19. Financial Impact: Link between PLM Process Maturity & Profitability PLM Benchmarking StudyPRTM Management Consultants Source
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21. Features Line Folders: Create them any way you wish whether it is collection, season, year or by customer, season, year. A built-in Line Calendar keeps your development on time. With SoftShoeStyle, you get a more focused look at a particular season in the calendar year. It will be highlighted by a “theme” with a model plan lined up against it. The product creation or design theme will be used as a filter to focus your efforts. Conclusion
22. Features Design/Product Plans: Capture marketing details, trends, storyboards, colors, initial construction details and financial objectives. Plan allows you to hone in on a specific opportunity, trend, consumer, region, potentials sales and your target price points. Conclusion
23. Features Style: Spec out the Style and capture style IDs, components, materials, color ways, callouts, suppliers, measurement type and any notes you wish to add about a component. A number of Libraries are available for quick selection. SoftShoeStyle gives you the ability to create and revise Style specs eliminating the need to manipulate spreadsheets. There is complete version control ensuring the latest version is online. There is also an Audit Log to see what user changed what and when. Conclusion
24. Features Style: Depending on your business, you can capture visuals of anything from sketches to illustrator files of the Style, patterns, fabrics, labels, logos and other new/important visuals. These visuals are part of the Style tech pack, which is critical to getting you accurate samples and making informed decisions. Conclusion
25. Features Sample Management: Generate requests (proto, confirm, rework, sales) and/or orders into an email to your supplier, then track receipt and distribution on-line. No more status emails back and forth. Visibility is complete. Depending on your business, you can capture visuals of anything from sketches to illustrator files of the Style, fabrics and other new/critical specific components. Color and materials details are also captured, which is critical to getting you accurate samples and making informed decisions. Conclusion
26. Features Financial Worksheet: Input costs and price points, then SoftShoeStyle auto-calculates margin and against plan. Revise it at any time. Margin erosion will naturally occur unless you actively manage your markup percentages even before an order. Competitive price pressures: vendor price increases; and unanticipated component modifications or shifts in sales mix will lower margins. Conclusion
27. Features Blog: Style-level thread lets you create a communicate at the style-level, with attachments rather than in various e-mails. Calendar & Events: Line Calendars are updated when milestone events are updated at the Style-level. SoftShoeStyle Blog captures notes, instructions and attachments for any Style. Calendars and event planning and tracking tools are essential to ensuring complete collaboration and on-time development of your footwear. Conclusion