Sportswear company to accelerate speed to market

Published On: March 5, 2014

Jonathan & Fletcher uses Gerber’s YuniquePLM system to design and produce competition sportswear

Jonathan & Fletcher®, the premier French brand known for its high-performance winter wear and sportswear, has selected Gerber Technology’s YuniquePLM® system to improve visibility and accelerate speed to market. The company designs and manufactures lines for prominent sportswear brands including Rossignol, Salomon, Lacoste and Lafuma, with expertise focused on a variety of outdoor sports, including skiing, snowboarding, wing suit flying, cycling and equestrianism. Jonathan & Fletcher also crafted race suits for athletes competing in the Sochi Winter Olympics, including five-time Olympic champion Shiva Keshavan of India.

Georges Pessey, founder of Jonathan & Fletcher, said, “Because we are designing and producing quality sportswear for some of the most discerning brands, it is absolutely imperative that we have a system that enables us to bring our products to market as fast as possible and with the highest quality. YuniquePLM helps us achieve this-from design to production, and all the way to delivery.”

Thierry Cusanno, European Sales Director for Yunique Solutions, said, “We were honored to provide Jonathan & Fletcher with Gerber Technology’s computer-aided design and manufacturing systems in the past and are extremely pleased that they have chosen to implement our web-based YuniquePLM system.”

Yunique Solutions is the product lifecycle management business unit of Gerber Technology. YuniquePLM and webPDM software enables organizations to connect their creative teams with their supply chain to get the right products to market, on time and at the right cost. These systems can help businesses of all sizes accelerate time to market, reduce lead time and improve margins by managing the details of line plans, tech packs and samples and simplifying communication and collaboration with global partners.

Source: www.yunique.com