AIMS360 is the apparel ERP that medical apparel brands run on: scrubs and scrub sets, medical uniforms, lab coats, compression socks and stockings, supports and post-surgical wear. Built for size runs that multiply across tall and petite lengths, group orders from clinics and hospital systems, embroidery and logo programs, core colors that can never stock out, and DTC, wholesale, retail EDI and 3PL running from one inventory pool.
AIMS360 manages the catalog medical apparel brands carry: scrub tops, pants and sets across tall and petite lengths, uniforms and lab coats, graduated compression in measured sizes and pressure classes, supports and recovery wear, and the clinician footwear and accessories that ride along with them.
From a distance, a scrubs brand looks like a tee shirt brand with a different customer. Up close, the operating model is tougher in four specific ways, and each one is a place where a generic ERP or a spreadsheet stack starts to leak money.
The size matrix multiplies across lengths. A scrub pant does not run S through XL. It runs XXS through 5XL, and each of those sizes can come in petite, regular and tall inseams, in a dozen core colors, in men's and women's fits. One pant style can be 200 to 400 sellable SKUs before a seasonal print enters the line. That is a deeper matrix than most fashion apparel carries, and every one of those cells has to allocate, pick, ship and report correctly.
Core colors are a replenishment business, not a seasonal one. Ceil blue, navy, black, wine and hunter green sell every week of the year, and the hospital account that standardized on navy expects navy in stock in every size, always. A stockout in a core size is not a missed sale, it is a reason for a group account to switch brands. The operating discipline is closer to basics and hosiery than to seasonal fashion: reorder points, open production coverage and sell-through by size and length, watched constantly.
Group and uniform orders behave differently than wholesale and DTC. A dental group orders four styles in specific colors for forty people across three offices. A hospital system standardizes color by role and reorders by department. These are B2B accounts with account-level pricing, rosters of ship-to locations and predictable reorder cycles, and they sit in the same order book, drawing on the same inventory, as the Shopify storefront and the retail purchase orders.
Compression wear is sized by measurement and sold by pressure class. Graduated compression is sold in mmHg ranges, commonly 15-20, 20-30 and 30-40, and sized from ankle and calf measurements rather than S/M/L alone. Pressure class and measured size are inventory dimensions, and lot-level tracking matters for fabric and production traceability. AIMS360's lot tracking, built for consumer categories from beauty to wellness, carries that.
AIMS360 has run this class of catalog for 40+ years inside the Fashion & Apparel vertical, where uniforms and workwear have always been part of the mix. Style, color and size are first-class dimensions that extend cleanly to length, fit, pressure class and measured size. Pre-packs and bundles are native. Decoration work orders handle embroidery and logo programs. And retailer EDI to 350+ trading partners ships in the box for the mass, department and marketplace channels where medical apparel volume moves.
The platform handles every operational reality above. Here is what that looks like inside the system.
Tech packs with performance fabric, stretch, closure and trim detail. BOM with vendor sourcing so a fabric cost change reaches margin without re-entry. Overseas and domestic factories, WIP and landed cost in one system.
Uniform program accounts with account pricing and ship-to rosters, wholesale into uniform retail, and managed EDI for the mass, department and marketplace channels that move medical apparel volume.
Omnichannel OMS unifies Shopify, Shopify Plus, Amazon and B2B portals against one inventory pool, with the size-level sell-through and reorder visibility a core replenishment business runs on.
Medical apparel operations have a predictable shape, and AIMS360 maps that shape directly into the platform.
XXS-5XL with petite, regular and tall lengths, men's and women's fits, and compression pressure classes and measured sizes on one style master. Explore matrix inventory →
Performance fabric specs, stretch and recovery, closures, pocket count and trim. Vendor sourcing with sample tracking and approval workflow. Explore PLM →
Overseas and domestic factories, WIP tracking and landed cost rollup with freight, duty and broker so the cost on a core color is a system number, not an estimate.
Lot-level receiving and traceability on compression garments and technical fabrics, the same lot machinery AIMS360 runs for beauty and wellness categories.
B2B accounts for clinics, dental groups, vet practices and hospital systems: account pricing, ship-to rosters and reorder cycles in the same order book as every other channel.
Names, credentials and facility logos handled as decoration work orders and contractor POs, with blank and decorated inventory states, the same workflow AIMS360 runs for golf custom insignia programs.
