Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Streamline MerchOps
Cut Speed to Market by 50%
Achieve 10x Faster Vendor Collaboration
No Tools
Chaos reigns, emails fly, spreadsheets multiply, PDFs and Adobe files scatter like confetti. No system, no structure, just digital duct tape.
Too Many Apps
Airtable. One Drive. Monday. Jira. Great for everything. Perfect for nothing. Not built for merchandising. Definitely not for wholesale.
Legacy & Siloed Systems
Old-school PLMs. Clunky PIMs. Disconnected, disjointed, and dragging your ops into a black hole of inefficiency.
“Our buyers have specifically indicated it makes it easier to buy from us compared to before Surefront. Our team also required a quick implementation which Surefront was able to deliver on.”
Workflow Management
Deliver on time with transparency + accountability
- Customize workflows for products, quotes, and orders
- Assign tasks to internal teams and external suppliers
- Improve visibility across internal and external processes

Order Management
Automate purchase order processing
- Generate custom PO worksheets in seconds
- Accelerate approval process
- Synchronize order status and inventory with suppliers

Vendor Management
Enforce supplier and product compliance
- Systemize factory surveys, inspections, audits, corrections
- Implement product testing and compliance
- Generate supplier scorecards

Tech Pack Generator
Automate and customize PDF downloads
- Create reusable teck pack templates per product category
- Select standard product and user-defined attributes
- Share bills of material, image markups, and chat history
- Safeguard sensitive product information and IP

Event Logs + Audit Trails
Drive insight and clarity
- Enable institutional knowledge transfer
- Maintain accuracy and resolve errors
- Expedite training and onboarding

Image Markups
Share ideas by annotating images
- Prototype new concepts
- Collaborate on product design and innovations
- Identify quality assurance improvements
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Target uses visual line reviews to streamline buyer-vendor alignment, accelerating the buying cycle across categories. |
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Patagonia empowers its buyers with contextual insights from past seasons, helping teams balance sustainability goals with sales performance.
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ASOS integrates visual merchandising tools into trend forecasting, allowing buyers to react faster to emerging patterns and reduce markdown risk. |
Case Studies
Fine Jewelry
West coast fine jeweler shaves weeks off production time, days off line sheet development, and hours off vendor communication and SKU management.
Home Décor
Surefront enables industry-leading productivity and unparalleled sales. Tasks that formerly took JIA HOME two weeks now take just 30 minutes.
Home Furnishings
Surefront’s PLM helped the Handy Living team reduce the average new product development cycle from 6-12 months time to 3 months per product.
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