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STYCHECO PLM Digital Product Creation Survey for Retail Apparel Accessory & Footwear (RAAF) Market
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Share, Learn and Self-Actualize your product creation experience
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1.
What type of organization / company are you ?
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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?
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Planning
Sales
Merchandising / Buying
Design
Graphics
Textile Surface Design
Fabric R&D
Product Development
Fit Specialist / Tech Deign
Sourcing
CSR
Supply Chain / Import
IT
Executive
VP
Director
PLM Lead
3D Lead
Other (please specify)
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Do you currently use a PDM - PLM system?
(Required.)
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?
(Required.)
Yes
Yes but we made our own RFI & RFP.
No
Other (please specify)
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5.
What functional areas of PLM are currently being used by internal or external stakeholders.
(Required.)
Vendor Compliance Management (VCM)
Line Planning
Digital Asset Management (Color, Artwork, Photo, Raw Material, Specification Libraries)
PDM (Design, Tech-packs, Samples Tracking)
Sourcing
Production
QA
Other (please specify)
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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 ?
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Planning
Development
Sourcing
Production
QA / QC
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8.
Specifically, what takes the most time to update in a TECHPACK?
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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?
(Required.)
Via PDM / PLM directly
Via Email with attachments
Via Dropbox, Box, Sharepoint and email
Skype
WhatsApp
Other (please specify)
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10.
Are you creating TECHPACKs faster and more accurately with PLM or without?
(Required.)
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?
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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)
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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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 ?
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On-Premise - on our data center
SaaS - Single Tenency
Saas - Multi Tenency
Cloud
I do not know
Other (please specify)
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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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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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