Retail’s Most Widely-Used PLM Platform. By Far.

PTC leads the world in fashion and retail PLM, with three times more active users than any other retail PLM vendor. More than 1,200 brand and retail businesses have already used PTC FlexPLM to transform their in-house processes, and to collaborate seamlessly with their suppliers, taking advantage of FlexPLM’s unmatched reach into the international supply chain.

Today, more than 226,000 users worldwide trust FlexPLM with their strategic digital transformation objectives and their end-to-end digital workflows. FlexPLM is proven at multinational enterprise scale, across every product category from technical footwear to luxury apparel, with security, scalability and performance that measure up to the expectations of the most demanding retail businesses.

To meet the needs of iconic brands and household names in retail, PTC has invested heavily in cutting-edge research and development to ensure that FlexPLM is the industry’s most feature-rich PLM platform. This commitment has earned recognition from leading analysts, IDC:

  "PTC is differentiated by the industry’s most mature full set of PLM for AFR offerings integrated with strong workflow capabilities from ideation and storyboarding, through R&D, and into the handoff to production." - IDC MarketScape: Worldwide PLM Applications for Apparel, Footwear, and Retail Brands Vendor Assessment

When retail and brand customers select PTC, they stay with us. Our existing customers install more new PLM licenses in a year than other PLM vendors have implemented in their entire lifespans. And prior to the launch of the revolutionary new FlexPLM V12, our industry-leading upgrade program had seen many customers upgraded to modern versions of FlexPLM – giving them an onramp to new features and cutting-edge innovations.

FlexPLM V12: A New Chapter in Fashion and Retail PLM 

PTC FlexPLM V12 is a landmark release of retail’s most widely-used PLM platform, and opens a new chapter in retail PLM: an era of solutions specifically designed for a digitally connected world, and for brand and retail businesses that need to work@digitalspeed.

Built for remote working and global collaboration, FlexPLM V12 introduces several transformational innovations. A new, modern, highly visual and fully responsive user interface puts critical processes, features and actionable insights at user’s fingertips. Faster navigation and optimized, responsive layouts, eliminate horizontal scrolling and reflow to fit almost any device, keeping individuals connected and working@digitalspeed wherever they are.

One of the latest retail businesses to join the PTC family, women’s activewear brand Sweaty Betty turned to FlexPLM during the COVID-19 pandemic, looking for a secure online environment that “would allow [their] product teams to standardize business processes and data sharing both internally and externally” and to establish a single source of truth across its buying, merchandising, and design processes at a time of historic disruption.

FlexPLM V12 also introduces the Visual Line Collaboration app, giving brand and retail businesses a turnkey solution to digitizing their line review processes and making them fit for the world of remote working and collaboration, as well as empowering them to make smarter forecasting and merchandising decisions, cutting line review preparation from weeks to hours.

Integrations and Innovations  

Built on PTC’s enterprise-grade IoT platform ThingWorx, the ThingWorx Retail Connector (TRC) enables FlexPLM users to quickly integrate the different business systems and solutions that make up their technology ecosystems.

Using the TRC, FlexPLM links seamlessly to planning solutions, ERP and financial systems, and virtually any other business solution – all without the need for costly customization. This flexibility and speed have allowed FlexPLM customers to rapidly unlock the value of digital transformation, enabling seamless information flow and collaboration between FlexPLM and other systems that support product development.

FlexPLM also integrates with leading 3D design tools such as Browzwear and CLO to create an end-to-end digital product creation workflow.  Deep and feature-rich integrations allow designers to tap into full PLM functionality from their 3D workspace.

Unlocking the Value of AI & AR

FlexPLM V12 is the only retail PLM platform to come with intuitive, user-configurable AI and machine learning capabilities built-in. In the face of constant uncertainty, brand and retail businesses need to sharpen their competitive edge, and FlexPLM provides the tools to help them react instantly to change, with smart insights and real-time analytics at users’ fingertips.

We have also built on FlexPLM’s class-leading integration to 3D design tools to create an environment that allows our customers to take their 3D assets to the next level, and build complete digital product creation to eCommerce workflows. From range-building and in-house review to immersive consumer-facing experiences, FlexPLM’s augmented reality support delivers on the vision of digital-native design, development, and commercialization.

Connect with Us

The PTC Retail team has experts on the ground in every major fashion hub worldwide, who stand ready to help brands, retailers, and suppliers make the most of the game-changing innovations in the latest version of FlexPLM, and to seize the opportunities offered by technologies like 3D, AR, and AI through our Retail Digital Transformation Platform.

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