WHERE DOES PLM END AND HOW DOES IT FIT WITH OTHER BUSINESS SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGY?

摘要

It's commonly thought that PLM starts with a sketch and ends when a product and its components are "approved for production," but this is an outdated view. Getting the most out of PLM in the fashion industry means starting earlier with budget and trends, following calendars through development, and then linking product information with other business systems. Additional data needed to analyze sales performance or make decisions about future products is often housed in these other systems. Very often, getting to this information requires export from multiple systems and further wrangling via a spreadsheet or two, but this needn't be the case. Extending PLM by connecting and cross-referencing to other systems allows essential data to be housed in one place.