Colour management and communication for better supply chain management

A new entirely Internet based colour system for textile and garment industry and other colour-using industries has been developed. There are many advantageous features that are applicable to the dyehouses, apparel retailers, and merchandisers, such as internet delivery of colour management solutions, digital swatch networks giving huge reductions in lead time and communication costs, enhancing dyehouse efficiencies, removes dye sourcing hassles, allows true technical communication between dye suppliers and customers with sharing dye data. Many of the useful functions such as online shade cards, excess stock sales, ecommerce solution tools, working with existing ERP tools, and online recipes can be performed. This paper discusses the functionality of the Internet based colour system and the applications.