Power Your Product Pipeline with PolyPM
Our industry demands quick reaction to constantly changing fashion trends and consumer demands, such as quality, price, and delivery.
Throughout the sewn-products industry, businesses are deploying enterprise-wide Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions to unify teams and improve process productivity.
Leverage PolyPM’s integrated PLM and sourcing solution for retail, brands, full-package, sewn products manufacturing, and textile mills to maintain your competitive position.
Scale Your Apparel Business with Flexible PLM Software
PolyPM is a proven, intuitive, web-based or client/server PLM solution that provides enterprise-wide instant visibility of the product development process for global teams.
Highly scalable and fully user configurable, PolyPM is positioned for both small and large teams with hundreds of concurrent users. PolyPM streamlines communication between team members, tracks development processes and corporate calendars, and offers a superior logical structure to define all style attributes.
Upgrade Your Product Development Process with a PLM
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Boost Visibility - Improved product information and process calendaring across the entire supply chain
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Enhance Communication - Improved communication between team members
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Reduced Time-To-Market - Streamline processes from concept to delivery
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Lower Costs - Lower development costs with fewer errors
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Increased Productivity - Increased staff productivity and effectiveness
Enterprise-Wide Capabilities Tailored To You
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A centralized Microsoft SQL database shared by all team members, carrying all product content and related documents.
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Scalable, web-based or client/server architectures enabling users to choose the most productive environment within local or worldwide structure
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Event tracking, line plan calendaring, messages, and email
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The industry’s most configurable style definition facility
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Greige and fabric styles with lab dip integration for specifying dyes and chemicals
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Extensive product content with measurements, instructions, and marker libraries
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One-button publication of user-defined tech packs
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World-class workflows with dashboard views of development status
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Integration with all Windows compatible applications
Product Development Expertise from Apparel People
We know firsthand how complex the apparel industry is. That’s why Polygon brings more than 30 years of experience providing technology solutions to help support businesses in the sewn products and textile industries.
We invented apparel CAD in the 1970s and have shown a steadfast commitment to providing cutting-edge solutions that demonstrate outstanding price/performance. With thousands of successful installations worldwide, our proven track record gives you the confidence of a rapid, low-risk deployment.
One Single Integrated PLM Solution
Calendaring & Planning
- Perform Line planning with product line development calendar
- Track development progress with management level dashboards
- Track projected costs against actual costs
- Analyze product mix across any structure including regions, categories, gender
- Generate projected business targets by Style, SKU, or any other structure
Component Library
- Establish an unlimited raw materials library
- Extensive customizing of relationship structures
- Maintain multiple suppliers/vendors for each material keeping cost structure
- Track materials usage and seasonal requirements
- Establish a component library for labor, tariffs, shipping and other non-material items
- Maintain material testing records and release information
- Integrate all component documents in a centralized document library
Color Library
- Establish an unlimited color library
- Define and maintain seasonal color definitions
- Perform and track lab dip testing
- Develop fabric lab dips with dye and chemical specification
- Define a style colorway with as many as twelve colors
- Maintain a seasonal colorway dashboard
- Track color usage history and selectively discontinue style colorways
- Automatically create materials based on colorway
Style Definition
- Categorize styles by any user-defined hierarchical structure
- Create multiple user-defined tech pack structures
- Build greige, fabric and garment styles for costing/budgeting or production
- Create BOM with industry’s most extensive style / color /size/option configuration
- One button export to Adobe PDF
- Cost to the style/color/size/option configuration
- Integrate all style documents in a centralized document library
- Edit and maintain Microsoft Office documents in PolyPM
- Integrate images and documents from any Windows application into reports
- Share style design and content with customers and vendors
- Standardize measurement specifications and maintain sample measurement history
- Develop templates for sewing, packing, and other product instructions
Sourcing
- Track and negotiate supplier/maker prices and maintain history
- Work with multiple suppliers on the same style
- Automatically email RFQ and Tech Pack to supplier/maker
- Calculate landed costs for both domestic and re-exported styles
- Manage supplier/maker relationship
Sample Management
- Track and compare sample measurement history
- Calendar sample requests
- Submit and track sample requests
Enterprise Collaboration
- Collaborate with Vendors / Suppliers / Customers through customized Portals
- Generate automatic messages to team members based on events
- Send internal message or email to team members, customers, and suppliers
- Maintain history of all communications
- Establish reminders and activity ticklers
FAQ
PLM is a centralized software system that manages all information and processes related to a product’s lifecycle, from concept and design to development, production, and delivery.
For the fashion and sewn-products industry, PLM helps teams streamline collaboration, improve efficiency, and reduce time-to-market.
Yes. PolyPM integrates seamlessly with Microsoft Office, Adobe applications, and any Windows-compatible software. It can also connect with your ERP system to ensure smooth data flow across platforms.
Implementation time varies based on your business size and complexity. However, with our proven onboarding process and over 30 years of apparel industry experience, we offer fast, low-risk deployments that get you up and running quickly.
Absolutely. PolyPM is built to scale with your organization, from a handful of users to hundreds of global team members. You can start small and expand as your business grows.
We provide training, technical support, and updates. Our team of experts is dedicated to ensuring your long-term success with PolyPM and is always available to help you maximize the value of your PLM investment.
Yes. PolyPM is fully configurable, allowing you to tailor workflows, style definitions, tech packs, calendars, and dashboards to meet your specific operational needs.
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