It's going to take a look at the continuous production cycle, which includes things like work in progress, planned production, and forecasting. Managers can query the system to find other possibilities to fulfill the order while there's still time to act. Then you find out that the factory has been damaged by a major storm and it's out of commission, affecting the making of a shirt for a major retail store due in time for a Father's Day promotion. If you have computer software that can store all the images and designs digitally, it allows you to search easily. So if you need to pull out the '96-season patterns that were used for bathing suits, you can pull them up electronically.
Users can rotate, flip, or zoom in on images.
Leung says Media360 can also drive e-commerce applications such as Informix i. With contemporary fashion frequently reflecting designs that are sometimes decades old, Leung believes this new software can give even nostalgia a modern twist. It's our production crew's responsibility to ensure the information is correct and update all of the costing so they can go out and negotiate contracts with different manufacturers overseas or domestically. They get all of the prices into the system, add additional costs such as duty, trade tariffs, finance, and so forth, to come in with an estimated cost. We have to have a firm margin in order to fill all the stores.