Product Life Cycle

Product Life Cycle Management

Manage seasons, departments, collections and even specific styles to meet performance targets
Develop line plans that lay the road map for development and specify SKU count by division, category and product
Set financial plans that meet your revenue and profitability goals and confirm that targets are met using bottom-up analytics
Plan sourcing allocations by vendor and region, using capacity constraints to prevent overbooking
Commit to core materials to enable postponement techniques and provide supply chain agility

Replace spreadsheets and emails with a secure, accessible, accurate single version of the truth
Create product data directly or import data from legacy PLM solutions
Manage images, extended attributes and media copy for all distribution channels
Share product information with other systems such as ERP, e-Commerce and retail distribution

Leverage trend and competitive analysis when defining the direction of your products and materials
Design and manage product concepts
Ensure product requirements and cost targets are met
Manage complex product lines
Enable product developers to more efficiently develop and re-use designs, materials and product specification data

Make collaborative decisions with vendors to break down costs and compare by line item to optimize price points and margins
Create multiple cost sheets per product
Perform ‘what if’ scenarios to determine which items hit financial targets

Reduce sampling costs by establishing product viability prior to issuing sample requests
Request samples, track status and enter results with comments and images
Automatically notify responsible parties of any rejections and create additional sample requests with corrections