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Polygon Software Releases Cut, Make, Trim (CMT) Module
Cut, Make, Trim (CMT) module helps apparel businesses manage orders, materials and financial reporting for fulfilling customer requirements when some or all materials are supplied by the customer.
Baltimore, MD – February 15, 2011 -- Polygon Software, a leading developer of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions for apparel businesses, today announced the release of its Cut, Make and Trim (CMT) module. Integrated with PolyPM’s PLM and ERP enterprise solution, CMT provides all of the necessary facilities to manage CMT production as a dedicated operation, with full package production or a hybrid production environment where some materials are customer provided. The new module is critical to apparel businesses who use materials provided by their customers in the production process, by enabling those materials to be easily received, tracked and consumed separately from purchased materials, yet are fully integrated into production. Using PolyPM’s CMT module, apparel producers are able provide their customers with essential financial reporting for the materials provided by their customer, while effectively integrated the use of these materials in with current production.
Maintaining and reporting on customer provided raw materials is an essential task that many apparel businesses must consider. These businesses frequently have to track thousands of materials that are both purchased and customer supplied. Sometimes the identical material can be both a customer supplied and purchased material, creating a production environment that is bound to be confusing and error prone. PolyPM provides a working production environment for meeting these challenges that is productive and yet flexible, while providing for effective control and use of customer supplied materials. PolyPM’s new Cut, Make and Trim module features:
Internal CMT Orders that track receiving of customer provided materials
Financial valuation of customer owned inventory separate from purchased inventory
Support for 100% CMT production, full package production or mixed production using partially customer supplied materials and partially purchased materials
Separate tracking of CMT inventory for each customer providing such inventory in multiple locations.
Identification of CMT raw materials in a Style bill of material (BOM)
On the fly selection to use CMT materials or purchased materials in any production order
Independent tracking of CMT minimums Independent tracking of CMT minimums
Provision to convert CMT materials to purchased materials
Web-enabled, using Microsoft SQL database engine, PolyPM integrates all aspects of the design through production process: product development, costing, sourcing, manufacturing, inventory, sales, distribution and now production planning. By integrating business processes and people anywhere in the world, businesses use PolyPM to realize more efficient workflow, improved productivity and cost reductions. PolyPM creates an environment that lets management get decision making information when and how it needs it, to ensure faster time-to-market and exploit new business opportunities. Plus, PolyPM is flexible enough to change with business conditions, so management won’t need a cadre of programmers to customize and restructure the system as business conditions change.
About Polygon Software
Polygon Software has a long and prestigious history of developing advanced software applications for the apparel industry. Starting in the 1970’s, the founders of Polygon developed the first CAD/CAM system for apparel manufacturers, the AM-1. Today this system is the worlds leading apparel CAD/CAM system marketed by Gerber Technology. In the 1980’s Polygon introduced PolyNest, the first open apparel CAD/CAM software running under Microsoft Windows. PolyNest revolutionized the way apparel CAD was distributed by enabling end-users to acquire their software and hardware from multiple sources. Polygon's latest product, PolyPM, is the first product to integrate PLM and ERP into a single solution, automating the transition from design to manufacturing. PolyPM transforms the way small to mid-sized brands, distributors and manufacturers operate, by providing information technology that previously was only available to the “big-guys”, in a system that lets users independently customize their installation to reflect their business practices. For more information, please visit www.polypm.com.
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