Unlock Team Efficiency in Line Planning with Visulon’s Milestone Management Functionality
In today’s fast-paced fashion industry, Fashion brands have no choice but to ensure efficiency and accuracy in new season Line Plans to maintain a competitive edge and hit the market on time with their new launches.
As consumer preferences shift and new trends emerge, adapting new Line Plans to the market demands is a constant challenge.
For Clara, a senior merchandising manager, and her team of merchandisers , this challenge became a harsh reality as they began working on the upcoming Spring collection.
Clara had recently attended a sketch review meeting with the executive team, the senior management and the design team. She was entrusted with the task of further developing the line plan to ensure the assortment would be ready in time for production.
Clara and her team immediately jumped into the project as next milestone meetings were just three weeks away. They faced the daunting task of updating their line plan based on current data while ensuring that it reflected both the original sketches and the latest modifications.
As soon as they began, Carla and the team started struggling while using outdated Excel forms with inserted images.
Spring Launch in Jeopardy: Clara & Her Team’s Fight Against Time and Confusion
The initial line plan from the sketch review meeting was only the beginning.
Managing multiple versions of the line board involved juggling Excel sheets, scattered presentations, product image revisions and printed reports. Further manually reviewing market reports was a significant challenge for Clara.
Updating the assortment to reflect the latest trends while preserving the original version for milestone meetings required maintaining multiple versions of the same plan. Doing all that manually, made it time-consuming and prone to errors, causing frequent setbacks.
Furthermore, executives required accurate and up-to-date information of activities and reviews per milestone meeting to make informed decisions, but Clara failed to offer a coherent version tracking of various reviews despite putting in hard work for extended hours.
As a result, Clara’s team lost three weeks, causing the company to fall behind schedule. The production process was yet to start, and the stakes were high. The risk of being outwitted by competitors became imminent.
Clara’s team missed out on launching the Spring collection on time, resulting in company losing millions in revenue and customer attrition.
This tarnished brand image among all stakeholders.
For merchandisers , such setbacks undermine their credibility and reliability.
If Clara had a unified platform like Visulon to manage multiple milestones and line boards, they could have avoided these pitfalls altogether.
Visulon’s AI-powered Merchandising Platform: The Answer to Efficient Milestone Management
Visulon , an AI-powered Visual Line Planning & Merchandising Platform, is designed with the exact features that merchandising teams need to keep up with evolving line planning demands. Its transformative approach directly addresses the very challenges that Clara and her team faced.
Visulon integrates all aspects of merchandising, line planning, and assortment management into a single, unified platform. This eliminates the need for fragmented Excel spreadsheets and scattered reports, providing a cohesive view of all the relevant data.
Visulon’s Milestone Creation and Changing Functionality, allows teams to easily save and manage versions of their line board at various stages. It allows capturing the state of the assortment at each milestone, maintaining a historical record while making updates for future milestones.
The platform also facilitates seamless collaboration among team members and executives. By centralizing data and visualizing product assortments, Visulon enables more effective decision-making and faster approval processes.
Visulon’s Real-time data integration and advanced visualization tools streamline updating and presenting product assortments. Teams can quickly adapt to changing trends and ensure all stakeholders can access the most current information.
By adopting Visulon, Clara's team could have transformed their workflow, turning potential failures into successes and, by default, reducing time-to-market by up to 50%.
The platform’s comprehensive features would have enabled them to easily manage multiple versions of the line board, ensuring timely product launches and maintaining their competitive edge in the market.
From Chaos to Clarity: Visulon Redefines Efficiency and Precision in Line Planning
Clara and her team’s struggle underscore the critical need for a more robust and efficient approach to line planning & visual merchandising. While they were caught in a cycle of delays and confusion, Visulon would have offered a path forward where such issues could have been avoided altogether.
By integrating all aspects of merchandising and line planning into a single platform, Visulon empowers teams to collaborate seamlessly, adapt swiftly to market changes, and ensure that every product launch is executed with precision and on time.
With Visulon, brands can transform potential setbacks into opportunities for success, staying ahead in a highly competitive industry.
Boost your product launch efficiency by up to 50% with Visulon’s integrated merchandising platform!