Bogota, Colombia & London, UK – 28 May, 2025 – Coats Digital is pleased to announce that that Manufacturas Eliot, one of Colombia’s leading fashion textile groups, has selected VisionPLM to advance its digital transformation strategy. The solution will optimise product lifecycle management across its portfolio of brands—Patprimo, Seven Seven, Ostu, and Atmos—enhancing collaboration, streamlining operations, and enabling greater speed to market.
Founded in 1957, Manufacturas Eliot is a vertically integrated manufacturer producing over 20 million garments annually. Renowned for delivering high-quality, accessible fashion, the group continues to invest in technologies that support sustainable growth and operational excellence.
The implementation of VisionPLM demonstrates Elliot’s strong commitment to end-to-end digitalisation across the value chain. By introducing VisionPLM, Eliot aims to improve product development agility, reduce time-to-market, and ensure seamless communication across cross-functional teams.
Juliana Pérez, Design Director, Seven Seven, commented: “From the design team’s point of view, we’re really excited about implementing VisionPLM, as it will allow us to manage our collections in a more structured way and collaborate efficiently with other departments.”
Angela Quevedo, Planning Director, Manufacturas Eliot, added: “VisionPLM will significantly improve the planning and coordination of our operations by enabling a more accurate flow of information and reducing response times across the supply chain. It will also help us optimise processes and accelerate decision-making.”
Tailored specifically for the fashion industry, VisionPLM integrates tools that boost development speed, improve traceability, and enhance decision-making. By centralising design, sourcing, and supplier collaboration in one digital platform, the solution enables a streamlined, transparent, and responsive approach to managing collections.
Oscar González, Coats Digital – LATAM, said: “We’re proud to continue supporting Manufacturas Eliot on its digital transformation journey. The adoption of VisionPLM marks a key milestone in advancing its fashion innovation strategy—enabling faster, smarter decision-making and more agile collaboration across teams and suppliers. Its helping to build a future-ready, connected operation that’s fully aligned to the demands of today’s fashion market.”
About Manufacturas Eliot
Manufacturas Eliot is one of Colombia’s premier companies in the textile and apparel sector, recognised for its innovation and commitment to accessible, high-quality fashion. Through its brands Patprimo, Seven Seven, Ostu, and Atmos, Eliot has become a household name in Colombian fashion, blending technology and creativity to lead the market in modern manufacturing.
About Coats Digital
Coats Digital is the leading digital transformation partner for the fashion supply chain, powering sustainable processes and high value insights through connected technologies. We leverage deep industry and technology expertise to help brands and manufacturers optimise, connect and accelerate business critical processes from design and development to method-time-cost optimisation, production planning and control, fabric optimisation and shop floor execution.
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About Vision PLM
Part of Coats Digital’s Brand Suite, VisionPLM is an intuitive Product Lifecycle Management solution designed specifically for the fashion industry. It supports fast, efficient product development by seamlessly integrating design, materials, sourcing, and supplier collaboration.
VisionPLM offers a robust blend of core PLM and sourcing capabilities, streamlining processes from initial concept through to supplier capacity management and purchase order tracking. The result is greater visibility, coordination, and control across internal teams and external supply chain partners—ultimately helping brands bring products to market faster, more efficiently, and more profitably.
