PLM software vendors see a chance to disrupt the software market by offering differentiated 3D functionality ahead of their competition. First, though, the industry must recognize PLM as an end-to-end business discipline worthy of advanced strategic thinking and technology investments.
Returns fraud has become a universal problem in fashion, affecting brands of all sizes. The best solution lies in the combination of technology and operations.
With unified enterprise systems for greater inventory visibility, algorithms designed to gain deeper product and customer insights, 3D for faster and more efficient design
and development, and much much more, this year’s Innovators are addressing and fulfilling consumer demand.
PLM can speed time to market and it can also slow things down more than it speeds them up. Read on to find out what can go wrong four ways to get PLM right.
We reveal how your peers plan to drive top and bottom-line business growth and look at the trends, challenges and issues impacting 2018 strategies and beyond
3D virtual prototyping for apparel design and product development provides a means of communication centered around a single, digital asset that can be used by all departments, vendors and manufacturers.
Getting the most from digital printing means seamlessly integrating the entire production flow — from the initial design, to pattern making, and then to pattern/image placement on markers— in a streamlined, automated manner using the fewest possible production steps.
Consumers want to purchase products that create the sense of owning a “one-of-a-kind” item, and mass customization is making that increasingly possible.
When fashion businesses use the same solution for product lifecycle management (PLM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP), they bring many critical processes into a common technology platform. The benefits can be significant.
The end game now is personalization — an outcome that's constantly evolving as innovative companies find new ways to create meaningful experiences for each individual that fuse the online and offline worlds and strike the optimal balance between transaction and emotion.
This e-Book will arm you with solid, practical advice for your PLM selection and implementation process -- from the initial RFP to determining business needs and from overcoming disconnects to achieving true successful adoption.
The key to developing a healthy omnichannel business comes from identifying a few competitive advantages in the physical in-store environment that can provide the same sort of seamless types of interactions experienced online.
When you're speaking to different generations, you have to understand the particularities of how they use mobile. Millennials, for example, check their phones no matter what they are doing or whom they are with.
There is an extremely limited amount of data available for the age groups from 6 to 17, and current children's size tables are based off datasets from 1930 to 1970. Size NorthAmerica is a serial measurement survey set out to capture and document the changes of recent years.
Apparel's survey of apparel retailers, brands and manufacturers reveals expectations for technology focus in the coming year, including an emphasis on BI and analytics for gleaning an even deeper understanding of the consumer.
Apparel retailers and brands are trying to meet the needs of millions of markets of one. That’s not easy, but smart and thoughtful strategy combined with technologies such as AI are making it possible for this subscription-model retailer, and many others.
To effectively deliver on omnichannel and wow the consumer, retailers and brands must focus on accuracy, consistency and perfecting the returns process.
