STYCHECO PLM Digital Product Creation Survey for Retail Apparel Accessory & Footwear (RAAF) Market

1. Share, Learn and Self-Actualize your product creation experience

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* 1. What type of organization / company are you ?

Retailer with Private Brands

Lifestyle Brand

Ecom Lifestyle Brand

Catalogue & Ecom Brand

Freelance Designer

Freelance Technical Designer

Freelance Sourcing

Agent

Vendor

Factory

3rd Party Auditor / Testing Lab

Consultant

IT Outsourcing Company

PLM Company

Product Development Company

ERP Company

SCM Company

Other (please specify)

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* 2. What Role or Department best represents your function?

Planning

Sales

Merchandising / Buying

Design

Graphics

Textile Surface Design

Fabric R&D

Product Development

Fit Specialist / Tech Deign

Sourcing

CSR

Supply Chain / Import

Executive

Director

PLM Lead

3D Lead

Other (please specify)

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* 3. Do you currently use a PDM - PLM system?

Yes, fully implemented with all internal and external stakeholders.

Yes but only used by internal stakeholders.

Yes but not using it anymore

Yes built our own

Yes, it came with our ERP solution

Yes but we are having adoption issues and looking to improve how we are using it

Yes and we are looking to replace it.

No using Excel, email and Handsketches

No using Adobe, Excel and Email

No but considering it

Other (please specify)

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* 4. Did your company use an Request for Information (RFI) or Request for Proposal (RFP) from a consulting company leading up to your PLM selection?

Yes

Yes but we made our own RFI & RFP.

Other (please specify)

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* 5. What functional areas of PLM are currently being used by internal or external stakeholders.

Vendor Compliance Management (VCM)

Line Planning

Digital Asset Management (Color, Artwork, Photo, Raw Material, Specification Libraries)

PDM (Design, Tech-packs, Samples Tracking)

Sourcing

Production

Other (please specify)

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* 6. What functional areas are not being used

Fabric / Material Development & Tracking (Hand loom, knit-down, strike-off development)

Packaging development

Factory Profiles

Audit Management

Collaboration

Calendar management

Sample Development

Other (please specify)

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* 7. What takes the longest time in your companies product development process ?

Planning

Development

Sourcing

Production

QA / QC

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* 8. Specifically, what takes the most time to update in a TECHPACK?

Updating Adobe Illustrator Sketches

Updating the Bill of Material (BOM)

Updating the Specifications ( Technical Sketches, POM's, Development Specs, Initial Measurements)

Updating Artwork, Graphics & Textile CAD

Updating Label Placement and Packaging

Publishing / Printing Teckpacks

Other (please specify)

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* 9. How are you sending and collaboarting with your Agents, Vendors and Factories regarding Techpacks?

Via PDM / PLM directly

Via Email with attachments

Via Dropbox, Box, Sharepoint and email

Skype

Other (please specify)

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* 10. Are you creating TECHPACKs faster and more accurately with PLM or without?

I'm not sure?

Yes

Faster but less accurate

Not Faster but more accurate

Not faster and not more accurate

Other (please specify)

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* 11. Can you quantify the time it takes to create TECHPACKs with PLM as compared to without PLM?

25% faster with PLM

50% faster with PLM

75% faster with PLM

No change

75% slower with PLM

50% slower with PLM

25% slower with PLM

I'm not sure

Other (please specify)

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* 12. What efficiency and or benefit have you personally experienced with PLM?

Better and Faster Adoption Ratio

Fewer Samples

Higher Quality

More productive Agent, Vendors & Factories

We are more organized

We can offer more choices to the customer

We can retain more talent in our design and development teams

One Version of the truth

On-line dashboards on calendar performance & time in action

Scheduling and management of key milestones

Prioritized daily "to-do" lists by role

Alerts, notifications and exceptions reports

Vendor score cards (development and production)

Collaboaration

Other (please specify)

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* 13. Has PLM had a negative impact on the product development process and teams?

Too complex to use.

Too many clicks.

Spend too much time entering data.

Techpack are too large in size for Agents, Vendors & Factories to Download.

The system is too slow for our internal & external teams.

Updates takes too long, so they happen externally and added later creating a gap in the data and increase errors.

Upgrades are difficult, expensive and very taxing on the organization

Hired additional temp and full-time resources to support the PLM implementation

Need our Suppliers to enter Fabric & Style data, but the performance is disabling this initiative

Talent is leaving the company because data entry takes too long

Takes time away from being creative.

Other (please specify)

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* 14. How is the PLM system deployed ?

On-Premise - on our data center

SaaS - Single Tenency

Saas - Multi Tenency

Cloud

I do not know

Other (please specify)

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* 15. Are you using integrated Mobile Apps with your PLM Solution?

Yes in Design Inspiration Stage

Yes in the Sample Fitting Stage

Yes in the Sourcing RFQ stage

Yes in the QA stage

Yes in the Line Presentation and Sales Stage

No however we would like to but our system doesn't provide any mobile apps

No but our system does offer mobile apps but we decided not to use them.

Other (please specify)

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* 16. What sketching / drawing tool is currently used in your company?

Handsketch

Adobe Illustrator on Mac, PC and Tablet

Adobe Photoshop on Mac and PC

Corel on PC

Autocad Sketchbook Pro on Mac, PC, I-Pad and Tablet

Other (please specify)

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* 17. Did you want your process and practice of product creation to change as a result of PLM?

Yes 100%, we expected to completely change the way we work

No, we expected PLM to automate our existing process and practice

Partially we wanted our process to remain the same but the practice of product creation to be more collaborative, faster and more scaleable

Other (please specify)

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* 18. How are you integrating Adobe illustrator with PLM in your product creation process?

We have to create JPGs of the Ai files and then upload to PLM

We upload / drag n drop, individual Ai files directly to PLM

We upload multi artboard files to PLM

We use an Adobe plug-in to push our Ai files to PLM

We can create Bill of Material directly in Ai and push it to the BOM in PLM

We can update the BOM in PLM and it will update the BOM in Adobe

We can edit Adobe files from PLM

We can create colors in Adobe and add them to our seasonal palette

We can change colors in Adobe and the data and images in PLM will update as well

We have an Adobe plug-in but it doesn't work very well

We don't use Adobe illustrator

Other (please specify)

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* 19. What type of products do you design, produce and or sell

Men's Apparel

Women's Apparel

Children's Apparel

Footwear

Bags and Accessories

Jewelry

Bedding

Bath

Window

Sporting goods

Hard goods

Furniture

Textiles

Cosmetics / Personal Care

Other (please specify)

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