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Articles from the Pimland team on PLM, PIM, SRM, the Digital Product Passport, sustainability and fashion technology.

DPP
Aug 31, 2026 · 6 min read

Digital Product Passport 2026: The Year DPP Becomes Real

2026 is the year the Digital Product Passport stops being a policy discussion and becomes an operational requirement. Here's what's changing, the 2026 timeline, and how to get your product data ready before the deadline.

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PIM
Jun 18, 2026 · 5 min read

PIM in 2026: Integrations, AI, and the Connected Product Record

In 2026, Product Information Management stops being a catalog tool and becomes the connective layer of commerce. Here's how integrations, AI and a single connected product record are reshaping PIM — and what to look for.

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AI
Mar 5, 2026 · 5 min read

AI in Fashion 2026: From Copilot to Autonomous Product Operations

In 2026, AI stops being a demo and becomes infrastructure. From demand forecasting and cost protection to a natural-language Copilot, here's how intelligent product operations reshape fashion — and what to put in place now.

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Guide
Feb 25, 2026 · 6 min read

5 Fashion Metrics No Brand Tracks (But Should)

Everyone tracks sell-through and returns — but the friction metrics that quietly decide whether a collection ships in control live upstream, inside your product data. Here are five you should be measuring.

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Guide
Feb 12, 2026 · 30 min read

2026 Fashion & Retail Special Days Calendar

Planning for 2026 takes more than campaign ideas — it takes timing. A month-by-month calendar of the fashion and retail moments that shape demand, and how to prepare your product data for each.

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Guide
Sep 30, 2025 · 4 min read

2026 Fashion Trends: What's Awaiting Business?

Fashion in 2026 balances two forces: sustainability and speed. From circular fashion and hyper-personalisation to AI co-creation and supply-chain reliance — here are the trends shaping the year, and the three systems that make them possible.

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Event
Sep 15, 2025 · 2 min read

adL Revamps E-Commerce with PIMLAND

adL, one of Turkey's leading fashion brands, has launched a renewed e-commerce platform on SAP Commerce Cloud — with PIMLAND structuring and syncing thousands of SKUs across every channel.

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PIM
Sep 1, 2025 · 3 min read

Boost Back-to-School Sales with Accurate Product Data

Back-to-school turns retail into a high-stakes sprint of new SKUs and tight windows. With ~60% of retail SKUs estimated inaccurate, clean product data is the difference between costly stockouts and a 25% seasonal lift.

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Event
Jul 29, 2025 · 1 min read

Retail Leaders of Türkiye Unite: VISION 2030

At SabancıDX Hangar, "The Future of Operations: Retail Beyond Digital" brought Türkiye's leading retailers together. PIMLAND and UPAGON showcased how AI, big data and platform architecture are shaping tomorrow's retail.

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Event
Jun 25, 2025 · 2 min read

PIMLAND × QSoft: A New Chapter in Process Intelligence

PIMLAND partners with QSoft, a leader in RPA, AI and intelligent automation — uniting centralized PLM & PIM with automation-first technology to help brands move faster with fewer errors.

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Event
Jun 24, 2025 · 2 min read

PIMLAND and MDSAP Join Forces to Scale Global PLM & PIM

PIMLAND partners with MDSAP — a Gold SAP Partner with 30+ years of EMEA enterprise experience — to scale PLM & PIM transformation across new geographies and industries.

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Event
Jun 16, 2025 · 2 min read

The Future of Operations: Retail Beyond Digital

Retail is shifting from isolated tools to connected ecosystems. "The Future of Operations: Retail Beyond Digital" at SabancıDX Hangar brings product design, supply chain and retail execution together — with PIMLAND and its partners.

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PLM
Jun 13, 2025 · 3 min read

The Art of Product Design: A Step-by-Step Guide to Fashion Collections

Behind every fashion collection lies a carefully orchestrated journey — from trend research and design to sourcing, production and launch. Here's a step-by-step guide, and how a connected PLM/PIM/SRM platform keeps it on track.

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DPP
May 9, 2025 · 3 min read

Behind Every Digital Product Passport: PLM, SRM & PIM Working Together

The EU has a new favourite acronym: DPP. Digital Product Passports are moving from policy papers to production lines fast — and behind every one lies connected data from PLM, SRM and PIM.

