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Dovetail Replaces Legacy PLM System with Centric Software

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Women’s workwear company sets the stage for future growth

CAMPBELL, Calif., June 24, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Centric Software® is pleased to announce that Dovetail Workwear has selected Centric PLMTM to drive efficiency into their business. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, outdoor, luxury, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

It’s revolutionary. We’ve never had the ability for our customer service team to pull up the weight of a fabric or see how a spec is grading on a certain style.

Established in 2018 and based in Portland, Oregon, Dovetail Workwear was founded by a trio of women who saw the need for stylish, functional workwear for women. Designer Sara DeLuca created a slim fitting work pant with many pockets, and the business snowballed from there. The company sells tops, work shirts, pants, overalls and outerwear via retail stores and DTC on its website.

DeLuca describes the situation that led the company to seek a PLM solution. “We were living in the world of multiple spreadsheets and email exchanges. That led to discrepancies in information and opportunity for human error if something was updated in one place and not another.”

A focus on size inclusivity results in a high number of SKUs per style. DeLuca says, “Our SKU count is extremely wide, because we’re carrying this array of both waist sizes and inseam lengths.” This makes the design and development process very complex.

Product Design Assistant, Olivia Bakke says, “It’s clunky to send spreadsheets back and forth; the information needed to be in a place where everyone could see it all of the time.”

Dovetail initially implemented a different, less expensive PLM to tackle their issues. Unfortunately, the system wasn’t able to handle the compound sizing. This resulted in work-arounds to get the legacy PLM to do what they needed. DeLuca explains, “Essentially, that system was requiring us to recreate the products from scratch. The work-arounds were so onerous, we couldn’t even create a merchandise sheet for the season.”

Product Design Assistant, Olivia Bakke ended up having to do actual coding. “I was making these complex numbering systems to get products in the correct order. You couldn’t drag and drop. If we decided to put a different collection first in the merchandise sheet, I would have to redo the entire numbering system.”

That is when Dovetail turned to Centric PLM’s solution specifically tailored to small to medium brands. Bakke, who brought it in, says, “Centric PLM will ultimately enable us to grow long term. We can now easily access details that our customers seek—what kind of finishes are on the product, what thread we use, how many pockets. We store all of that data from season to season and it’s a lot of information.”

DeLuca says, “One of the major benefits of Centric is the flexibility to better manage our sizing.” Sample requests and tracking were scattered about, resulting in a time-intensive process. DeLuca continues, “To have the whole sample process be in one place, from the request to tracking the sample with a tracking number available to your sales team, is a vast improvement.”

Of Centric PLM, DeLuca enthuses, “It’s revolutionary. We’ve never had the ability for our customer service team to pull up the weight of a fabric or see how a spec is grading on a certain style. Or look to see if we made a spec change last season, because a customer noticed the waist is fitting a little bit bigger. It’s amazing to have that level of transparency. It is completely changing the way we work together. From a process standpoint, for the product team alone, it’s really quite profound.”

President of Centric Software, Fabrice Canonge says, “We are grateful that Dovetail has placed its trust in Centric Software. We are confident that our platform fits Dovetail’s needs and we look forward to seeing the association between our two companies grow as they do.”

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By women, for women, and with women, Dovetail Workwear is both a young company and the largest exclusively women’s workwear company in the northern hemisphere. Based in Portland, OR, Dovetail Workwear makes all-season, all-reason utility apparel that stands up to the job.

It all started with three women — two with muddy knees, one knee deep in textiles. Together they undertook the challenge to redefine women’s workwear. Fit for the Job. Capable of Anything. We are proud to be part of the women’s workwear movement: a growing segment meeting the demands of women in trades, natural resources, and creative pursuits. Dovetail believes that women deserve more choices in what they wear. We celebrate the female form without sacrificing the function of rugged apparel.

The Maven Slim was extensively field tested on real women from bike mechanics and construction workers to artists and firefighters. Their input helped hone Dovetail Workwear’s products and inspired our commitment to launch a complete apparel line. We are so proud to partner with the women and organizations in trades, physical, and outdoor occupations leading the women’s workwear movement.

