Design Studio

Industry Leading Fashion Apparel Designer Dresses for Success with Acumatica Manufacturing Edition

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Acumatica Cloud ERP solution for Design Studio

Video transcript: Design Studio - Success Story of Acumatica Cloud ERP

Design Studio is named synonymous in end to end sourcing of high end ladies wear. We currently supply to large retailers in the UK such as Primark, Sainsbury and online retailers such as ASOS, Next, Topshop. We are operating in five different locations across Sri Lanka. We had a bespoke ERP solution. It was very hard to maintain, a lot of security issues. Each function had their own software which was not integrated. We did not have inventory reports or proper inventory management. Each report was done manually and that gave us a lot of errors. Usually, an ERP implementation takes around two to three years, but first with Acumatica it only took around six months. The team of Propelon One has been very helpful and I would recommend Propelon One to any business or any PR of us. Desire Studio is a growing business. They have over three thousand employees. Acumatica was an ideal fit for them to be agile and to grow as they need without any restrictions based on their unlimited use access licensing model. Acumatica has become a mission critical business solution for us. It provides staff at the production floor with mobiles and tablets so that they can perform their work more efficiently now. With Acumatica, we were able to have a transparent end to end product life cycle. And our customers can ask us where their product is and we are able to give that answer in a matter of minutes. Acumatica has made our lives quite easy for IT service and it will bring more benefits for us in the future. In our industry, inventories are where our money is. So having real time inventory tracking, that's very important to us. Invoicing and the payments, everything's connected.

Acumatica Cloud ERP solution for Design Studio

Company Highlights

Location

Sri Lanka

Industry

Manufacturing

System Replaced

New to Cloud ERP

Country

Sri Lanka

Number of Employees

1000+

Revenue

$100M - $250M

Product Used

Acumatica Manufacturing Edition

Applications Used

Estimating, Financials, Intercompany Accounting, Fixed Asset Management

Sub-Industry

Professional Services, Branding and Design Services

Instant Access

to reports

Elimination

of manual data entry

3200

users access for all employees

Challenges

Design Studio manufactures ladies’ wear for its branded D2 and Mila Fashion lines and others. It managed five manufacturing locations with a home-grown software system that housed data in silos, which hampered production, inventory processes, and reporting. The company’s rapid growth led to a proliferation of spreadsheets, people to manage the spreadsheets, and errors. It didn’t track production or orders, and inventory wasn’t tracked in real time.

“Before Acumatica, we had issues in manufacturing workflows that slowed the production lifecycle. We also lacked a good reporting solution to make important decisions for the business.”

Devin Samayamanthri, Chief of Staff

Design Studio

ERP Solution

Acumatica Manufacturing supplied many of Design Studio’s requirements. It provided a unique pricing model with unlimited users, which was important for a company with 3,200 employees. Acumatica’s cloud-based platform seamlessly integrates with third-party applications including Design Studios’ Microsoft ecosystem. The platform is intuitive and easy to use, which would help drive adoption. Acumatica also provided tools to streamline operations and a modern system upon which it could grow.

“Acumatica had everything we were looking for. It is fully managed with round-the-clock support, it is modular, and easily integrates with our HR and Payroll system.”

Devin Samayamanthri, Chief of Staff

Design Studio

Outcome

Design Studio gained a real-time, 360-degree view of its inventory, which streamlined production and operations. Executives acquired integrated, personalized dashboards that provide instant data visibility and save significant time. Design Studio streamlined business processes and created automated workflows that eliminated duplicate entries and the need for more data-entry staff. The company improved accuracy, boosted employee productivity, and increased customer satisfaction.

“Acumatica is a great platform with open APIs, a dependable SaaS platform, and has been very beneficial for our apparel manufacturing business.”

Perera Harini, Head of IT & Business Analysis

Design Studio

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