ClaritaFashion - Capabilites

How much profit did you make last year? Last month? Last week? And where did that profit come from? Which region? Which customers? Which sales channel? Which product line or collection?

Getting information out of your business systems shouldn’t be difficult, and at Clarita we make it easy for you to ask questions and get the answers you need to run your business. Our solution allows you to report from not just within ClaritaFashion itself (your core ERP system), but from almost any piece of data stored in your business. Whether it be sales information from your database or Cost Centre budgets stored in Excel, ClaritaFashion Business Intelligence will bring your information together seamlessly, allowing you to report, analyse and make better informed decisions about your business.

Features include:

• Allows you to report on data from most databases, as well as Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access
• An intuitive interface means users can generate their own reports, graphs, dashboards and charts
• Email alerts notify users of critical changes in their data, such as low stock levels or reduced margins
• Patented ‘In Memory’ processing means rapid responses to queries, even with large volumes of data
• Filter, slice and dice your results and metrics to find the answers to your questions
• Preloaded reports from Clarita, including Finance, Sales, Aged Debtors and Performance Delivery

• Faster, more accurate results mean you can make informed decisions and react quickly to changing market conditions.
• A single reporting tool for all your line of business applications means reduced IT costs and more efficient reporting and analysis.
• Accessibility via a web browser, meaning you can analyse, evaluate and resolve issues wherever you have an internet connection.
• Focus on your business ‘bottlenecks’ and take corrective action sooner.
• A more agile, proactive and dynamic decision making unit.

Critical Path is first and foremost a series of projects and tasks designed to get your collections to market on time on budget. The success of your Critical Path relies on your staff, customers and suppliers all working together towards the same goal.

In our experience for many companies in the Fashion & Apparel industry Critical Path involves a large, very cumbersome spreadsheet. However the problems lies in that typically a spreadsheet is a number crunching tool, whereas working on Critical Path projects usually involves a large number of internal and external resources and people, and requires a more collaborative solution.

At Clarita, we have transformed the concept of Critical Path to introduce something much smarter that works real-time with full notifications to ensure the necessary actions in your Critical Path are undertaken and deadlines never missed.

ClaritaFashion leverages familiar Microsoft SharePoint technology to enable users to create, manage and share their Critical Path tasks on-line:

• Clear visibility of priorities and progress; accurate and updated regularly for everyone. Full audit trail for future reference.
• Create, share, allocate and visualise tasks, design specifications and product images on-line. Attach documents for ease of reference.
• Identify problem areas which need support or are overloaded.
• Receive proactive real-time status alerts and notifications, in particular when project tasks are due.
• Integrate your tasks inside Microsoft Outlook to allow users to track and update tasks as they progress.
• Allow multiple people to access and update information at the same time.
• Provide remote access to customers and suppliers across the globe.
• Work with tools your users are familiar with – Microsoft Office.

Typical business benefits include:

• Improved control for both development and order based critical path.
• Reduced lead times and faster time to market through improved management and control.
• Cost reduction due to improved visibility of information and more accurate planning.
• 24x7 access to information for your staff, suppliers and customers.
• Inherent Microsoft familiarity means a more rapid adoption by users.
• Central point of reference for accurate up-to-date information and only ‘one version of the truth’.

At the heart of every ERP system you need tight control of your finances. With ClaritaFashion you are working with tried and tested Microsoft Dynamics NAV software, a feature and function rich solution that equips your people with the information and tools they need to streamline processes, meet business objectives, make better decisions and help improve cash flow and reduce bad debt.

Is your business ‘free to sell’ with no limits? Any time? Any channel? Any product? Any customer? Routes to market are numerous and product availability needs to exist where customers expect to find it, and in many instances this can be 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

Unfortunately in most cases this is achieved by taking your ERP system, and ‘bolting on’ different solutions to facilitate and manage each channel individually. For example, one for retail and point of sale, one for e-Commerce, one mail for mail order, and the list goes on. The result is a number of disparate systems working independently, not talking to each other and sharing information, and with a distinct lack of centralised management via your core ERP system. In short, this is very inefficient. Stock ends up being earmarked to individual channels and unable to be moved on-the-fly between channels depending on demand, it’s difficult to track what is selling and through what channel, and you end up selling out and disappointing customers through one channel yet with product still sitting idle in your warehouse or another channel outlet.

With ClaritaFashion there are no limitations – freedom to sell and availability are paramount. ClaritaFashion is the first and only ERP solution for fashion companies that offers true fully integrated end-to-end multi-channel management. This means you have one solution centrally managing and fulfilling all channel requirements in total synergy and collaboration with each other. For example with ClaritaFashion stock management can be optimised across all channels, enabling product to move dynamically between channels depending on demand, all the time supported by real-time tracking and live updates and managed centrally from your back office.

