Retail PLM Consulting

Enhance your product lifecycle management environment to drive speed to market and better products for your customers.

Most retailers and consumer brands struggle with common PLM challenges:

How can we significantly reduce our product development cycle time without compromising quality?
How do we integrate sustainability and ethical sourcing into our product development process in a way that resonates with customers but doesn’t drastically increase our costs?
What’s the most effective way to implement digital tools in our product development process, and how do we ensure our team is equipped to leverage these technologies fully?
How can we improve collaboration between our product development and merchandising teams?
How do we balance the need for standardization in our product development process with the flexibility required to address unique market opportunities?
How can we better manage our highly fragmented product data?

Our retail PLM consulting services will help you answer these questions and strengthen your end-to-end product lifecycle management capabilities.

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Retail PLM Consulting Focus Areas

At Parker Avery, we empower your organization to excel in PLM through strategic assessments, solution implementation, process optimization, and organizational alignment. Recent technology innovations, consumer demands, and legislative actions press retailers to focus on digital product creation, responsible sourcing initiatives, and more collaborative internal processes. Parker Avery can guide you through integrating capabilities into your PLM environment to address these components.

Digital Product Creation

Digital product creation is vital for retailers as it accelerates product development, reduces costs, and enhances sustainability. Enabling virtual prototyping and 3D visualization allows faster market entry, efficient design iteration, and data-driven decision-making, ultimately improving customer engagement and sell-through rates.

We help you seamlessly integrate digital product creation into your PLM workflow by strategically selecting and implementing systems, thoughtfully designing processes, and considering organizational impacts.

Responsible Sourcing

The complex and evolving legal landscape and growing consumer pressures for sustainability from the retail /wholesale industry necessitate a proactive approach to evaluating your sourcing process or risk facing legal and market repercussions.

Parker Avery provides a data-driven, comprehensive, and pragmatic assessment of your organization’s proficiency in responsibly managing its supply sources. Our improvement recommendations focus on supply chain operational efficiency and heightened transparency and traceability along the value chain, driving regulatory compliance and enhancing consumer trust.

Guided by Parker Avery’s PLM consulting experts, you can:

Accelerate time-to-market through streamlined product development processes and supporting technology
Increase product success rates with better visibility and decision-making
Improve cross-functional collaboration throughout the product lifecycle
Enhance sustainability and responsible sourcing initiatives with better lifecycle tracking
Drive significant cost savings through process efficiencies

Our expertise ensures you’re at the forefront of digital innovation, driving efficiency and creativity throughout your product lifecycle.

Our retail PLM consulting services help solve your most important challenges through tailored approaches that drive results.

Assessment and Roadmap

A solid understanding of existing capabilities and gaps, as well as alignment on what initiatives are needed to attain a desired state, is critical for successfully solving your most important challenges. We work closely with your teams in assessing your current state and then developing a realistic capabilities roadmap that prioritizes initiatives so you can achieve desired outcomes.

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Business Process Improvement

Business process improvement work may be included in a capabilities roadmap, in conjunction with a system implementation, or as a stand-alone project. Working in collaboration with your teams, we focus on improving, simplifying, and standardizing your processes to drive efficiency and business performance.

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Organizational Alignment

Working closely with your teams, we focus on properly aligning roles and responsibilities to enhance productivity and business results. Organizational alignment projects are often performed in conjunction with business process and system implementation work, or they can be stand-alone initiatives.

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Organizational Change

Regardless of size, scope, and cost, all projects produce better results when a company’s leadership ensures a strong organizational change program is in place. It is critically important that the people whom any change will impact are fully aware of and ready to embrace new ways of working. Effective training and learning mechanisms are vital to ensure adoption and sustainment.

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System Selection

There are a myriad of viable technologies available that may address your specific challenges. However, vendor sales pitches and canned demos cannot show how a system will support your business. We objectively help identify, thoroughly evaluate, and recommend systems that align best with your needs, backed by deep experience with leading retail technology vendors across all functional areas.

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Solution Implementation

To achieve optimal ROI, new systems must support your desired capabilities and drive meaningful business results. This means successful system implementations must go far beyond the technical components. We partner with you throughout all stages of implementation focusing on project management, stakeholder and leadership support, business process design, and impacts on your people.

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