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Empowering retail brands by streamlining development and
adopting PLM practices for speed and innovation.

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Boosting Retail Efficiency with Scalable PLM

The retail industry is rapidly evolving due to increasing consumer expectations, shorter product lifecycles, and the rise of omnichannel demands. DxP Services enables retail brands to adopt PLM best practices that boost speed, efficiency, and innovation throughout the value chain.

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With deep PLM expertise and extensive experience supporting global retailers, DxP Services combines industry insight with solutioning excellence tailored to the fast-paced retail environment. Leveraging PTC’s leading technologies, we deliver scalable, best-practice PLM solutions covering the entire product lifecycle—from concept to shelf. Our offerings span line planning, specification management, packaging development, supplier collaboration, change management, and seamless integration with sourcing and supply chain systems, enabling retailers to innovate faster, reduce time-to-market, strengthen supplier collaboration, and adapt quickly to shifting consumer demands.

DxP Services Retail Offerings

Leverage AI-driven innovations and streamlined processes to enhance efficiency, agility, and sustainability.

AI-Enabled Innovations

DxP Services is transforming retail PLM with AI-driven, vision-powered apps like Image-to-Attributes that extract product details—like silhouette, fabric, and prints—while Image-to-BOM cuts manual effort and errors. Seamlessly integrated into PLM, these solutions accelerate speed-to-market, enhance efficiency, and enable smarter, more agile product design, development, and delivery.

Next-Gen Test Automation

DxP Services transforms PLM quality assurance with AI-driven test automation for platforms like FlexPLM and Windchill. Our intelligent, GenAI-powered frameworks deliver faster releases, deeper coverage, and higher quality, seamlessly integrated with Agile/DevOps. With 20+ years of expertise and 75% ISTQB/CSTE-certified talent, we achieve 90%+ automation and 60% faster execution, turning quality engineering into a competitive advantage.

Trend to Store (DPC/DPD)

Retail success relies on turning trends into products quickly and accurately. DxP Services drives this with Digital Product Creation and Development (DPC/DPD), integrating 3D design, PLM, and supplier collaboration to streamline concept-to-shelf cycles. Our solutions cut sampling overheads, minimize waste, and boost agility, accelerating time-to-market while advancing sustainability goals.

Upgrade & Migration CoE

DxP Services’ PLM Center of Excellence streamlines upgrades and migrations for FlexPLM, Windchill, and other PTC platforms. With proven frameworks, automation, and deep domain expertise, we deliver secure, low-risk transitions—on-premise or cloud. From assessment to go-live, our CoE ensures business continuity and scalable, future-ready PLM foundations for retail success.

FAQs

1. Why is PLM critical for the retail industry today?

PLM helps retailers shorten product cycles, improve collaboration, and reduce costs. Using advanced PLM tools can cut time-to-market sometimes by half.

2. How does AI transform retail product development?

AI automates repetitive tasks like data entry, specification management, and forecasting. The trend among product-centric enterprises to use AI to optimize product lifecycle decisions is gathering momentum.

3. What risks do retailers face during PLM upgrades or migrations?

Risks include data loss, system downtime, and disruption to supply chains. A Center of Excellence with proven frameworks helps mitigate these and ensures business continuity.