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Up Close is Sourcing Journal’s regular check-in with industry executives to get their take on topics ranging from personal style to their company’s latest moves. In this Q&A, Andrew Wyatt, CEO of digital fashion design platform Cala, shares why supply chains require redundancy and how his company is enabling mobile collaboration for product creation.
Name: Andrew Wyatt
Title: CEO
Company: Cala
Tell us about your company’s latest product introduction:
We’re incredibly excited about this month’s launch of the Cala mobile app. This is the industry’s first mobile application that allows users to collaborate with their global supply chain on the product creation process from start to finish on a mobile device. Fashion brands of all sizes can complete the entire product creation process—from product ideation all the way through manufacturing, e-commerce enablement and order fulfillment—on a mobile device.
Additionally, we also announced 3D prototyping capabilities to its design process. Now, Cala users can request three-dimensional images of their designs, providing a photorealistic view of the fit and materials.
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