Product Lifecycle Management in Buyerplan

Buyerplan Range Buyer with Supplier Interaction provides full Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) functionality for Retail Fashion companies. Buyerplan PLM covers the key functions of design specification, supplier collaboration, sample control and garment fitting, support for selection and 'critical path' progress management.

Although Fashion Retailers have always included PLM as part of their process, it has been handled through technologies such as fax, email, spreadsheets and word documents, leading to multiple keying of information and different versions of the truth.

With the requirement for reduced costs and ever decreasing lead times, Buyerplan PLM offers a speedy single channel for the accurate exchange of information between Head Office and Suppliers.

Buyerplan Range Buyer and Supplier Interaction modules have been developed over several years in conjunctions with the Design, Buying and Merchandising teams at Per Una, where all products sold by this extremely successful fast fashion operation for Marks & Spencer must pass through the Buyerplan PLM process.

Buyerplan PLM delivers increased profitability from:

• better balanced ranges
• improved delivery performance
• lower cost to produce range storyboards and store briefs
• enhanced and more efficient collaboration with suppliers
• faster pace from design to sample to production to delivery

The ease-of-use of Buyerplan PLM means that it can also be implemented quickly and hence its benefits can be delivered without delay.