Create collections of any kind and use them to group the products that you are developing and selling. You can for instance group your collections by seasons (like Autumn 2023), or simply name them after their use (like Beach, Swim, Dance or Football). A collection in WFX is not just a drop-down field. It can have behaviours associated with it and can also have a collection wide critical path. Further down the process you can select, work in and search everything against collection related criteria. You can of course always see all your products across the collections too.

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Within WFX it is good practice to set up a plan for a range, which typically relates to a collection. Within the plan you would for instance determine how many styles or designs and colour options should be developed within each product category or sub-category. The great functionality around the plan then ensures that you can not only use it to brief your team on quantities, budgets and target margins, but also to see at any moment what has been completed and what is still outstanding.

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As you go through your development season and start sourcing your products there are usually many day-to-day questions that can be answered by looking at your plan vs actual view in WFX. You may for example want to know if the quantity ordered in your latest range of dresses from suppliers is higher or lower than planned in the range plan. Maybe you would also like to see if the average target margin for a category has been hit or exceeded. Having these live views which auto-update based on your team’s activities is just one of the great benefits of increasing visibility with PLM.

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All the fabrics, trims, labels, packaging and other components you develop or would specify in your product are kept in an interactive component library. From here you can manage developments, component approvals, supplier and cost details, which colours and sizes a component is available in and much more. This highly visual library seamlessly interacts with your Bill of Materials (BOM) in your garment or any other product types.

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All the products in your collections live in a very visual product library, which has interactive tools to manage developments and changes at all stages. See your products in a pictorial gallery format and start working on them, or switch to a list view similar to a spreadsheet. The views allow you to directly engage with the tech-pack of the products, allocate timelines, work on costings, send messages, update details, share updates and much more. This easy and intuitive interactivity is why WFX is the PLM of choice for so many fashion businesses.

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A core part of the WFX functionality surrounds the product specifications. Within fashion companies that is also referred to as a tech-pack. The specification part of the system allows for a product to be given a full set of instructional requests in many formats. Alongside the essential product details his includes measurement charts, images, material listings (BOM), construction details, testing requirements, supplier allocation and so much more that it is worth seeing.

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If you need to give instructions to your makers / suppliers for things such as stitching details, orders of assembly, testing requirements and anything else that involves a list with rows and columns you will find the WFX Construction Libraries a great facility. In this library all the standard options are set up so they can easily be added to any product, either one by one or in templated sections. This is not only clear in its format, but also avoids inconsistency in instructions between team members and of course the way it saves time is also important.

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The Bill of Materials (BOM) allows you to ad a listing of materials to the product. This draws from the Component Library and remains interactive with that library so that updates to components can be synchronised in both directions. The BOM also has a consumption and calculation function which interacts with the built-in WFX costing module. Your suppliers will be able to use the BOM as an instructional document, on which you are also able to indicate which colours and sizes of components are to be used in which colours and sizes of your garment. The BOM shows the supplier not only the full details of each component, but also an image of these so that they have an easy reference point to verify they apply the right elements to your style / product. Last but not least the BOM even indicates which materials are bought by you and which are bought by the supplier.

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Sometimes a component needs to be replaced across a series of products, a whole collection or across the entire business. The BOM Mass Update function that WFX provides in its PLM system allows you to easily and swiftly make changes to multiple Bills of Materials at the same time.

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The fit or sizing of a product is usually a key part of the specification. Within the product files you can add your measurement chart. These contain points of measure (for instance ‘chest width – 2.5 cm below armhole’) along with their sizes, grading and tolerances. Within WFX the measurement charts are created either by starting one from a blank page, creating a new one from a template, creating a new one from another product’s chart, or by simply copying a measurement chart into a product (from another product). With the great ‘carry over’ functionality in WFX, measurement charts and other details are automatically taken from one season to the next as you carry over a style or product.

