Fashion and Footwear: Make Money in Style

Global markets, rapidly changing fashions, specialty discounters and extended supply chains make the fashion and footwear retail segment more competitive than ever. To succeed you need to carefully manage lead times and optimise inventory levels to avoid profit-eating markdowns. You need the ability to address style/size/color and build floor-ready shipments. At the same time, you must stay ahead of customer demand for new styles and increase speed of delivery to take advantage of interest in new looks and materials.

Manhattan Associates' retail supply chain solutions for the fashion and footwear industry enable you to strike the right balance between inventory and customer satisfaction, while minimising costs and maximising sales. Our retail supply chain solutions draw on the broad capabilities and holistic approach of Manhattan SCOPE®: Supply Chain Optimisation—Planning through Execution, so you have all the tools you need to manage your supply chain for optimum performance.

Give Competitors the Boot

With Manhattan's retail supply chain solutions for the fashion and footwear industry, you can build a supply chain that makes your competitors yesterday's news:

• Planning and Forecasting: Anticipate demand—and respond quickly when it changes. Accurately predict inventory requirements to increase sales, minimise working capital demands and keep customers happy.
• Order Lifecycle Management: Manage the order process efficiently from supplier to customer, and even back again, and you save money.
• Distribution Management: From your suppliers' loading dock to your customer's front door, leverage flow-through capabilities to streamline your distribution process, deliver faster and reduce costs.
• Extended Enterprise Management: Collaborate with your trading partners to efficiently communicate and ensure goods move smoothly to your customers at minimum cost.
• Supply Chain Visibility: See a single, consistent, real-time view of your entire global supply chain for greater inventory control, promote optimal fulfillment channels, and reduce cycle time variability to lower safety stock levels.
• Supply Chain Event Management: Track and monitor supply chain events in real time and respond immediately based upon alerts to critical exception events, which may threaten your ability to meet customer demand.

Contact a Manhattan representative to learn more about our retail supply chain solutions specifically tailored to the needs of fashion and footwear companies.