During this week’s National Retail Federation’s “Big Show” at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, PTC’s Retail Business Unit (located at booth #3120 on Level 3 of the Expo Hall) will be showcasing a release of the company’s industry-leading product life cycle management solution, FlexPLM. The platform features several market and customer-driven updates — and other innovations, PRC said.

This includes Flex Boards, which is designed to improve efficiency for product designers, merchandisers and other users. PTC said the feature jump-starts “the ideation process by easily capturing inspirations, concepts, trends and feedback in one place.” The company said users can create documents and assets “using colors, materials and imagery to set the creative direction for products, placeholders or seasons.” Flex Boards can also be used to easily build presentations “using products and colorways for internal decisions and external presentations.”

Another upgrade is FlexPLM Licensee, which offers the ability “to manage the design and approval process for licensee and partner developed products at scale,” PTC said. Another innovation is Flex Insights, which 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,” PTC said.

“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.”

PTC said as part of its interactive experience at NRF, visitors to its booth can see how PTC solutions “are being used by the most successful brands and retailers to gain competitive advantage on an unmatched scale every day.”

Marden said NRF convenes “the brightest minds in the industry to discuss critical topics and provide new perspectives to set up brands and retailers for continued success. 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.”