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Care and content labels typically need a variety of information, including what a product is made of and how to care for it. WFX has the functionality to create these instructions built in, along with the ability to associate multiple languages with the instructions you allocate to a product. Care instructions, care symbols, content details and disclaimer statements are all part of our standard functionality. Need to check what is in the BOM while you work? We thought of that too, so your materials are listed on the page so you can refer to these as you make your choices. You can even link the BOM details straight into your label content listing. At the end of your choices you have the ability to confirm your label after which the details appear both in your specification and in a pdf preview if you wish.

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The Gallery Collection View neatly shows you all the products within your selected collection or range, in image format with essential associated details. From this page you can do so much! Filter down to a selection, select multiple products for actions or updates, preview a products further detail, move product to other collections, zoom in, zoom out, view a products critical path, raise orders for samples or production…. and much more. We have tried to make WFX the kind of system where a large portion of the work carried out can be done within a highly visual environment. We look forward to showing you.

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Want to see a specific list of product details with columns in a certain order? Then want to update some of these values without going into the product files? Need to give a selection of these products a series of critical path options? Need to move some of them to a new supplier? This series of questions can go on for quite some time, as there is so much you can do within the list views. In this view there are similarities to working in a spreadsheet, but it is so much more interactive, and you can’t break a formula or make a formatting mistake. Each department or team can have their own views, where different columns are prioritised, and you can even choose which should be editable by which group. The advantage of the list view is that you can self-assemble products in sheets on the fly, but they all are connected to the central database. Feel like you are working in a spreadsheet type format, without the risks but with so many more benefits.

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Manage the details and data associated with your product / style at that product level. This means that everything is valid for the whole product, no matter how many colours or sizes you add to it. Sometimes information or data can change if a product has for instance different costings or launch dates per colour. In those situations those fields would be updated at Option level instead. The good thing? It’s all possible with the flexibility offered by WFX systems.

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You would manage (certain elements in) products or styles at option level if there are differences in for instance cost price, merchandising groups or other aspects when you go down to colour level of a product. WFX allows you to have data fields at option level for this purpose, as well as option level costings and associated functions. Option level costings can also interact with the Bill of Materials, so that any components that need to be costed into the product costing can be brought into these option level calculations.

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In a seasonal business the principle of carry-over products is crucial. Within WFX the creation of a collection into which you can carry-over products from previous collections is incredibly simple. Select, click, confirm. Done. Not only will the product now exist in that new collection, but all the product specifications, costings and associated information can be updated or evolve without affecting the product in the previous season. Just like it should be.

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If you already have a product specification in the system that would form a good base for a new product, simply start a new product based on that existing one. A real time saver.

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The WFX PLM system has many features which can be templated. If you need to control elements such as grading steps or base sizes, construction methods, testing requirements and similar important aspects of a product type regularly you can set these up as template specifications. These can be used again and again to bring into new and existing products.

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Click on the quick view button on any product to see the preview pane appear into your screen. From there you can see all the key information from the product file, along with colours and some great shortcut features (such as the drag-and-drop Adobe Illustrator file upload facility). All without leaving your gallery view and without opening a product file. Speed and ease is important.

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Having the ability to simply move a product from one collection to another gives you the flexibility to use all the extra collection related features that WFX offers, without the restrictions you may expect from a typical system. That allows you to re-plan as you go through a development season, moving styles when needed. So, whether it is because you are starting with a generic collection and then allocate styles later or because a style did not meet its deadlines and is moved to the next season… WFX has you covered.

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When the system seems to know what you may want to do next, work becomes easier and faster. Select a product or component and options pop up in the bottom bar giving you edit and action options. Right click on a thumbnail and a menu pops up right next to it. We are always looking for ways to make product management very straightforward.

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If you need to make changes to multiple products or components at the same time, you will love the ease of this functionality. Simply select two or more items on a gallery or list and follow the options that appear in front of you. That way you can update all of them in seconds.

