CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
October 27, 2004
Implementation Investments
UK: PLM Software To Help Bianco Footwear Expansion
Bianco Footwear, the European designer and retailer of men's and women's shoes, has invested US$91,000 in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software to help support its rapidly growing retail business and more effectively handle complex collections.
Bianco Footwear has a three year plan to grow its number of European stores by 160 per cent, to 300 outlets.
The end-to-end PLM software suite from RunTime, Geac's specialist division serving the apparel and footwear industry; is expected to go live in 2005.
Core to the solution is Geac's QuestACP (Advanced Collection Planning), QuestPDM (Product Data Management), Quest Workflow and Quest Integration Engine.
Geac's suite of design software will integrate with Bianco's existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system from Microsoft Axapta.
Thomas Schultz Petersen, international product manager for Bianco Footwear, said: "Our new Geac PLM software will help us particularly in our pre-production activities to generate and adhere to new footwear collections in line with precise and diverse customer needs.
"The process of managing collections used to be conducted 'in our heads' and supported by a manual spreadsheet system. But with every new market we enter, the complexity of collections grows exponentially.
"Now that we're in nine markets and we have 12 collections a year - together with a number of small express drops-we're now looking forward to visualising and automating this difficult process."
Based in Kolding, Denmark, the Bianco Footwear chain has 124 shops in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, the Faroe Islands, Poland, Russia and Germany.
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