Nebim PLM: Collection, Sample and Cost Management Without Replacing Nebim
The season meeting. On screen is last season's report from Nebim: which style sold, in which store, how many units and at what margin, down to the last cent. Nobody questions those numbers. Then the conversation turns to the new collection and the picture changes. The list of 140 styles lives in three separate Excel files, sample status sits in the design team's WhatsApp group, and fabric prices are in the buyer's inbox.
Many brands running Nebim know this moment. The story of the product that has been sold is complete in Nebim. The story of the product that has not been sold yet, or not even born yet, is scattered. This article is about that gap: how do you organize the work that happens before a product reaches Nebim, without replacing Nebim?
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Key takeaways
- Nebim + Pimland adds a product development layer in front of the commercial product record that Nebim manages: collection plan, sample rounds, tech pack, bill of materials (BOM) and cost.
- Nebim stays in place. Accounting, stock, sales, finance and, where Nebim Üretim is used, production planning continue to run in Nebim.
- Pimland is 100% integrated with Nebim across all modules. Data flows both ways: approved products and variants are written to Nebim, and data in Nebim is read back into Pimland.
- A measurement from the field: the same 6-person team delivered 130 products a season instead of 100; tech pack preparation dropped from about 4 hours to about 2.
- A typical brand goes live within a few weeks and can start with only the module it needs.
What does Nebim do really well?
Nebim V3 is an ERP and store management system built to run retail, wholesale and production operations on one platform. It brings processes from purchasing to production and from finance to sales together in one place. Across stores, stock, sales, CRM and e-invoicing, Nebim is often the system that carries the daily work of Turkish retailers.
For an apparel brand, Nebim's greatest value is that it keeps the record of every variant sold. Which color, which size, which store, which channel: this information sits reliably in Nebim. For companies using Nebim Üretim, recipes, waste, contract manufacturing, capacity planning and cost calculation also flow in Nebim at the pace of production.
In short, Nebim runs the business. This article is not about what Nebim lacks; it is about the work that comes before Nebim.
What happens before a product reaches Nebim?
By the time a style is opened as a product card in Nebim, it is already halfway through its journey. Months of work have come before:
- Collection plan: How many styles in which category, at which price band, with which delivery date? This plan usually lives in an Excel file, and every meeting gives birth to a new version.
- Sample rounds: Proto, fit, pre-production sample. Every round means a comment, a correction and a new date. Comments land in WhatsApp as photos, corrections in email.
- Tech pack: Size chart, stitching details, label and trim information. If the factory gets the right version, the job goes well; if it gets an old one, the error is carried into production.
- BOM and cost: Fabric, lining, buttons, zips, labor. The target cost is set during design and has to be recalculated with every material change.
All of these steps happen before the product is a sellable record. That is why teams usually work with Excel, email and messaging apps. The result is familiar: the same information sits in several places in several versions, half of every meeting goes to “what is the latest status?”, and the approved product is entered into Nebim by hand, line by line.
How does PLM close the gap?
PLM, product lifecycle management, gathers a product's path from idea to approval in one record. Pimland's textile PLM organizes this work for apparel brands under four headings.
1. One collection plan
The season plan, category breakdown and style list sit on the same screen. Every style is tied to a line of the plan, and the line's status changes as design progresses. The team walks into the meeting with a live plan everyone sees at once, not with “the latest Excel”.
2. Recorded sample rounds
Every sample round is logged on the style's record: which round, whose comment, which correction, when it comes back. Photos and notes are not lost, and each round builds on the previous one.
3. Tech packs with version control
The tech pack is prepared on the product's record together with the size chart and stitching details. The version of every tech pack sent to the factory is clear.
4. Live BOM and cost
The bill of materials (BOM) and cost are calculated in PLM. When a trim changes, cost updates instantly and any drift from the target margin shows up during design. A snapshot of the BOM is kept at every approval stage, so it is always possible to trace which decision was made at which cost.
What Nebim does, what Pimland adds
The two systems do not overlap; they complete each other. The table below shows how work is shared at an apparel brand running Nebim:
| Area | What Nebim does | What Pimland adds |
|---|---|---|
| Product record | The commercial record of every variant sold and stocked | The development record where the product is born; written to Nebim after approval |
| Collection | Sales and stock results of past seasons | The new season's plan, style list and status tracking |
| Samples | Movements on the production and stock side | Proto, fit and pre-production rounds, comments and approvals |
| Tech pack | Production orders and operation records (with Nebim Üretim) | Version-controlled tech packs and the right version for the factory |
| BOM and cost | Recipe and actual cost (with Nebim Üretim) | Design-stage BOM, target cost and a BOM snapshot at every approval |
| Finance and stock | Accounting, stock, sales and finance | Does not touch this area; shows data from Nebim in development decisions |
How does an approved product move to Nebim?
