Styles

Includes the base outline of the product such as name, description, product category, sub category, main supplier information and prices, market information and prices and planning information, The product data can be predefined in so called generic look up tables, free fields, data and quantity fields.

Dictionary-based predefined commercial descriptions of a product are made and selected in Style Overview 2. The selected Dictionary items provide indication to appearance, where used on the product, climate information, durability, and other applicable items. The information can then be enabled for websites.

Defines what the sales colors are for the certain product. The colors are added to a style in these ways:

• Ad hoc
• Using colors from a color library
• Using colors from a predefined sub-palette or color palette
• Carried over from a style

Sizes are added using size ranges. You can add all sizes of a range and deactivate the ones that are not needed. You can also create concatenated sizes when facilitating grading for undergarments. A concatenated size would be a combination of characteristic and size, for example, bust area Cup and Width. The system sees this as a size, but for grading, the system will understand what part of the size code is ‘cup’ and what part is ‘size.’

Some products may have additional dimensions when working with ‘cup’ sizes or length. Other factor is when indicating the differences of a product by country or region. You can set up characteristics and also add them to a style.

Style measurement defines and tracks fit. Initial measures and tolerances are set, graded increments are applied across the size range, and the resulting graded measures are calculated automatically.

Sample pages are created, either manually or automatically when a sample request is sent. Each sample is evaluated against the specification. Deviations are flagged, and comments are captured. The full measurement history, including sample iterations, is visible in one view.

For carry-over styles, you can link measurements to the parent style, so changes are maintained in one place rather than duplicated across seasons.

In Style measurement, these subpages are available:

• Initial measures and tolerances
• Graded increments
• Graded measures
• Summary page of accepted and rejected sample pages
• Sample pages, in any status

In style Measures you can see all Points of Measure (POM) related, their initial measure value, and tolerances related to one or more size ranges.

Also available is the summary of approved and rejected samples, as well as the revised measures and notes. These initial details give you the measurement information on a quick glance.

In Style Measures, you can run these actions:

• Add POMs from POM library.
• Add default, critical, and mandatory POMs from grade rule directly.
  Note: Optional grade rules are not displayed instantly to avoid large sets of data. However, you can also add optional grade rules.
• Add POMs from one or more grade rules.
• Add Ad-hoc POMs.
• Change priorities of a POM to a higher priority: optional to default or critical and default to critical.
• Replace POM lines with or without use of original grading.
• Copy POM lines from other Styles and add them to this style.
  Note: It uses a logic to copy from styles that might have different size ranges to map the from and to size so that you get the right measures when copying.
• Work with style measures relative to another dimension (cup or width).
• Add or replace an inherited how-to-measure image.
• Add translations for each POM line for name and description.
• Add part information. For example, top or bottom, or placement.
• Copy row values.

In the Style Measures summary page, you can run these actions:

• See the approved or rejected sample pages (sampled sizes) for a style or style colors.
• See the number of samples made including number of iterations per sample subtype.

When styles are carried over, you can link the measurement of the style to the carried over style. When this occurs, the carried over style has no measurement of its own and all measures are maintained at the parent level.

In the relationship pane, you can see if a carry-over item is linked to a parent style for its measures or not.

Sampling is done in different ways in PLM.

Style sample pages are created manually from style development or automatically when you are sending a request for sample. The sample page can be at style or style color level.

Within the sample page, you can run these actions:

• Add evaluation comments
• Add actual measures
• Supplier can add supplier measures
• See deviations and deviations outside the tolerance
• Revise a measure
• Accept and reject the sample
• Undo the acceptance or rejection
• See the number of iterations for the sample type-subtype (for example, prototype iterations 1 and 2)

You can evaluate a style sample through the Style sample page comments. The comments for the sample are displayed in a contextual pane. Each sample comment has a tag that groups comments by type.

You can use nine default tag types, such as workmanship, grading, and fit. You can configure the tag types so that only relevant tags are displayed at the product category level.

Comments are generally contextual to the open info cluster or sample page. You can make the comments visible for all sample pages. You can also group the comments.

For each comment, you can add images and decide whether the comment is public and visible to suppliers or private and for internal use only. Style sample pages and the comments are generated in a sample comments report.

Samples for linked measurements for carry-over styles are added to the parent style and tagged with the correct season.

You can also add the comments to the sample request.

See Requests for samples, quotes, labdips, and tests.

The Style Bill of Material (BOM) defines the physical product on paper. The BOM defines the materials, trims, and potential styles that make up the style. The BOM also serves as the foundation for costing and for and content information.

The BOM replaces a separate materials list in a spreadsheet. When a material changes, you can trace the effect on cost and care immediately.

Features include multiple BOM versions, size-dependent quantities, and exchange rate-aware pricing. Features also include automatic retrieval of care instructions from materials and facility-based BOM definitions for region-specific sourcing. You can also copy BOM lines from other styles and use supplier-unique BOMs.

