Business: Headquartered in Paris, the Devanlay Group is an international textile
firm, and the global licensee for manufacturing and distributing Lacoste clothing and
accessories. It produces 20 million items per year for Lacoste including 12 million famous
Lacoste polo shirts.
Challenge: Following the growth of its business operations, Devanlay needed a new
approach to IT workload planning that would prevent disruption to transactional systems.
Solution: CA Workload Automation is used by Devanlay to execute more than 6,000 IT
jobs a day. These jobs include processing the orders placed with its factories based on
actual product sales and forecasts.
Result: A centralised and automated approach to IT workload planning and
management has helped Devanlay to improve productivity, speed up the deployment of an e-
commerce model and ensure the timely delivery of clothing and accessories to stores.
