Digital Lifecycle Management for Fashion and Retail
Mendix’s Digital Lifecycle Management solution helps fashion and retail companies boost accuracy, efficiency, and productivity in both online and offline operations.
Designed for fashion and retail brands, the Mendix Digital Lifecycle Management low-code solution creates an end-to-end digital value chain that automates the entire design-to-sales process. This highly configurable solution can be tailored to your specific requirements, allowing you to move on from the flows of traditional fashion seasons.
Mendix DLM helps streamline the production workflow (ideation, planning, design, merchandising, development, sourcing, sampling, and manufacturing) while encouraging collaboration between all your stakeholders.
What is Digital Lifecycle Management?
From initial design ideas and realistic digital assets to smooth collaboration with vendors and sustainable production, Mendix DLM simplifies every product lifecycle stage.
A platform for everything and everyone
Mendix Digital Lifecycle Management (DLM) is a comprehensive solution that manages every stage of a product’s lifecycle—from conception, design, production, and sales to repurposing and disposal. DLM ensures that all data, processes, and stakeholders are connected in a unified digital environment that makes product development hassle-free.
A single source of truth
The fashion and retail industries have to juggle speed, accuracy, and sustainability while managing a product's lifecycle. Doing so digitally with the Mendix DLM platform keeps your teams aligned with a single source of truth, eliminates data silos, and reduces the risk of errors to make your product development process more efficient and reliable.
Mendix DLM Key Features
Make sure everyone has the latest information with a single hub that reduces mix-ups.
Material library
Easily configure and organize material types, track sustainability metrics such as CO2 emissions, and manage historical pricing per material and vendor.
Vendor management
This tool allows you to efficiently manage suppliers, contact persons, and factories. It also allows you to specify vendor types and manufacturing locations.
Color library
Organize colors into seasonal palettes or manage them by groups and colorways; integrate with Pantone for accurate color matching.
Bill of materials (BOM)
Use templates to prevent manual data entry and automate status updates on materials used. BOMs can be synced with Siemens Teamcenter for complete collection management.
Size management
Manage all available sizes and configure ranges per country or region. To ensure consistency, country-based templates for size ranges can be created.
Workflow
Develop and manage workflows with smart lead times and automated reminders. Automated risk highlights for collection delays help with planning to ensure timely deliveries.
Mass sampling
Request material and style samples in bulk and manage feedback directly in the system. This helps streamline vendor communication and improves the management of sampling requests.
Costing management
Automate costing processes based on templates and compare multiple vendors for cost efficiency. The grid view feature lets users easily find and compare costs across vendors.
Digital Mood boards
Digital mood boards use images, materials, and colors to create a narrative that guides product development and positioning, helping you make intentional and targeted commercial decisions.
Document management
Make version control and accessibility a breeze with a central repository for managing all product files, which offers automatic versioning and external app integrations like Google Drive.
Vendor portal
Through a configurable portal, vendors and manufacturers can access updates, submit samples, and receive real-time feedback. All they need is an internet connection.
Digital product design
Easily integrate Browzwear, Adobe Illustrator, and other 3D platforms to create a consistent design process that promotes cost-efficiency and greater collaboration with open API integrations.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Track your suppliers’ CO2 impact and integrate sustainability data into the product lifecycle; integrate with external metrics like the Higg Index to ensure compliance.
Mendix DLM Integrations
Transforming digital workflows with innovative 3D visualization and sustainable logistics solutions.
EMERSYA
Emersya integrates Mendix DLM with its 3D and AR platform, revolutionizing digital product workflows for fashion and retail. This integration optimizes digital asset management and accelerates product lifecycle processes.
KEY BENEFITS:
- Centralized asset management for secure visualization and sharing
- Automated workflows to reduce time and errors
- Real-time 3D visualization to enhance team collaboration
- Faster time to market with improved efficiency and cost savings
Siemens Digital Logistics
Siemens Digital Logistics integrates with Mendix DLM, empowering fashion and retail brands to calculate transport carbon emissions accurately. This seamless solution streamlines operations, reduces emissions, and ensures regulatory compliance.
KEY BENEFITS:
- Accurate carbon footprint calculation
- Transparency in early planning stages
- Data-driven strategic sourcing
- Flexibility for evolving sourcing strategies
Digital Lifecycle Management Benefits
The right data, at the right time, every time.
Accurate sourcing with centralized data
DLM’s material library and vendor management tools provide a single source of truth for all supply chain data, ensuring consistent and accurate sourcing decisions.
Efficient production with flexible tools
Tools like the color library, digital mood boards, and BOM automation streamline the production process, ensuring consistency and reducing manual errors in fabrication and assembly.
Timely deliveries with automated workflows
DLM’s workflow management and mass sampling tools automate key logistics processes, helping to ensure that products move efficiently through the supply chain.
Greater profitability with alignment strategies
Automated costing helps optimize pricing strategies and drive more effective product planning for better market alignment and transparency.
Smarter pivoting with real-time data access
The document management system and vendor portal provide real-time access to product usage data so stakeholders have the latest feedback when entering another development cycle.
More sustainability across the board
Keep your brand promises and sustainability targets intact with material libraries designed to identify renewal opportunities, leading to greater revenue streams.
Real Results from Real Customers
Mendix allows us to rapidly adapt to new legal demands and security updates.
I think we build tomorrow together in different ways. We try to build the future by providing equipment to produce green hydrogen to enable the green transition, and CLEVR with the information technology will help us to do that efficiently
