Zadig&Voltaire, a French ready-to-wear brand with operations in more than 30 countries, has decided to deploy Infor CloudSuite Fashion, a cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for the management of end-to-end fashion processes. Infor focuses on business applications for organisations delivered via cloud computing as a service.
The project demonstrates the brand’s desire to equip itself with a new advanced management system capable of rapidly improving its operational efficiency and generating productivity gains, while adopting best market practices. The objective is to move quickly and, to achieve this, to opt for a standard solution that does not require any specific customisations, according to Infor.Zadig&Voltaire, a French ready-to-wear brand with operations in more than 30 countries, has decided to deploy Infor CloudSuite Fashion, a cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for the management of end-to-end fashion processes. Infor focuses on business applications for organisations delivered via cloud computing as a service.#
Three main principles guided the implementation of this project: making simple functional choices to encourage teams to adopt the solution, opting for a standard product to facilitate its maintenance, and redesigning processes to adapt them to the tool, thereby aligning the entire organisation with market best practices.
The cloud was not a prerequisite in itself, but when Infor presented the benefits, Zadig&Voltaire’s IT department did not hesitate. Moreover, the company did not want to start from scratch, but rather from a functional scope and well-defined processes. Finally, it wanted a standard product, with known references in the fashion market, which would allow a quick implementation with processes induced natively by the tool. Accompanied by Infor partner CGI, Zadig&Voltaire chose to rely on Infor after surveying other major vendors in the market.
“Upgrading the IT system and streamlining business processes are the two main challenges of the Infor CloudSuite Fashion deployment project. Our objective: to put in place the right tools to support and accompany the company's growth, both in terms of manufacturing and distribution. As our teams are young, with a real appetite for digital, we wanted to move quickly so we could free our employees from many low value-added tasks and let them focus on their respective core businesses,” Fabien Delivré, Zadig&Voltaire’s new IT director in charge of the project said.
“We set up an internal sponsorship system for the project as soon as it started in January 2020. This enabled us to involve the finance department, the operations department and around 30 key users who were able to take part in the various workshops and became our ambassadors to the directors of the various departments,” Delivré said.
More than 250 users will use the solution, within all the major functions concerned by the predefined scope: from the definition of offers and collections to sales, including the management of purchases and suppliers, associated orders, the allocation of goods and the orchestration of the supply chain. It should be noted that the brand offers two major collections per year, with five new products arriving between these two high points and ten capsule collections throughout the year.
“We are fully satisfied with the progress of the project to date, which should be fully implemented over a period of 16 months, which is a challenge for a company like ours. The good understanding between the Infor and CGI teams, as well as their professionalism in terms of listening and knowledge of our business issues, is a real plus. Thanks to Infor CloudSuite Fashion, we can look to the future and manage the issues related to the evolution of our multi-channel distribution strategy with much greater peace of mind,” Delivré added.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (GK)
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