Join us for our latest webinar, where Steve Pinado, CEO of Browzwear, and Greg Hanson, COO of Browzwear, discuss the critical need for comprehensive digitization in today's dynamic industry landscape. They cover how AI and digital advancements reshape product delivery, improve efficiency, and address supply chain pressures.
Discover the benefits of software digitization, from reducing sampling to improving sustainability, and learn how to align digital transformation with C-suite and investor priorities. Gain valuable insights and see how Browzwear’s solutions can elevate your digital strategy.
Efficient and comprehensive digitization is crucial in today's industry landscape. Global instability, climate urgency, and shifting regulations are changing product delivery methods. Consumer demand, demographic shifts, and the rise of fast fashion necessitate quick adaptation. AI is a key driver of future efficiency, but these advancements also pressure the supply chain. Faster production must align with trends and sustainability goals to be truly successful.
Recent McKinsey study results highlight a growing focus on digitization investments. End-to-end process management, virtual sampling, and virtual fabric libraries are top priorities for many respondents.
Software digitization offers clear benefits: reduced sampling, fewer prototypes, faster time to market, better data utilization, lower obsolete inventory, improved efficiency, and more sustainable practices. A solid digital foundation is essential for future success, enabling automation, maximizing intellectual property, and leveraging modern technology and AI. Without it, organizations risk missing both immediate benefits and long-term success.
Despite some progress, the industry as a whole has not transformed as quickly or comprehensively as needed. Thorough digital transformation remains critical.
To drive digital transformation effectively, it’s crucial to understand what the C-suite, boards, and investors prioritize: growth and profitability. They focus on sales growth, margin improvement, cost management, operational efficiency, and successful sell-through rates. While terms like agility, efficiency, and sustainability are often discussed, the core concern remains how digitalization can enhance growth and profitability.
Connecting digital initiatives to these objectives involves demonstrating tangible, near-term benefits and future potential. Companies must address common challenges such as:
Poor Change Management: Gaining C-suite buy-in is essential, but many organizations struggle with implementing change effectively.
Limited Digital Adoption: Incomplete digitization can lead to inefficiencies as manual workflows persist and prevent full benefits.
Tech Sprawl: Data and processes often exist in disparate systems, creating silos that hinder collaboration and overall success.
To achieve buy-in, it’s important to link the advantages of a comprehensive digital foundation directly to company priorities, ensuring that digital efforts align with and support overarching business goals.
At Browzwear, we aim to support you in achieving these goals. We recently conducted an industry survey to gather insights from leadership on key priorities. The survey highlighted several dominant themes: faster time to market, being more on-trend, reducing overstock and returns, and minimizing waste. These areas emerged as top concerns from our respondents.
To achieve a successful digital transformation, several key steps are essential:
Consolidate Critical Data: Securely integrate critical data from various systems. This data is often your intellectual property and must be protected. IP protection should be a central focus in developing your digital foundation.
Facilitate Collaboration: Utilize a web-based collaborative platform to streamline interactions across workstreams and individuals. Collaboration should be seamless and straightforward.
Include Everyone: Create a clear vision encompassing the entire process, from initial sketch to final delivery. Even incremental steps should align with this vision to ensure cross-company understanding and engagement.
Maximize and Protect IP: Address concerns about securing valuable assets by integrating them into a unified environment that meets security and legal standards. This integration is crucial for unlocking the full potential of your digital strategy.
Recognize Complexity: Understand that digital transformation involves many participants—brands, vendors, manufacturers, retailers, and third parties—across a complex process spectrum. Achieving integration is challenging but vital.
A well-established digital foundation will deliver immediate benefits such as margin expansion and operational efficiencies and prepare your organization for future growth. Collaboration on an integrated, secure platform is essential for realizing these benefits.
At Browzwear, we're committed to helping you solve key challenges by offering a robust, end-to-end digital process built on a solid foundation. We understand that integration across multiple workflows and systems is essential for true transformation, and we don’t aim to replace all of your existing tools. For example, Photoshop and Illustrator are excellent products, and our goal is to work seamlessly with them, allowing you to unlock new levels of value and scalability in your business.
Our platform covers the entire design-to-production journey, from measuring fabric properties for realistic visualizations to integrating and developing patterns, showcasing, selling, and collaboration tools. This end-to-end approach significantly reduces waste and sampling time while enhancing overall efficiency.
We also focus on supporting creativity, ensuring that our tools aren't just about IT solutions but about empowering designers and brands to thrive. Collaboration is central, whether it's between systems or people—facilitating interactions between teams, vendors, and supply chains.
Lastly, we recognize the need for scalability. Digital transformation is not an overnight process, but our platform is designed to grow with your business, helping you increase efficiency, productivity, and global reach in a truly integrated ecosystem.
The journey through digital transformation often follows a maturity curve, where initial excitement can lead to challenges. Similar to the hype cycle in AI, 3D design can sometimes get stuck if it's only seen as a tool for visualization rather than part of a broader digital product creation process. Moving beyond 3D visuals and embracing the digital product twin is essential to unlocking full value—a more comprehensive asset for decision-making, automation, and scalability.
At Browzwear, we see various stages of adoption across industries and have developed best practices for companies to evolve. This could mean integrating more systems, enhancing vendor relationships, or refining PLM processes. Focusing on real metrics and outcomes is key as companies progress along this curve. Whether it’s increased efficiency in a department or broader enterprise-wide transformation, Browzwear’s approach guides businesses toward tangible value and continuous optimization.
As we approach the end of September, we're excited to share key updates in our upcoming release. This fall, our focus is on three major areas: consolidating 2D and 3D operations, enhancing collaboration tools, and boosting user experience.
We're addressing customer feedback by improving our 2D capabilities to support the consolidation of multiple software systems into one unified platform. This streamlines workflows, reduces the need for extensive training, and enhances data integration, ultimately saving time and resources.
We are going to introduce advanced search functionalities in collaboration tools. Our new infrastructure supports global-style searches through various formats, including images and sketches, making it easier for designers to locate and work on digital assets. This capability goes beyond traditional PLM systems, offering a more intuitive approach to managing and utilizing digital assets.
Additionally, we've evolved Stylezone's UI to improve ease of use and set the stage for future feature enhancements. Our strategy emphasizes well-tested, durable tools that empower users and streamline their workflows, integrating seamlessly with other systems to support a cohesive end-to-end experience.
Watch the full recording of 'The Digital Imperative Webinar: Building Foundation for Fashion Innovation' to explore how digital transformation is shaping the future of fashion.