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Integrated processes from A TO Z With the 360° solution for Fashion & Retail
Develop potentials
Digitalisation, globalisation, new trends and
technologies – the challenges in the fashion and textile
industry are extremely diverse. High price pressure,
a cut-throat market and increasingly demanding
customers are driving margins down. Added to
this is the industry’s typically distributed, complex
production and growing supply networks, which have
a negative impact on efficient coordination among
trading partners. At the same time, the material
traceability of products must be ensured and, of
course, profits must be made – comprehensive cost
control is therefore an even more important factor. It is
crucial to meet all these requirements and at the same
time adhere to the industry’s particularly short time-
to-market cycles.
AlfaPeople’s 360° Solution for Fashion & Retail meets
these challenges. It combines complex article and
order specifications with flexible process control to
offer a uniform, comprehensive ERP solution.
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With end-to-end control of article and process
variables and information, apparel and textile
companies achieve the transparency and profitability
they need to create a real competitive advantage.
This white paper looks at the challenges and current
trends in the apparel and textile industry. The business
of this sector is to produce a wide range of products,
such as fibres and yarns, consumer and industrial
fabrics, carpets and other woven materials for the
mass market or for designer or luxury clothing,
footwear and fashion accessories. It will also show
how special technologies geared to the diverse
requirements of the industry can help companies to
leverage the challenges in order to work even more
efficiently, quickly and profitably. Read how the 360°
Solution for Fashion & Retail optimally links processes
and creates a comprehensive solution with which
companies can tap new potential at every level.
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Reliability
1. The upheaval caused by acquisitions and mergers
of companies increases their vertical integration, leads
to new distribution options or to a “move” into new
markets.
2. Complex parts lists (BOMs) and production plans,
due to a large number of variants, seasons, collections
or brands, with multiple colour and size combinations.
3. The need to maintain traceability of finished goods
back to raw materials and suppliers, even with complex
supply networks and variable production route planning.
4. The competitive pressure to achieve higher quality at
lower costs.
5. The increased demands made by retailers on
extremely short time-to-market, the quality of the
materials and their efficient delivery.
6. The existing obsolete information systems, which
are no longer up to the task of managing the complex
articles typical for the industry and the corresponding
process data.
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Trends and challenges in the industry
The growing geographical spread of production, supply networks and markets increases the competitive pressure
on companies and brings with it ever new challenges. For example, materials or processes could be subcontracted
or outsourced as new sales channels and markets emerge. In addition to the difficulties of doing business across
borders, fashion & retail companies face other challenges:
Using challenges as opportunities: Modern technologies make it possible
To remain successful in this dynamic environment, fashion & retail companies must be able to access business
information quickly and, above all, across all areas. This is the only way for a company to make truly sound decisions.
Modern technologies enable you to work effectively with trading partners and react more quickly to changes –
keeping your company competitive and profitable. When people, processes and information are optimally networked
and integrated, your entire organization can work much more efficiently and business performance improves.
A solution tailored to your industry-specific needs can help you improve control of complex processes, automate
tasks, accelerate the flow of information, and connect processes and partners. It also provides comprehensive
business intelligence that provides a solid foundation for your business decisions.
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Pulling the strings: Controling multidimensional articles
With support for advanced multidimensional
article structures, your organization can
manage a wide range of article properties and
characteristics:
• Lot, batch, role, and serial number
• Season, collection, label and style
• Textile labelling and care
• Colour chart, colour, clothing size and
sales size
• Collection assignment to milestones with
deadlines
• Assignment of images and sketches
• Accessories and production parameters
• Packaging and order picking
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Sound information for decision making
With accurate real-time information about a brand’s collections or lines, production or subcontractor
performance, costs, profitability and trends, managers can make timely, accurate decisions. Unified item
and process information makes it easy to evaluate costs and items, customers and even market profitability.
You can also answer the question: “What if ...?” by simply using scenarios that you can create and execute
for production, product allocation and sales, for example. This also strengthens confidence when making
adjustments.
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Change is the only constant
Respond effectively
The industry is characterised by the fact that even a tiny
variables can cause changes down to the smallest detail.
If your business has truly integrated processes, you can
meet that challenge.
For example, the article structure is transaction-driven.
This means that article codes are automatically changed
or extended because so specified by the processes. For
example, the completion of the dyeing process may
require the article code to change for all downstream
processes. Integration with production planning and
sales processes makes it easier to plan procurement and
track goods through various manufacturing steps to
logistics.
To adapt quickly to changes in the market, you need
efficient processes in the company that allow you to
select alternatives for order entry, production planning
and delivery.
With the 360° Solution for Fashion & Retail from
AlfaPeople you can:
• Create custom order types, including collection and
showroom orders, as well as blanket and call-off
orders, to plan material sourcing and production.
You can postpone the entry of details such as
colours and sizes, specifications or delivery dates.
Save time by mass updating existing orders or use
sell-out control to reduce stock overruns or limit
sales quantities.
• Get a quick statistical overview of the NOS articles.
• Create neutral BOMs to plan materials and
production resources that are independent of
product size and colour.
• Simplify working with subcontractors through
special ordering processes triggered by production.
• Combine materials from several productions for
staging and stock transfer to other production
locations or subcontractors and automatically
assign the optimized actual delivery quantities
to the productions as withdrawal proposals after
goods receipt.
• Review scenarios to evaluate outsourcing, new
suppliers, or changed processes, or simulate
allocation alternatives to ensure optimal order
fulfilment and customer satisfaction.
• Develop price calculations based on uniform
cost information and quickly and easily generate
price lists that take into account different product
qualities, sizes, quantities, transport or trade fair
discounts, showroom conditions or special prices.
Or you can work with a base price, and the product
prices are automatically set at size level using
surcharges or discounts.
• Gain an overview of planned and actual material
consumption, compiled from sales requirement
figures, customer orders, and production orders.
Simplification of the order administration by the input of all sizes in one line. The matrix recording is available at the required points (purchasing, sales, production, stock postings and much more).
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Maximum flexibility, minimum TCO
With the 360° Solution for Fashion & Retail, you remain
flexible because it can grow with your business at any
time. The solution can easily be adapted to your current
needs - so you benefit from the lowest Total Cost of
Ownership (TCO) at all times.
Optimized collaboration across the entire supply chain
Improve collaboration across the entire supply chain
with the ability to share real-time replenishment,
order and delivery information with employees and
partners inside and outside the organization. Maximize
supply chain visibility, improve synchronization and
communication speed, and respond effectively to
unexpected situations.
Increase productivity, reduce costs
The dashboard of the 360° Solution for Fashion & Retail
helps to improve productivity, because job-specific
information is presented via a personalized main page.
Your dashboard gives you access to the information,
business intelligence tools, and tasks you need
according to your role within the organization. For
example, a sales representative can use his role-based
dashboard to control real-time inventory levels, while an
order processor has access to up-to-date customer data
to create invoices quickly and efficiently. Each employee
can access the exact information and tools he needs for
his tasks via the dashboard.
Use the possibilities
With the 360° Solution for Fashion & Retail, the
following functions and options are available to you via
the dashboard:
• Improved control of fabric rolls or any type of
entity that identifies quantities that arise between
successive production steps.
• Accelerated picking, delivery and booking of goods
and delivery information that is fully integrated
and taken into account in the packaging, labelling,
labelling and invoicing process.
• Reduced time-to-market for new products through
improved communication between design,
distribution, production and wholesale or retail
resources.
• Simplified procurement as well as supplier and
inventory control and order proposal entry or
shift to seller-managed inventory. This gives your
employees more time for strategic tasks that really
get your business ahead.
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