your digital product creation faster & much more efficient. Take your products, drop them into Orchids, and have them come alive online.

For B2B Sales, E-Commerce, Online Ads, Social Media, the Metaverse.

3D Designers upload - and everyone works better: Product Managers, 2D Designers, Merchandisers, and Sales. Collaborate effortlessly online and create product variants together - in 3D, without the 3D expertise.

Foundry develops creative software for the Digital Design, Media and Entertainment industries. With a 20-year heritage and a portfolio of award-winning products, Foundry advances the art and technology of visual experience in partnership with creative leaders around the globe.

Our creative design platforms Modo and Colorway enable our customers to transform how they visualize product, materials and color from conception through to photorealistic 3D models.

These high quality, digital assets enable brands to enhance communication within their design, marketing, merchandising, sales and manufacturing teams as well as externally to consumers. Working with industry leading footwear and apparel brands, Foundry aims to create, develop and enhance the digital content workflow for design teams and artists.

From first stage prototype through to web-site ready assets, Foundry is helping footwear and apparel brands to remain innovative and creative and allows them to respond effectively to market changes, in order to gain a competitive advantage.

For more information visit www.foundry.com

Humanetics is a global hi-tech industrial technology group. We engineer extraordinary safety, digital and sensor solutions for critical environments to put humans at the heart of industrial design. We are the pioneers of crash test dummies and a leading provider of virtual simulation software, integrated crash test systems, precision sensors, specialized fiber optics, and laser-based material engineering. Our highly specialized solutions are used in the development of every car on the road today, space missions, guidance systems, operating theatres, biomedical devices, haptic surgery, energy generation, semi-conductor chip manufacturing and many applications at the cutting edge of human innovation. Our sensor and measurement capabilities create data from critical environments and deliver precision tools to enable customers to answer critical questions and empower decisions that drive performance. When we innovate, humans thrive.

Inspectorio is a supply chain management platform that empowers global brands and traceability, and production management operations directly from a centralized tool. From in-factory self inspections and CAPA recommendations to comprehensive multi-tier traceability and chain of custody reporting, Inspectorio helps brands and retailers improve the quality of their products, reduce compliance risks, and streamline market access to drive revenue growth.

We work with three of the world’s top five retailers, including Lululemon, Dick’s Sporting Good’s, Kohls, Mango, Delta Galil and more.

Learn more about Inspectorio
Contact us

ITC Infotech, is a comprehensive PLM Services and Solutions provider for the ever EVOLVING, INTEGRATED and EXTENDED Enterprise in Retail, Footwear and Apparel industry space. Our solutions help address both industry-specific challenges and everyday business pressures.

Powered by one of the largest Global teams comprising, technical and process Retail PLM specialists with experience of numerous implementations, and the largest pool of domain experts from the industry, ITC Infotech helps clients realize the full benefits of PLM including user adoption and training. ITC Infotech is transforming businesses with its understanding and expertise of the confluence of traditional and disruptive technologies (IoT, Big Data, Analytics, Cloud and Mobility).

ITC Infotech is a specialized global full service technology solutions provider, led by Business and Technology Consulting. ITC Infotech’s Digitaligence@work infuses technology with domain, data, design, and differentiated delivery to significantly enhance experience and efficiency, enabling our clients to differentiate and disrupt their business. 

www.itcinfotech.com | email: contact.us@itcinfotech.com

With almost 50 years’ experience, Lectra is the global leader in fashion technology with a strong focus on digitalisation solutions, further strengthening its position with the acquisition of Gerber Technologies in 2021. Through the power of cloud technology, Lectra’s Next Gen collaborative PxM platform offers an adaptable ecosystem for PLM, PIM and DAM, supported by native integration to AI-powered competitive benchmarking and D2C marketplace syndication.

Lectra is already a digital transformation partner of choice for 21,000+ fashion retailers, brands and manufacturers globally, helping them respond with efficiency and speed in order to deliver the ultimate consumer experience.

Accelerating the digital sustainable supply chain, Logility helps companies seize new opportunities, sense and respond to changing market dynamics and more profitably manage their complex global businesses. The Logility® Digital Supply Chain Platform leverages an innovative blend of artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics to automate planning, accelerate cycle times, increase precision, improve operating performance, break down business silos and deliver greater visibility. Logility’s SaaS-based platform transforms sales and operations planning (S&OP) and integrated business planning (IBP) processes; demand, inventory and replenishment planning; global sourcing; quality and compliance management; product life cycle management; supply and inventory optimization; manufacturing planning and scheduling; retail merchandise planning, assortment and allocation. Logility customers include Big Lots, Husqvarna Group, Parker Hannifin, Sonoco Products and Red Wing Shoe Company. Logility is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMSWA). To learn how Logility can help you make smarter decisions faster, visit www.logility.com.

Nexgen Packaging was founded with the goal of providing customers with the highest quality packaging products by leveraging software and analytics in the design and manufacturing processes. Since its inception in 2006, Nexgen has become a global leader in the tag and label industry offering a complete portfolio of apparel branding products, variable data products and other packaging solutions. We focus exclusively on retail, apparel and footwear brands and our success is directly linked to our core software offerings that are used by over 12,000 manufacturing entities globally.

The founders of Nexgen had a vision for how technology could improve the relationship between brands, vendors and suppliers.  We developed our core platform around this concept and continue to invest in areas such as PLM and testing data integration, analytics and reporting. Our software has become a fundamental part of our engagement with customers who are seeking ways to improve the speed, cost and quality of their supply chain processes.  

