The growing complexity of the fashion industry is forcing companies to transform from traditional to more modern business models. This led Lectra, the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials, fabrics, leather, technical textiles and composite materials, to plan the ‘Lectra Fashion PLM V4’.

As Daniel Harari, Lectra CEO points out, fashion companies need to adapt their ways of working to be agile enough to offer compelling products to please consumers and reach the market quickly. Lectra provides companies with business expertise, technologies and change methods to meet the challenges of today’s modern fashion market and remain competitive. Lectra Fashion PLM is the embodiment of these pillars.

Lectra Fashion PLM was developed to improve teamwork from design to production and to help fashion companies build better products faster while boosting overall business performance. Lectra Fashion PLM focuses on collection planning and calendar management, Lectra R&D teams partnered with South Korea’s leading fashion company Samsung-Cheil Industries and DBApparel, the French market leader for branded intimate apparel.

Lectra develops the most advanced specialised software and cutting systems and provides associated services to a broad array of markets including fashion (apparel, accessories, footwear), automotive (car seats and interiors, airbags), furniture, as well as a wide variety of other market sectors, such as aeronautical and marine industries, wind power and personal protective equipment. Lectra serves 23,000 customers in more than 100 countries with 1,500 employees and $281 million in 2014 revenues. The company is listed on Euronext.