Cleversocks adopts VisionPLM to enhance critical path process management

Cleversocks is a UK based, family owned company that has been in the sock business for 40 years. The company motto is ‘quality comes first’ and this has been both the guiding business principle and the driving force behind the company’s success and growth. Producing for JCB, Pierre Cardin, Bramble and Thermasock, Cleversocks are leading suppliers of specialist socks from diabetic and industrial through to climate control.

With a growing customer base, larger range of styles, and relentless demand to get product to market faster, and more efficiently, Cleversocks recognised that their existing in-house systems and spreadsheets were likely to become an inhibitor to growth. Managing Director, Rajinder Rai, started the search for a system to support his business, with effective critical path management very much at the forefront of his mind.

VisionPLM will provide Cleversocks with the improved visibility, coordination and control they need to efficiently manage all of the key processes from design through to product delivery, and drive improved business performance. The solution will comprise of Product Manager, Costings, Tech Pack, Critical Path Management and Supplier Collaboration. At the very heart of the solution is best in class critical path management, which will provide the Cleversocks team with forward visibility of prioritised tasks, deadlines, early alerts and supporting information.