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3. global trading systems, inc. • Background • Incorporated in 1995 • Offices in USA and Asia • Who we serve • Footwear • Headwear • Apparel • Software Applications • SoftShoe and SoftShoeStyle • HeadsUp • Texelerate

4. global trading systems, inc. • Specialization • PLM Applications • Consumer Goods Industries • Highlights • 1995 - GTS incorporated. - SoftShoe announced for Oracle and MSSQL1996 - British Shoe completes implementation in Taiwan and UK • 1997 - First US customers signed and go live in US, Taiwan and China • 1999 - K-Swiss licenses SoftShoe for use worldwide • 2000 - New modules for Line Manager and Materials Management delivered • 2002 - American Pacific goes live in Ohio, California and Shanghai 2004 - Conversion to Internet (IP) version completed for all releases 2007 -LaCrosse/Danner license SoftShoe 2008 -LaCrosse/Danner license apparel version of SoftShoe- Corporate agreement with gCap to assist in marketing and licensing technology to headwear companies 2008 - Material Management upgraded to include testing, sampling and adoption 2010 - SoftShoeStyle launched - HeadsUp launched

5. The world market for Hats, Caps, and Millinery is projected to reach $6.3 billion by the year 2015. • Europe and the United States dominate with Asia as the emerging market. • Global hat and cap sales amount to over 300 million units every year. • What’s fueling this growth? • Surging demand from emerging markets, novel fashion and product attributes. • Increasing demand for retro styled hats and premium, high-priced caps. China is the major production country for headwear.

6. PLM stands for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

7. Why a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) System? • Real-time environment that supports global stakeholder collaboration from product conception to end-of-life disposal. • Provides a single “version of the truth” with a repository of design revision and design to disposal historical information • Brings products and related processes under tighter control.

8. Financial Impact: Top 3 Causes of Lost Profitability • Time to market • Late changes to product requirements • Poor program management • Collaboration/partner performance issues • Product requirements/quality • Incorrect definition of initial product requirements and incorrect translation at lower level • Missing requirements • Unplanned requirements after design and development phases • Product cost problems • Products launched above original target costs • Poor reuse of product components/materials. • Negative impact on product costs. PLM Benchmarking StudyPRTM Management Consultants Source

9. Financial Impact: Summary Industry experts including Aberdeen, PRTM Management, CIMdata Source

10. Financial Impact: Link between PLM Process Maturity & Profitability PLM Benchmarking StudyPRTM Management Consultants Source

11. Summary • KEY TRENDS • Headwear Industry is growing • Higher SKU Count • Rapid fashion changes • KEY CHALLENGES • Staying on top of new products • Information accuracy and timeliness • Document & image control • Management visibility into progress and financial viability • Collaboration with remote staff or independent designers • Duplication of information • KEY RAMIFICATIONS • Failure to launch product on time • Failure to deliver on time • Failure to deliver the right product Conclusion: Heads Up! can help you meet the challenges of the headwear industry.

12. Summary Conclusion: Heads Up! can help you meet the challenges of the headwear industry.

14. First, a tech moment: • Inter-enabled with a thin client. This means you can download it from the web site and run in anywhere. • The ‘client’ is like Skype, or a music player that runs on your PC and connects to a server for information • The PC will need to be a Windows-based PC or a MAC running a Windows virtual machine. • The database is stored on our servers, but it can be installed on a server in your office or at any other location • So, HeadsUp is licensed as a subscription basis. It takes less than 10 minutes to install. • Then you will need to configure a few things like your customers and vendors, and the layout of the Spec print but then you are good to go.

15.  SCENE Features Line Folders: Create them any way you wish whether it is collection, season, year or by customer, season, year. A built-in Line Calendar keeps your development on time. With Heads Up!, you get a more focused look at a particular season in the calendar year. It will be highlighted by a “theme” with a model plan lined up against it. The product creation or design theme will be used as a filter to focus your efforts. Conclusion

16.  Features Design/Product Plans: Capture marketing details, trends, storyboards, colors, initial construction details and financial objectives. Plan allows you to hone in on a specific opportunity, trend, consumer, region, potentials sales and your target price points. Conclusion

17.  Features Style: Spec out the Style and capture style IDs, components, materials, color ways, callouts, suppliers, measurement type and any notes you wish to add about a component. A number of Libraries are available for quick selection. Heads Up! gives you the ability to create and revise Style specs eliminating the need to manipulate spreadsheets. There is complete version control ensuring the latest version is online. There is also an Audit Log to see what user changed what and when. Conclusion

18.  Features Style: Depending on your business, you can capture visuals of anything from sketches to illustrator files of the Style ,patterns, fabrics labels, logos and other new/important visuals. These visuals are part of the Style tech pack, which is critical to getting you accurate samples and making informed decisions. Conclusion

19.  Features Sample Requests: Generate requests (proto, confirm, rework, sales) into an email to your supplier, then track receipt and distribution on-line. No more status emails back and forth. Visibility is complete. Depending on your business, you can capture visuals of anything from sketches to illustrator files of the Style , fabrics and other new/critical specific components. Color and materials details are also captured, which is critical to getting you accurate samples and making informed decisions. Conclusion

20.  Features Financial Worksheet: Input costs and price points, then Heads Up! auto-calculates margin and against plan. Revise it at any time. Margin erosion will naturally occur unless you actively manage your markup percentages even before an order. Competitive price pressures: vendor price increases; and unanticipated component modifications or shifts in sales mix will lower margins. Conclusion

21.  Features Blog: Style-level thread lets you create a communicate at the style-level, with attachments rather than in various e-mails. Conclusion Capture graphics, photos, spreadsheets, line drawings, CAD/CAM files, anything in the BLOG and store it in context, instead of an e-mail thread.

22.  Features Status and Adoption: Track Sample Status Mark Samples as approved. Conclusion Calendars and event planning and tracking tools are essential to ensuring complete collaboration and on-time development of your headwear

23.  Features Business Intelligence: On the fly reporting. Build reports Preview Export to Excel - Financial - Statistics - Status - Timeliness Conclusion Essential to ensuring on-time development of your headwear

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