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Your product (or component) typically would go through stages. For example: something may be a concept to start with, then a design, followed by other stages such as development, sales sample, pre-production and production. We call these life cycle stages. In WFX this is not just a field with options to choose from. In fact, the life cycle stages are an integrated and interactive functionality which is associated with many crucial aspects of your product management. For instance: you can ensure that a life cycle is changed if a specific fit session was successful, or set rules that a set of fields need to have been completed before a life cycle field is set to pre-production. You can even use the life cycle stage to determine when your product information is shared with other systems. There is much more. The life cycle is very visible in the system and is a core part of how WFX supports your product management activities.

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A core part of any fashion or related business is to have solid control over product costs, pricing and margins. Especially during the development stages multiple iterations of cost prices are very common, and companies in the industry tend to have elaborate spreadsheets to accommodate this need, despite the many flaws the spreadsheet model brings to the process. In recognition of this WFX has a costing module which not only allows you to do what may otherwise be done in a spreadsheet, but adds the features that you really need to run a system. Have multiple cost iterations of a product, have approval processes, use the approved costing in sample or product orders, see your margins per product, category, supplier, client, region, channel….

Because of the flexibility of this module most of our clients set it up in their own way. And because you can have multiple setups, we often see people have a different costing scenario (with different fields and calculations) for one part of the business vs the other. Many fields in the costing sheets may only be used for development purposes. Some of the fields from approved costing lines may also be needed in other systems or on reports / extracts. These will simply be identified and dynamically transferred at the appropriate moments.

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The WFX costing module has sophisticated approval functionality. One team member may be evolving the costing for a while, usually interacting with suppliers during the development stages. Once done, they can submit that costing for approval to a superior / colleague or set the status to approved themselves if they have the permission to do so. This interactive process makes sure that your other systems, reports and related actions all have the right information at the right time.

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If you commercialise your products in multiple regions or across different channels you may want to see what your costs and margins would be for each of those, before you launch your collections. The WFX costing module allows for those situations and is able to give you multiple scenario’s, even taking into account multiple duty rate and transport cost differences.

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Double sourcing or comparing suppliers during the development and costing stages of collection development, requires the ability to store or track and approve multiple costs for the same products. With the WFX PLM system fashion related businesses track every detail and even use the system tools to receive detailed cost proposals from their suppliers. Negotiations can also take place within the system and when you are ready to accept a submitted cost, you can do so in one click.

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In addition to the standard cost price to buy a component or product, there may be additional prices which need to be kept on file. The buying price table in the component or product record not only allows you to store multiple costs, but also the reasons for these (different quantities, new price from a certain date, different delivery terms…). When raising orders for these fabrics, trims, components or finished products these cost prices are shown so that you can select the correct cost for a specific order line.

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In a global industry it is crucial that you can work in as many currencies as you require. The WFX system is a true multi currency PLM. You can set currency exchange rates, which can be date driven or seasonal. Any calculations, aimed to determine anticipated margins or exchange back to the base currency, are automated and use the conversion rates valid for the date or season indicated.

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Any number of currency exchange rates can be set in the system. Pick a base currency and set your other currencies against that, with start and end dates / seasons against each of them. The system will use these rates when making calculations, applying them for the dates / seasons they are valid.

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The WFX PLM system has built in capabilities to manage duty or tariff codes against countries of origin and countries of destination. This ensures that your costing module has access to the correct information when cost price and margin calculations are completed.

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Products can evolve. This means in practice, taking fashion styles as an example, that a design in one season may also exist in the next season but with a different cost price or some subtle changes to the product or its packaging. WFX was built with this dynamic industry in mind, so these products can exist simultaneously using the versioning capabilities.

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Every business has specific elements that are important to their specific way of managing products. The WFX PLM system is flexible in its setup, allowing you to use all the standard functionality and supplementing this with your own custom fields. This can be done at product and colour level, also in component records.

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You decide when you are ready to share your developments with your chosen supplier(s). Work on your products and components within your team and once your product specification has reached the stage where you need to share it, simply publish it. When you publish the system gives you the choices you need to select the right person within your supply base, after which they are notified that the product has been made available to them. From that point forward they will be able to access the most current version of your product in their own supplier level view, along with any sample orders, allocated tasks and other related messages, requests and interactions. * Requires chosen suppliers to have system access granted.

