Product Manager

With Product Manager, your staff can capture and communicate Bills of Materials including components and material details, associated specifications, mechanicals and construction comments to all.

Features

• Ability to define your own components, materials and various bill of materials templates to reduce the time it takes to create and revise a BOM.

• Templates can be defined for a host of products including fabrics, sets, single unit items sold separately, packaging, unassembled components of a finished good to be shipped elsewhere for further processing and finished components being shipped elsewhere for packaging in a set. Bills of Materials can be nested in one-to-many relationships.  For example, a set will consist of BOMs for each finished product (duvet, shams,etc).  There will also be links to the BOMs for each fabric used in all the products in the set.

• Excel-like user interface eases the transition for Product Development staff to an automated environment.  It provides a familiar environment for users creating or revising specifications, but has an underlying database that solves the problems of version control and reporting.

• Customizable headers and folders allow work to be organized by your corporate divisions, product categories, brands, style names/colorways and lines.

• A flexible Materials Library to better control usage and costs, coordination of recalls and batch changes to lines.

• Built-in change management tool to monitor and audit changes to specifications. You’ll always know who changed what and when.

• A common database of product specs that ensures EVERYONE, regardless of location, is working from the same specification.

According to leading experts, as much as 80 percent of product development costs can occur during the design phase, making collaboration tools like SoftShoe and TradeIT highly desirable