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What a fashion brand needs from its ERP: a size and color grid, collections and seasons, production with outside workshops, wholesale pre-orders, POS and e-commerce on the same stock, returns and end of season. With the whole cycle in 3D.
Short answer: in fashion, everything runs by size and color. One style can be twenty SKUs, and without a variant grid, buying, producing, allocating to stores and selling online ends up in spreadsheets. The ERP has to handle collections and seasons and production with outside workshops. It also has to take wholesale pre-orders from multi-brand stores and keep stock in sync between physical stores and the web shop. Walk through the whole cycle below and see what happens when stores run out of size M.
The whole cycle of a collection
- Design and collection: season styles with their size and color grid.
- Costing and production: fabric, trims and outside workshop per garment.
- Wholesale pre-orders: multi-brand store orders by size before production.
- Receiving and labeling: receipt by variant, label with fibre content and price.
- Stores and POS: in-store sales with every store's stock in view.
- Web shop: the same stock, with delivery or click and collect.
- Returns and exchanges: a size swap in store or an online return.
- End of season: markdowns, outlet and analysis by size and color.
What the ERP has to do
- Size and color variants in purchasing, stock, sales and labels, without creating twenty items by hand.
- Collections and seasons: what sold at full price and what was left for markdowns.
- E-commerce and POS integration: the web shop sells from real store and warehouse stock.
- Store transfers suggested by each size's sales.
- The real size curve to buy next season from what sold, not from gut feeling.
The POS side is covered in ERP with POS, and orders from department stores in EDI with retail chains.
What Business Central has and what is added
Item variants, stock by warehouse and store, purchasing, production with subcontracting and sales are standard. The on-screen size grid, season management, care and composition labels and the web shop connector come from a fashion add-on and your e-commerce connector.
How we implement it
We start with the current collection. We set up its styles with their size and color grid, load stock by store and warehouse, and connect the POS and the web shop. From day one, the website sells from real stock. Then come workshop production (fabric and trims sent out, received by size) and wholesale pre-orders. After the first season in the system, the analysis by size and color gives the real curve for the next buy. You pay for each phase only after it is delivered and you accept that it works.
Signs you need it now: the website sells items you do not have; stores ask each other for sizes by text message; or next season is bought on last year's curve.
FAQ
Does Business Central handle sizes and colors? Yes, with item variants. A fashion add-on makes the size grid comfortable to use in orders and labels.
Can the web shop sell from store stock? Yes, by syncing available stock per location with the website, in real time or close to it.
Can I analyse sales by size and color? Yes. With the variant on every sale you see which sizes and colors turn, and adjust next season's buy.
Related: ERP for retail chains and franchises and ERP with POS.
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