BOM contains these features:

• Add materials, trims, and styles to a BOM
• Create multiple BOM versions
• Indicate what main material is used
• Indicate multiple main materials and see their content in composition information for a style
• Has quantity information for materials, trims, and styles (net, gross, size dependent)
• Serve as the starting point for cost calculation; Price information (Purchase, cost), including exchange rate information
• Serve as a starting point for calculating the care information by Style - using the material or trim care instructions
• Link operations from the Bill of Operations (BOO)
• Replace items on the line and keep certain added values such as quantities entered
• Define a Geographical BOM – specific for a certain region. Requests can then only be sent to suppliers related to that Geo, or that are neutral (independent of Geo)
• Check on BOM lines if the suppliers for the BOM lines are neutral (independent of Geo) or match the Geo as indicated in the BOM header
• Can have unique Supplier Bill of Material

Adding BOM information is done in several ways:

• Adding materials, trims, and styles through ad hoc: if permitted through the role
• Adding materials, trims, and styles through libraries
• Adding materials, trims, and styles through Favorites for BOM only
• Consumption (quantities) based on
  • Style
  • Style size (size dependent)
• Adding material and trim specific colors for given style colorway
  • From color library or color palette
  • Colors associated to the material and trim in the material or trim library
• Trim size (component dependent)
• Dependent on Style size or alternatively
• Select the style sizes for given BOM lines
• Copying and adding lines to BOM or between BOM versions
• Easily copy BOM lines from another Style while working on the Style BOM
• Inherit material and trim colors to BOM lines
• Copy sales colorways to BOM lines
• Add color information using a color library or color palette
• Add text in color pitches instead of using a color
• Browse for a single item or use the action panes (multiple items possible to select in one go)
• Consumption (quantities) on the BOM line is dependent on the batch quantity in BOM header turning it into a percentage (Batch quantity)

Style Bill of Operations (BOO) captures how a product is made, including the sequence of operations, associated work centers, and standard allowed minutes (SAM).

You can use the BOO as step-by-step instructions. You can also use the BOO as generic input for total time per work center is cost calculations.

Multiple BOO versions are supported.

You can add a BOO for instructions or operation instructions. You can also add a BOO for a global capacity requirement at the work center level.

These features are available:

• Multiple BOO versions
• Main version for cost price calculation
• Operations list with predefined operations
• Hourly rate overwrite
• Calculation of standard allowed minutes (SAM) based on operation input
• Ability to copy BOO lines to other styles or within a style

You can add BOO operations directly, from the operations library, or from the operations list library.

Style sourcing gives you a complete overview of the sourcing prices, whether they are provided on a request, directly on a costing page, or in the style sourcing area. Manually provided prices on the style sourcing page are easily transferred to the costing page.

The style sourcing page gives you a good overview of all supplier's prices and different terms and conditions. Currently, the solution shows the information at the style level.

Style Costing shows the financial information. Instead of using parallel cost models in spreadsheets, Style Costing consolidates price information into one currency-converted view. This view includes BOM lines, supplier quotes, and cost elements.

Cost models support sourcing companies and manufacturers. Sourcing companies use FOB-based, sectionized cost, and manufacturers use BOM and BOO-driven models. You can compare multiple supplier costs side-by-side.

Costing uses cost models that are flexible to set up. System can default the right model for the right type of business, department, or product category. The model is made for manufacturers or for sourcing companies.

Style Care and Content defines the label information for a product, such as care symbols, composition percentages, and main fabrics written in commercial terms.

Instead of calculating the composition manually, the composition is generated automatically from BOM lines marked as main materials. The label reflects the product composition.

These features are available in care and content:

• Create multiple versions of C&C pages
• Labels information
  • Find the label in the trim library. All main items labeled as LABEL are displayed automatically to select for this page
  • Add image
• Care
  • Based on all the BOM lines components, it can retrieve the lowest level of all BOM’s care symbols information automatically
  • Possibility to add non-standard text
  • Manually add care symbols from care library
• Composition
  • Based on the indicated lines on the BOM, the system can generate the content information so that it is completed with more commercial information
• Use this in cases that there are multiple main materials

Style Compliance tracks which performance tests are required for a style and whether the style has passed them.

Tests are added manually or through predefined standards templates, and results are logged against specific suppliers and color selections. Out-of-tolerance results are flagged immediately, giving the team visibility before a style reaches production.

Compliance tests include these points:

• The test lines are added manually or through the Standards (templates with predefined test lines)
• Tests are performed per supplier, style or supplier, and selected style colors
  • Directly on style manually
  • Request for compliance tests (see Request process)
• Test results are added and deviations are displayed
• Definition of a test line is broad from industry standards to just a checklist

All requests that are generated for a style are displayed. You can create sample, cost, sample+cost, and compliance requests. See request process.

Pattern information are added to this section. There is pattern header information and lines for each individual pattern piece. Patterns are picked up from the pattern library. Pattern images are also displayed in the Style Images and Style Pattern section.

Marker information are added in Style Marker as header information and different lines for the marker table.

Shows whether or not the style is integrated when Infor BODs are applied and this also shows the updated information from the system it was integrated with.

All attachments tagged by how and where they were entered on the style.

Changes made to overview page, BOM header lines, Measurement header lines, Sample pages, and Requests. All changes are stored and you can decide from which status they are displayed in style Audit. Data Lake also includes all the changes but is not an official audit tool as it has a possibility to purge the data out.