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Issue details like quantity (MOQ or other) and the first specifications of a product to a supplier and ask them to quote you for this. Information gathered are used inside your costing module.

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Ordering your samples via WFX is easy. Not only can you raise sample orders (prototypes, fit samples, selling samples, size sets, production samples and any other you need), but these orders can be tracked and reported on as well. These orders can also be linked to key activities in your critical path, giving you full visibility on any effects of orders on launch dates.

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Once you have created products in your system there will be a point where you are happy for barcodes to be allocated to them. This can be done in bulk as a manual activity or automatically once the product passes certain criteria.

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The WFX PLM system allows you to create pre-packs of your products. Some practical examples in the use of this feature could be a box with an assortment of sizes or colours of the products, as is common in underwear and hosiery. Pre-packs also interact with the barcode functionality, keeping all your combinations of products in line with single versions too.

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Decision making around budgets, deliveries and margins is crucial in the sourcing process. Use the WFX range planning and costing modules in tandem to get a detailed view of what if scenarios. Pivot the data in situ and see what totals you are creating by any parameter (by supplier, country, channel, region etc). The forecasting capabilities of WFX allow you to have a full view whilst making decisions ahead of purchasing.

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Request, use and see your minimum order requirements as you work in the system. Compare your MOQ with your forecasts, calculate and highlight where you are overs or under, allowing you to make better decisions.

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Initiate and track audits and related action points for the factories within your supply base. Within the supplier management section of WFX there is a detailed factory compliance module, which can hold templates to guide your auditing staff through a step-by-step evaluation. The corrective actions can be assigned, and manufacturers can be given follow up audit or completion dates.

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Once you have allocated your colours and sizes to your product, the system will generate SKUs for each option in the product. The same functionality exists in the components area, meaning you can easily identify each size and colour of any component you use with a logical coding structure which is defined by you.

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Interactivity and collaboration are two of the biggest benefits of having a cloud-based PLM system. Particularly in fashion related industries, where the level of interaction with the supply base is so intense. With WFX, your suppliers will be able to access only those products, materials, orders, tasks and related QC, shipping or other requests which relate to them.

The 24/7 access and live working environment ensures that they always have access to the latest version of what they need, along with any associated correspondence and notifications. The supplier typically completes their own tasks, submits what has been requested, initiates sample approval documents…. And much more. This saves your team time and enhances visibility of the development or sourcing activities throughout the supply chain. * Requires chosen suppliers to have system access granted.

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Many private label providers use the WFX Sales Order functions to record their client orders. These are then associated with any developments for this client and link to the Purchase Orders subsequently raised to their manufacturing partners.

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What makes the WFX PLM system different from many other PLM providers is the ability to create purchase orders. These can be raised for one or multiple products and in line or matrix format (each with their own reasons / requirements on the associated process). Orders can be issued to suppliers via the system* or by simply generating a PDF output. If you are also using the Buying Plan functionality you can even automate your PO creation process. * Requires chosen suppliers to have system access granted.

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WFX has the ability to create orders for multiple products to your suppliers. Great for fashion businesses who are ordering a series of selling samples or place PO’s for multiple styles for a delivery. Simply start a PO, select all the products / colours and sizes you need and enter your quantities. Or…. Select all the styles / colours you need in your product gallery and choose to raise a purchase order.

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Sometimes an order needs to be changed, or even split into multiple deliveries. With the flexibility in the PO functionality WFX has you covered.

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Once a supplier is ready to submit a packing list of all the products they have ready, you can bring those details into the system against the associated PO’s. If your supplier is given access to your system, they would usually enter these details for your approval and reference. You can even upload the pdf version of the packing list to keep on file against the PO / shipment.

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WFX has the capability to track all the details against a shipment. From number of cartons to CBM and shippers reference numbers. See all your shipments in your screens and reporting and use this information to keep your business up to date with anticipated arrival dates. Once a shipment has been received simply confirm that against the system as well.

