AIMS360 is the ERP for dress brands and dress manufacturers: contemporary, occasion and everyday dress labels that buy fabric by the roll, cut and sew in small runs, and sell the same dresses wholesale, through department store EDI, on Shopify and in their own stores. Every print and size sits on one style, every channel reads one open to sell, and contemporary womenswear labels including Retrofête, MISA Los Angeles and Generation Love run on it.
Parent industry: Fashion & Apparel ERP →Whether you run monthly drops of printed midis, a party collection built on sequins, or everyday jersey dresses that reorder all year, the system has to hold the style, every print and every size before anything else works. Gowns made to order for a wedding date run on the Bridal & Formalwear ERP page.
A dress brand commits to fabric before it knows what will sell. The print is ordered by the yard, often against a mill minimum, and every roll can carry a slightly different dye lot. Then the line goes to market in four or five prints per style across a full size run, and the orders land on some prints and not others.
1. Fabric decides the margin. Fabric is the biggest cost in most dresses, and it is bought up front. If the system only knows finished goods, nobody can see which rolls are cut, which are left and which dye lot went into which cut ticket. AIMS360 tracks fabric by lot and by roll, stored at roll level in warehouse bin locations.
2. Many styles, shallow depth. Dress labels drop new styles every few weeks. Each style runs in several prints and a full size run, so a 40-style collection can mean hundreds of style, color and size cells, each with its own UPC and its own open to sell.
3. Small runs and fast reorders. Many dress brands cut and sew close to home, in Los Angeles or New York, with contractors. The winning print has to be recut while it still sells, so cut tickets, contractor work in process and fabric on hand have to sit in one place.
4. Fit sends dresses back. Online dress orders come back for fit, length and color. Each return has to land back in sellable stock or a damage bin quickly, or the dress sits in limbo while the website shows it sold out.
5. Every channel wants the same dress. The department store order, the boutique order on JOOR, the online retailer buy, the Shopify customer and the brand's own store all draw on one pool. Sell a dress twice and someone gets an apology.
AIMS360 runs that model on one record: the style, color and size matrix, fabric by lot and roll, cut tickets with production tracking, native EDI, Shopify and the general ledger.
Each dress is one style with every print as a color and every size on its size scale, with a UPC per cell. Fabric is received by lot and roll and carried on the bill of materials, so cost and usage roll up per style.
Cut tickets and vendor purchase orders go to your contractors and factories, tracked through production process tracking and WIP transfer tracking, so goods still being made count toward open to sell.
Department store orders on native EDI, boutique orders from JOOR and NuORDER, Shopify DTC and Shopify POS stores all draw on one stock pool through intelligent allocation.
The sequence a dress brand runs every season, and where AIMS360 holds it. Line sheets for market come from the same style records through line sheets, and rep orders arrive against live availability.
Dress labels rarely live in one channel. A typical contemporary brand sells to department stores, to online retailers and boutiques at wholesale, to its own customers on Shopify, and often through its own stores.
Department stores. Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale's, Neiman Marcus, Macy's and Dillard's buy dresses on bulk and dropship EDI with their own vendor manuals. AIMS360 maps them natively, with GS1-128 carton labels and chargeback tracking.
Online retailers and specialty. Shopbop, Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters buy contemporary dresses at wholesale, and many dress labels also sell to Revolve.
Boutiques and showrooms. Boutique buyers order at market, from reps and on JOOR, NuORDER and Faire. Those orders land in one order book, and rep commissions calculate off posted invoices.
Off-price. Leftover prints go to Nordstrom Rack and TJ Maxx and Marshalls on EDI at the end of the season.
DTC and stores. Shopify and Shopify POS read the same stock record as wholesale, so the website and the store floor show what is actually free to sell. Department store invoices can go to a factor through the native factoring workflow, with the capital and terms coming from your partner factor.
Three labels where dresses carry the line, and what each one runs on AIMS360.