Through the creation of high-quality apparel, Dovetail Workwear is providing tools that support women’s jobs and lives. We can’t wait for you to join us and get dirty!

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Aurore Evee, Centric Software, +16479155377, aurore.evee@centricsoftware.com, www.centricsoftware.com

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In Turfan, Xinjiang, China’s first commercially operated microgrid has generated nearly 100 million kWh of electricity

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TURFAN, China, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — On November 13, the Turfan New Energy City Microgrid Demonstration Project, China’s first commercially operated microgrid demonstration project, generated nearly 100 million kWh of electricity, equivalent to saving 29,000 tons of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 77,600 tons.

A microgrid refers to a small-scale power generation and distribution system organized by distributed power sources, power loads, distribution facilities, monitoring and protection devices, etc., which can realize flexible control and autonomous management. Since the end of 2013, the project had been the largest and most comprehensive solar energy utilization and building integration project in China up to that time, with 8.7 MW of photovoltaic power installed on the roofs of 223 residential buildings, generating an annual power capacity of about 10 million kWh.

To promote the physical operation of the project, the State Grid Turfan Power Supply Company invested more than 2 million yuan to cooperate in the construction of microgrid infrastructure, fully supporting the online operation of surplus new energy power generation, promoting the comprehensive utilization of renewable resources in urban buildings, and helping Turfan build a high-quality development demonstration area and a green and low-carbon pilot area.

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Innovations in Guiyang: Adhering to New Industrialization and Promoting High-End, Intelligent and Green Manufacturing

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GUIYANG, China, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — A report by Huanqiu.com

The wave of new industrialization in Guiyang is driving the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry in ways like never before. Guiyang is always strategically oriented toward “industrial structure optimization with a focus on industries”, and has made all efforts to develop “four major industrial bases”, highlighting its industrial economy as the “primary driving force” behind development. Especially relying on its policy edge in renewable energy, Guiyang has rapidly emerged as a national new-energy power battery and materials research, development and production center, injecting strong momentum into the city’s economy.

In October 2023, the CATL (Guizhou) New Energy Power and Energy Storage Battery Production Base, located in Gui’an New Area, Guizhou Province, was put into production. The first phase of the base boasts cutting-edge design standards, characterized by “lighthouse + zero carbon factory”. The high-standard facility employs advanced, high-speed, highly automated, and flexible production lines. It is designed to have an annual production capacity of 30 GWh. After the base achieves the designed production capacity, its annual output value is expected to reach 15 billion yuan. According to statistics, the base realized an industrial output value of 618 million yuan in the first half of 2024, and the year’s industrial output value is expected at about 2 billion yuan.

The Chery (Guizhou) industrial base has also yielded unusually brilliant results in the field of new energy vehicles (NEVs), where Chery Automobile’s self-developed “CHEVOO” new-generation light truck KL71 project is undergoing four-pillar car road tests. The advanced pressing, welding, painting and assembly lines, as well as the R&D lab and the all-electric truck production line, together constitute this “digital intelligent” NEV factory. Moreover, the Chery (Guizhou) industrial base has built, extended and strengthened its vehicle manufacturing industry chain so as to master key parts supply chains and reduce development costs.

The Gui’an FinDreams battery project, as an important move of BYD in Guiyang, is also showing its strength in power batteries for NEVs. FinDreams Battery Co., Ltd. at Longshan Industrial Park in Gui’an New Area has four automatic production lines that are operating at high speeds in the workshop, which produce “blade batteries” which are well-known both in and out of the industry. According to reports, 300 battery packs and 40,000 cells can be produced per day.

Guiyang’s “four bases” – a new energy vehicles and battery materials production base, a resource deep-processing base, a computing power assurance base, and an industrial backup base, contribute greatly to the development of NEV and battery materials industry, electronic information manufacturing industry, and advanced equipment manufacturing industry, etc. Data show that in the first three quarters, the added value of Guiyang’s industrial enterprises above designated size grew by 11%, and the contribution of industrial economy to economic growth reached 39.4%.