Please note that WFX does have the ability to record a receipt but is not a stock management system. This is normally a good moment to hand data over to your warehouse or ERP system, if you have raised your PO’s in WFX.

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The WFX dispatch function is able to record that a shipment which was received in a WFX location has been dispatched from that location. This is not a full stock management function, but will keep a simple tally for what arrived / left the location.

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In line with the Dispatch function, simple transfers can be initiated / tracked in WFX. For instance, if you receive 500 meters of a cotton fabric in one location and you then dispatch 300 meters to another location the system will show the 200 meters remaining in the original location and the 300 meters in the second location (once it has been marked as received).

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Use the system to centralise all your quality, colour and test approvals of fabrics you use in your collections. Add links to your critical path and see your milestones and timelines progress as your team completes approvals.

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Visualise all the quality approvals for everything which makes up your range of products. See, track and act when components (such as buttons, zippers or other trims used in your fashion collection) are submitted, checked and approved or rejected.

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From fit approvals to quality control and wearer trials. WFX can help you to bring it all together into a process driven platform that tracks the progress and issues you may find during the development and production stages.

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Go into your fit meetings knowing that you have the latest version of the specification and use the interactive system tools to process what you find immediately. Save time, be accurate, decrease the time spent on each item and use the easy tools to notify your supplier and colleagues of the results and decisions made.

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See your different sizes on a single interactive screen, which allows you to see, check, alter and comment on the sample you received. This interactivity also allows you to make changes for production and complete related tasks in your critical path.

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Use the comprehensive approval functionality in WFX to let your supply chain know that their submitted samples have been checked, approved or rejected. Issue instructions and interact directly with the critical path of your collection, always keeping your colleagues and suppliers informed as you complete the process.

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Check, approve and share the status of shipping samples instantly. The same approval functions used in other sample approvals are combined with the WFX communication and reporting capabilities to make sure that your colleagues and suppliers are updated as soon as statuses of checks are confirmed.

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Manage your print and fabric submissions centrally and make the result of your approvals applicable to all related products in one action. You can manage fabric and print developments separately from the product, with its own status and timeline. Your products are updated with the status changes as they happen.

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If you receive one or many lots of fabric which need approvals for colour and other aspects, WFX will process your findings and the status of the approval. These approvals are securely stored in the fabric approvals file, with dates, supplier and other related details for extra convenience. You soon build up an easily accessible full history of your materials across multiple seasons and production runs.

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If you choose to include a supplier in the system, they can also initiate the approval processes. They may for instance have a prototype or fit-sample ready for you. Allow them to start the approval process and even enter their own findings before sending the sample in for you to check as well. If you choose to trust your supplier, you can even let them finish the approval completely and see the result.

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If you have clients who wish to approve samples, your WFX PLM system gives you the tools you need to initiate, record and report on these approvals. As with all approvals, this can be managed by you on behalf of the client’s buyer or by that client buyer* themselves.

* A buyer will need a system licence if they work directly in the system.

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As you go through development or production stages, there are many tasks that need to be completed. Whether a task is for you, your colleagues, your team or your suppliers*, WFX manages it all. Tasks are also associated with a critical path, so that you can see in detailed overviews if your collections are on track and where action or attention may be needed.

* Participating suppliers will need to have system access granted.

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Because of tasks allocated to an individual, they receive alerts and reminders. WFX conveniently shows all upcoming and overdue tasks and actions on their dashboard, but also in their notifications area. Simply clicking on a task or related product / component / order takes them straight to where the work needs to be carried out. The same functionality is also available for suppliers.

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A collection is an entity within WFX which can have a critical path associated with it. This could for instance be used for the pre-development phases where elements like range plans and budgets need to go through a series of tasks to make sure they are completed on time.

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A core function in WFX is to have critical paths (we call them time & action trackers) associated with any products that are in development or production. This provides not only the visibility to the business on the current status of individual developments or groups of products, but also feeds the teams dashboards and alerts to ensure they are aware of which important steps need to be taken in the next weeks.