“It's easy to use and easy to learn.”
Lema Benton, VP of Logistics, Retrofête
Sequins, embellishment and occasion dressing sold on Shopify DTC, JOOR wholesale and retailer EDI, all fulfilled from one 3PL against one inventory record.
Read the Retrofête case study →Dresses, separates and knitwear cut and sewn in house in Los Angeles, a single piece taking over 50 steps, sold to 300+ stockists in 35 countries including Nordstrom, Revolve, Saks Fifth Avenue and Shopbop, plus Shopify DTC and a boutique at Palisades Village.
Read the MISA Los Angeles case study →Sold through Saks and Bloomingdale's, its own e-commerce and its own stores. After moving warehouse and stores onto AIMS360 WMS with Shopify POS: 10x faster inventory visibility, a 60% boost in scan accuracy to the 99% benchmark, and 20% less dead stock.
Read the Generation Love case study →Dress brands usually come to AIMS360 from QuickBooks, Shopify and a spreadsheet of cut tickets, or from a general ERP that holds finished goods but not fabric by the roll. The apparel ERP guide covers the wider field, and the comparison pages go system by system.
One test settles most of it. Take one dress in four prints and six sizes. Ask to see the fabric received by roll, the cut ticket that used it, a Nordstrom order on EDI and a Shopify order against the same open to sell, and the invoice going to the factor.
AIMS360 fits dress brands from a first market season through department store programs, online retailers and their own stores.
One that holds every print and size of a dress on one style, tracks fabric by dye lot and roll, runs cut tickets and contractor work in process, and sells wholesale, EDI, Shopify and stores from one open to sell. AIMS360 does all of that natively, with EDI to 350+ retailers, and contemporary labels such as Retrofête, MISA Los Angeles and Generation Love run on it.
Each print is a color on the style, and each print and size combination is its own SKU with its own UPC on the style, color and size matrix. Inventory, allocation, picking, ASNs and sell-through reporting all work at that cell level, so you can see which print to recut.
Yes. AIMS360 handles fabric by lot and by roll and stores it at roll level in warehouse bin locations, so you can see which rolls are left and which dye lot went into which cut ticket. Fabric cost carries on the bill of materials behind each style.
Yes. Cut tickets and vendor purchase orders go to your contractors, and production process tracking shows each stage of work in process. MISA Los Angeles, which makes its collections in house in Los Angeles, runs on AIMS360. See ERP for apparel manufacturers.
Petite, regular and tall can run as a second size dimension, size by length, on one style, the same way AIMS360 handles suits and scrubs. Plus sizes run on the same size scale or as their own style, and every size and print gets its own UPC. See size matrix and dimensions.
Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale's, Neiman Marcus, Macy's, Dillard's, Shopbop, Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters, TJ Maxx and Marshalls and Amazon, natively, within the native EDI network of 350+ retailers, with no per-document fees.
Every channel reads one stock record. Wholesale orders, EDI orders, Shopify and Shopify POS all draw on the same open to sell, and allocation rules decide which orders get the units, so a web sale and a department store order cannot both take the last size 6.
Returns come back against the original order with a reason code, through the RMA workflow or apps such as Loop, and go to sellable stock or a damage bin, so the website shows the dress again as soon as it is restocked.
Yes. Made-to-order gowns with deposits and wedding dates, prom pre-book and department store occasionwear are covered on the Bridal & Formalwear ERP page. Retrofête, for example, sells dresses and bridal from the same AIMS360 inventory.
The full apparel platform: styles, matrices, production, EDI and every channel.
Made-to-order gowns with deposits and dates, prom pre-book and occasionwear.
Cut tickets, contractors, work in process and the bill of materials.
Retrofête, MISA Los Angeles, Generation Love and more.
Bring one dress in four prints and six sizes. We'll show the fabric by roll, the cut ticket, a Nordstrom EDI order and a Shopify order on one stock record.
