In a recent whitepaper released by Lectra, titled Stepping Beyond Software – The Modern Approach To Finding Your PLM Partner, the France-based CAD CAM premier has outlined a checklist and methodology for choosing for selecting the PLM for fashion enterprises. The outline presented is a departure from the predominant software-first driven approach which fails to take into account scope of introspection, qualitative evaluation, and change management that underpin the most successful modern PLM projects.
Evaluating the current practices of brands, analysts and forward-thinking vendors, the whitepaper states that they have begun to embrace a set of common reference points that can serve as a template for any project team looking to evolve their evaluation methods. The whitepaper further enlists the common reference points. Examining any prospective vendors’ customer history, verification that the prospective partner has an experienced pool of professional services, demonstration and implementation experts available in your timezone and inquiring the potential partner on integration with ERP, CAD and other solutions are some of the points discussed by the publication.