Purchase orders in, ASNs and invoices out, GS1-128 carton labels and routing guide compliance across the mass, department and marketplace channels. Explore EDI →
Shopify, Shopify Plus, Amazon, B2B portals, group accounts and retailer EDI, one OMS, one inventory pool. Explore OMS →
Bin-level inventory, barcode and RFID scanning, cycle counting, and order, inventory and ASN sync with 3PL partners. Explore 3PL →
Sell-through by size, length and color against open production, so a navy 2XL tall stockout gets caught before the group account feels it. Explore reporting →
Cards, ACH, group account invoicing, retailer remittance and full GL accounting. Channel margin by season, account and category.
No bolted-on third-party billing for the basics, no separate inventory tool, no shadow EDI vendor. AIMS360 ships with the full operating stack.
Tech packs, fabric BOM, sample tracking.
Size, length, fit, color, class, one source.
One system of record for operations and finance.
Bin location, cycle counts, lot tracking.
Shopify, Amazon, group accounts, EDI, one pool.
Group accounts, uniform programs, retail buyers.
350+ trading partners, managed in-house.
Shopify, Shopify Plus, Amazon, B2B portals.
Rep order entry, group program writing.
Carrier rates, routing guides, multi ship-to.
Card, ACH, group invoicing, retailer settlement.
Full GL, AP, AR, monthly close, built in.
Sell-through by size, length, fit and color.
Reorder triggers, replenishment alerts.
Cloud platform, Microsoft partner stack, 24/7 support.
Channel context: Medical apparel runs on a wider spread of channels than most apparel categories. DTC is the growth engine, built on the model FIGS proved: sell scrubs like a lifestyle brand, on Shopify, straight to the clinician. Specialty uniform retail, the scrub shops and chains like Scrubs & Beyond and Uniform Advantage plus hundreds of independents, still moves serious volume and buys wholesale. Mass and department retailers including Walmart, Target, Costco, Kohl's, JCPenney and Meijer carry scrubs and compression socks as standing programs. Amazon is a major leg for both scrubs and compression. And under all of it sits the B2B layer: clinics, dental groups, veterinary practices, spas and hospital systems ordering for teams, which behaves like wholesale with rosters.
The retail legs of this mix run on EDI. Mass and department retailers require compliant purchase order, ASN and invoice flows with GS1-128 carton labels and routing guide discipline before the first carton ships, and chargebacks land when the paperwork misses. AIMS360's in-house EDI covers 350+ retail trading partners across mass, department, club and marketplace channels, and the EDI team stands up new trading partners, including uniform-channel retailers and distributors, as brands add them. There are no per-document fees and no third-party VAN in the middle.
The B2B group layer does not run on EDI, and that is exactly why it trips up brands running a DTC-only stack. A dental group ordering for forty people across three offices needs account pricing, a ship-to roster and an invoice, not a Shopify checkout. In AIMS360 these are wholesale accounts in the same order book as everything else, drawing on the same inventory pool, with credit terms, reorder history and account-level reporting.
DTC: Shopify and Shopify Plus storefronts, the FIGS-model channel. Size, length and fit variants sync from the style master, and DTC demand draws from the same pool as wholesale so a viral drop cannot quietly sell the inventory a group account already committed.
Specialty uniform retail: Scrub shops and uniform chains, plus the independents around every hospital district. Wholesale orders with replenishment cadence on core colors, and decoration requirements when the shop sells embroidered programs to local facilities.
Mass, club & department: Walmart, Target, Costco, Kohl's, JCPenney, Meijer and peers carry scrubs, compression socks and supports as standing programs. The most demanding EDI in retail, with strict ASN timing and chargeback enforcement.
Marketplaces: Amazon Seller Central, Vendor Central and FBA for scrubs, compression and supports. Feed quality and size-variant data discipline decide whether the listing wins the category page.
B2B group programs: Clinics, dental and veterinary groups, med spas, home health agencies and hospital systems buying for teams: account pricing, color-by-role standards, ship-to rosters and predictable reorder cycles.
Distributors: Medical and uniform distributors issue purchase orders and expect ASNs like any retailer. New distributor trading partners are added through the in-house EDI team as brands land those accounts.
Scrubs, uniform and compression wear buyers typically shortlist some combination of these. Here is the honest breakdown of where each fits, and where it does not.
Most apparel systems handle a size run. Fewer handle a size run multiplied by petite, regular and tall lengths, two fits and a dozen core colors, with group accounts and decoration work orders on top. AIMS360 has carried uniforms and workwear inside its apparel catalog for 40+ years, so the medical apparel matrix runs on one style master rather than a stack of workarounds. Add in-house EDI to 350+ retail trading partners with no per-document fees, built-in accounting, and a US-based implementation team with 97.5% project success.
