NGC Software today announced that Grupo Karim’s, a diversified global
company with core businesses that include private-label apparel
manufacturing, has selected NGC’s
fashion PLM and Supply Chain Management (SCM) solution. Grupo
Karim’s specializes in providing its customers and partners with
high-quality services for apparel design and production in Asia, Central
America, the Caribbean and Mexico.
Grupo Karim’s experienced several supply chain and productivity
challenges prior to selecting NGC’s end-to-end PLM and SCM solution. “We
were missing integration and collaboration on the same platform with all
our manufacturing locations and departments,” said Luis Mejia, Executive
Vice President, Grupo Karim’s. "We had no PLM software, and we were
still using spreadsheets and isolated databases for certain processes.
With Grupo Karim's growth, we recognized that we needed to be
streamlined, fast and accurate in order to deliver the best quality
products at competitive costs and shorter lead times."
"We had some experience using NGC as a vendor with several of our
current customers, and we saw an opportunity to integrate with a single,
comprehensive PLM and SCM solution. NGC's sales team and engineers
showed a great willingness to work with Grupo Karim's and our customers,
in order to integrate and share information within the same platform.
It's a win-win for us and our customers," he continued.
With NGC's solutions, Grupo Karim's expects to improve productivity and
reduce costs, while also providing better customer service throughout
the entire product development and production process. According to
Mejia, NGC's PLM and SCM will help the company shorten the total lead
time from product concept to delivery at the customer's door. "We'll
also be able to manage compliance and testing requirements under one
platform for real-time access," he added.
"NGC is pleased to be working with Grupo Karim's," said Mark Burstein,
president of sales, marketing and R&D, NGC. "Like so many NGC customers,
Grupo Karim's realizes the benefits of a fully integrated, end-to-end
PLM and Supply
Chain Management solution, and we look forward to the implementation
process."
About NGC
NGC Software is a leading provider of PLM, Supply Chain Management, ERP
and Shop Floor Control software and services for brands, retailers and
consumer products companies. NGC solutions help increase profitability,
reduce costs, improve speed to market and product quality, and manage
compliance and testing. NGC was named to the 2012 RIS News
Software Leaderboard with three top 10 rankings and has received top
rankings by many leading industry analysts. In addition, NGC has been
recognized as a top 100 supply chain and logistics company by Inbound
Logistics, SupplyChainBrain and Supply & Demand Chain
Executive.
NGC customers include A|X Armani Exchange, Aeropostale, Billabong,
Carter’s, Destination XL, Hugo Boss, Jos. A. Bank, Marchon Eyewear,
Spanx, Swatfame, VF Corporation, and many others. NGC has offices in
Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Canada, China, India, Mexico, and El
Salvador and is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Software Inc.
(NASDAQ: AMSWA). For more information, visit www.ngcsoftware.com.
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to substantial risks and uncertainties. There are a number of factors
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
anticipated by statements made herein. These factors include, but are
not limited to, continuing U.S. and global economic uncertainty, the
timing and degree of business recovery, unpredictability and the
irregular pattern of future revenues, dependence on particular market
segments or customers, competitive pressures, delays, product liability
and warranty claims and other risks associated with new product
development, undetected software errors, market acceptance of the
Company’s products, technological complexity, the challenges and risks
associated with integration of acquired product lines, companies and
services, as well as a number of other risk factors that could affect
the Company’s future performance. For further information about risks
the Company and American Software could experience as well as other
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