Ruyi Group, China-based textile and apparel manufacturer has entered into partnership with Lectra, a Paris based, the world leader in integrated technology solutions. Through this partnership Lectra will implement best practices and optimize Ruyi’s manufacturing process to move to a lean approach for their apparel design and production for a highly efficient and smart menswear production line.

Lectra will support Ruyi in expanding operations at their Taian plant by supplying best-practice expertise and process optimization consulting as well as hardware and software solutions, to rollout new operations under a lean manufacturing methodology in order to supply a growing number of international luxury menswear clients and its own brands. As the heart of the new operations, includes a lean-ready cutting room for industrialization, preproduction and fabric cutting. Thus, Ruyi will be able to minimize costs, shorten time-to-market and better control quality.

Ruyi, one of the world’s largest industrial supply chains for wool and cotton processing has revenues of more than $5 billion annually and over 30,000 employees, the group has public companies in Japan and China as well as subsidiaries in 36 countries around the world operating a completely vertical fashion supply chain.

Both Lectra and Ruyi are industry leaders in technology development, brand innovation and high-end products. They also share the same vision in terms of growth strategies and product positioning which was the reason behind choosing Lectra as their partner.

They want to build a long-term, strategic relationship between Lectra and Ruyi by doing so, Ruyi will be able to make the most of its current resources, leverage its R&D team and transform traditional methods with leading information technologies, thus promoting the growth of the textile industry in China and even in other countries around the world. The ultimate objective for Ruyi is to establish a globally integrated garment supply chain.

For Lectra, working with Ruyi is an exciting challenge, which will take both companies to the next level. As they feel that Ruyi is not only impressive in terms of size and experience, but also because they are agile and ahead of the times.

Lectra will work with Ruyi to Lectra serves 23,000 customers in more than 100 countries with 1,400 employees and $270 million in 2013 revenues. The company is listed on NYSE Euronext.