Every AIMS360 deployment is configured to the operational reality of one of these ten industries. This is industry-specific ERP rather than a general platform bent into shape. Click any card to see the platform, integrations, retailers and features tailored to that vertical.
Apparel, denim, activewear, swim, intimates, bridal, suiting, sleepwear, luxury and children's apparel, from indie labels scaling DTC to growth-stage brands entering wholesale and major retail.
AIMS360 for apparel brands: style-color-size inventory management, retailer EDI and wholesale plus DTC order management running off one stock pool.
Top retailers: Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale's, Revolve, Shopbop, Anthropologie, Free People, Macy's, Dillard's, Zappos, Nordstrom Rack, Kohl's, Target, Walmart, Amazon.
Fine and fashion jewelry, watches, leather goods, handbags, luggage and accessories, where material costs, valuation and channel mix demand operator-grade controls.
AIMS360 for jewelry and accessories brands: metal, finish and length variants on one style master, assortment and counter display allocation, and retailer EDI including QVC and HSN in one system.
Top retailers: Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, Bergdorf Goodman, Bloomingdale's, Anthropologie, Macy's, Von Maur, Francesca's, QVC, HSN, Amazon.
Athletic, casual and fashion footwear, operationally distinct from apparel in sizing depth, sourcing and the retail-versus-DTC margin equation.
AIMS360 for footwear brands: size-run depth and pre-pack inventory management, warehouse management across every location, and wholesale plus DTC allocation from one stock pool.
Top retailers: Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Bloomingdale's, Revolve, Zappos, Foot Locker, Dick's Sporting Goods, Journeys, DSW, Famous Footwear, Nordstrom Rack, Amazon.
Outdoor, technical apparel, gear and sporting goods, where technical materials, gear-plus-apparel SKU complexity and specialty retail dynamics shape the business.
AIMS360 for outdoor and sporting goods brands: gear and apparel in one catalog, inventory management with carryover visibility, warehouse management and retailer EDI together.
Top retailers: Dick's Sporting Goods, REI Co-op, Backcountry, Moosejaw, Bass Pro Shops + Cabela's, Public Lands, Academy Sports, Scheels, Hibbett Sports, Amazon.
Cosmetics, skincare, color, fragrance, haircare and personal care, the operational complexity of formulation, regulation and channel-by-channel margin.
AIMS360 for beauty and personal care brands: shade, lot and expiration inventory management, sample and GWP stock control, and Sephora and Ulta EDI from the same platform.
Top retailers: Sephora, Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Bluemercury, Space NK, Credo, Ulta Beauty, Bloomingdale's, Nordstrom Rack, Target, CVS, Amazon.
Supplements, functional nutrition and wellness brands, where compliance, claims and subscription unit economics demand operator-grade rigor.
AIMS360 for supplement and wellness brands: lot and expiry inventory management, CoA traceability against the product record, and subscription order management alongside wholesale.
Top retailers: Whole Foods, Costco, Erewhon, Sprouts Farmers Market, Thrive Market, The Vitamin Shoppe, GNC, iHerb, Trader Joe's, CVS, Amazon, Walmart.
Home goods, housewares, furniture, upholstery, lighting, lamps, home decor and lifestyle brands, where freight economics and big-box retailer dynamics make or break the business.
AIMS360 for home and furniture brands: landed cost accuracy on oversized freight, warehouse management across every location, and drop-ship order management with the big boxes.
Top retailers: RH, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, West Elm, Crate & Barrel, Arhaus, Anthropologie Home, Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, Wayfair, Ashley Furniture, HomeGoods, Target, IKEA, Amazon.
Eco cleaning, laundry, dish, surface, and air care brands, formulation, lot and batch tracking, retailer compliance and refill subscription economics.
AIMS360 for household and home care brands: batch and lot inventory management with recall traceability, retailer compliance specs, and refill subscription order management.
Top retailers: Erewhon, Whole Foods, Grove Collaborative, Thrive Market, Sprouts Farmers Market, Credo, Target, Kroger, Costco, CVS, Walmart, Amazon.
