Lectra to Outfit Mango With PLM
Spanish apparel manufacturer and retailer Mango will be among the first companies to use Lectra’s new Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software system after signing on to install the system throughout its global operations.
Mango is the second-largest exporter in Spain. It has about 900 stores in 91 countries and employs 5,500 workers. The company is pursuing a strategy to expand in North America.
Lectra’s new PLM system is designed to streamline the product-development process with an online organized database, which allows all parties within Mango as well as its trading partners and suppliers to collaborate on various pre-production processes. The system addresses processes such as line planning, design and general workflow management.
“Lectra’s new PLM solution will allow us to build and structure our collections according to our economic and strategic objectives, to synchronize the contributions of different players involved in the various collection-development processes, and to be truly proactive in defining priorities, allocating resources and managing multiple concurrent workflows. It will enable us to increase customer satisfaction by accelerating our collection rhythms and integrating new trends more quickly,” said Elena Carasso, Mango’s e-business director. —Robert McAllister