At Nexgen Packaging, we don’t just understand the pressure of delivering products globally in business critical environments; we live it. Speak to our team and learn how we partner with our customers to solve their supply chain challenges. 

Founded in 2001, Setlog is the developer and marketer of one of the leading supply chain and vendor compliance management platform for fashion and consumer goods companies. More than 100 customers have successfully deployed Setlog solutions across more than 80 countries and 40,000 users across the end-to-end supply chain.

The cloud-based OSCA® hub connects retailers and brands in real-time with their global suppliers, agents, factories, buying offices, quality, testing, logistics, distribution and other global business partners. This single, smart-connective platform empowers improved planning, transparency, execution, compliance and control through improved early alerts, data analysis and information management tools. 

Setlog clients typically report cost reductions of up to 30%; resulting in a Return on Investment (ROI) within the first 12 months and sustainable competitive advantages.

Setlog GmbH maintains a global headquarters in Bochum, Germany and the North American subsidiary Setlog Corp. in New York City. For more information, visit http://www.setlog.com.

Siemens is a leading global provider of software solutions to drive the digital transformation of industry, creating new opportunities for manufacturers to realize innovation.

With over 140,000 customers worldwide, Siemens works with companies of all sizes to transform the way ideas come to life, the way products are realized, and the way products and assets in operation are used and understood. 

​SoftWear Automation is disrupting the $100 billion sewn goods industry by creating autonomous sewn good worklines for Apparel, Footwear and Home Goods. The Atlanta-based machine vision and AI startup launched in 2012 after 7 years in R&D working on projects with DARPA, Georgia Tech, and the WALMART Foundation. SoftWear’s fully automated SEWBOT®s allow manufacturers to SEWLOCAL™, moving their supply chains closer to the customer while creating higher quality products at ​​a lower cost.

True Fit is a data-driven personalisation platform for footwear and apparel retailers that decodes personal style, fit, and size for every consumer, every shoe, and every piece of clothing. By connecting manufacturing design data from thousands of leading apparel and footwear brands, anonymised consumer order data from hundreds of top retailers, personal preference data from millions of registered True Fit users, and hundreds of millions anonymous shoppers, True Fit maps the detailed style, fit, size and other technical attributes from clothes and shoes to the style preferences and buying behaviours of millions of individual shoppers.

True Fit has raised $100M from top-tier venture capitalists to organise the world’s footwear & apparel data into the Fashion Genome, and to unlock digital growth in the otherwise constrained $2 trillion footwear and apparel industry. The True Personalisation Platform is strategically leveraged by 250 global retail sites, representing 17,000 brands and 150M registered users. The Fashion Genome, powered by the True Personalisation Platform, allows retailers and brands to provide consumers with unparalleled personalisation via software-as-a-service, APIs, and data-as-a-service, including consumer preference data, personal style rankings, fit ratings, size recommendations, fit details, and merchandising analytics. Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube, and @TrueFit on Twitter.

Tukatech has been a driving force behind the apparel industry’s technology revolution
for 27 years, with constant momentum toward ground-breaking and sustainable fashion
technology.
Tukatech’s award winning pattern making, grading, and marker making software
maximizes design and creativity using next level process engineering. Their virtual
sample-making solution uses life-like 3D fit models and motion simulation, allowing for
true assessment of fit, as well as design visualization. The introduction of the
microfactory/on-demand manufacturing concept over 12 years ago has transformed the
apparel industry with smaller footprints and speed to market.
Tukatech systems have made an enormous impact on the industry for over two
decades, empowering partners with measurable efficiencies, improved productivity, and
increased profitability.
Tukatech systems for product development, cloud collaboration, and garment
manufacturing are known industry wide for their ease, simplicity, and flexibility. They
continue to transform and propel the industry forward with advanced solutions for
business of ANY size.

Visual Next (formerly Visual 2000 Intl.) is a leading provider of End2End software tailored specifically to the apparel, footwear, and fashion accessory companies. Our fully integrated suite of business solutions empowers retailers, brands and manufacturers to lead the way in today’s omnichannel market using mobile friendly and data driven tools. Over 600 companies around the world are re-engineering their processes for the future using Visual Next technology.

What you need to know about Visual Next:

• 20 years of innovation packaged in a true omnichannel solution.
• Manage your business anytime from anywhere with fully responsive tools.
• Configurable applications seamlessly working together to meet the specific requirements of modern apparel companies.
• Automation of time consuming business processes for greater productivity and speed to market.
• Complete integration with industry standard and proprietary applications, including Adobe Illustrator.

Founded in 1958, X-Rite Incorporated is a global leader in the science and technology of color and appearance.  With its wholly owned subsidiary Pantone, X-Rite employs more than 800 people in 11 countries. Experts in blending the art and science of color, we focus on providing complete end-to-end color management solutions for our clients in every industry where color matters.
X-Rite Pantone, as global leader in color science and technology, has taken an ambitious step beyond color to tackle the more significant challenge of capturing and managing appearance. Total Appearance Capture (TAC™) Ecosystem, a solution that allows you to capture and virtualize materials that have the exact same visual characteristics as their physical counterparts, and enables an unmatched level of realism and efficiency in digital material capture and 3D design. With it’s AxF (Appearance eXchange Format) file, the premier file format exclusively designed for platform-independent storage and digital communication of all measured appearance attributes, the TAC technology brings product designs to life with digital material representations and consistently share material appearance information across every step of the product development process to reduce design approval cycles and accelerate time to market. The company’s corporate headquarters are located in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with regional headquarters in Europe (Regensdorf) and Asia (Shanghai) and service centers across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. For further information, please visit www.xrite.com/TAC .