Technology Resource Guide
Looking for increased efficiency, control, and integration in your company’s operations? The right apparel-specific technology system can help facilitate high function and save time and money. These tech providers can tailor solutions to your needs and back them with implementation, training, and support.
AG Systems/ PERFECT FITtrade; 707 Cesar Chavez St. San Francisco, CA 94124 (415) 821-6300 Fax (415) 821-6332 www.perfectfit.net Contact: Alan Grinberg Client Base: Small- to medium-sized apparel and accessories manufacturers, importers, and distributors. Products: PERFECT FIT, an Apparel Management Software System, is used for order entry, customer tracking, inventory control, production control, accounting, and all other related management tasks. The software has more than 25 modules available, so clients can purchase only the functions they need. Multiple preferences within the software allow custom configuration. What’s New: Integrated barcode printing and integrated credit card processing system Services: Software sales, installation, and training; transfer of legacy data; business and computer consulting; custom software systems and modifications; and a great tech support staff committed to a rapid response. Software can be delivered via Internet, which means you can install the same day and save California sales tax. Competitive Edge: Our 23 years of experience with Windows operating systems has enabled us to create an easy-to-use and powerful computer program at a very competitive price. The built-in double entry accounting system is complete with accounts payable, payroll, and general ledger.
AIMS Technology Solutions, Inc. 110 E. 9th St., Ste. A1169 Los Angeles, CA 90079 (310) 556-2215 or (213) 629-2780 Fax (213) 405-2415 www.AIMStsi.com sales@AIMStsi.com Contact: Henry Cherner, Rachael Carson Products: Apparel Information Management System (AIMS) is a complete order and production processing system for every sector of the industry, offering integrated EDI, AIMS GL Accounting Integration, UPS WorldShip & FedEx Ship Manager Integration, Web-based order processing, factor integration, online retail sales integration, and more.What’s New: AIMS Remote Order Link allows sales reps to enter orders into AIMS while at trade shows without needing to access the Internet. AIMS Scan & Pack scans garments as they are received into final inventory. AIMS WebLink automates the process of creating online catalogs and allows wholesale customers and sales reps to access styles, orders, inventory, and account activity. With Apparel Easy Shop, retail customers can purchase inventory directly from your Web site.
Dassault Systegrave;mes900 Chelmsford St. Tower 2 Floor 5, Lowell, MA 01851www.3ds.com/fashion 978-442-2700 phone NAM.PLMinfo@3ds.com Client Base: Retail, footwear, and apparel companies Products: A leading provider of Product Lifecycle Management solutions in the apparel industry. What’s New: Dassault Systemes’ specifically developed, commercially available, off-the-shelf Product Lifecycle Management solutions enable customers to deploy a scalable enterprise solution for apparel design and development, to take products from trend to design, to sourcing, to manufacturing, to the customer. Services: Dassault Systemes offers a variety of services. Please contact us for complete listing. Competitive Edge: Dassault Systemes allows for companies to incorporate their suppliers into a single collaborative platform, facilitating greater communication and ensuring data integrity between supply-chain functions such as design, development, sourcing, and production. Providing suppliers with real-time access to design changes and the ability to communicate production progress creates greater reliability and helps ensure products are shipped on-time with attractive margins.
Innovative Systems, LLC 22282 Mill Creek Dr., Ste. 125 Laguna Hills, CA 92653 (949) 707-1560; Fax (949) 707-5208 www.isllc.com sales@isllc.com Contact: Joe Schaefer Products: The award-winning Full Circlereg; Apparel Software integrates all aspects of your company’s software requirements on one platform. Modules include financials to PLM, ERP, forecasting, domestic manufacturing, MRP, sourcing, supply-chain management, costing, sales order processing, regular and reserve allocation, RF warehouse management, multi currency, and much more. What’s New: Clients all run on one standard version of our software solution; monthly version releases are updated to our entire customer base. Services: Software installation; on-site training; consulting; ongoing support and services; and a complete EDI service bureau, EDI Directreg; Competitive Edge: Full Circlereg; Apparel Software was developed in a true thin client language and is 100 percent GUI for easy navigation and use. It has an open architecture database for data mining without the cost of custom programming, can be scaled to any version of UNIXtrade; without conversion, and can accommodate your growth.
