Fashion management systems provide a way for retailers to keep track of their inventory, pricing, and other important data in one place. This helps streamline operations, reduce costs, and improve customer service. Fashion management is an integral part of the fashion industry since it involves understanding consumer needs, anticipating trends, creating effective product assortments, and managing inventory levels. It also requires knowledge of the latest technology used in retailing such as point-of-sale (POS) systems, eCommerce platforms, and automated replenishment systems. Coupled with an order-management point-of-sale solution, it becomes a well-rounded solution that has aspects targeted for retail and wholesale needs. The goal of any fashion management system is to maximize profits while meeting customer demand through efficient management of merchandise assortment, pricing, and promotions. The most successful fashion businesses understand that a well-designed system can help them achieve these goals by providing real-time information about sales performance as well as insights into customer buying habits so they can make informed decisions about future products and strategic business planning.

Buy online and pick up in store

For brick-and-mortar stores, transparency within your inventory allows your salesperson to consider factors using real-time availability and pricing to leverage existing data in a mobile-friendly, device-agnostic manner. With the ability to view material, images, quantity, and pricing in one view, a customizable customer dashboard, is visible in real-time, to upsell, edit orders, or add discounts to close the sale. Not only does a 360-degree view supports a more personalized interaction between your customer and sales representative, with automatic current syncing of real-time data, the ability to clip in cross-sell engines, and full inventory visibility. This gives the salesperson context within the sales environment to best fit the needs of the customer.

Find and identify materials more easily with the visibility and flexibility of an advanced POS to best serve the customer, making inventory searchable by current or old part number, vendor part number, and manufacturer part number. Giving the customer a seamless buying experience and accessing information in-store helps your salesperson to do their job more effectively, with the visibility and flexibility of an advanced POS to best serve the customer.

Anonymous Cash and Carry

There needs to be an effective inventory management system in place that allows retailers to track stock levels across all locations and adjust them accordingly based on demand patterns or seasonality factors. Using material type ahead, configurable margins, and a view of minimum purchasing quality and lead time, fashion retailers facilitate customer engagement and increase sales. With the right Fashion Management System, supply chain visibility and inventory planning become a simplified component to aid your pricing strategy, which involves setting competitive yet profitable prices to cover costs while still generating revenue growth. Pricing strategies may include promotional sales, discounts, or other incentives such as loyalty programs or free shipping offers to encourage customer purchases. Without a purchase history to anticipate in anonymous cash and carry scenarios, this system allows for strategic merchandise planning to anticipate the needs of the consumer.

Without an order management platform’s streamlined view of the inventory, companies are unable to work at their full capacity. When customers order online you can ensure in-stock accuracy, and when products are unavailable, the importance of cross-store sourcing is shown through its ability for retailers to account for cost efficiency from sourcing and shipping. These logistics help Fashion Management Systems cover the sales ecosystem and lifecycle from manufacturing to sale. Utilizing these features brings out the ROI of your Fashion Management System and expands the use and flexibility of your existing processes.

Simple and complex variant configuration

To create an effective fashion management system several key components must be addressed. The first is the product assortment. This includes the selection of items, sizes, and colors available for sale as well as any associated services such as alterations or customizations. It’s important to ensure customers have access to a wide range of options so they can find what they need quickly and easily. Customization within an order is communicated directly to the store and in the case of a vendor transaction, managed within the dropshipping functionality, including specified shipping instructions. Variant configuration is a powerful tool used by businesses that offer customizable products. It allows customers to select options from a list of available choices, creating their own unique product. Search materials and products through this feature more easily with top-level categories, material images, and view and order across sales channels. Within an order, users may open advanced lookup to view, create material on the fly using an external catalog, and split tender across payment methods showcasing its sales agility. Its intuitive solution reduces errors and mitigates manual process inefficiencies. By leveraging variant configurations within retail operations, businesses can provide an enhanced customer experience while streamlining their staff’s sales order process.

Finding the value in OMS+

The aggregate value centers around the order management platform’s ability to fully integrate into SAP as an endorsed app, you can not only leverage the functionality for OMS+ but also your POS and customer follow-up functionalities. Housed within these functionalities for fashion management, you have a matrix for material lookup where you can view the different variants of a generic material and its availability and pricing in a single aggregated platform, a point-of-truth for merchandising. A successful fashion management system requires an understanding of consumer needs and trends along with effective management of merchandise assortment, pricing, and promotions to maximize profits while meeting customer demand. The right combination of products, pricing strategies, and inventory management systems can help retailers stay ahead of the competition by providing timely information about sales performance as well as insights into customer buying habits so they can make informed decisions about future collections or product offerings. DataXstream OMS+, an omnichannel order-management point-of-sale paired with a fashion management or merchandising process ensures the best total experience for all parties, giving the customer and retailer a streamlined buying interaction.