thestitch - B2B Textile Exchange

theStitch Platform is designed to leverage on internet technologies to deliver a new generation, cost effective Procurement and Decision Support Solution to the apparel and textile industry - that focusses on empowering managers in these sectors to do business more efficiently.

theStitch Solution comprises of two essential modules

• theStitch Procurement Platform is a comprehensive "design-to-delivery" sourcing solution
  
• theStitch's suite of Decision Support Solutions is the knowledge platform that provides managers with all the information they need to take decisions in a quick and effective manner

The above modules together help companies in the Apparel Network to collaborate with unprecedented efficiency, which in turn ensures

(a) procurement cycle time reduction
(b) timely deliveries
(c) reduced costs

theStitch Procurement Platform is designed to facilitate sourcing cycle time reduction and improve operational efficiencies

Key Features

• Incorporation of best practice business process that largely simulate the real life situation
  
• Exhaustive supplier profiles and in-built capability analysis tools allows buyers to evaluate new suppliers in a matter of minutes
  
• The personalised procurement page is your cockpit - to control and view the status of all orders, negotiations, orders being fulfilled, etc
  
• Exhaustive RFQ Templates ensures that buyers provide complete specifications up-front.
  
• Collaboration tools not only allows for on-line negotiations but also makes the entire task extremely simple.
  
• theStitch Order Tracker ensures that buyers can track the status of their order throughout the production cycle

Technology:
The complete exchange is built on a IBM Netfinity Server platform with IBM WebSphere Advanced Edtion V3.5 and IBM Universal Database DB2 V7.1.
The business logic and the presentation layer for the exchange are encapsulated through a sub system based architecture that defines the processes and their integration mechanisms through a Unit and Container based sub system framework.

The complete framework is implemented through Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) and builds on a session less bean interface for communication with JSP scripts. The session less beans are designed to be wrapper interfaces for the entity beans in the framework.