The world’s leading footwear & apparel brands trust Material Exchange to create transparency and sustainability within their supply chain through our digital transformation SaaS based solutions.
Material Exchange works closely with brands, material suppliers, manufacturers and agents to digitize and streamline complex supply chains. Our revolutionary platform delivers instant digital material sample sharing, whilst speeding up go-to-market requirements and reducing the carbon impact of the fashion industry.
Working closely with industry regulators such as FDRA and USFIA, along with authorised sustainable certification institutes, Material Exchange provides a credible source of sustainable suppliers and encourages the strengthening of the brand and supplier/agent relationship.
Sustainable development is a key pressure the fashion industry faces, with pressure from global carbon reduction strategies, G7 fashion pack and UN Sustainable Development Goals. Material Exchange enables brands, material suppliers, manufacturers and agents to achieve their own sustainability goals through our digital transformation solution.
Sustainable development is a key pressure the fashion industry faces, with pressure from global carbon reduction strategies, G7 fashion pack and UN Sustainable Development Goals. Material Exchange enables brands, material suppliers, manufacturers and agents to achieve their own sustainability goals through our digital transformation solution.
Brands are making the shift from analogue to digital and from 2D to 3D. Fashion is becoming faster and time to market is becoming shorter. Brands are demanding full transparency into their complex supply chains to help reduce costs and ensure product compliance. Material Exchange allows brands to work with manufactures digitally which reduces the reliance on physical samples, and greatly reduces material wastage for a more sustainable future.
WHY PTC RECOMMENDS MATERIAL EXCHANGE AS A LEADING RETAIL INNOVATION PLATFORM?
An industry-backed SaaS solution that drives sustainable change within the fashion industry. A centralized repository of accurate and instant material data. An instant source of digital material samples that reduces the need and costs involved in sharing physical samples.
Having complete supply chain transparency, the ability to search and select suppliers based on sustainability accreditations, certifications and production capabilities.
A database that allows brands to transparently view supply chain data and broadcast their upcoming material requirements deep into their supply chain. A digital transformation solution that allows material suppliers to instantly showcase their key company details, accreditations and production capabilities to share with brands.
An online tool that’s able to populate PLM data to give development teams line-of-sight into material costs, availability, quality and compliance.
A database that reduces the needs and costs involved in physical sample sharing, reducing the environmental impact, strengthening relationships between brands and suppliers, allowing instant collaboration across the globe, increasing speed-to-market requirements and sustainably transforming the fashion industry.
“ Using a material database has been a new experience for our company. Initially, organizing the information to be included on the system was daunting, however, the Material Exchange team made the process easy to understand and patiently worked through providing the education needed to do everything independently. The seminars in Asia have allowed our regional offices to be on the system as well to evenly spread out the management of the data. As digital transformation continues in our industry, and the Material Exchanges continues to adapt to meet the ever changing needs of the brands, we envision having the platform be a central database for our materials. ”
Tony Marino
Matmarket
“After using ME for a period of time, I can use the system easily now, really appreciate your help. Thank you for teaching me so patiently, I can always solve my questions by reading your steps, and every time I send an email to you, you reply so quickly, which improves my working efficiency. And also thank you for helping me scan and upload some of our leather materials. Thank you for so many things, I could write an essay.”
Cassie Qiaoshi Xu
M-E Administrator at Qiuxia Leather Co., Ltd
“Thanks for the invitation last week, it was an amazing presentation.”
David Tzeng
“Charles&Keith” after the Open Book event in Dongguan, Dec.18, 2019
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Search materials by filter, communicate directly with suppliers in the system, have full line of sight into who on your teams are talking to what supplier, end costly data processing by being able to download specs directly into Excel or your PLM software and many more.
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