The key word here is “two-way”. Pimland is 100% integrated with Nebim across all modules, and data does not move in one direction only; it flows both ways.
- The product is born in Pimland. The collection plan, sample rounds, tech pack and BOM mature on the product's record.
- Approval is given. When a style is approved, product and variant information is written to Nebim. The color and size structure, product code and core attributes are not typed into Nebim again.
- BOM and cost are linked. The BOM and cost built in PLM are tied to the product record in Nebim; cost is not retyped in a separate spreadsheet.
- Data comes back from Nebim. Pimland reads data from Nebim, so the team sees the current state on the Nebim side without leaving the development screen.
The result is simple: the same product is never created twice in two systems. Moving data line by line from Excel into Nebim disappears, and so do the typing and code errors that came with it.
Your Nebim stays in place; your collection moves up a league. Pimland links the work that comes before Nebim to the same data structure, without touching what Nebim does so well.
What do you gain?
The clearest sign of PLM's return is that the same team gets more done. A measurement from the field: at a brand using Pimland, the same 6-person team delivered 130 products a season instead of 100. The team did not grow; the work of chasing status, searching for files and retyping data shrank.
Tech packs tell a similar story. From the same field: preparing a tech pack went from about 4 hours to about 2, and wrong versions sent to the factory fell from 3 to 1 per season. Fewer wrong versions also means less repeated work in sampling and production.
What these gains have in common: the sales data in Nebim was already reliable. What changes is that the product's journey up to Nebim becomes just as reliable.
Who uses it?
In a Nebim + Pimland setup, these teams use PLM the most:
- Collection and merchandising: season plan, category balance and style list
- Design and product development: sample rounds, comments and approvals
- Pattern makers and the technical team: size charts, tech packs and version control
- Costing and purchasing: BOM, target cost, material and supplier choice
- Management: the real-time state of the collection and cost deviations
These teams talk to the finance, store and stock teams already working in Nebim over the same product record. The product design calls “approved” is the same product sales sees in Nebim.
One step further: decision intelligence
The hardest question in a collection plan is often “how many units of this style?” Pimland puts product data in order; when that ordered data is joined with historical sales and stock data in Nebim, it becomes possible to move to the decision side.
This is where SONROY, the decision platform of the Inksen ecosystem, comes in. SONROY S0 Forecast combines sales, returns and season data into one forecast and connects it to order, catalog and budget decisions. Collection depth, meaning which product group should expand and which should narrow, is recommended with its reasoning; the team still makes the call. You can start with a single module through a suitable SONROY package.
The decision side of this topic is covered on the SONROY blog in Collection depth with Nebim sales data.
Frequently asked questions
Does Nebim have PLM, and do we need a separate PLM?
Nebim V3 and Nebim Üretim manage business processes such as sales, stock, finance, recipes, contract manufacturing and cost comprehensively. Pimland PLM manages the work before a product becomes a sellable record: the collection plan, sample rounds, version-controlled tech packs and the design-stage BOM and cost. One does not replace the other; they work together.
How does Pimland talk to Nebim?
Pimland is 100% integrated with Nebim across all modules, and data flows both ways. Approved product and variant information is written from Pimland to Nebim, and Pimland reads data back from Nebim. The same product is never created twice in two systems.
How long does setup take?
It depends on product volume and integration scope; a typical brand goes live within a few weeks. Existing product data is imported into Pimland, and the Nebim connection, mapping and training are handled together with our team.
Which teams use it?
Collection, merchandising, design, product development, pattern making, costing and purchasing teams use PLM daily. Finance, store and stock teams keep working in Nebim; both sides see the same product record.
Do we have to start with every module?
No. There is a starting point for every budget: begin with the module you need, for example PLM alone, and add supplier tracking, product content and the Digital Product Passport as you grow.
Where is our data kept?
Your data is hosted in Türkiye and kept separate from other customers' data. A data processing agreement under KVKK comes ready as an annex to your contract.
See it with your Nebim in 30 minutes
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Integration details are on the Nebim integration page. The next article in the series looks at the product card: Before you open a product card in Nebim: where should product data be born?