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PIM
Apr 15, 2025 · 3 min read

The Hidden Costs of Poor Product Information Management

Gartner estimates poor data quality costs organisations $12.9M a year on average. From missing specs to inconsistent descriptions, poor PIM has real financial consequences — here are seven hidden costs.

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Event
Apr 5, 2025 · 2 min read

PIMLAND Reflects on RTS 2025: Clarity, Continuity, What's Next

Retail Technology Show 2025 brought 15,000+ professionals to ExCeL London. For PIMLAND, it marked a moment of clarity: retail needs systems that aren't just smart, but built to keep up with complexity.

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PLM
Mar 21, 2025 · 2 min read

Cloud-Based Platforms for Fashion Designers

The global cloud market in fashion is set to grow at 17.5% CAGR. Here are 8 concrete benefits of cloud-based platforms for designers — from anywhere-access to instant insights and business continuity.

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PIM
Jan 29, 2025 · 3 min read

Fashion PIM: How to Boost Collaboration in Apparel Teams

In fashion, effective collaboration isn't a luxury — it's a necessity. Here are five collaboration challenges that complicate the creative process, and how PIM (with adL's real story) solves them.

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Guide
Jan 2, 2025 · 3 min read

The Ultimate Guide to Sustainable Fashion Practices

Fashion accounts for ~10% of global carbon emissions and 20% of wastewater. Sustainability is now a duty, not a luxury — here's what works, what doesn't, and the technology that makes it real.

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PLM
Dec 15, 2024 · 2 min read

How Cloud-Based PLM Secures and Streamlines Product Development

Cyberattacks on proprietary data are up 67% in three years. Cloud-based PLM now outperforms on-premises on security — and delivers collaboration, scalability and streamlined data on top.

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Event
Dec 11, 2024 · 1 min read

PIMLAND & Bulutistan Webinar: Cloud-Based PIM, PLM & SRM

PIMLAND and Bulutistan host an exclusive webinar on how cloud-based technology is reshaping fashion and apparel — bringing PIM, PLM and SRM together for scalability and data accuracy.

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Guide
Dec 1, 2024 · 2 min read

PLM, PIM and ERP: A Comprehensive Guide

PLM, PIM and ERP each streamline a different part of product management. Here's what each means, the benefits of each, and why integrating all three delivers the biggest business impact.

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PIM
Nov 29, 2024 · 2 min read

Revolutionizing Fashion & Apparel: A PIMLAND Solution

Fashion is a fiercely competitive industry where inefficient data and slow time-to-market hold brands back. Here's how PIMLAND — merging PLM and PIM — transforms product manufacturing across seven areas.

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Event
Nov 20, 2024 · 2 min read

adL Case Study

adL — 116 stores in Turkey, 28 international — moved from emails, WhatsApp and paper forms to one PIMLAND platform. The result: real-time decisions, faster time-to-market and designers freed to create.

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Event
Nov 18, 2024 · 1 min read

PIMLAND Will Attend Retail Technology Show 2025 in London

PIMLAND will showcase its solutions at the Retail Technology Show 2025 in London — where 100+ brand leaders and 50 trailblazing retailers gather to shape the future of retail.

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Event
Oct 2, 2024 · 1 min read

PIMLAND Teams Up with Bulutistan: Advancing Cloud Technology

PIMLAND and Bulutistan — one of Turkey's premier cloud providers — announce an official partnership to bring PLM, PIM and SRM together on a single cloud-based platform for retail.

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PIM
Aug 26, 2024 · 2 min read

Product Information Management: Spreadsheet Challenges

One of the most-used tools in fashion isn't design software — it's Excel. But nearly 90% of spreadsheets contain errors. Here are six spreadsheet challenges and how a PIM solves each.

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Guide
Aug 26, 2024 · 2 min read

PLM vs ERP: Understanding Their Differences and Synergies

PLM and ERP are often confused, but they solve different problems — and they're not designed to replace one another. Here's how they differ, and why the strongest operations use both together.

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SRM
Jul 25, 2024 · 2 min read

Supplier Management with PLM: The PIMLAND Approach

What differentiates successful fashion brands? Often it's supplier management. Here's how PLM (and PIMLAND's integrated SRM) turns suppliers into aligned, transparent partners — cutting time-to-market by 15-20%.

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