New Generation Computing Inc.reg; (NGCreg;)14900 NW 79th Court Miami Lakes, FL 33016 (305) 556-9122 Fax (305) 828-6358West Coast:2234 E. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91107 (323) 497-4200 www.ngcsoftware.com sales@ngcsoftware.com Client Base: NGC specializes in software for Brands, Retailers & Consumer Products. Products: NGC’s end-to-end solutions for PLM (e-PLMreg;), Global Sourcing (e-SPSreg;) and ERP (RedHorsereg;) are available as an integrated suite or standalone.Competitive Edge: NGC software helps customers increase gross margins, reduce the cost of goods sold, improve speed to market and product quality, and manage testing and CPSIA compliance.NGC received a “Strong Positive” rating in Gartner’s 2009 “MarketScope for PLM in Apparel, Footwear, and Accessories.” NGC was one of 21 PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) vendors evaluated in the report and received the highest possible rating.
OptiTex USA 325 W. 38th St., Ste. 1107 New York, NY 10018 (212) 629-9053; Fax (212) 629-9055 www.optitex.comContact: Sabrina Cove Products: Our apparel-specific software includes a suite of preproduction and production tools featuring 2-D flat pattern design, 3-D garment simulation, animated garment simulation, fabric texture, and colorway variation. Entire lines can be created virtually, eliminating wasted material and speeding products to market. What’s New: OptiTex now offers 3-D to 2-D garment flattening, 3-D digitizing, updated models, and the ability to create animated 3-D cloth and virtual fitting simulations, as well as improved integration with PDM/PLM systems via a newly developed API.Services: Full production pattern design, grading, marker making, nesting, file-conversion services, 3-D design, 3-D flattening, animation services, and 24-hour online support. Competitive Edge: OptiTex is fully Windows-based, uses an open architecture, and integrates seamlessly with hardware and software already on the market. It offers a user-friendly nature, highly customizable on-screen environment, and environmentally friendly efficiency. All design modules exist within the same application; no conversion is needed between modules.
Pacific Apparel Systems 12459 W. Washington Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90066 (310) 397-1123; Fax (310) 397-1163 Toll-free (866) 397-1123 www.pacificapparelsystems.com carl@pacificapparelsystems.com Contact: Carl Ginsberg Products: A fully integrated, easy-to-use, Windows-based software solution that provides comprehensive business features. A fully integrated, in-house EDI module, as well as a Factor Transaction Processing module, is available. The user-friendly Help System provides visual and text-based instructions for all areas of the system. What’s New: We now support Microsoft’s Sequel Server Database (SQL). Services: New features, reports, and displays are provided on a regular basis. We also offer training and telephone and interactive support. Competitive Edge: Our extensive experience authoring apparel software enables us to provide comprehensive but easy-to-use software solutions for any size company at very cost-effective pricing. A 30-day-free trial of the system is available.
Simparel Inc. 53 West 36th St. 11th floorNew York, NY 10018 (212) 279-5800 Fax (212) 279-7779 Contact: Richard Farbwww.simparel.comsales@simparel.com Client Base: Our customers are fashion-related businesses, including apparel, footwear, accessories, costume jewelry, home furnishings, and toys.Products: Simparel offers a full end-to-end solution on a single platform. Our footprint covers PLM, ERP, WMS, financials, shop floor, and global supply chain management.What’s New: Simparel’s 100 percent metadata driven application is open and completely agnostic. Simparel can generate any form, add any field, manage any business hierarchy, and display any desirable grid result, all in real time, without writing a single line of programming code. Services: Simparel has a team of industry experts with over 600 successful implementations in the fashion sector over the past 25 years.Competitive Edge: Simparel Inc. delivers a flexible, affordable, and complete global supply chain management solution in a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the cost of traditional development methodologies. Its patent-pending software engine has shifted the entire development of PLM/ERP systems from compiled code to a definition dictionary. Our development process can be completed in weeks or months, and the configuration delivered is suited specifically to the needs of the end user.
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