Product Development Partnership Limited

Apparel PLM & PDM specialists, The Product Development Partnership “PDP” is a pioneering company that provides expert domain experience to Apparel, Footwear, Retail, Brands and Manufacturers. As specialists in PDM and PLM deployment, our mission is to help our clients realise maximum value through process excellence and adoption of new technologies within the area of global product development. Over the many decades we’ve been in this game, we’ve seen it all and got our hands dirty with mud from both sides of the fence. We’ve been in the factory, the design room, the cutting room, yet also we’ve been in the technology house, working for or with some of the key players in technological advances in our industry. In other words, we know what makes you tick, we know from first hand experience both the challenges you face and the solutions out there to solve them. Now operating for the first time as truly independent advisors, we would like to share with you what we have learnt and help you find the best solutions to reach your strategic goals. So, in a nutshell, here’s a summary…. Industry challenges: There are ever increasing challenges on today’s global apparel & footwear businesses to continue to deliver faster, up to the minute on trend fashion to ever demanding and savvy consumers but at the same time deliver the right target margins desired by the share holders. Leaner processes are required to meet this demand. Solutions: It’s therefore mission critical that the business should adopt the solutions and technologies in order to achieve leaner processes. Selecting the right technologies to support NPI (new process introduction) is a critical factor but with a vast choice of solutions out there this can be minefield. Even if you choose the right solution, a car is only as fast as it’s driver – an experienced team with deep domain knowledge needs to take the wheel if full ROI is to be realised. And that’s why we’re here to help……