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Designed for Consumer Goods & Fashion (Apparel/Textiles/Footwear), DXC Product Lifecycle Management eliminates manual processes and optimises design collaboration to ensure the right people can access the right information, at the right time.

How do you control and release a new range of products?

The apparel, textile and consumer goods industries are the largest implementers

of DXC Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. In the face of unique and

demanding requirements, where every delay can have disastrous impacts, PLM

helps to streamline business processes and eliminate inconsistencies to create the

most efficient and profitable company possible.

DXC Product Lifecycle Management is built entirely within Microsoft Dynamics

365, offering a solution to empower collaboration and streamline the entire

product lifecycle, from ideation to final delivery; empowering users to make better

decisions about product development, management, design and production.

Benefits

• Reduced time to market

• Introducing standard work

practices

• Early elimination of

non-profitable product

development

• All product development data

in just one place

• End-to-end visibility including

sampling and sourcing

• Supplier performance rating

• Partner collaboration

Improve efficiency, minimise wastage, reduce time-market and maximise profits.

for Microsoft DynamicsDXC Product Lifecycle Management

Empower collaboration and streamline the product lifecycle

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Used by leading global brands, it empowers users to create higher-quality

products, reduce wastage and increase on-time launches.

Companies that implement PLM speed their time-to-market and save thousands of

dollars each year on design and production costs.

Remove the risk of human error and build repeatable templates with pre-defined

steps and timelines. Launch templates and modify desired timelines to meet

agreed customer commitments.

Automatically allocate tasks to teams, departments or individuals and easily track

tasks and critical path bottlenecks.

Powerful functionality extends Microsoft Dynamics 365 with:

• User-friendly interface, designed for non- technical staff

• Critical path management to quickly identify bottlenecks or issues, with ability to include third- parties like suppliers

• Bill of Materials wizard for fast, simple and visual creation

• Supports automatic size grading

• Items are created using a repeatable, workflow process for maximum efficiency and accuracy

• Includes an updated configurable Item Form showing images, pricing matrix, and quantity on hand; all in one form

Features

• Item / SKU Creation Wizards Confirmed new items and ranges created automatically from wizards flowing from item approval

• Templates Establish repeatable, efficient processes for new product introduction, changes, end-of-life and supersession

• Item Inquiry and Catalogue Full search capabilities of items including search by Attributes. Create new Catalogues on the fly

• Costing Sheet A comprehensive costing pricing sheet utilizing data from Dynamics 365. Determine product feasibility, reviewing margins, pricing and model costs

• Bill of Materials Use the BOM creation wizard to update components, trims, fabrics, etc. with images as Technical Specifications

• Manage Internal and Supplier Activities Track and manage all of the steps for new product design, procurement, first article, and market introduction Track and manage vendor samples using Vendor Collaboration within Dynamics 365

Companies that

implement PLM speed

their time-to-market

and save thousands of

dollars each year on

design and production

costs.

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Measurement Templates

Measurement templates can be

setup to hold the measurements for

a standard garment and tweaked to

suit the individual item, automatic

grading can be applied. Linking the

measurements to the position.

Bill of Materials Designer

• Design the Bill of Material using a

BOM wizard.

• Filter the components for fast and

visual creation.

• Display on the Tech Pack for the

Suppliers accurate Quote or Build.

Item Dimensions Grid

• Grids are used for items with

configuration/colour/size

combination.

• A grid with the inventory

dimension combinations is

displayed within many forms

including Purchase order, Sales

order, Transfer order, Sales

quotation, Forecast entry,

Profit/Loss and Movement

inventory journals.

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DXC Product Lifecycle Management is fully integrated and lives within:

• Dynamics 365 Inventory, where all of your SKU’s, bill of materials, item

characteristics and pricing is retained.

• Dynamics 365 Trade agreements with full supplier costing history, terms and

specifications.

• Dynamics 365 Workflow allowing for internal staff approvals of product data

that can be created with information from various departments.

Activities and Critical Path Planning

• Build repeatable templates with pre-defined steps and time lines. Launch

templates tuning desired time lines against agreed customer commitments.

• Automatically allocate tasks to teams, departments or individuals.

• Track tasks and critical path bottle necks.

• Link to an item, a dimension such as a new colour or size, or a purchase order for

full flexibility.

Images and Template Library

• Document Management to import images en-masse from a server folder location

• Upload Templates for re-use for example Packing Instructions, Swing Tags, and

Labelling

• Upload sizing specifications templates including automatic size grading

• Create Bill of Materials using a BOM wizard with flexible filtering of components

(Trims) allowing efficient and simple BOM creation.

Supplier

• Ability to include third parties in critical path management

• Supplier Ordering. 100% integration of purchase with

• “Tech Pack” including supplier order.

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Critical Path Management

• Manage the critical path with this

easy to view and filter form.

• Determine at a glance any

bottlenecks or issues with the

product lifecycle.

• Search for activities by role,

employee, due date and item

categories.

Image Library

A library of Images and Texts that

can be reused in templates which

are attached to products and

added to the Tech Spec. It is also

possible to swap an image with a

new image and have all existing

items be updated.

Samples Management

• Utilise D365 Vendor

Collaboration to quickly and

easily communicate with

Vendors and manage sample

requests

Templates Library

• Activity (Critical path) templates

can be created based on

standard activities that occur for

an item group.

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Item Inquiry and Costing Sheet

• Item Inquiry by any feature

• New Item Inquiry for Costing

• Profiles cost make up and supports modelling additional costs

• Profiles pricing options

• Project margins for a SKU item or a range

• Mass update options to change pricing.

Costing Sheet

• Replace complex, difficult to

maintain spread sheets with this

comprehensive costing sheet

to determine sales, retail and

purchase prices.

• With inputs from sales

quotations or RFQ’s a “deal”

can be reviewed or feasibility of

product can be attained.

Item Inquiry

The item inquiry presents all the

information required to make quick,

simple decisions in a configurable

format. The DXC Product Lifecycle

Management solution has access to

Sales, Purchase, On Hand matrix,

and SKU pricing in a matrix. This

form can generate catalogues for

presentation, emailed or printed and

given to customers.

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The right partnerships

DXC Product Lifecycle Management is available from DXC Eclipse, a practice

within DXC Technology.

DXC Eclipse helps enterprise and mid-market companies accelerate digital

transformation, solve business challenges and deliver intelligent solutions that make

a difference for clients, employees and partners. We believe in delivering expertise,

project transparency and excellent customer service in every engagement. With

team members in North America, EMEA, Asia and Australia-New Zealand, we are

uniquely positioned to deliver Microsoft Dynamics 365, ERP, CRM, business process,

analytics and collaboration solutions to clients across the globe. The largest

independent Microsoft Dynamics partner in the world, DXC Eclipse serves more than

4,000 clients across multiple industries. Our practice delivers services and solutions

that make a positive impact on our world today and into the future.