Give your next product range a shared starting point.
Bring design, buying, merchandising, and sourcing into one product development process. Keep the product information and feedback your next product range needs together.
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iK PLM / Product lifecycle managementWhat iK PLM helps you manage.
Product development brings design, buying, merchandising, sourcing, and planning together. iK PLM gives those teams a shared place for product information, plans, revisions, and feedback, with historical data helping inform the next range and the sourcing decisions behind it.
Shared product development
Visualize and review products with design, buying, merchandising, and sourcing teams in a shared process.
Plans, revisions & feedback
Share resources and update changes, reviews, and feedback through a common dashboard.
Design collaboration
Give the teams involved access to product information and stakeholder feedback as development progresses.
Planning from historical data
Use product performance, market trends, customer patterns, material costs, and margin information when planning.
Sourcing information
Access supplier information and material specifications, and capture and compare requests for quotation.
Link to trading insight
Connect the development discussion with iK Trade sell-through and secondary sales information.
Give every product a shared starting point.
Bring the people behind the range into the process early. The product development workflow lets sourcing, merchandising, and design teams share plans and feedback, with common product information helping buying, design, and sales teams contribute as the product takes shape.
- Share development plans and product resources across teams.
- Capture changes, revisions, reviews, and feedback in a common dashboard.
- Use product performance history when planning the next range.
- Give stakeholders access to the product information they need.
Use what you already know about your products.
Historical data gives planning and development teams a starting point for decisions. iK PLM brings together product performance, shifts in demand, customer behaviour, material costs, and margins to help the teams decide where to focus their work.
- Review trends and customer behaviour patterns.
- Consider changing material costs and profit margins.
- Use historical product performance during planning.
- Connect sell-through and secondary sales insight from iK Trade.
Keep sourcing close to the product brief.
The development workflow includes the information needed to move into sourcing: supplier records, material specifications, and quotations. Keep those decisions connected to the product being developed so teams can compare options and maintain the context behind their choices.
- Access suppliers on the platform and place orders.
- Review material specifications.
- Capture and compare RFQs from different suppliers.
- Analyze the supply base as product requirements evolve.
See the information behind the workflow.
Product and platform views supplied by Intrakraft. Sample product data illustrates the interface.
A starting point for your product lifecycle management.
Plan together
Bring design, buying, merchandising, and sourcing into the early product discussion.
Develop with feedback
Share product resources, changes, and stakeholder reviews as the range develops.
Connect the commercial picture
Use sourcing information, historical data, and trading insight to inform decisions.
A little more detail.
Which teams is iK PLM designed to connect?+
It connects design, buying, merchandising, sourcing, and planning teams.
How does iK Trade relate to product development?+
The product development workflow includes bringing sell-through and secondary sales information from iK Trade into iK PLM to inform product-market fit and future development.
Does the product development workflow include sourcing?+
Yes. The workflow includes supplier access, material specifications, supply-base analysis, and RFQ capture and comparison.
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