Bianco Footwear purchases end-to-end PLM solution
Bianco Footwear, a European designer and retailer of men's and women's shoes, has invested $91,000 in an end-to-end Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software suite from Geac to help support its rapidly growing retail business and more effectively handle complex collections. Bianco Footwear has a three-year plan to grow its number of European stores by 160%, to 300 outlets.
Bianco currently is implementing a PLM solution from RunTime, Geac's specialist division serving the apparel and footwear industry; it is expected to go live before the end of 2005.
Thomas Schultz Petersen, international product manager for Bianco Footwear, said: "Our new software will help us particularly in our pre-production activities to generate and adhere to new footwear collections in line with precise and diverse customer needs. The process of managing collections used to be conducted 'in our heads' and supported by a manual spreadsheet system. But with every new market we enter, the complexity of collections grows exponentially.”
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