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Clothing retailer Yakka chooses Freeborders solutions

22 Feb '06
3 min read

Freeborders has announced that Yakka, Australia's largest manufacturer of work and corporate clothing, along with its affiliate companies NNT, Dowd Corp, CTE and Icon, will streamline development processes using Freeborders FB Product Manager, FB Fabric & Trim, and FB Workflow solutions.

Yakka needed to ensure that style specifications could be updated across the entire enterprise, which includes Yakka Hard Wear and sister brands, Neat N Trim, Dowd, Can't Tear 'Em, and Icon, the Australian distributor of Lee Jeans. It also needed to ensure that users could globally search the database to ensure efficiencies and speed production.

With the Yakka Hard Wear brand alone providing more than 50 percent of Australia's work clothes and as the private label supplier of work apparel for many leading corporations and banks, the ability to quickly create styles and replicate them was critical.

Stephen Ryan, Systems Manager of Shared Apparel Services, one of Yakka's enterprise IT services groups said, "Through Yakka's recent acquisitions, we inherited companies that had disparate systems and processes for developing and maintaining specifications -- it was a major challenge having all of those files all over the network and not being able to find anything easily or to do global replace easily."

"We chose Freeborders solutions for their ability to provide efficiencies and ease-of-use. In addition, one of the biggest reasons that we chose them over any other provider was because their solutions are web-enabled. Now it's easy to get our suppliers to come in our LAN and get the most current spec and even tell them there is a spec change they need to retrieve."

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