Comparing AIMS360 against Aptean Apparel ERP, or trying to work out the difference between the RLM, Exenta, Momentis, and Full Circle editions? Here is the honest version. Aptean is a multi-industry software group whose apparel lineup came together through acquisitions, so the first question is which Aptean you mean. AIMS360 is one consumer brands ERP, built and run by the same company since 1984, with native EDI to 350+ retailers, a full warehouse management system, and customers proven from $1 million to $500 million in revenue. This page explains the editions, compares the platforms line by line, and shows the receipts.
A fair comparison starts with fit. AIMS360 is a consumer brands ERP: apparel is one of ten industries it runs, alongside footwear, jewelry and accessories, beauty and personal care, outdoor and sporting goods, wellness, home and lifestyle, household, baby, and pet products. Aptean serves dozens of markets, from food and beverage to industrial manufacturing, with apparel as one vertical among many.
Aptean did not build an apparel ERP. It bought several. RLM, Exenta, Momentis, and Full Circle each began as an independent apparel software company, and each now lives as a separate edition under the Aptean Apparel ERP name. They have different codebases, different strengths, and different histories: RLM with deep roots in New York wholesale, Exenta known for its PLM and design-side heritage, Momentis and Full Circle with their own installed bases.
That structure matters to a buyer in two ways. First, evaluating Aptean means picking an edition, and the answer changes what you get. Second, one company now carries four overlapping apparel products, and roadmap investment has to be divided among them. AIMS360 is the opposite structure: one cloud platform, one roadmap, every customer on the current version, built by the same company for 40+ years. When you evaluate AIMS360, there is exactly one answer to which one.
Green means proven strength with receipts. Red means a gap, a claim without published evidence, or a capability that depends on which edition you buy. Each line includes the one-sentence version of why.
Built and run by the same company for 40+ years; every customer on the current version.
RLM, Exenta, Momentis, and Full Circle: separate codebases and roadmaps under one brand.
Ten consumer industries, apparel first among them, and nothing else competing for investment.
Apparel is one vertical in a portfolio spanning food and beverage to industrial manufacturing.
350+ retailers, in-house EDI, flat economics, and 24x7 emergency EDI support.
Embedded and managed, but pay-for-what-you-use pricing means costs climb with order volume.
Processed for a single customer on a single peak day.
No comparable peak-volume figure published for any apparel edition.
Customers run catalogs past 160,000 SKUs in production today.
No published customers at this catalog depth.
Receiving through ship with barcode and RFID, proven in production at 99% inventory accuracy.
Warehouse depth depends on which edition you buy; no unified WMS across the four.
Cut tickets, WIP tracking, costing, bill of materials, and factory POs, connected to orders, inventory, and EDI.
Strengths differ by edition; Exenta leans design-side PLM while operations depth varies.
Every AIMS360 customer runs the current cloud release; nobody is stranded on old versions.
Mixed deployment models across editions leave installed bases on aging on-premise stacks.
Three plans by team size, modular add-ons, and no per-transaction EDI fees, all published.
No published pricing for any apparel edition; every number starts with a sales call.
Implementation by people who have done apparel operations since 1984, plus 24x7 emergency EDI support.
Support spans a large multi-product, multi-industry portfolio rather than one apparel platform.
AIMS360 customer Beyond Yoga was acquired by Levi Strauss and Co. for approximately $400 million.
No comparable publicly documented brand exit tied to an Aptean apparel edition.
Based on each company's published materials and AIMS360 production customer data as of August 2026. Where a capability truly depends on the Aptean edition, the chart says so. If Aptean publishes evidence that changes a row, we will update it.
The point of an ERP is not the feature list. It is what the brand running it becomes. Beyond Yoga, the premium activewear brand, ran its operations on AIMS360 through its growth years and was acquired by Levi Strauss and Co. for approximately $400 million in 2021, one of the largest activewear acquisitions of the decade.
Beyond Yoga is not alone. True Religion, Retrofête, Los Angeles Apparel, and hundreds of other consumer brands run AIMS360 today, from $1 million emerging labels to $500 million operations. When the question is whether one platform can carry a brand the whole way, that answer is already public. See more on our customer stories page.
Brands on acquired legacy editions usually reach the same fork: reimplement on whichever edition Aptean steers them toward, or move once to a platform with a single roadmap. The AIMS360 implementation team has migrated brands off RLM-class systems for decades. Here is how it works.
An apparel specialist maps your current edition, channels, retailers, and production workflow, then builds the migration plan.
Styles, customers, inventory, open orders, and history move over in a structured, verified conversion.
A US-based team that has done apparel operations since 1984 configures the system around your workflow and trains your team on it.
Phone, chat, and email support from apparel specialists, plus 24x7 emergency EDI support when a retailer deadline is on the line.
Bring your styles, your retailers, and your hardest workflow, whichever edition you run today. A specialist who has done apparel operations since 1984 will show you exactly how it runs on AIMS360.
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