At a Glance
$30M
3,300+
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Growing fast — but the tools weren't keeping up
Pivot Apparel launched during the global lockdown as a lean, agile team. Like most startups, they ran everything on Excel, email and manual coordination — tools that work fine at small scale, but not for long.
By 2023, Pivot was managing nearly 2,400 articles annually across multiple teams, a growing vendor network and tight seasonal deadlines. The cracks were showing everywhere.
- Style tracking duplicated and version-confused across teams
- Sampling coordination running over endless email threads
- Tech pack inconsistencies causing costly production errors
- Sales had no real-time visibility into style status or costing
- Buyer presentations prepared manually — slow and resource-heavy
- No system to manage the concept-to-product workflow
One workflow. All the data. Everyone on the same page.
Pivot implemented Axind PLM+ to give the entire business a structured, connected backbone — without losing the entrepreneurial speed that got them here.
Design, PD, Technical Design and Sales each work within connected processes. Suppliers are now part of the live workflow rather than waiting on email chains. And every style, cost and approval lives in one place.
- Centralized style data — one source of truth for all styles, costs and approvals
- Role-based workflows connecting Design, PD, Technical Design and Sales
- Standardized, version-controlled tech packs eliminating production ambiguity
- Real-time supplier collaboration replacing back-and-forth email chains
- Line sheet presentations with drag-and-drop operations for buyer meetings
- Automated tech pack distribution to suppliers — hundreds of emails eliminated
“It's one workflow and all the data is in one spot — every department, every category doing the work the same way. A system that manages your process, your workflow and all your data in one place gives you the ability to scale, the ability to show products to different customers. You don't have to spend the incremental money to keep adding people.”
Before Axind
- Excel for tech packs, reporting and style tracking
- Sampling via email threads
- Manual buyer presentations — hours of prep time
- No consolidated data across departments
- Suppliers coordinated over email
- No concept-to-product workflow system
After Axind
- Axind PLM+ as single source of truth for all styles
- Sampling coordinated within the PLM workflow
- Drag-and-drop line sheets built in minutes
- All data — design, costing, approvals — in one place
- Suppliers plugged into live workflows directly
- Full concept-to-delivery flow tracked and authorized