Platform Features
By Impact, Process & Flow.
Farewell Excel.
You and your many, many versions of the same spreadsheets did your best!
The Fashion & Apparel industry has invested approximately $3.5 Billion is ERP & PLM platforms to streamline fast paced, product development at scale. The weak link in most organizations....Excel. A myriad of un-versioned, error laden spreadsheets negating the very efficiencies hoped to be gained with ERP & PLM investment. Sweft mitigates the need for spreadsheets furnishing all systems with one version of the truth, process accumulated, accurate & complete data.
Assortment
Planning
Enables Buyers to build and visualize their assortments from both Product Development and market-available products.
- Replaces Excel spreadsheet reliance and automates current manual data entry effort, mitigating the risk of human error.
- Automates repetitive tasks, improving efficiency while reducing non-value-add workload.
- Enables Buyers’ to inject product inspiration at every stage of process with creative and visual teams.
- Enables buyers to auto generate visual assortments via folio presentation for distribution & approval.
- Enforces pertinent data points (e.g. product attributes) are acquired prior to release to downstream processes and analysis.
Automated Item Setup
Ensures that all pertinent data points are acquired and accurate, to complete setup in financial systems such as the ERP or Merchandise Planning.
- Minimizes data entry effort by process automation and pulling data from ancillary systems.
- Supports key processes such as approvals, attribution and compliance.
- Perpetual rules-based data validation & verification ensures 100% data accuracy.
- Perpetual prioritization/reassignment of SKU workloads based on data driven triggers. (e.g. P.O. Dates, Events etc.)
- Comprehensive dashboards simplify data entry, SKU process/progress visibility and departmental daily operations.
- Syndicates essential data to downstream systems.
Manufacturer Vendor Portals
Secure, SaaS driven Vendor Portal delegates required data input & compliance details to Vendor(s).
- Automates P.O. approval process with required (complete) data entry specified.
- Enforces data set requirements (e.g. product specifications, compliance data|documentation, image specifications etc.)
- Easily managed/updated permissions-based product data views and data entry requirements.
- Vendor Portal data received is full integrated with overall SKU development product workflow management.
- Automates the sample approval process and subsequent sample tracking in a single source platform.
- Option to integrate with Vendor specific logistics platforms.
Item Enrichment
Multi-threaded parallel processes used to create digital content for publishing products online in one single source platform.
- Sample Management enables privileged users to request, receive and track physical samples throughout the organization via auto generated QR code based comprehensive sample cards which include internal sample tracking, annotations and approval processes.
- Studio & Copy Management optimizes resources by scheduling upcoming workload in data driven, contextual priority. Algorithmically calculating optimal use of resources based on item priority relative to GTM deadlines. Providing validated & approved creative briefs prior to scheduling while affording optimal time for the creative process.
Consolidated Product View
Single source platform delivering 100% accurate data for customer-facing teams: Stores, Digital, Marketing, Visual, CSR’s.
- Replaces need for multi-system login’s to provide the same required data sets for desired function.
- Single source permissions-based user access at employee grade/departmental or function level.
- Eliminates PIM requirement with advanced function.
- Syndicates consistent data sets in real-time to internal/external/third party retail platforms.
- Affords multiple redundancies in data validation accuracy prior to publishing. (i.e. 100% Accurate Outbound Data)
- Product information repository perpetually updated in real-time providing a single source of truth.
Unified Product Workflow
Connects product-related processes across the organization to expedite the flow of new products and improve sales and customer satisfaction.
- Tracks product workflow end-to-end, across teams, processes and systems to ensure there are no gaps or delays.
- Prioritizes tasks based on delivery and marketing deadlines, so that the most urgent products are completed fastest.
- Provides best-practice workflows that follow industry standards.
- Easily and highly customizable workflow modules.
- Comprehensive progress completion reports indexed to item stakeholders &/or organizational dashboard views.
- Comprehensive dashboard views custom to departmental needs complete with prioritized, actionable alerts.
Product Workflow Management
Enables Buyers to build and visualize their assortments from both Product Development and market-available products.
- Replaces Excel spreadsheet reliance and automates current manual data entry effort, mitigating the risk of human error.
- Automates repetitive tasks, improving efficiency while reducing non-value-add workload.
- Enables Buyers’ to inject product inspiration at every stage of process with creative and visual teams.
- Enables buyers to auto generate visual assortments via folio presentation for distribution & approval.
- Enforces pertinent data points (e.g. product attributes) are acquired prior to release to downstream processes and analysis.
Ensures that all pertinent data points are acquired and accurate, to complete setup in financial systems such as the ERP or Merchandise Planning. Minimizes data entry effort by process automation and pulling data from ancillary systems.
- Supports key processes such as approvals, attribution and compliance.
- Perpetual rules-based data validation & verification ensures 100% data accuracy.
- Perpetual prioritization/reassignment of SKU workloads based on data driven triggers. (e.g. P.O. Dates, Events etc.)
- Comprehensive dashboards simplify data entry, SKU process/progress visibility and departmental daily operations.
- Syndicates essential data to downstream systems.
Secure, SaaS driven Vendor Portal delegates required data input & compliance details to Vendor(s).
- Automates P.O. approval process with required (complete) data entry specified.
- Enforces data set requirements (e.g. product specifications, compliance data|documentation, image specifications etc.)
- Easily managed/updated permissions-based product data views and data entry requirements.
- Vendor Portal data received is full integrated with overall SKU development product workflow management.
- Automates the sample approval process and subsequent sample tracking in a single source platform.
- Option to integrate with Vendor specific logistics platforms.
Multi-threaded parallel processes used to create digital content for publishing products online in one single source platform.
- Sample Management enables privileged users to request, receive and track physical samples throughout the organization via auto generated QR code based comprehensive sample cards which include internal sample tracking, annotations and approval processes.
- Studio & Copy Management optimizes resources by scheduling upcoming workload in data driven, contextual priority. Algorithmically calculating optimal use of resources based on item priority relative to GTM deadlines. Providing validated & approved creative briefs prior to scheduling while affording optimal time for the creative process.
Single source platform delivering 100% accurate data for customer-facing teams: Stores, Digital, Marketing, Visual, CSR’s.
- Replaces need for multi-system login’s to provide the same required data sets for desired function.
- Single source permissions-based user access at employee grade/departmental or function level.
- Eliminates PIM requirement with advanced function.
- Syndicates consistent data sets in real-time to internal/external/third party retail platforms.
- Affords multiple redundancies in data validation accuracy prior to publishing. (i.e. 100% Accurate Outbound Data)
- Product information repository perpetually updated in real-time providing a single source of truth.
Single source platform delivering 100% accurate data for customer-facing teams: Stores, Digital, Marketing, Visual, CSR’s.
- Replaces need for multi-system login’s to provide the same required data sets for desired function.
- Single source permissions-based user access at employee grade/departmental or function level.
- Eliminates PIM requirement with advanced function.
- Syndicates consistent data sets in real-time to internal/external/third party retail platforms.
- Affords multiple redundancies in data validation accuracy prior to publishing. (i.e. 100% Accurate Outbound Data)
- Product information repository perpetually updated in real-time providing a single source of truth.
