Gea Soft, an important software house based in Lucca that has been a leading IT reference for leather goods, footwear manufacturers, and wholesale businesses for over thirty years, became part of Datatex – TSG, the global leader in IT solutions for the textile industry, in January 2025.
A New Synergy for the Fashion Industry
From the experience of Gea Soft’s team, now enriched by the know-how and international scope of Datatex, comes a solution that is both cutting-edge and well-established for Production Planning. This solution can add great value for companies in the Textile and Fashion world, from leather goods to footwear manufacturers, from weaving mills to fashion brands. Especially in the current context, where model fragmentation and the accelerated pace of fashion evolution make it essential for fashion companies to have adequate control and optimal production planning.
PPA: The Heart of Gea Soft’s Innovation
The PPA (Assisted Production Planning) module, the flagship of Gea Soft’s offering, automatically and proactively manages the production plan for textile and fashion companies, allowing for total digitalization and automation of all aspects of the production process, with one major goal: to maximize production efficiency, increasing company profitability.
Artificial Intelligence and Automation at the Service of Production
Based on intelligent plugins and Artificial Intelligence solutions, the PPA module is capable of managing every phase of industrial production in advance, creating a forecast and production plan characterized by extreme reliability, ease of use, and maximum flexibility and reconfiguration freedom.
Key Features of the PPA Module
Among the PPA features, we want to highlight:
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Managing the needs for raw materials and semi-finished products, stocks, reorders, checks, and priority reminders for raw materials and semi-finished goods.
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The ability to quickly view information about order status against promised dates to customers, resource saturation, and potential shortages of required materials, using the Gantt chart.
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The ability to easily define, based on production orders (proposed or already in progress), the resource load profile, generating the needs and production capacity plan, managing individual work orders/tags, and repositioning them in real time to maintain the best production plan.
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Creating constraints and booking production resources, maximizing production capacity.
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Highlighting interdependencies between orders and production stages, enabling immediate actions to solve problems and choose alternative solutions, thanks to intuitive and easy-to-use Drag & Drop features that refine the results of automatic scheduling with ease.
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Automatic distribution of work orders across slots.
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The ability to manually allocate resources.
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Visualizing the percentage of production capacity utilization.
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Automatic realignment of planning.
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Synchronization of orders with recurring allocations.
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Synchronization of receipts with recurring allocations.
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Detailed supply chain management and setting of worker production capacity and processing cycles.
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Using the “what if” function to determine the impact on the main plan when production constraints and/or forecasts change.
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Issuing automatic notifications with a proactive system.
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Sending reminders automatically.