Rachman Ibrahim, Finalist, International Young Interactive Entrepreneur (IYIE) 2008

Rachman established his company with his brother in 2003 with the aim of supporting the burgeoning independent clothing industry in Bandung and Indonesia, one of the country’s most important creative sectors over the last 10 years. Its first software, the Distro Management System (DMS) 2005, came out of 2 years of development, and is now used by over 80 distribution outlet stores and sold more than 120 licenses around Indonesia. Its Dataworks Indonesia, released in 2006, helps independent clothing companies build and maintain their websites. Their latest software, the Clothing Management System (CMS) 2007, supports the industry manage their product identification, sales transaction, distribution, as well as financial reporting.

Indonesia Jury citation:

“Rachman has been showing a local genius in seeking the solution gap in the growing local industry namely garment & fashion industry which is now becoming the dominant SMEs industry in Bandung, West Java. He comes with a simple, efficient, easy-to-use, and affordable supply chain system. Moreover, his solution, then now, has been considered to be the standard system for the industry including its indexing system.

He smartly developed a compelling business model, which is believed to be a sustainable one, where users pay the system as a service with low cost investment. This solution and model potentially can be widely adopted to leverage other similar SMEs industries in Indonesia.

It is convinced that by continued innovation and persistent effort shown so far, he will be a great model of young creative entrepreneur”