TOULOUSE, France, June 30, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Kariban, has
selected Centric Software®'s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
solution. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise
solutions to fashion, retail, footwear, outdoor, luxury, consumer
goods and home décor companies to achieve strategic and operational
digital transformation goals.
Created over 20 years ago, Kariban offers a diversified range of
clothing through its own brands for clients to personalize, as well
as a range of teamwear, headwear and luggage for a professional
clientele of promotional item resellers, professional uniform
suppliers, screen printers, embroiderers and advertising agencies.
The Kariban brand, whose product offer started with a single rugby
shirt, today manages nearly 20,000 stock keeping units (SKUs) and
1,400 styles. Kariban's design and management teams operate from
Toulouse, France. Manufacturing is
outsourced to Asia, mainly taking
place in Bangladesh, China, Pakistan and Turkey.
In an extremely competitive promotional market, streamlining and
modernizing the product design and development process became
imperative. Kariban's development phase was particularly
time-consuming and slowed down by erratic sample management.
Between demand and production, it could take four to six months.
Kariban's distribution activity involved handling a large volume of
inventory and referrals, which was extremely complex and slow with
the Product Data Management (PDM) tool they had in place. The PDM
system was disconnected from other information systems, requiring
reentry of the same data set in different tools with the risk of
making cascading errors. The brand set out to find a PLM solution
that would allow it to synchronize all stages of the product and
collection lifecycle.
"The fashion world is moving fast," explains Laurent Marceau, Managing Director at TOPTEX
Group / Kariban. "Faced with increased competition, it is essential
to continue to modernize our work tools to gain performance. We
must always be one step ahead."
Kariban Executives conducted a large market study and tested
three PLM solutions. According to Nizam Deepooa, Technical and
Quality Director at TOPTEX Group / Kariban, Centric Lifestyle PLM
was selected for its capabilities and references in the
distribution and fast fashion sector.
"Centric offers very flexible configuration," says Olivier
Labourel, Director of Information Systems at TOPTEX Group /
Kariban. "The solution covers the entire value chain from source to
final product and will allow us to link our ERP tool and PIM
system. This global and open solution perfectly meets our
needs."
"Centric PLM will encourage exchanges between employees and
suppliers around design, product development, supply and
production, in particular thanks to Centric's mobile applications,
which are very useful on our many trips," adds Marceau. "Finally,
the system strengthens our employer brand with the most competent
employees, by offering them an intuitive and innovative working
interface in which they can easily find their brands and work
comfortably."
"We are delighted that Kariban has chosen to partner with
Centric," says Chris Groves,
President and CEO of Centric Software. "This leading promotional
clothing brand was looking for a robust solution capable of
following the changes and rhythm of the fashion market in order to
manage all aspects of its supply, design and manufacturing chain on
a large scale with extreme precision. With Centric PLM, Kariban is
on track to achieve its ambitions and prepare for future growth,
while offering its clients quality products at an ever-faster
pace."
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Kariban (http://www.toptex.fr)
For over 20 years, the Kariban brand has stood out for its
modern vision of advertising textiles. Through clean lines,
meticulously selected materials, fitted cuts and French elegance,
the brand has made ready-to-wear classics into essential corporate
promotional clothing. Kariban is constantly renewing and
modernizing its historic collections, and regularly presents new
ranges. It offers a Premium range consisting of top quality
products: Supima® cotton t-shirts and polo shirts, light trench
coats, jeans, and a range of ecological clothing. Kariban wishes to
go further by emphasizing the concepts of eco-responsibility in its
production by integrating more and more references in organic
cotton certified by Ecocert Greenlife.
Must-haves for the most specific image clothing; materials in
the manufacturing process that provide softness, comfort and
optimal printability; everything is considered to offer a large
choice of colors and sizes and meet the needs of professionals.
Kariban is a brand distributed by the TopTex group, created in
1994 by Laurent Marti. Leader in
France and in the Benelux and in
the European Top3, the TopTex Group distributes more than 40 brands
in 2019, the most important of the advertising market: Fruit of the
Loom, Gildan, B&C, Russell
Europe, etc. as well as its own brands, essential references
on the European market: Kariban (image clothing), ProAct
(sportswear teamwear), K-Up (headwear), Kimood (luggage).
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