Apparel Magazine/AMR Research’s recent study, “Top Technology Trends in the Apparel Market” found that nearly three out of four respondents did not expect to see a return on their product design, product development, or sourcing technology investment for 12-18 months – or longer!
At Centric Software, we believe that such expectations of benefit delivery are unreasonable. Instead, Centric believes that apparel, consumer goods and retail companies with hard lines, soft lines or both should expect – even demand – to see meaningful returns on PLM investments within one product cycle, or six to nine months.
Our implementation methodology focuses on five key steps to achieve rapid returns:
- Step 1 – Find and prioritize problem areas.
- Step 2 – Assure the selected technology can deliver enterprise-level impact.
- Step 3 – Ease of use and user adoption are critical.
- Step 4 – Modularity is key.
- Step 5 – Avoid customization.
Customers who leverage this methodology have seen results within one product cycle — six to nine months or less.
Check out these customer examples.
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