Cincom Priority for the Fashion Industry

Flexible ERP Software for the Fast-moving Fashion Industry

Cincom Priority ERP is an ideal solution for profitable growth in the fashion industry – an industry challenged with margin pressures, short product life cycles, long lead times and changing consumer preferences. Its ease of use, flexibility and functionality make Cincom Priority your profitable and practical ERP choice for small to mid-sized enterprises (SME).

Cincom Priority enables you to easily:

• Manage wide product ranges, short seasonal life cycles, high order volumes and a high velocity of transactions.
• Plan a mix of style-based (e.g., style, colour, size) and non-style based (itemised) products across complex global supply chains.
• Manage large numbers of product stock keeping units (SKU’s)
• Meet customer demand for short delivery lead times and on-time delivery.
• Manage inventory levels to ensure high customer-service levels while controlling the level of capital tied up in inventory.
• Maximise margins by controlling costs at every step in your supply chain.
• Automate and integrate your business processes.

Cincom Priority gives you:

• Comprehensive document management for storage and publication of images such as swatches, samples, spec sheets, sketches, photos, etc.
• Automatic generation or manual assignment of bar codes to meet exacting customer labelling, tracking and scanning requirements.
• Efficient assortment and replenishment planning across multiple distribution channels and supply chains.
• Reduced clerical effort by consolidating production orders by style for standard sets and specific assortments of colours and sizes.

Fashion Industry Capabilities

Priority ERP Adapts to Your Individual Needs
Priority was constructed to meet the complex needs of the fashion industry. Support for ranges and collections in terms of a multi-attribute matrix, e.g., style, colour and size, is central to Priority’s design allowing easy integration with your product offerings.

A matrix-oriented design simplifies the management of style-based products and individual items such as assortments or itemised accessory forms throughout the entire system—extending from customer orders to purchase order entry.

Automatic assortment processing allows you to mix, match and copy styles and item selections along the business processes that are unique to your supply chain. This creates faster implementation with an out-of-the-box matrix and itemised layouts for external and internal documents, such as invoices, production orders and purchase orders.

Powerful ERP Technology to Make Operations Easier
The powerful data import/export and electronic commerce capabilities of Priority enable quick and efficient exchanges of operational information with key customers and suppliers. Priority also provides Web-based Customer and Vendor Relationship Management to your sales and procurement teams for fast communication with your supply-chain partners anywhere at any time.

Priority integrates easily with MS Office Outlook, Word, Excel, Mail, Calendar and Contacts. This eliminates redundant data and provides a familiar toolset to integrate complex collaborative tasks such as new product development with Priority applications.

Flexible Options from the Back Office to Warehouse
Priority has broad support for flexible sourcing of products through combinations of in-house manufacturing, subcontracted production and/or purchase of local or fully imported product ranges. It also gives you automated generation of multi-vendor and multi-currency purchase orders to cover stock demand and reduce order preparation times for increased accuracy.

Efficient pallet-management solutions supported by real-time Automated Data Collection organise complex warehouse operations. Two examples are flexible carton and pallet-content label printing with integrated warehouse management systems and directed task management that reduce material handling cost, improve space utilisation and increase labour productivity.

Cincom Priority ERP Fashion gives you competitive advantages of:

• Timely delivery of goods to customers by working within agreed-to operating hours using assigned distribution routes, shippers and delivery dates for each and every sales order.
• Improved customer fill rates with full visibility of inventory in sales branches, retail shops and consignment warehouses including customer-owned franchises.
• Reduced effort and improved service levels with automatic replenishment of branch and consignment warehouses based on inventory levels, sales rates and stock turnover analysis.
• Tightened control on returned merchandise by ensuring that credit is in line with the original price of the returned goods.
• Simplified end-of-season return to warehouse, item conversion and markdown processing.
• Decreased operating costs by automating clerical intensive activities such as commission processing, rebates, offers, up-sell, deposits and landed cost calculations with associated profitability analysis and cost accounting.