BeProduct is a product lifecycle management platform for fashion and lifestyle brands, covering color palettes, material libraries, style specifications and tech packs. AIMS360 picks the style up at approval and turns it into a purchase order, a cut ticket, an order book and a shipped garment.
BeProduct is where a line gets designed, specified and approved. AIMS360 is where the approved style becomes a purchase order, a cut ticket, a wholesale order book and a shipped garment. This page is about the handoff between them: what crosses, what each system stays responsible for, and what has to line up before the first import.
Yes. BeProduct is one of the PLM systems AIMS360 connects to, alongside Centric PLM and WFX. The pattern is the same in each case: the style is designed, specified and approved in the PLM, and the approved product data lands in AIMS360 as a style master that production, sales and the warehouse all work from. Styles, bills of materials and costing are what cross. The exact scope for your setup is confirmed with your implementation manager, because it depends on how your PLM is configured.
One thing worth saying plainly, because a lot of people arrive here looking for something else: this is AIMS360's page about the integration. If you want BeProduct itself, the product, the documentation or the sign-in, go to beproduct.com. We do not host BeProduct, we do not sign you into it, and their support team is the right place for questions about their software.
BeProduct is a product lifecycle management platform for fashion and lifestyle brands. On its own published material it centers on a set of libraries and folders that hold product information as a line is developed: color palettes, a digital asset library for sketches, technical drawings, images and video, material libraries for fabrics, trims and labels, a style folder for design and technical specifications, and tech packs that pull those details together with Excel and PDF export.
Around that sit the working tools a development team lives in day to day: visual boards for mood and range building, a calendar and tracking folder for deadlines and progress, and a shared inbox for tasks and team communication. It connects to the tools designers already use, including Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, Pantone, Microsoft Office, and the 3D applications Browzwear and CLO. For anything beyond that it publishes an API and SDK alongside serverless functions and webhooks.
That is a genuinely different job from the one an ERP does, and it is why the two sit next to each other rather than competing. Anything specific about BeProduct's own capabilities, roadmap or commercial terms is a question for BeProduct.
The handoff is the interesting part, because it is the moment a style stops being a design decision and becomes a commitment to spend money.
Concepts, colorways, fit rounds, material selection, spec revisions and sign-off all belong in the PLM. That work is iterative and visual, it involves people outside your building, and it is exactly what an ERP is bad at.
An approved style has to become something you can buy against, cut, sell, allocate and ship. That means a style master with a number, a season, a size scale, colors, prices and a cost, sitting in the system that also holds your orders and your inventory.
Vendor purchase orders, cut tickets, work in progress, receiving, open to sell, the wholesale order book and the invoice all run on that style master. None of it belongs in a PLM, and trying to keep a second copy there is how the two drift apart.
Without a handoff, someone re-keys the approved style into the ERP by hand. It is slow, it happens under deadline pressure at the worst point in the season, and the typos surface later as a cut ticket against the wrong material or a catalog a retailer rejects.
| What lands | What it becomes on the AIMS360 side |
|---|---|
| The style | A style master: style number, description, season, division and the size scale the order grid is drawn from |
| Colorways | Style colors, each able to carry its own status, dates, country of origin and images once it is in AIMS360 |
| The bill of materials | The materials and quantities behind the style, which is what a vendor purchase order and a cut ticket are built from |
| Costing | The cost that margin is calculated against, so a style arrives with a number rather than waiting for somebody to work it out afterwards |
Scope beyond that is confirmed with your implementation manager rather than assumed, because what a PLM can hand over depends on how it has been configured on your side. If you want a specific object to cross, ask about it during scoping rather than after go-live, when the mapping is already built.
The single most useful thing to settle before an integration is which system is authoritative for each piece of data. Two systems that both believe they own the style number will diverge within a season.
| Area | Lives in the PLM | Lives in AIMS360 |
|---|---|---|
| Design and development | Concepts, boards, sketches, colorways, fit rounds, sample comments | Nothing. AIMS360 does not run design, color approvals or fit sessions |
| Specification | The tech pack and its revisions, authored and exported from the PLM | A spec sheet on the style. AIMS360 does not generate tech packs |
| Materials | The material library the developer selects from | Raw material and trim inventory, what you actually hold and what is on order |
| Costing | Development costing as the style is being built | The cost the margin report runs on, and the cost a purchase order commits |
| Buying and production | Nothing | Vendor purchase orders, cut tickets, work in progress and receiving |
| Selling | Nothing | The order book, open to sell, allocation, invoicing and the ledger |
Read down the right-hand column and the reason for the handoff becomes obvious: everything that happens after approval needs the style to be in the system that also holds your inventory and your orders. Production and PLM covers the AIMS360 side in full.
