QuickBooks is perhaps one of your first friends in starting your business ventures, but you’ll notice it can’t keep up with your demands of efficient operation or satisfy your intricate management needs of your ever-growing fashion business. AIMS360 lets you upgrade your Quickbooks experience with a faster, more sufficient, and more accurate integrated system to manage your apparel business. AIMS360 apparel software works seamlessly with your current Quickbooks Desktop or Quickbooks Online software.

If you raise your hand and say, “That’s me” to any of the following experiences, it’s time to augment QuickBooks with AIMS360’s apparel software.

You Spend a Lot of Time Manually Managing Apparel Inventory

Quickbooks limitation: QuickBooks has limited inventory capabilities. Let’s start with your product. It’s a no-brainer that you will have a sea of products that vary in style, colors, and sizes. QuickBooks works at the size level making style, color, and sizes difficult to use in QuickBooks. QuickBooks is not apparel software so it does not handle the inventory matrix for fashion. You will spend more time than needed creating a new product for every color and size, which is extremely repetitive. This also means orders and invoices are too complicated and complex looking, inventory is difficult at best and there is no way to get a real ‘open to sell by date’ report by product and/or color/size.

AIMS360 apparel solution: AIMS360 apparel ERP is the top solution in providing advanced apparel inventory management, including multiple warehouse locations, bin locations, reorder points, and omni-channel inventory integraton. Get your inventory user interface, data entry, and reports to be at style, color, or size level with full support of color and size matrix.

You Get Headaches from Manually Managing Domestic and Import Fashion Production

If you barely have enough time to manually manage apparel inventory, just thinking about manually managing fashion production already gives you a headache. You have the chaos of apparel production, late deliveries, too much or not enough in production, and delayed shipping. With a fashion business management software, you get a full apparel production tracking system that is integrated with your orders. It gives you the ability to specify a delivery window for your apparel production, so you know what is coming when, if you have too much, or too little. You see it all in one system. No more jumping back and forth between Excel sheets. AIMS360 apparel software can also be used as a fashion PLM for apparel production management.

Import FOB, Duty, and Landed Cost Management:

QuickBooks Limitation: QuickBooks is limited in handling the complexities associated with international trade, such as managing FOB costs, calculating duties, and determining landed costs, which are critical for accurate pricing and profitability analysis.

AIMS360 Apparel Solution: AIMS360 provides specialized tools that automatically calculate landed costs, including import FOB, duties, taxes, and shipping. This ensures that businesses have a clear understanding of total product costs, which is essential for pricing strategies and maintaining profit margins.

Production Materials: Fabrics, Lots, Rolls, & Trims:

QuickBooks Limitation: QuickBooks lacks the capability to manage the complexities of fabric & triminventory, such as tracking fabric lots and rolls, which are crucial for production accuracy and quality control in the apparel industry.

AIMS360 Apparel Solution: AIMS360 allows businesses to track fabric inventory down to the roll level, including detailed information on fabric lots, ensuring that production runs use the correct materials, minimizing waste, and ensuring consistent product quality.

Your Fashion Business is Omni-Channel

Your fashion business is omnichannel, but Quickbooks and Excel can’t handle the process like an apparel software. So, you find yourself entering apparel production and apparel order information to QuickBooks, and using multiple excel sheets for tracking. Both Quickbooks and Excel lack a fully integrated system to easily communicate with your business and your different partnerships. Too many apparel sales channels mean too much time wasted on entering your orders multiple times instead of focusing on other areas of your business. An apparel software is the only way to have a more sophisticated way of communication to make your orders talk to your apparel inventory, apparel production, customer service, factors, EDI, Shopify, DTC, B2B, and more.

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You Have to Guess Who to Ship, With No Ability for Intelligent Allocation and Fulfillment

Besides the pain of double entering apparel order information, you find a huge lack of visibility in your apparel inventory or units you have currently and which customer it should go to. With QuickBooks and Excel, this can get overly complicated. That’s where adding an apparel software in the mix can help. AIMS360 has an intelligent fashion order allocation and fulfillment system that connects orders to fashion purchasing and fashion production based on the rules you set. Plus, you’ll earn some brownie points since your apparel warehouse manager no longer need to chase things down.

You Have Too Many Excel Sheets to Name

A fashion business operates under a whole new set of metrics — you need easy access to these metrics for a variety of purposes: reporting to the “board”, identifying opportunities, and to be within reach of your business budgeting and finances, to name a few. Simply put you need an apparel software with a single source of truth about your company.

Apparel software provides the necessary reporting along with options for Business Intelligence that lets you easily drive your business forward at a glance. Why spend time with multiple Excel sheets trying to figure out inventory levels, where your apparel production is at or when it’s coming in when you can use a fashion software to get this information quickly and painlessly in one place. You need results that will drive your business on a successful track! And with the right fashion software, it can produce detailed metrics, giving you straightforward answers like the most and least profitable colored, pocketed, two-buttoned cardigan you distributed last season.

If you can relate to any of these five experiences, it’s time to move up from QuickBooks and Excel. AIMS360 apparel software offers a smooth integration with your QuickBooks file and Excel sheets that will become the extra hands in fulfilling your fashion business management needs you didn’t know you had.

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