Apparel Enterprise Class Project

Case Study: Apparel/ Soft Goods Design and Manufacture

Client: A leading designer, manufacturer, and marketer of women’s and men’s apparel that offers an extensive array of clothing and accessories ranging from casual to formal.

Visionet Systems is delivering world class business results to the apparel, manufacturing, retail and wholesale industry through supply chain technology, consulting, and managed services.

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Business Benefits

Enhance applications to make them business compliance
Upgrade supply and demand reports
reengineer WMS and EDI interface applications
Enhance Retail and Merchandising System
End-to-end quality assurance for PLS system
Migrate PLS reporting from HTML to SQR based reporting

Existing Application

Sewn2000 (Supply & Demand Solution)
Link (Intranet Applications Portal)
Reports (180+ Supply and Demand Reports)
RAMS (Retail and Merchandising System)
EDI (Electronic Data Interface)
WMS (Inbound Receiving Process)
BPS (Business Planning System)
PLS (Product Lifecycle System)
Trade-beam (Logistics)

The Challenges

Existing Applications were not compliant with the growing business.
EDI and WMS Interface systems were performing poorly.
Store Level Business Planning was not available.
Marginal analysis reports missing data.
Dependency on 3rd party logistics system.
Reports and applications were limited to US currency, date formats and taxation rules.

Key Objectives

Enhance applications to make them business compliant. This was necessary because of the:

Growing family of brands, customers and retails stores.
Acquisition of major Europe brands.
Growing business across the world where have to dealt with multiple currencies, date formats and taxation rules.

Upgrade supply and demand reports to support worldwide currencies, currency formats and date/time formats.
reengineer WMS and EDI interface applications in Oracle to make them efficient and scaleable.
Provide business planners with more flexibility to plan product lines at store level along with enhanced marginal analysis capabilities.
Support growing family of outlets/retail stores, enhance RAMS to make it capable of Multiple Currency/date-time formats.
End-to-end quality assurance for PLS system that includes product design, costing, raw material management and factory allocation.
Migrate PLS reporting from HTML to SQR based reporting.