Retail, Footwear and Apparel clients address challenges around evolving trends, reduced time to market, effective sourcing and collaboration while improving margins with Wipro’s PLM expertise.  The service aims to support quality and creativity and includes:  

• Merchandize and Assortment Planning: Wipro ensures clients manage product assortment plans based on factors such as past sales and market insights to maintain a profitable mix
• Quality Management and Compliance: Evolving regulations such as REACH and Consumer Products Safety Act have mandated that products not only meet the quality standards but also are sourced without any compliance breaches. Wipro implements solutions to manage testing for products and materials and at the same time helps collect information from suppliers such as materials/substance data and publish compliance status
• Product Specification Management: Product development in Apparel & Footwear industry involves managing a large number of components and undergoing many design iterations and product sampling. Wipro helps clients in effectively managing design and development details of the product and their variations and achieve effective TechPack distribution
• Visual Merchandizing: Wipro implements Visual Merchandize solutions to plan and visualize retail store displays even while products are in the design phase, helping clients reduce the overall cost of mock-ups
• Global Sourcing Management: Wipro helps private labels define processes to collaborate with vendors and at the same time rate them, reduce the sourcing cost and ensure compliance, thereby ensuring that organizations stay on trend and meet committed in-store dates