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The WFX PLM system can also track fabric developments independently from the products they will be associated with. This is ideal for long term fabric developments or situations where lab dips, print approvals or quality need to be managed for materials which are used in multiple products.

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We often see teams use the critical path tracking functionality, even in the trims category. This is for instance very useful if labels, packaging or new branded buttons and zip pullers need to be developed and approved prior to the start of a new collection development season.

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The milestone overviews give you an interactive snapshot of your development stages. Use it to gain insight, see where action is needed, take the action or comment on tasks that are in the pipeline. This part of the system is better than reports in so many ways (although you can of course generate a report if that is also useful).

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When you send or receive messages in WFX, for instance from your colleagues or suppliers, they appear on your dashboard, in your messaging centre but also in the product / component / order file that the message relates to. Keep full track of communication across the business, automatically.

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The combination of order tracking, supplier interaction and live overviews allows you to see if key stage gates in your incoming fulfilment are being met. Make use of the extensive functionality to communicate, comment, manage and act on events whilst showing live updates in your milestone and dashboard views.

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Involve your suppliers and through their special levels of access they can interact with anything you expose them to. Styles that they are meant to develop, requests for costings, sample orders, production orders, tasks and shipping information…

* Participating suppliers will need to have system access granted.

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Each person in your team can customise their own dashboard. The dashboard is the page that you land on after you log in. On this page you can have your reminders, overviews of any development activities you may be involved in, snapshots of supplier or category-based performance reports, visual or lists of to-do’s, milestones, shortcuts, incoming messages….

There is so much flexibility in this area that you can create what makes your dashboard useful to you.

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WFX has built the capability of having multiple dashboards. This is great if you want to change focus on what you see. For instance, you might build your main dashboard around your ranges and activities, whilst having a second dashboard that you can switch to when you want to see a more supply focused overview.

Visibility is important, and the dashboard gives you live, clickable information at all times.

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In your gallery area (in the product, fabric or component library) you can customise how you want to see the collection of items. Smaller or larger images, with lifecycle stages showing or not, with or without summary….

The options respond fast, and it makes it a breeze to switch from one range to another, one category to another or just one view to another.

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i. In several parts of the system, you can switch to pivot views with drag and drop functionality. For instance, you may have completed the costing and margin part of the range. Now you want to see what has been allocated to which suppliers and what the totals are if you buy minimum order quantities, alongside average margins, and profits. Simply drag and drop the sections into the pivot and see the summaries appear live on screen.

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WFX comes with a set of standard reports. These relate to collection, development, sourcing and critical path related topics. This supplements the already extensive live screens, which can also be used to generate outputs.

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If you are selecting sets of data in your report and you think you might run this same report again, you can simply save it as a user report. This puts it in a library for you, so that next time you can simply pick and run it.

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Have you selected a group of products, fabrics or trims that you want to save? Simply save your search and this view is back at a click next time you need it.

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Want to have a different collection view for different team members? With the flexible list view functionality WFX can show a designer a different view than a production team member. This is unlimited.

Have a series of range views which show fields or columns that are the most relevant, in the order that person prefers them. Even change them on the fly, as you can drag your column somewhere else without affecting your colleagues.

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So, you have your range overview in front of you but some of the products need editing. Edit right from the overview, without the need for opening the product record. This is a great time saver and ideal for those range review meetings that our fashion clients take their laptops into.

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Wherever appropriate, you will find ‘download to Excel’ or ‘generate PDF’ options in the system. This is for instance ideal if you need a PDF of a sample order or approval record, or if you want to have an Excel download of exactly the selection of products you have on your screen (with pictures if you wish). These are just some examples, with many more options available.

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If you have internet and a device that can run a leading browser, you can access your WFX.

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The system has a very high focus on visual rather than data driven management. This actually helps the data to evolve better, as it takes into account the more visual approach that is most intuitive for today’s fashion, sportswear and home goods clients.

