Throughout this week’s Nationwide Retail Federation’s “Huge Present” on the Jacob Ok. Javits Conference Middle in New York Metropolis, PTC’s Retail Enterprise Unit (positioned at sales space #3120 on Stage 3 of the Expo Corridor) can be showcasing a launch of the corporate’s industry-leading product life cycle administration resolution, FlexPLM. The platform options a number of market and customer-driven updates — and different improvements, PRC mentioned.
This contains Flex Boards, which is designed to enhance effectivity for product designers, merchandisers and different customers. PTC mentioned the characteristic jump-starts “the ideation course of by simply capturing inspirations, ideas, developments and suggestions in a single place.” The corporate mentioned customers can create paperwork and belongings “utilizing colours, supplies and imagery to set the inventive path for merchandise, placeholders or seasons.” Flex Boards will also be used to simply construct shows “utilizing merchandise and colorways for inner choices and exterior shows.”
One other improve is FlexPLM Licensee, which gives the power “to handle the design and approval course of for licensee and companion developed merchandise at scale,” PTC mentioned. One other innovation is Flex Insights, which connects information throughout enterprise techniques “and applies AI functionality to allow manufacturers and retailers to make sooner and higher enterprise and product choices, together with real-time insights into product, materials and provider information to assist sustainability and CSR targets, with easy-to-use instruments to assist certification and compliance necessities,” PTC mentioned.
“We’re wanting ahead to displaying the complete scope of our industry-leading Retail PLM options at NRF,” says Kyle Marden, basic supervisor of PTC’s Retail Enterprise Unit. “From interactive demonstrations to finest practices and distinctive insights, guests to our sales space will learn to use the newest instruments to cut back their growth time, enhance world collaboration, meet their sustainability targets, and make higher, data-driven choices, sooner.”
PTC mentioned as a part of its interactive expertise at NRF, guests to its sales space can see how PTC options “are being utilized by essentially the most profitable manufacturers and retailers to realize aggressive benefit on an unmatched scale every single day.”
Marden mentioned NRF convenes “the brightest minds within the {industry} to debate crucial matters and supply new views to arrange manufacturers and retailers for continued success. PTC is proud to be a part of that dialog, and we look ahead to displaying guests to NRF 2025 what makes our Retail PLM and different options particular: useability, scalability, safety, the power to handle numerous product classes and multinational complicated provide chains as customary, and the chance to show some really distinctive applied sciences into a bonus when it comes to velocity to market, agility and creativity — each space that counts within the retail market of right now.”