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Sport Obermeyer is a 65-year-old, world-renowned skiwear company based in Aspen, Colorado, that produces technical, fashionable, earth-friendly outerwear, apparel and accessories.
Manual processes and systems that couldn’t integrate resulted in inefficient workflows, redundant processes and slower time to market for Sport Obermeyer, leading to the company’s decision to overhaul its legacy systems.
Sport Obermyer selected NGC’s Global
Enterprise Suite, a fully integrated suite with best-of-breed applications for PLM, SCM
(Supply Chain Management) and ERP.
“Choosing NGC was not just a decision for choosing a system that was comprehensive, it was about choosing a vendor who demonstrates industry best practices. NGC supports best practices at Sport Obermeyer, from the beginning to the end of our design and production cycles and everywhere in between—NGC is helping us do these critical actions correctly.”
Bannister
Chief Operating Officer
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Prior to Sport Obermeyer’s implementation of
NGC’s software, it faced a number of challenges in design and production. The company sought a solution that would allow it to improve communication with its overseas factories, eliminate duplicate processes, cut weeks out of its design-production lifecycle and provide better cost accounting to eliminate waste and increase profits.
Sport Obermeyer knew that the right solution could have a dramatic impact on its bottom line.
For example, COO Greg Bannister said, “We didn’t have accurate product costing information and had too many components and fabrics. Process-wise, we wanted to be smarter about how we bought materials in the future.”
After struggling with siloed channels of operation, Sport Obermeyer discovered the value of integrated software that interacts with all departments, warehouses and users across the enterprise.
“We needed a PLM system to talk to our ERP and have supply chain capabilities that feed into the warehouse management side.
When all was said and done, NGC was the one responding company that had everything we were looking for in a robust system.”
Greg Bannister,
Chief Operating Officer
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“A lot of companies offered standalone PLM systems, but the integrated suite, combined with
NGC’s knowledge of the apparel industry, made them the right choice for us.”
Greg Bannister,
Chief Operating Officer
Sport Oberemeyer
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Sport Obermeyer selected NGC’s fully integrated suite of PLM, ERP, and SCM software after recognizing that NGC could meet its nonnegotiable key requirements for a new system: complete integration across the enterprise, userfriendly tools, third-party application compatibility, and high-value information sharing.
Sport Obermeyer’s decision to implement NGC’s integrated PLM, SCM and ERP solution has been integral to the company’s mission to innovate its business and continue its positive growth. Knowing that it only had a 4-month “slow” period of the year, Sport Obermeyer planned very carefully to make a smooth, fast transition to NGC’s software.
It was a very organized process, and Sport
Obermeyer worked closely with NGC to keep the implementation on the fast track.
Sport Obermeyer began the implementation process in December 2012, and by January 2013, it had major setups in PLM and data extractions from legacy systems. From February through August,
Sport Obermeyer worked hard to stay on schedule and “train, train and train” its employees on the new NGC platform. By November 2013, Sport
Obermeyer was up and running efficiently with NGC and already focusing on 2015-2016 development.
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NGC’s software is delivering Sport Obermeyer many benefits, such as:
• Streamlined factory collaboration , which allows Sport Obermeyer to communicate with factories instantly in case they need to make changes midproduction, saving considerable costs in the long-term.
• Faster time-to-market and improved workflow . With integrated systems, every employee’s job flows together much more efficiently and data re-entry is eliminated, cutting weeks off of the design-production process. Sport Obermeyer can now get its merchandise into the stores earlier, increasing the potential for reorders and ultimately leading to better sell-through.
• Enhanced reporting capabilities . NGC’s software enables Sport Obermeyer to run highly detailed reports that give the company fast access to information and significant insight into business performance.
• More creative and effective product design . NGC’s fashion PLM software allows
Sport Obermeyer to be more creative in the design phase. The company is better prepared for catalogs and marketing ad campaigns, and can help its customers be prepared for product lines earlier, increasing its customers’ revenues, as well.
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The NGC implementation has resulted in many other improvements across the board at Sport Obermeyer. All systems are currently active, and users have continued to discover new ways to be more productive with the systems.
ROI was reduced from 30 months to 21 months (31% IRR), and more accurate information is helping the company increase profitability. Bannister says the sharing of data supported by the system goes far towards achieving cost efficiencies on the materials procurement side and has improved gross profit margins on components purchased by about 14 percent.
Sport Obermeyer believes it can significantly increase the size of the company with NGC as its strategic software partner.
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“We feel we can double or quadruple the size of our company with the same manpower with NGC’s software, because it allows us to get more productivity out of our current employees. This alone gives us a boost in profit and revenue.”
Greg Bannister,
Chief Operating Officer
Sport Oberemeyer
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