Let’s just say you were in a meeting with the top dogs and you had somebody ask you a question about something. “What’s the price of this?” It’s all in one place, rather than, “Oh, let me just download this Excel on Dropbox. Oh, my Dropbox is crashing. This is awkward.

SupplyCompass is just making everything more seamless and streamlined. It’s extremely easy to use and the team is very supportive. It saved us a lot of time and we are a lot more organised than we ever were. It’s very easy on the eye. I feel like you could kind of teach yourself if you had to. It’s foolproof.”

How agile are we and how few errors do we make? How fast can we move on things, for everyone? The speed to market is where you can be agile and we can respond quickly to things happening. You need to pay better prices for better people and better ethics, but if you focus on the wastefulness and inefficiencies and timings, you save money. SupplyCompass is bringing that transparency and common language across the supply chain with integration on digital orders and processes and timing. We managed to cut our lead times, the just-in-time materially, by 43%.

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Communication is a big improvement for us. I prefer the way we are NOW working—we have a clear process and the steps are clear. Before we had, say, six steps and every step has its own time limit which you need to check before starting production. Now we can cancel two of those steps, we can spend the time we have on the making of the product, searching for new fabrics and adding new details. It gives us a little bit more space to do what we love most.

Every fashion brand has its own process and how they work. SupplyCompass has given us the ability to grow in our own way—it’s very important for us to have the ability to be flexible.

Just gotta get them to give it a go and once they’re on having a go, 95% of people will realise it’s better than what they’re doing. For me the idea of collaboration with manufacturers and growing the brand with it was big. Tiktok takes 10 years off your age and SupplyCompass does the same to your lead times.

The software that I’ve used before is just so focused on the brand side. And it, like, does not at all meet the needs of a manufacturer. It’s just some floofy design process. THIS is clearly designed with people who are actually making clothes. You all actually know what that means. And that—that means a lot too.

I can upload ideas to a mood board, get an opinion on sizing, move through to ordering samples or a colour swatch. Checking out as if it was any kind of online store—for me, it’s a brilliant, seamless way of handling production, I never actually would have thought possible.