Manufacturas Eliot boosts digital shift with Coats Digital's VisionPLM
Coats Digital is pleased to announce that that Manufacturas Eliot, one of Colombia's leading fashion textile groups, has selected VisionPLM to advance its digital transformation strategy. The solution will optimise product lifecycle management across its portfolio of brands—Patprimo, Seven Seven, Ostu, and Atmos—enhancing collaboration, streamlining operations, and enabling greater speed to market.
Manufacturas Eliot, a Colombian fashion group, has selected Coats Digital's VisionPLM to boost digital transformation across its brands. The platform will enhance collaboration, speed up product development, and streamline operations. VisionPLM aims to improve agility, traceability, and decision-making, supporting Eliot's drive for innovation and sustainable growth.
Founded in 1957, Manufacturas Eliot is a vertically integrated manufacturer producing over 20 million garments annually. Renowned for delivering high-quality, accessible fashion, the group continues to invest in technologies that support sustainable growth and operational excellence.
The implementation of VisionPLM demonstrates Elliot's strong commitment to end-to-end digitalisation across the value chain. By introducing VisionPLM, Eliot aims to improve product development agility, reduce time-to-market, and ensure seamless communication across cross-functional teams.
Juliana Pérez, Design Director, Seven Seven, commented: 'From the design team's point of view, we're really excited about implementing VisionPLM, as it will allow us to manage our collections in a more structured way and collaborate efficiently with other departments.'
Angela Quevedo, Planning Director, Manufacturas Eliot, added: 'VisionPLM will significantly improve the planning and coordination of our operations by enabling a more accurate flow of information and reducing response times across the supply chain. It will also help us optimise processes and accelerate decision-making.'
Tailored specifically for the fashion industry, VisionPLM integrates tools that boost development speed, improve traceability, and enhance decision-making. By centralising design, sourcing, and supplier collaboration in one digital platform, the solution enables a streamlined, transparent, and responsive approach to managing collections.
Oscar González, Coats Digital – LATAM, said: 'We're proud to continue supporting Manufacturas Eliot on its digital transformation journey. The adoption of VisionPLM marks a key milestone in advancing its fashion innovation strategy—enabling faster, smarter decision-making and more agile collaboration across teams and suppliers. Its helping to build a future-ready, connected operation that's fully aligned to the demands of today's fashion market.' Note: The headline, insights, and image of this press release may have been refined by the Fibre2Fashion staff; the rest of the content remains unchanged.
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