SoftShoeStyle Overview

SoftShoeStyle provides you with the tool you need to compete.

SoftShoeStyle™ is a footwear-specific PLM application. Based on the successful SoftShoe Suite, SoftShoeStyle™ provides an on-demand, Internet-based workspace for designers, product developers and merchandisers to communicate about lines, plans, styles, materials, status and samples.  Communication challenges are eliminated with on-line data, version and process control. SoftShoeStyle™ runs on MySQL, an open source, easy to install database.  We give you easy to follow instructions so get yourself a PC, a DSL connection, and download SoftShoeStyle™ today.  You can quickly focus on innovation, your business and its growth.

  • Specifically designed for footwear.
  • Store your specs in a database, not spreadsheets.
  • Truly collaborative. Anyone, anywhere can participate.
  • One version of the truth.
  • Quick install and short learning curve.
  • Software on a subscription basis. No capital-intensive IT costs.
Finally, PLM for the rest of us.

For many independent designers and small to medium sized footwear companies, the ability to use a PLM solution has been out of reach because of the financial expense, complexity and human resources needed to deploy it.  With SoftShoeStyle™, that’s no longer the case!

SoftShoeStyle™ is an affordable, subscription-based solution that addresses all of these issues. It is specifically designed for small to mid-sized footwear companies, multi-category retailers, and design offices that need a more affordable, less complex solution than traditional PLM packages. It provides a complete, yet flexible methodology for controlling line management from initial design brief and planning to style development and sampling, margin analysis and then right through to commercialization.

Not a lightweight solution. 

SoftShoeStyle™ connects Line, Plan and Design Briefs to style-level design, product development, engineering, high-level costing and projected margin information through a centralized database. SoftShoeStyle™ provides a unified, single version of specifications and details linked in context to Line Plans and calendars in real-time enabling colleagues and partners to collaborate together anywhere.

SoftShoeStyle™ provides a single location to consolidate all of your design brief data, style specifications, images, sketches and tracking spreadsheets into one integrated solution. It is a Internet-based application allowing you to give your lines, plans, styles, specifications and sample information visibility throughout the organization from any location. SoftShoe Style™ operates on the open source database, MySQL which is easy to install and a robust, secure environment allowing you to have confidence your information is protected.

SoftShoeStyle™ has a complete process methodology that allows you to:

  • Initiate, manage and track style specifications, samples, costs, margin analysis as well as critical events throughout the process.
  • Work from the same set of data on a central server, so it is always up to date.  Eliminate outdated, inconsistent and redundant Specs, sample requests, and status updates that may be on separate computers around the globe.
  • Use an intuitive interface that eases user transition.  Internal staff can quickly learn SoftShoeStyle.
  • A full suite of best practices, methods and technologies such as collaborate line, plan and style management, visualization, blogging and enterprise application integration are incorporated into the application.   
 
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