Lawson Fashion PLM is designed for companies in the apparel, footwear, home textile and accessories industries. It is suitable for brand owners, manufacturers, design/source/distribute companies and retailers with private brands. Many experts suggest that total lead-times in the fashion industry need to be cut by 50 percent or more over the next 2–5 years in order to improve agility, reduce inventories, and lower costs. Lawson Fashion PLM is one of the most comprehensive product lifecycle management (PLM) software suites in the marketplace, and is built from the ground-up on a web-based platform.

Using cutting-edge design, collaboration and workflow technology, Lawson Fashion PLM can help your organization improve the links in your company's supply chain to help reduce the total lead-time from concept to consumer. Lawson Fashion PLM supports the following key processes: concept development, storyboarding, CAD drawing, raw materials development, PDM, color management, collaboration, vendor management, costing, sample management and workflow management.

The Lawson Fashion PLM solution has been developed over a 15-year timeframe. It comes with over 300 built-in forms available “out-of-the-box,” which will assist your company in taking advantage of industry best practices with the goal of achieving quicker implementation and greater efficiency.

Lawson has over 350 fashion customers across apparel, footwear, textiles and accessories, spanning everything from manufacturing to retail. Lawson provides a set of applications built from the ground up specifically for the fashion industry.

Modules

Storyboard allows designers and merchants to rapidly develop themes, brand concepts and assortments online. It enables your product managers to deliver more on-trend products that sell at full price.

Line Optimizer provides visibility, and attributes plans to actual development on the line plan. Financial potential of your company’s product mix can be maximized while reducing cycle time and costs. Catalog plans are efficiently prepared utilizing line plan data and can be easily shared.

Fabric and Trim provides the tools to collaborate with suppliers on raw material specs, sampling and testing. Fabric and Trim integrates with Product Manager. Your sourcing managers gain critical visibility into component development, helping them to achieve economies of scale across brands, divisions and categories.

Product Manager provides a robust product data management solution, including sample requests, tracking, issue management, and costing scenario analysis. Your product development managers can consolidate data and easily communicate with partners to capture an accurate snapshot of your products’ status.

Workflow helps all parties coordinate, share, manage and track pre-production, manufacturing and delivery activities. Your organization improves coordination with supply chain partners and has better cross-functional visibility throughout product lifecycles.

Source provides tools for enhanced collaboration with global manufacturing partners, negotiating terms and evaluating vendors. Your product and sourcing managers generate sourcing plans, request quotes from vendors, and analyze and approve optimal costing scenarios.

Fashion Designer is a technical drawing tool used to create accurate line sketches.