Outdoor Products

PLM: Enabling faster, better collaboration in product development

With far-reaching dynamics of today’s international supply channel, rethinking the way you do business is a necessity, including your product development process. Whether you are an in-house brand or outsourcing your private label products, you are feeling the pressure of industry challenges to deliver the right products, at the right price, at the right time. Leading Outdoor, Sporting Goods, and Ski companies are turning to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to enable the product development and sourcing processes to include supply chain collaboration. PTC has pioneered a solution specifically to assist a retailer with these demands. Across diverse product categories, PTC’s proven PLM solution provides efficient management of all product-related data and associated processes, throughout the extended global supply chain from initial concept to retail delivery. With over 5,000 employees and 25,000 customers, PTC is the leading supplier of PLM globally. Dynamics Perspective has been working with the Outdoor & Sporting industries for over 20 years. We have worked with companies in evolving their supply chains and still work with both domestic manufacturers and importers. We have supported hard goods and sewn products in the PLM footprint at over 100 companies through the years. The current practice is based around the top product in the world for PLM from PTC’s Windchill family of products. This combined with the best practices approach to implementation and deployment gives your company the top solution available today. Category Management is a key element in PLM. Today it is even more important to purchase the right product at the right time at the right price from the right supplier. Manage assortments (multiple item groups), associated promotions, and the suppliers for the specific items. The integration with Business Intelligence supports top town, or bottom up planning and forecasting. This flows seamlessly into the next step in supporting supply chains.

ERP: Microsoft Dynamics AX:

Increase profitability and success with an integrated, end-to-end business management solution that streamlines your operations from category management through supply chain to point of sale/service (POS). With effective management of products, processes, transactions, and business relationships, Microsoft Dynamics® AX for Retail® can help your organization boost operational efficiency, enhance business insight, and deliver the flexibility you need to take advantage of dynamic market conditions. Microsoft Dynamics® AX for is a robust, powerful solution based on a business model developed specifically for both wholesale and retail organizations. It streamlines all three major parts of the business model: Dynamics Perspective teams with some of the leading AX partners in the world to mesh this seamlessly with the PLM solution from PTC. In fact the PLM products we sell are fast becoming the most recommended PLM by Microsoft today. These AX experts allow you to use the best approach, with the top experts in all areas deployed to your account. Supply Chain Management
Manage key indicators for operational success. Arrange inbound deliveries, delivery of daily store orders, replenishment, and store distribution. Manage return flows from stores. Store Operations
If you manage your own stores, the solutions include support to plan and receive goods from vendors, define put-away strategies, and organize item distribution from warehouse to stores to effectively serve sales and promotions. Move goods through inbound deliveries and manage warehouse activities, home and store deliveries, store logistics (inbound, ordering, and returns), service management,
and sales.

Benefits

• Streamline supply chain processes. Efficiently manage the product lifecycle to help boost operational efficiency throughout your supply chain. Integrated processes make it easy to manage campaigns, inventories, pricing, costs, and discounts.

• Gain business insight. With centralized data management, you can aggregate and analyze critical information from across your entire retail operation to efficiently manage processes and transactions, increase service levels, quickly spot evolving customer trends, and make fast, informed decisions.

• View and react in real time. Administer customer, item, and employee information from a central location to gain improved visibility into real-time sales activities. Improve margins with business intelligence that analyzes critical data from
multiple perspectives.

• Tailor your solution to your unique needs. Categorize items for your specific business, from cosmetics, fashion, and apparel to electronics, do-it-yourself (DIY), bookstores, and gas stations. With data from POS systems, you can set up and control flexible pricing and discounts.

• Maximize your IT investments. Build on your existing IT infrastructure with a solution that integrates POS and back-office systems. Streamline operations by smoothly integrating your retail solution with the familiar Microsoft® Office system.

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