PTC to Showcase Retail Digital Thread Platform at NRF 2024

Across all three days of NRF: Retail’s Big Show, in New York City, PTC will deliver live demonstrations of the very latest release of retail’s leading PLM solution, FlexPLM, as well as Flex Insights, and a full suite of digital product creation and sustainability solutions – all designed to give brands and retailers the Power to Create.

PTC has today announced its presence at the National Retail Federation’s (NRF) annual event, Retail’s Big Show, from January 14th to 16th. 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 2024 and beyond. Key events topics include: AI, supply chain, sustainability, international business growth, personalization and customer experience.

PTC’s Retail Business Unit (located at booth #3847 on Level 3 of the Expo Hall) will be demonstrating its end-to-end retail digital thread platform including:

• Its latest release of FlexPLM that features several market and customer-driven updates, such as: a modern and visual user experience that includes an all-new BOM with excel-like capabilities, intuitive google-like search, and further support for visual assets and digital product creation.
• Flex Insights – that connects data across enterprise systems and applies AI capability to enable brands and retailers to make faster and better decisions.
• Sustainability and compliance tracking solutions that provide users with the data they need to proactively impact corporate ESG goals.
• And a full suite of digital product creation solutions from bi-directional workflows to collaboration, visualization, and optimization capabilities that enable companies to scale their use of 3D assets across the value chain.

“We are thrilled to show the full scope of our ever-evolving retail digital thread solutions at NRF,” says Bill Brewster, Senior Vice President, and 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 digital technologies like PLM, 3D, and AI to improve and streamline their time to market and product costs throughout the entire value chain, as well as meet their ESG goals, and make better, data-driven decisions.”

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 Brewster. “PTC is proud to be part of that conversation, and we look forward to showing visitors to NRF 2024 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.”