Infor, a specialist in the cloud industry, announces that the designer and manufacturer of clothing and underwear Lemahieu, a French company with a strong societal, environmental, and local identity, has acquired Infor's multi-tenant cloud ERP solution specifically dedicated to the vertical sectors of fashion and textiles:Infor CloudSuite Fashion.
Founded in 1947 and based in the Hauts de France, Lemahieu has presented itself since its origins as a family SME with a strong local identity. Proud of its know-how and responsible brand image, it embraces each successive revolution related to technological innovations, particularly in IT.
Since 2019, when the company was taken over by Martin Breuvart and Loïc Baert, it has recorded significant growth at its scale, increasing from 90 to 130 employees in less than 36 months. It is now engaged in a project to restructure its production processes using the Infor CloudSuite Fashion business solution. This is to better respond to the dynamics of its market and the quality and societal and environmental responsibility requirements it has imposed on itself, which are fully embraced by the brand's customers.
“We are deeply committed to the values we promote, which clearly foster a positive dynamic within a textile industry that we want to be local, responsible, and high-quality,” says Loïc Baert, co-managing director of Lemahieu. “For us, the challenge with implementing Infor’s ERP was precisely to continue ensuring—and even strengthening—our positioning as a producer by adopting increasingly controlled production processes,” he adds.
Behind the image lies a complex industrial dynamic for Lemahieu, which controls the entire production chain—from product design to manufacturing, through quality control and final shipment. “All the data and information generated by our various business functions at each stage of production must be immediately usable, enabling us to accelerate our processes through a global, real-time view. Not to scale up production, but to diversify it in order to meet the specific expectations of clients seeking to differentiate themselves with original and customized products.”.
Lemahieu a sondé plus de 20 solutions logicielles avant de porter son choix sur Infor CloudSuite Fashion. Lacking an internal CIO, the company worked with a consultant and its production director, Alexandre Payoux, who was already familiar with the Infor M3 solution (the backbone of the Infor CloudSuite Fashion solution). It is undertaking to integrate CloudSuite Fashion in close collaboration with Infor's partner,Authentic, whoseimplementation methodologyand thesupport approachfocused on proximity haveconvincedandreassuredLemahieu about the progress and thesuccess of the project.
« The project is ambitious for an SME used to processes inherited from aging solutions but deeply rooted in practices and corporate culture,” says Fabrice Caumette, Operations Director of Authentic. “That said, thenumerous referencesin the fashion and textile sector displayed by Infor (Zadig & Voltaire, Orchestra, Chausport, Dresco…) havereassured the clientabout the product's ability to incorporate its specificities and to integrate all of its businesses within an agile, modern, and scalable tool. The young employees, 'digital natives', recently integrated into the company will quickly be able tomaster the solutionand leverage the consolidated data to generate long-term growth,” adds Fabrice Caumette.
For Infor, the project is also ambitious in that it must demonstrate the capability of a robust enterprise solution to meet the specific requirements of a company whose relatively modest size conceals a complex organization.business processesas well asnumerousandcomplex. "Lemahieu is not just another player in one of the most dynamic industrial sectors in the world," says Philippe Maillet, Sales Director France SMB & Channel. "The quality of its products, stemming from an organization – from design to shipping through production – inshort supply chain, its willingness to respond quickly to specificcustomer ordersfrom clients very attached to strong socio-environmental values, are all elements to be integrated into the IT project. InforCloudSuite Fashion is the appropriate solutionto meet this type of challenge, not only because of itsfeatures dedicated to the textile industry,but also thanks to itscloud deployment. This allows for great flexibility and a management of system security that ensures Lemahieu's exclusive control over its data – hosted by our partner AWS – and their access."
"The challenge for us with the implementation of Infor's ERP project was precisely to continue to guarantee, or even strengthen, our image as a producer by adopting increasingly controlled production processes."
Loïc Baert
co-manager of LEMAHIEU
