PTC to showcase how companies can transform the way products are created, sourced and sampled at NRF 2025
PTC is proud to announce its presence at the upcoming National Retail Federation’s (NRF) annual event, Retail’s Big Show, from January 12th to 14th. A major fixture in the retail calendar, NRF is a must-attend event for brands and retailers looking for the latest innovations.
This year’s in-person NRF show will feature three full days of educational content and promises to provide attendees with all the connections and networking opportunities to accelerate and propel their businesses into 2025 and beyond. Key event topics include: AI, sustainability, personalization and customer experience.
PTC’s Retail Business Unit (located at booth #3120 on Level 3 of the Expo Hall) will be demonstrating a new release of its industry leading product lifecycle management solution, FlexPLM, that features several market and customer-driven updates, as well as other innovations, such as:
- Flex Boards designed to improve efficiency for designers, merchandisers and other users:
- Jumpstart the ideation process by easily capturing inspirations, concepts, trends and feedback in one place. Create documents and assets using colors, materials and imagery to set creative direction for products, placeholders or seasons.
- Easily build presentations using products and colorways for internal decisions and external presentations.
- Enhanced fiber sustainability functionality for content labeling and traceability standards to meet the growing demand for detailed insights into product composition.
- FlexPLM Licensee – The ability to manage the briefing and approval process for licensee and partner developed products at scale.
- Flex Insights – that connects data across enterprise systems and applies AI capability to enable brands and retailers to make faster and better business and product decisions, including real-time insights into product, material and supplier data to support sustainability and CSR goals, with easy-to-use tools to support certification and compliance requirements.
- And a full suite of 3D / digital product creation solutions from bi-directional workflows to collaboration, visualization, and optimization capabilities that automate product creation data and enable companies to scale their use of 3D assets across the value chain.
“We’re looking forward to showing the full scope of our industry-leading Retail PLM solutions at NRF,” says Kyle Marden, General Manager of PTC’s Retail Business Unit. “From interactive demonstrations to best practices and unique insights, visitors to our booth will learn how to use the latest tools to reduce their development time, improve global collaboration, meet their sustainability goals, and make better, data-driven decisions, faster.”
As part of PTC’s interactive experience at NRF, visitors to the PTC booth will be able to see first-hand how PTC solutions are being used by the most successful brands and retailers to gain competitive advantage on an unmatched scale every day.
“NRF brings together the brightest minds in the industry to discuss critical topics and provide new perspectives to set up brands and retailers for continued success,” continued Marden. “PTC is proud to be part of that conversation, and we look forward to showing visitors to NRF 2025 what makes our Retail PLM and other solutions special: useability, scalability, security, the ability to manage countless product categories and multinational complex supply chains as standard, and the opportunity to turn some truly unique technologies into an advantage in terms of speed to market, agility, and creativity – every area that counts in the retail market of today.”