Whether it’s customer account history, pricing, retail store sales, stock availability, warehouse fulfilment location, or the most cost-effective carrier, fast access to accurate information drives successful operations. Especially designed to deliver comprehensive information in one business management system, ClaritaFashion can help you link your office, store/agent and multiple warehouse facilities, giving you one set of dependable data so you can make reliable promises to customers, fulfil orders/sales quickly and accurately, and boost customer satisfaction. This robust management solution can also empower you to streamline warehouse processes, efficiently handle long lead-time items, and select the optimal forecasting formula based on past sales to yield maximum profitability.

Central to any company in the Fashion & Apparel industry is the art of designing products that sell. The ClaritaFashion solution won’t design your styles for you, but it will help you manage them efficiently. Progressing from design to collection, planning your sizes, colours, fabrics and fits is managed within the application, providing you with the flexibility to plan and control when your products are ready for sale.

ClaritaFashion provides you with the functionality to control costs and pricing, product specifications, wash & wear instructions and to calculate fabric and trim requirements. All integrated to the Finance, Sales, Purchasing and Stock Management modules of the solution giving you end to end control of your design, procurement and sales processes.

Additional features include:

• Centralised control of materials, costs and prices for all products.
• Pricing and VAT control down to the SKU level.
• Calculate costs and margins prior to procurement or production.
• Reporting on sales trends by multiple attributes such as Style, Colour, Size, Collection, Season and Brand.
• Manage new and obsolete stock by Style, Size and Colour.
• Prepare Ratio Pack for streamlining customer orders.

Typical business benefits include:

• Costing and margin calculations ensure you can forecast profit contribution per style.
• Real time reporting means your business can respond quickly to changing market conditions.
• A single, integrated solution means you can centralise your administration and reduce system overhead costs.
• Instantly update design changes to your customers and suppliers, reducing errors in sampling and ordering.

PLM is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to delivery and disposal; integrating people, data and processes.

ClaritaFashion offers centralised control of your PLM enabling you to innovate faster, reacting quickly to market trends whilst ensuring the greatest levels accuracy, product quality and time-to-market are achieved.

It allows a proactive approach to product development by alerting users not only to unexpected bottlenecks and delivery problems but to expected completion dates. The notifications and steps recorded in your PLM are user defined and can be utilized in a variety of situations. E-mail notifications can be automatically sent to warn users/ managers on what process need to be undertaken.

The Sales Agent Portal is made for your direct sales team and your agents. It enables you to pick your own customers / shops and place the order through a very simple and intuitive user interface. The style selection can be done onscreen or with a barcode scanner. Your sales force gets access to the latest products, customer information, order entry, sales history etc.

The Portal gives your sales people access to customer related information, which makes it possible for them to answer directly to requests concerning time of delivery, best sellers, stock etc. With this information available, the sales people can get the order right on the spot without involving the back-office, giving the customer a far better level of service. .

Comprehensive functionality ranges from: order confirmation, invoicing and other sales documents in the customer’s own language to discount structures and support for EDI (Electronic Data Interchange). You can analyse sales performance as deeply as required, to ensure future collections meet your customers’ requirements.

Supplier Portal is an extension of your PLM. All linked to the same information you work with in Microsoft Dynamics, the Supplier Portal shares information between you and your suppliers directly. The Supplier Portal helps you stay in control of your outsourcing and at the same time it enables you to expand it into new areas such as online commenting, sample check, measurements, BOM, quotations and QA.

You will enjoy the benefits of communicating with your overseas partners in your normal environment, and the instant access to information on both sides will reduce your overall time-to-market and allow you to spend less time handling information and more time adding value.

Stop wasting time and reduce the risk of errors by entering data once and using it for order entry, picking, packing, labelling, and shipping; inventory records and replenishment processes; and customer invoicing and accounting. With ClaritaFashion the data your business depends on will reside in a single database and can be accessed and updated anytime, from anywhere, by anyone who needs it. That means timely, accurate information and careful warehouse management, so stock can be promised with confidence, goods can be found where they’re expected, inventories remain accurate, and orders can be efficiently picked, packed, labelled, shipped, and invoiced.

Advanced functionality is also available for automated warehouse shipment creation, warehouse batching and warehouse delivery and collection load planning. Combine with ‘Carrier Integration’ to minimise costs and resource requirements in your warehouse and logistics operations.