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Premialab appointed by Lombard Odier Investment Managers to scale Quantitative Investment Strategies

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Premialab’s technology chosen to enhance QIS scaling, operational efficiency, and risk management.

PARIS, Nov. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM), the institutional asset management business of the Lombard Odier Group, has integrated Premialab‘s industry-leading technology to support the management of their soon-to-be-launched DOM Global Macro strategy. This partnership underscores LOIM’s commitment to onboard innovative strategies in an evolving market landscape.

“Our decision to partner with Premialab is driven by their comprehensive risk management and regulatory compliance expertise,” said Didier Anthamatten, Portfolio Manager at LOIM. “With a strong track record in alternative investments, LOIM remains focused on delivering innovative investment solutions and high-quality returns for our clients. Premialab’s advanced data capabilities are essential in helping us maintain our rigorous standards and provide robust, risk-adjusted performance. Additionally, their platform perfectly matches the DOM Global Macro strategy’s needs, enhancing our risk monitoring capabilities and streamlining portfolio management.”

The DOM Global Macro strategy expects to leverage Premialab’s unique dataset. The full lookthrough across all DOM’s proprietary systematic strategies allows granular risk decomposition and scenario-based analysis at the entire portfolio level. This should help monitoring exposures’ attractiveness, from both time-series and cross-sectional perspectives, and optimizing asset allocation.

Neil Richards, Head of EMEA Business Development at Premialab, said the collaboration with LOIM is a significant addition to Premialab’s growing business in Switzerland and within the wider European markets.

“Institutions such as LOIM, which oversees a substantial portfolio across various asset classes, need continuous monitoring and adjustment to keep their investments on track,” he explained. “Premialab provides the tools for benchmarking and stress testing their systematic investments, ensuring that LOIM’s mandates are effectively managed in terms of cost, risk, and value.”

Premialab CEO Adrien Géliot highlighted that the QIS sector is experiencing rapid growth, driven by institutional investors seeking liquid, transparent, and cost-efficient investment strategies. “Premialab sits at the centre of the QIS landscape, uniquely positioned to aggregate and make sense of the vast and growing universe of data,” he stated. “We are thrilled to be partnering with LOIM to deliver our unique data and risk monitoring capabilities to one of the top global investment firms.”

Premialab’s multi-asset, multi-region platform handles 10 million data points daily. It analyzes over 5,000 investible systematic strategies, with client assets under management totalling approximately USD $20 trillion. Combining the Premialab platform with Premialab Pure Factors®, it provides comprehensive cross-asset quantitative strategy selection and thorough due diligence on strategies available worldwide. Additionally, the platform enhances risk management and reporting capabilities, including expedited and detailed regulatory reporting.

With its unique combination of systematic strategies and discretionary trading, the DOM Global Macro strategy clearly benefits from Premialab’s state-of-the art data analysis capabilities and computational efficiency. The Portfolio and Risk Managers can thus use a shared dataset for risk analysis and performance decomposition, enhancing the portfolio’s robustness and operational efficiency.

About Premialab
Premialab is the leading independent platform that collaborates with leading investment banks and institutional investors globally, providing data, analytics, and risk solutions for systematic, factor, and multi-asset strategies. With offices in London, Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Dubai and Sydney, the company has forged strong partnerships with the top 18 investment banks, asset managers, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies globally.

About Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM)
Lombard Odier Investment Managers (LOIM) is the institutional asset management business of the Lombard Odier Group, wholly owned and funded by its partners since its establishment in 1796.

We provide a range of investment solutions to a diverse group of long-term oriented clients. Our heritage, and our combination of the best of conservatism and innovation, keeps us well positioned to create lasting value for our clients. Our investment capabilities span fixed income, convertible bonds, equities, multi-asset, and alternatives. Sustainability is central to our investment philosophy; we believe it is the founding principle of long-term economic and investment outcomes and will drive returns over the long term.

With over 200 investment professionals, we are a global business with a network of 13 offices across Europe, Asia and North America and have assets under management of CHF 64 billion (as at 31 September 2024).

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