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WFX encourages collaboration throughout its processes. One person’s task is finished, the next person is alerted. A message is sent to a supplier, but the other team members see that too. Information is live, so people can focus on working together on next steps rather than expecting someone to pull a report together.

The transparency allows for more open working methods, which in turn provides visibility and better or more timely decision making.

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As a global business, working with the fashion related industries, WFX provides 24/7 support to its clients.

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In a typical year there are 4 to 6 upgrades to the system. Some of these are small enhancements, some are roll-out of new screens and functions that are significant. Upgrades are included in your subscription, owing to the WFX philosophy that as you go through the years the system should still be a new system.

Upgrades are typically performed by the WFX team centrally and remotely. Usually, you will find that the upgrades take place during the night from Saturday to Sunday, giving you new features when you start your week.

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Switching to a cloud-based platform has some real advantages. One of those is that you can rely on the backup routines that are part of the WFX service. You can be assured that your PLM team is able to bring your data back online if needed.

Fortunately, with the top-level data centres that WFX uses, this is not something that people generally need to use but see it as a built-in insurance policy for your data.

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It is in our habits to make working in WFX as quick and intuitive as possible. One way to speed up the day-to-day activities of your teams is by creating templates for frequently used standards.

This could for instance be a pre-set series of care instructions that is suitable for a large part of the range, a base measurement chart that covers a key fit, a set of compliance documents that are needed for a specific product category…

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Included with the system are control areas where you can change the settings or behaviour of the system for all its users. This is ideal for those who have the need an ability to evolve the system by for instance adding fields or options, change team structures, customise exchange rate rules etc.

You can be assured that this control is detailed, that you will be well trained and of course can rely on the 24/7 support should there be anything you are not sure of anymore.

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Everyone has their own ideas on how they would like to code their products. The WFX PLM system gives you the flexibility to build up an article code from elements in your product record or by setting up a set of rules. You can of course skip all that and just give everything a sequential number. Your choice.

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Bring products, fabrics, trims and associated elements into the system easily by using the built-in bulk upload functions. This ever-expanding tool gives you the option to have a great start.

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Need to update fields in a high number of products, fabrics or components? Use the Bulk Update functionality for complex sets of changes, but don’t forget that the normal working screens also cater for most of these situations.

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Assign critical paths to selected groups of items in one go, allocating them to the right people both inside your organisation and at your supply base.

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When you log into WFX, you are using a similar level of security as you would when you are using online banking. It is important to us that your connection and your data are safe.

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Your PLM system comes with highly reliable, centrally managed hosting. It’s part of the subscription fee.

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The WFX PLM system keeps track of changes and events in quite some detail. The history of a product or component shows main events, but if you would like to know exactly what happened to an item in detail you can see that from the logs. This is easy to do, without the need for special skills or knowledge.

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Move around the intuitive system using the dynamic navigation bar and the interactive choices, which conveniently appear when they are relevant.

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Whether you want to log in through your mobile browser to quickly check or update something or want to upload photo’s you took to the system. There are many interactions between mobile devices and WFX that can make life easier.

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The favourites menu allows your team to shortlist those functions that they use the most or want to have close at hand. A really useful addition to the navigation and a real time saver, particularly for those who do complex work.

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Would it not be handy if the system remembered what you did recently, so that you can just go back to that product, action or order with a click? That is exactly what the WFX recent items menu does.

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The documents area within the WFX system lets you set up folders, upload files and set permissions for your teams. Great if you have production manuals, brand guidelines or other important documents that are not product specific but are needed by product or production related teams and their suppliers.

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If your suppliers or other third parties are using the WFX system as well, you can share files with them directly from the documents shared drive without the need to associate them to specific products.

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As a super admin user, you can set permissions for your teams. Add a person to a group, give that group the appropriate permissions and they can then work on what they need to without access to other areas.

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If you are a PLM Plus or Enterprise PLM client, you benefit from priority support with quick access to senior team members in addition to your standard 24/7 support.

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This feature becomes available if you upgrade to PLM Plus or are an Enterprise PLM client.

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