Baby gear, feeding, sleep, toys, gifts and children's lifestyle brands, safety testing, registry channels and specialty retail shape every operational decision.
AIMS360 for baby and children's brands: CPSIA safety documentation held against the product record, fast-turnover size inventory management, and registry, wholesale and DTC order management together.
Top retailers: Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Maisonette, Disney, Bloomingdale's, Pottery Barn Kids, Babylist, Nordstrom Rack, Target, Kohl's, Costco, Walmart, Amazon.
Pet food, treats, pet supplies, toys, accessories, supplements and wellness, where AAFCO compliance, specialty distribution and subscription economics define the operating model.
AIMS360 for pet brands: AAFCO compliance data on the product record, expiry-dated inventory management with cold chain, and autoship order management alongside Chewy, specialty and mass.
Top retailers: Chewy, specialty and independent pet boutiques, Petco, PetSmart, Tractor Supply, Costco, Target, Walmart, Amazon, plus distributors (Central Garden & Pet, Phillips Feed, Pet Food Experts).
AIMS360 ships with the full operating stack out of the box. No bolted-on third-party billing for the basics, no separate inventory tool, no shadow EDI vendor.
Most brands start looking at one of three moments: wholesale begins, a retailer demands EDI, or the QuickBooks-plus-Shopify-plus-spreadsheets stack finally breaks. Here is what actually matters when you evaluate.
A generic ERP treats a product as one line. A consumer brand product rarely is. It has size, color, shade, fill, lot, batch, expiration, season and pack configuration. Ask any vendor to show you a matrix order-entry screen. If they can't, the tool was not built for you, and you will fight it for years. AIMS360 was built on style, color and size inventory from day one.
Retailers like Nordstrom, Target, Sephora and Dick's do not care that EDI is hard. They send a spec, expect compliance, and charge back when you miss. A platform with managed EDI is the difference between shipping on time and eating a chargeback. Ask who maps the documents and what happens when a spec changes.
Wholesale, DTC, marketplace and subscription should draw from the same inventory with allocation rules, not four silos you reconcile by hand. If a platform keeps Shopify stock separate from wholesale stock, you will oversell one and sit on the other. A real omnichannel OMS allocates against a single pool.
The software matters less than the team that turns it on. A platform implemented by a consultancy that learned your industry last quarter is a risk. AIMS360 implementations are run in-house by people who have operated consumer brands, and the 97.5% success rate shows it. Ask any vendor for their number and who does the work.
A horizontal ERP, NetSuite, SAP, Acumatica, Dynamics, is a blank platform. It can be configured for almost any business, which sounds like a strength until you price the configuration. To make one handle apparel or beauty, you hire a systems integrator, build custom fields for size and shade, buy a separate EDI tool, buy a separate 3PL connector, and spend twelve to eighteen months and six figures before your first order ships. Then you own the maintenance forever.
NetSuite, SAP, Acumatica, Dynamics
Purpose-built for consumer brands
A vertical ERP is the opposite bet. AIMS360 is a consumer brands ERP, pre-configured for how consumer brands actually run. Matrix inventory, retailer EDI, 3PL, Shopify, factoring, wholesale terms, DTC subscription and lot tracking are in the box, not on a quote. You configure per industry, expiration tracking for beauty and supplements, size depth for footwear, safety documentation for baby products, AAFCO compliance for pet, but you configure a system that already speaks your language.
The tradeoff is worth stating plainly. A horizontal ERP flexes into industries AIMS360 does not serve. If you run a chemical plant or a hospital, buy the horizontal platform. But if you run a consumer brand, what analysts call CPG or consumer packaged goods, selling physical product through wholesale and DTC, a purpose-built platform gets you live faster, costs less to own, and does not need a consultant on retainer to change a price tier.
Indie labels, growth-stage brands, established wholesalers and domestic manufacturers, operating across ten industries, on one platform.
