Transporting textiles into the digital age

Textile production is one of the oldest industries in the world, the business environment is definitely far from the Dark Ages. Efficient textile production is a precision-planned production flow. It’s no secret that a well-integrated IT solution provides the operational insights needed to revolutionize textile manufacturing – and boost profit.

Link your processes and ERP system to solve industry challenges with delaware’s SMART-Textile solution.

Industry-specific challenges and complexities

In addition to the universal challenges of talent management, financial excellence, and streamlined business operations, companies active in textiles must tackle specialized obstacles and business processes, such as:

Constantly-shifting fashion trends
Coping with multiple variants of the same type of product
The demand for smaller lot sizes
Serialized stock of rolls (length- or area-based)
Availability checks and order planning based on dye/yarn batch
Impossibility to produce exact quantities: over- or underproduction are common
Subcontracting
Flexibility during outbound shipment

Digitization and automation are changing textiles

Digitization and automation through a centralized IT system can provide you with the production insights to design flexible production cycles, shave off inefficiencies, optimize stock and more – leading to that competitive edge necessary for differentiation and success in the digital age.

Automation Center of Excellence

Centralize your automation efforts, establish best practices, and enhance operational efficiency.

FAST CX Manufacturing

Deliver a consistently great experience at every touchpoint, channel & device.

24Flow

For companies who lack visibility on their production and want to maximize productivity.

Key benefits of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management

Why choose delaware Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management?

delaware has 15 years of experience in the management of large-scale IT projects in textiles. In this time we have developed an agile-based project methodology, a collaborative approach and in-house preconfigurations that ensure the most impactful results for your business.

Flexible, data-enriched production processes
Production planning transparency
New technologies (IoT, sensors) built into products
Real-time reporting and analytics of shop floor processes
Optimized tooling implementation
Integration with cross industries like advanced planning and warehousing

SMART-Textile

All the power of Microsoft Dynamics AX, tailored to textiles

purchasing and manufacturing to sales and logistics, and achieve sustainable growth by combining delaware’s out-of-the-box SMART components, custom-designed extensions and efficient integrations resulting in industry-specific functionalities, including:

Generate parts lists and process routes of textile products.
Prepare for the manufacturing process, including input, production, finishing and warehousing.
Visually plan production orders with real-time support, constraint planning and an order-in-order feature.
Integrate MES data in real time or online with your ERP system to monitor the entire production process.