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MARK BAXENDALE: Innovation is one of our core values, and so it's very important that that design vision, which is the start of our seasonal planning process, is present all the way through all of the functions and around the world as we make decisions within this tool. It starts with global merchants and design. And we have a line that we want to bring to life. Then we put that into the global visual line plan with images that are coming from our flex PLM system.

And that design vision is then visible to all players throughout the product pipeline. So global merchants hand over to regional buyers. Regional buyers hand over to regional planners, and planners ultimately to allocators. So all the way through that sequential process, everybody has access to the same images, and that design vision that started with the designer maybe 12 or 18 months ago is what the allocator and the planner is working with here and now.

It's definitely allowed us to have one singular conversation. We were a little bit siloed in terms of our functional accountabilities. Now, having a common process that goes across every business unit, we know what that conversation needs to be. We know what the accountabilities each function has within that product development process, and the tool supports the execution and translation of those decisions down the product pipeline.

The product team at Lululemon has really embraced the product. So they are loving having everything in one place. A lot of our team is young, and they're used to graphical-based tools that they have in their everyday life. And so being able to bring the Fusion client to them in the workplace has been a natural progression from the toolsets that we had.

Its ease of use has been quick to learn. And now that the global rollout is well underway, we're seeing a quick adoption and people really enjoying working within the tool.