Product Manager is the Lawson Fashion PLM product development control core. It is a collaborative management tool used to create, review, share and approve all elements of specs, images, bill of materials, construction details, measurements, colorways, sampling and costing of a product throughout its lifecycle between internal and external partners. It helps reduce product development cycle time thus leading to a shorter time-to-market.
Product Manager comes with an extensive list of best practice, out-of-the-box forms that are customizable and can be adapted to complex business processes. You can create products from scratch, from templates, from existing products, carried over from previous seasons or shared from Storyboard. A product can contain multiple size categories and multiple digital files can be attached to each of its forms. The multi-level variations allow you to create parent, children and grandchildren relationships within the same product. Using this feature, you can source your products from multiple vendors and create product sets.
Linking raw materials from Fabric and Trim and the Library allows a mass update of bill of materials information across products. Products that are shared with Storyboard will be updated as the styles are developed, allowing you to eliminate any unnecessary data entry.
Sample tracking is available from the main request tab and samples can be created for multiple products at any one time. By releasing products to external partners, sample evaluation can start at the factory. The costing feature enables negotiation between internal offices and vendors on component or full-package costing.
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