Capture It for iPhone App enables easy capture, markup and sharing of visuals for trend board development.
Centric’s new Capture It for iPhone App moves PLM out into the real world – to the places where designers, buyers and suppliers make style and development decisions. The app lets users take photos and upload them directly into the Centric 8 PLM system quickly and easily, making them instantly available to key team members for review, mark-up and analysis.
Centric’s CEO Chris Groves explains it like this. “Until now, product teams have been restricted to using PLM systems within the boundaries of the office place. Inevitably, product information that should have been captured within the system quickly was delayed—or not captured in the system at all, and these conditions led to delays and errors, and adversely affected costs and quality.”
Mobile apps for PLM break those within-the-cubicle barriers and restrictions. And, they free product development teams—and the PLM system they need—to meet product innovation and development processes wherever and whenever they are encountered.
Groves adds, “Bringing mobility’s speed and convenience to Centric 8 PLM, the Capture It for iPhone App provides a key tool to help product developers capture inspiration, accelerate innovation, decrease costs and ensure the right products get to the market.”
So what exactly does this mean to your teams?
With Capture It for iPhone App, designers accurately capture trends anywhere, anytime inspiration strikes. Mobile photos combine with Centric’s powerful storyboard capabilities to make it faster, easier and less costly to get on-trend information into the development process.
The app enables simple, quick and visual communication, so evaluating samples from suppliers becomes much more accurate and time efficient. It’s easier for technical designers to determine if samples meet specifications. Communicating changes to the supplier becomes more efficient. Combined with the canvas and mark-up capabilities in Centric 8, specific and immediate mark-up comments can be communicated to suppliers….and everyone on the team.
For buyers Capture It for iPhone App speeds up transactions and the customization process on buying trips. Reps can capture initial supplier offerings more accurately. Back-and-forth email communication is replaced with a more visual, simpler and faster means, via the iPhone app.
This is Centric’s second patent-pending mobile app for the fashion and apparel industry. Collection Book iPad App—the first PLM product for the apparel industry to link PLM data directly to customers through an interactive mobile device—has already created quite a buzz.
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