Café du Cycliste is a premium French cycling apparel brand that blends performance with style, inspired by the spirit of the Côte d’Azur. Founded in Nice, the brand has experienced double-digit international growth over the last years, driven by a global customer base and an expanding product offering.

To support its rapid growth and ensure long-term scalability, the company is investing in a new Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. As part of this strategic initiative, Café du Cycliste is seeking a professional consulting partner to lead the benchmarking, selection, and deployment roadmap of its new PLM solution across the product, sales, marketing, logistics, and management units.

CONTEXT & OBJECTIVES:

Operating in B2B, retail, and e-commerce, we manage around 300 active SKUs per collection, 2 collections per year. Our current IT environment includes a basic PLM software, Netsuite (ERP system) along with Shopify for e-commerce.

As part of our operational overhaul (process optimization, time-to-market reduction, increasing product range), we aim to implement a new PLM system tailored to the specific needs of the textile industry, in order to:

• Centralize product data
• Improve the collaboration between the business units
• Strengthen the CSR traceability
• Optimize the go-to-market processes 

EXPECTED MISSION:

The consulting partner shall support us throughout the entire process:

• Analysis of the current state (AS-IS): map the actual processes (design, product development, sourcing, purchasing, marketing, etc.)
• Definition of the target state (TO-BE): design the target processes and identify key requirements
• Documentation of requirements specification: formalize business needs
• Benchmark and long list of PLM providers: identify and pre-select suitable PLM solutions for a SME in the sportswear sector
• Short-list and support in the selection process
• Implementation plan: create a roadmap for the software roll-out, provide organizational recommendations, and define deployment scenarios

CONSULTING PARTNER SELECTION 

• Proven experience in selecting and implementing PLM solutions for the textile/apparel industry
• References in SME and/or sportswear contexts
• Experience with integrated environments (including Netsuite)
• Understanding of multi-channel challenges (B2B, retail, e-commerce)
• Ability to deliver a pragmatic methodology suited to a small-to-mid-sized organization 

Please send us:

• Your references from similar projects
• Your proposed methodology
• An indicative budget estimate
• Profiles and experience of the proposed team members, if applicable 
• Part time to be discussed / Remote flexible