Fashion and apparel software solutions

Supply chain disruptions don’t just lead to disappointed customers – they can reduce sales and profitability if not managed correctly. CloudSuite Fashion provides leaders with the visibility and technology they need to manage their supply chains, offering increased transparency that can enhance profit margins organization-wide. CloudSuite Fashion enhances customers’ visibility across their supply chains, allowing brands to closely monitor their every margin at the style and customer level. This insight provides customers with the end-to-end control needed to create smarter, more profitable growth strategies.

To address challenges arising from rapid growth and acquisitions, one retailer implemented Infor CloudSuite Fashion to consolidate operations, improve supply chain visibility, and enhance efficiency. Leveraging the cloud for enhanced visibility into their global supply chain and seamless communications with suppliers, the retailer reduced stock transfer times—giving CloudSuite a 5 out of 5 for gains it delivered in warehousing dispatches.

KEY INDUSTRY ENHANCEMENTS

Supplier Portal: Infor Supplier Portal helps customers communicate with suppliers to support a seamless manufacturing and distribution journey. The new embedded, self-service digital collaboration tool connects you and your suppliers for more effective communication. Eliminate confusion and improve precise manufacturing with order confirmation, advanced shipping notice, and transport notifications.

Infor Nexus: Introduce greater transparency and control for your global sourcing supply chain with Infor Nexus. Infor Nexus provides further supply chain visibility, including ‘plan to ship,’ carrier routes, automated advanced shipping notices, and invoice processing.

In today’s trend-driven market, new designs need to keep sustainability in mind. CloudSuite Fashion enables precise, more sustainable product innovation with digital product creation and product lifecycle management – reducing inefficiencies and customers’ environmental footprint. CloudSuite Fashion optimizes the product creation journey by providing managers with the real-time insights, transparency, and technology they need to remain compliant with changing market requirements and transform developing new collections to better meet market needs.

Infor helps customers protect themselves from regulatory scrutiny with solutions that empower sustainable product innovation. Infor CloudSuite Fashion helped one major global brand find and pay suppliers with certified A-ratings for sustainability in just 5 days. Another used Infor to streamline innovation and generate next season’s brand-new styles in 50% less time.

KEY INDUSTRY ENHANCEMENTS

Sustainable design integration: The sustainable design integration in CloudSuite Fashion helps customers meet sustainability targets and manage their carbon footprint by allowing customers to measure their product’s environmental impact on CO2 emissions as they develop new collections and styles.

Infor PLM for Fashion: Make smarter, more sustainable decisions with the product lifecycle management (PLM) capability in CloudSuite Fashion. With many enhancements, PLM is a customer’s ultimate tool along the product innovation journey. PLM helps customers design and develop new collections and styles, as well as evaluate costs, materials, environmental impacts, and more.

Infor® PLM for Fashion is a powerful product lifecycle management and collaboration tool. The software empowers fashion companies to seamlessly link vital areas of the fashion value chain to their business processes, from line planning, design, and development to supply chain sourcing and in-season consumer-driven design changes.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Powerful collaboration tools to design, plan, develop, and track collections
• A flexible, scalable, modern technology platform deployed in the multi-tenant cloud
• Superior user experience and mobility to work on PC, Mac, tablet, or smartphone
• Easy integration with third-party systems

Infor Nexus™ is the world’s largest and only single-instance, multi-enterprise business network platform that powers many of the world’s most complex supply chains to drive efficiency and agility by optimizing the flow of goods, information, and capital from source to delivery and pay. Boost overall supply chain performance by improving on-time delivery and customer service, with increased velocity; all while significantly reducing costs, lead times, freeing up working capital, and improving partner relationships.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Single connection with your network of partners
• Supplier collaboration
• Transportation sourcing and execution
• Multi-leg, multi-mode shipment tracking and monitoring
• Electronic invoicing and payables automation
• End-to-end supply chain visibility and control
• Innovative supply chain finance

Infor Rhythm® for Commerce provides companies running Infor enterprise resource planning (ERP) products with a fully integrated multi-tenant e-commerce solution, enabling them to sell their complete product assortment in a rich, online shopping experience.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Powerful online presence offering a seamless shopping experience
• Integrated with Infor ERPs
• Cost-effective management in the cloud
• Easy for your marketing team to build and maintain
• Product information management included, or use your own

Infor® industry analytics deliver relevant and meaningful insights for everybody from the boardroom to the shop floor. Infor Birst® makes business intelligence and analytics easy to consume with pre-built industry and role-specific content and metrics embedded wherever business users need information. Improve decision-making with Birst.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Best in class pre-built industry content
• C-suite dashboards for prescriptive analysis
• Intelligent drill-back with in-context insights
• Open ecosystem for democratized analytics
• Enterprise-wide solution for integrated data

Infor® CPQ helps sales teams, partners, and distributors sell complex products faster with a rules-driven platform designed for visual quoting and dynamic pricing, to instantly produce a configuration-specific list price, dealer cost, and quoted selling price. Orders are automatically passed to your business system via enterprise integration.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Improve sales efficiency
• Show products in 2D or 3D models
• Automated order pass-through and customer proposals
• Optimize the buying experience
• Guarantee fast and accurate orders
• Accelerate new product introductions