AIMS360 has its own field rules, and any PLM feed has to respect them. Sorting this out before the mapping is built is considerably cheaper than finding it afterwards.
| Field | What AIMS360 expects |
|---|---|
| Style number | 3 to 15 characters, with a hyphen as the only special character allowed |
| Color code | 2 to 5 characters |
| Material code | 2 to 6 characters |
| Vendor code | 5 characters |
| Names and descriptions | Length limits apply per field, so a long development name may be truncated on arrival. Decide what the shortened version should be rather than letting it be decided for you |
| Size scales | The scale has to exist in AIMS360 and mean the same thing it means in the PLM, because it locks once the style is used |
Confirm the current rules with your implementation manager when the mapping is scoped. The broader point holds regardless of the exact numbers: a naming convention agreed between design and operations before the first import saves a season of reconciliation later, and it is the one part of this that is entirely within your control.
| Point | Detail |
|---|---|
| Scope is confirmed, not assumed | Styles, bills of materials and costing are the core of what crosses. Anything else is a scoping conversation, and it is better had before the mapping is built than after go-live. |
| AIMS360 does not author tech packs | It holds a spec sheet on the style. Tech pack authoring, revisions and the approval trail stay in the PLM, which is where they belong. |
| Design work stays in the PLM | AIMS360 does not run color approvals, fit sessions or sample rounds. It manages styles that are approved, costed and about to be produced and sold. |
| Revisions after approval need a rule | What happens when an approved style changes in the PLM after purchase orders exist is agreed at scoping. Decide it deliberately, because the alternative is discovering the answer during a season. |
| The size scale locks | Once a style is on an order, in production, costed or adjusted, its size scale is final in AIMS360. A PLM that hands over an incomplete run creates a style you cannot extend. |
| One style master, not two | After the handoff, AIMS360 is where the sellable style lives. Maintaining a parallel copy in the PLM for operational use is how the two versions start disagreeing. |
Yes. BeProduct is one of the PLM systems AIMS360 connects to, alongside Centric PLM and WFX. Styles, bills of materials and costing cross from the PLM into AIMS360 as a style master that production, sales and the warehouse all work from. The exact scope for your setup is confirmed with your implementation manager, because what a PLM can hand over depends on how it has been configured on your side.
To beproduct.com. This page is AIMS360's, and it is about the integration between the two systems. We do not host BeProduct, we cannot sign you into it, and questions about their software, documentation, pricing or support belong with their team rather than ours.
A product lifecycle management platform for fashion and lifestyle brands. On its published material it centers on color palettes, a digital asset library, material libraries, a style folder for design and technical specifications, and tech packs with Excel and PDF export, plus visual boards, a calendar and tracking folder, and a shared inbox for collaboration. It connects to Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, Pantone, Microsoft Office, and the 3D tools Browzwear and CLO, and publishes an API and SDK.
They do different jobs. A PLM takes a product from concept to an approved, specified style. An ERP takes that approved style and buys the materials, runs the cut ticket, holds the inventory, takes the orders, ships the goods and invoices them. Neither replaces the other, and the question worth asking is not which one you need but where the boundary between them sits and how the style gets across it.
Timing, mostly. PLM owns the product before it is committed: concepts, colorways, fit rounds, material selection, specification and sign-off, which is iterative, visual work often involving people outside your company. ERP owns it after: purchase orders, production, inventory, the wholesale order book, shipping and the ledger. The approval is the hinge, and it is the moment the record should change hands rather than be copied.
The style, its colorways, the bill of materials and the costing. In AIMS360 those become a style master with a number, season, division and size scale, style colors that can carry their own dates and origin, the materials a purchase order and cut ticket are built from, and a cost the margin report runs against. Anything beyond that core is a scoping conversation, and it is better had before the mapping is built.
No, and it is worth being clear about it. AIMS360 holds a spec sheet on the style. Tech pack authoring, revisions and the approval trail stay in the PLM, which is the system built for that work. If a vendor needs the tech pack, it comes from the PLM.
No. AIMS360 does not run color approvals, fit sessions or sample rounds. It manages styles that are approved, costed and about to be produced and sold. Brands without a separate PLM usually find the AIMS360 production and material tracking side covers what they need operationally, but that is a different thing from design and development software, and it is better to say so than to blur it.
AIMS360 field rules, mainly. Style numbers run 3 to 15 characters with a hyphen as the only special character, color codes 2 to 5, material codes 2 to 6, vendor codes 5, and names and descriptions have length limits that can truncate a long development name on arrival. Size scales have to exist in AIMS360 and mean the same thing they mean in the PLM. Confirm the current rules when the mapping is scoped.
That is agreed at scoping rather than assumed, and it is worth deciding deliberately. Once purchase orders and cut tickets exist against a style, a silent overwrite from the PLM is rarely what anyone wants. Settle whether changes re-push, queue for review, or stop at approval, before a season makes the decision for you.
Not once it is in use. In AIMS360 the size scale locks the moment the style is on an order, in production, costed or adjusted, and extending the run after that means a new style number. It is a good reason to make sure the PLM hands over the complete size range rather than the sizes that happened to be ready first.
BeProduct, Centric PLM and WFX, each with its own page. The handoff pattern is the same in all three cases: the style is developed and approved in the PLM, and the approved product data lands in AIMS360 as the style master that production, sales and the warehouse work from. If you run a PLM that is not listed, ask, because the workflow is the product and the connection is the plumbing.
Last reviewed 17 September 2026 by the AIMS360 team. This page describes the AIMS360 side of a PLM to ERP handoff. Descriptions of BeProduct reflect that company's own published material as of this review and should be confirmed with them directly, since their product is theirs to change. AIMS360 does not claim any partner or certification status with BeProduct. Integration scope, field rules and post-approval behavior are confirmed for your setup during implementation. Product and company names belong to their owners.
A real one, with its colorways, its bill of materials and its cost. We will walk it across into AIMS360, turn it into a vendor purchase order and a cut ticket, and show you the order grid a rep would sell it from, so you can see exactly where the handoff lands.
