Showing posts with label infor fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label infor fashion. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Fast retail: The only way to travel in fashion

Apparel manufacturing has outdone itself through new techniques such as flash warehousing and global trend reporting. Nowhere are these more evident than the highstreet, where relatively upmarket brands finish off seasons with crowd-pleasing supplies and blitz turnovers. A handful of apparel brands have broken into this segment offering comparable substitutes to designer fantasy fashion, with their global approaches to retail snapping up the most eager markets.

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Fast retail in fashion is under pressure to touch off trends and respond to fickle consumer tastes at the drop of a hat. The method still keeps a sensitive eye to quality --- clothes never go stale but they could be menaced by shoddiness down the production line without material and workmanship uniformity. This is an industry where information exchange between processes maintains designs and motifs.

The IT connectivity of fashion is one of remarkable data interchange. Global retailers gather their factories and warehouses in a single information environment that, although unimaginable in a highly creative industry, clearly dictates production standards down to the stitch.

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Before coming into its own as an industry that could practice economies of scale, apparel manufacturing was either small-scale or big in name, but painstakingly bespoke. Retailers invented customizable uniformity channeled through ERPs ready for global implementation. Larger and newer markets dictated more efficient communication platforms across business processes, culminating in specialized business application software for fashion.

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The enterprise software industry started with generalized products, but it is aggressively branching out into industry-specific platforms as manufacturing technologies diverge among businesses. In its more primitive days of earthier operations, fashion could afford standard business applications. More specialized versions such as Infor Fashion, a suite of applications that covers the entire range of apparel manufacturing at varying scales, attest to the diverse directions of business in the fashion industry. 

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Infor is the third largest provider of enterprise software globally. Its growth, headed by CEO Charles Phillips, is heralded by its invaluable presence in key industries such as aerospace, automotive, food, and healthcare, among others. Visit Infor.com for a background of its increasingly popular ERP in the fashion industry.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

In fashion: How Infor’s business software applications are helping the fashion industry

Trends come and go, especially when it comes to fashion. Last year, perspex shoes and peplum skirts made waves; this year, fancy boat shoes and chambray shirts are flocking boutiques. Clothing and footwear manufacturers are trying to catch up with the constantly changing market demands, and to aid them in creating and getting their products to the market is Infor Fashion.

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It may seem like a world of glitz and glamor, but fashion is serious business that involves a very complex supply chain. A suite of software products specifically designed for companies producing style-based products, Infor Fashion helps fashion houses manufacture more products and deliver them to the market quicker than their competitors. Created by professionals with decades of experience in the industry of apparel-making, Infor’s business apps streamline all aspects of the supply chain – from designing and developing clothes to sourcing, producing, and distributing them. Brand owners, distributors, manufacturers, and retailers all benefit from this software suite.

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 With the help of Infor Fashion, business processes become:

Organized. Through role-based dashboards, companies can do business on a single screen – there’s only one place to go to for all information needed.

Mobile. Business processes continue even outside the office with the help of Infor’s mobile apps for tablets and smartphones.

Connected. Because of Infor’s ION technology, connectivity between all the existing applications is simplified.

Reliable. Infor Fashion offers powerful role-based reports and fashion-specific business intelligence from a single, reliable source.

Social. Equipped with social collaboration capabilities, Infor Fashion lets a company’s employees work in a community of shared interests, allowing them to collaborate more effectively.

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Over 1,100 apparel and footwear companies are enjoying the benefits of using Infor’s products. With Infor Fashion, creating trendy fashion pieces has never been easier and faster.

Under the leadership of Charles Phillips, Infor’s CEO, the company continues to provide various industries, including the world of fashion, with business applications designed to unify their processes. Learn more about the Infor Fashion advantage here.