One Fabric. Ten Washes. A Hundred Decisions.

For denim specifically, the PLM has to handle one body across many washes without duplicating the style. Kōbō does this with colourways and per-colourway bills of materials, so a single fit carries its own wash codes, laundry instructions, trims and costs. It covers tech packs, points of measure, sample rounds, supplier collaboration, costing and production in one platform, starts at $140 per user per month, and goes live in one to two weeks.

Build the fit once as a style, then add each wash as a colourway. Every wash carries its own bill of materials, supplier, laundry, cost and approval state, while the base pattern, points of measure and grading stay shared. Changing a measurement on the fit updates every wash at once, which is the part spreadsheets can't do.

Yes. Points of measure are recorded per sample round, so shrinkage between raw and finished garment is captured against the same measurement point rather than kept in a separate sheet. Each round holds its own values, tolerances, photos and fit comments, so you can see how a wash moved a spec across protos.

Each is a supplier record with its own contacts, lead times and documents, and each gets free portal access. A style can route through all three with the purchase order, specs and approvals visible to whoever needs them, so the laundry isn't working from a forwarded email while the factory works from a different version.

Yes. In Kōbō a core fit can be copied into a new season keeping its specs, points of measure and construction, then given new washes as colourways. The lineage is preserved, so you can compare this season's wash costs against last season's on the same body rather than rebuilding the style each time.