The Leader in Retail PLM

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Out of the Box: Advantages of Preconfigured PLM

PTC Retail PLM Solution

PTC’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution for retail, footwear & apparel includes core technology built on PTC Windchill FlexPLM. The solution enables companies to quickly implement industry best practices developed with market leading companies and achieve rapid time-to-value with pre-configured, out-of-the-box software. With the most comprehensive set of capabilities you can manage your company’s complete assortment of products and bring more innovative and profitable products to market, faster.
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Comprehensive Retail PLM Capabilities:

Merchandising and Line Planning

With PTC, you can plan, communicate and manage product assortments to ensure the right mix and achieve targets. Additionally, collaborative line review and line confirmation enables you to compare up-to-date product development data, such as design aesthetics, suppliers and cost estimates, against merchandise assortment plans in real time.

Material, Color and Artwork Development

PTC enables you to define a classified material library to manage material specifications and standards, as well as to define color standards for color definition and direction. By identifying, developing, and managing materials, colors and artwork for product design and development you can improve selection decisions and achieve greater material and color consistency with internal and external partners.

Concept Development and Creative Design

Define the seasonal direction of your products and materials based on trend and competitive analysis. Design and manage product concepts and ensure product requirements and cost targets are met. With PTC, companies can easily manage complex product lines and enable product developers to more efficiently develop and re-use designs, materials and product specification data to reduce cost and time-to-market.

SKU and Specification Management

Create different types of product specifications to meet the unique requirements of your various product types with PTC. For a given product, manage its BOMs, image pages / sketches, and documents across all of its variants. By analyzing bottlenecks and supplier history, you can reduce sample cycle time and improve suppliers selection.

Sourcing

PTC enables you to plan, negotiate and confirm the global sourcing of products and materials from a supplier network in order to optimize total cost, quality, delivery and flexibility. Additionally, you can create flexible, detailed Cost Sheets for products to capture numerous cost factors and manage costs via multi-level costing by color, size, region and distribution channel.

Quality and Compliance

Manage testing for products and materials, and build quality and compliance into the earliest phases of product design and development. Alerts and reporting allow companies to be proactive about quality issues. The result: better performing products without sacrificing margin.

Vendor Portal

PTC’s vendor portal enables you and your supply chain partners to collaborate directly on product development data. With the ability to request quotes, confirm orders and provide supplier access for material and product development, you can bring products to market faster and reduce development costs.

Mobility

Instantly access PTC Retail PLM solutions directly from your iPad or iPhone. Regardless of whether you’re meeting at headquarters, a supplier’s facility, or traveling the world, PTC Windchill Mobile gives you up-to-date visibility on product and process information - anytime, anywhere.

Enterprise Performance, Security and Scalability

PTC delivers a highly scalable and secure PLM infrastructure that is designed to adapt as your business changes. It provides robust data security and access control. The solutions are designed to deliver high availability and include advanced monitoring and optimization tools to ensure high performance for your global team’s needs.

PTC Value-Ready Deployments

The PTC Retail PLM solution optionally offers industry-specific best practices and pre-defined process driven services to enable organizations to quickly implement the solution in four months.

Learn why PTC is trusted by two-thirds of the world’s top retailers

Leading retailers are turning to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to handle all critical development and sourcing business processes and enhance supply chain collaboration. Explore the stories on this page to learn how the world’s top retail and luxury brands are succeeding with PTC’s Retail PLM.

Customer Stories

Brooks Brothers: Supply Chain Effectiveness Cabela’s Speeds Innovation Tommy Bahama: Seamless Supply Chain Collaboration

adidas Group: Company-Wide Collaboration Cabela's: Advantages of Pre-configured PLM JCPenney Enables Global Collaboration

Li Ning Increases Global Competitiveness Deckers Outdoor: Time-To-Market Advantages Reitmans: Global PLM Initiative

Patagonia Optimizes Design and Manufacturing

Deckers Outdoor Manages Global Brands with PLM

By managing global brands with PLM, Deckers Outdoor is able to achieve early visibility, real-time responses and consistency across brands, which in turn drives inventory and spend optimization.

Lotto Sport Integrates a Global Supply Chain

Learn how Lotto Sport is using PLM to better control their product development processes. By improving supply chain collaboration, Lotto is seeing reductions in both cost and time-to-market.

adidas Group Achieves Company-wide Collaboration with PLM

Peter Burrows, CIO Emeritus, adidas Group, describes how PTC’s PLM solution enables the company to design new apparel and graphics and have them in manufacturing within 24 hours.