Solutions for Apparel & Fashion

Apparel and fashion distributors face unique business challenges. The continued shift to overseas manufacturing, ongoing retail consolidation, and rapidly evolving retailer and mass merchant vendor compliance requirements create new operational challenges and put pressure on business results. Apprise® Distribution Solutions for Apparel & Fashion provide comprehensive tools that enable apparel and fashion distributors to capitalize on revenue opportunities, improve inventory availability and time-to-market, tightly manage margins, and stay ahead of retailer and mass merchant vendor compliance requirements - so they can optimize supply chain performance and maximize profitability.

Key Benefits

• Products by style, size and color provide flexibility and efficiency in order entry and inventory management
• Advanced forecasting and planning tools integrate sales trends, seasonality, point-of-sale (POS), and customer forecasting data to ensure the right product styles are available at the right time to meet the needs of customers
• Customer-level inventory prioritization and allocation maximizes revenue potential by fulfilling specific customer inventory demands
• Leverage factoring to enhance short-term operating cash for use in business operations
• Fully integrated EDI mapping and translation solutions streamline and simplify EDI transactions and aid in retailer / mass merchant vendor compliance
• Direct shipping and dynamic routing capabilities help meet customer requirements while delivering efficiency gains
• Robust retailer and mass merchant vendor compliance tools aid in compliance with customer specific pricing, shipping, UCC 128 labeling requirements and more - avoiding chargebacks and helping to minimize deductions
• Rule-based credit and collections and chargeback management improves receivables performance - enhancing margins and increasing profitability
• Fully integrated information systems provide real-time insight into profitability by style at the parent company, store, and region level and more
• Keep ahead of current and evolving industry trends and standards - such EDIINT, GTIN, UCCnet®, and RFID