Listen to the webinar, ‘Making the Move from PDM to PLM: A Success Story at Silver Jeans Co.
At last week’s popular Apparel Magazine webinar, Mark Lamont, Vice President of Apparel Services at Silver Jeans Co., shared incredible information with participants about what it takes to successfully move from PDM to PLM software for apparel.
One of Mark’s key themes was ‘staying vanilla.’ He explained that choosing Centric 8′s out-of-the-box PLM software system rather than a customized one was vital to Silver Jeans Co. being able to implement in less than 12 weeks. (This beat their implementation goal by more than a month!)
So why exactly is ‘vanilla’ better? As Mark explained during the webinar, and as Centric details in its white paper ‘A Proven Methodology to Deliver Rapid Benefits from PLM,’ customization is costly on many fronts. Centric 8 PLM for fashion avoids customization by building tons of domain expertise into its off-the-shelf PLM software system.
Customized solutions leave companies with a highly unique, one-off system that meshes closely with the immediate requirements. But, when demands inevitably shift, the customized technology is no longer relevant.
Additionally, customization really drives up the PLM software investment cost. When you consider the software purchase price, the cost of rewriting the PLM software to specific needs, and time spent customizing that could otherwise be used to see the benefits of a PLM system implementation, costs skyrocket.
Finally, customization makes incorporating PLM software upgrades an expensive undertaking. Software upgrades are unavoidable. But, a customized solution can’t make the migration without undertaking yet another expensive customization process.
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