Horizontal ERPs need significant customization, integration work and third-party add-ons before they handle medical apparel workflows: length-and-fit size matrices, group program accounts, decoration work orders, retailer EDI and channel allocation. Those platforms fit companies funding long custom builds. AIMS360 deploys in weeks to a few months, costs less to operate, and runs these workflows natively.
There is a category of software built for uniform rental operators: route accounting, garment-level rental tracking, laundry processing and stop-by-stop billing. It is the right tool for a rental service. It is not built for a brand that designs, manufactures and sells medical apparel through DTC, retail and group programs. If you sell garments rather than rent them, that is the mismatch.
If your products carry formal medical device obligations, UDI marking, device listing, design history files, ISO 13485 quality management, there is a category of QMS and validated ERP software built for that compliance layer, and AIMS360 is not it. AIMS360 runs the commercial operations of apparel-model brands: catalog, production, inventory, orders, EDI, warehouse and accounting. Brands with device-regulated lines pair AIMS360's commercial operations with a dedicated QMS, or belong on a device platform outright. We would rather draw that line before you buy than after.
The starting stack of every emerging scrubs brand, and it works until it does not. The breaking points are predictable: the size-length matrix outgrows the spreadsheet; a mass retailer demands compliant ASNs; a hospital group wants account pricing, terms and a roster of ship-to addresses; core color stockouts start costing group accounts; or embroidery orders need real work order tracking. AIMS360 is the platform medical apparel brands move to at that inflection.
A medical apparel ERP is bought by a founder or COO, but it gets used by everyone: product, production, sales, ops, finance, customer service. Here is what AIMS360 looks like from each chair.
One dashboard with channel margin, group account performance, core color coverage, cash position and chargebacks. In a replenishment business the question that matters is whether navy and ceil are covered in every size and length, and whether the DTC channel is quietly eating the inventory a hospital group already committed. Both answers are one click away.
Order capture, production planning, allocation, EDI, WMS, 3PL, decoration, returns and finance flow through one platform with one audit trail. Retailer scorecards, ASN accuracy, ship-on-time and chargeback dollars are visible per account, and group program commitments are held against inventory before DTC sees the sellable quantity.
Tech packs with performance fabric, stretch, closure and trim detail, BOM and costing, sample tracking and approval workflow in one PLM. When a fabric price moves, the margin change shows on the style immediately, not two months later in the close.
Work orders and factory POs to overseas and domestic partners, WIP tracking, lot-level receiving on compression and technical fabrics, and landed cost rollup with freight, duty and broker. Core color coverage runs against open production so replenishment buys happen before the stockout, not after.
Group and uniform program accounts with account pricing, ship-to rosters, credit terms and reorder history. Rep order entry for uniform retail wholesale. Every program order lands in the same order book as DTC and retail EDI, against the same inventory pool.
Bin location management, barcode and RFID scanning, mobile receiving and cycle counting, blank versus decorated inventory states, carton labeling and retailer routing guide compliance, whether fulfillment runs in-house, at a 3PL, or both.
Full GL with AP, AR, group account invoicing and terms, retailer remittance, chargeback tracking and monthly close in one accounting module. Channel margin, account profitability and season profit and loss are first-class reports, not spreadsheet projects.
DTC returns and exchanges, wholesale returns, group account service, replacement orders, RMAs and credits tracked with full order history. Medical apparel carries a heavy size-exchange pattern, tall versus regular, fit swaps, and return reason tracking keeps that visible so the size curve gets fixed at the buy.
AIMS360 implementations are run by AIMS360, not a third-party consultancy, with a methodology built by industry operators. For a medical apparel brand the sequence looks like this.
Phase 1, Discovery and scope (pre-signature): Structured discovery covering channels, retailers, group accounts, 3PLs, decoration partners, factories, SKU and order volumes and the integration list, then a Customer Success Proposal with implementation timing, integration scope, training plan and go-live date, before any contract is signed.
Phase 2, Data migration: Style master with size, length, fit, color and pressure class variants; customer master with retail, group and DTC records; vendor master; opening inventory at the SKU level including blank and decorated states; opening AR and AP; historical orders.
Phase 3, System configuration: Variant models per product type, group account pricing and rosters, allocation rules, EDI specs per retailer, decoration work order flow, accounting GL, channel pricing and costing rules.
Phase 4, Integration setup: Shopify, Amazon, retailer EDI connections, 3PL integration, payment gateway, shipping carriers and accounting feeds, each tested with real data before the next one starts.
Phase 5, Parallel testing and training: The brand runs AIMS360 alongside the existing stack for a defined period with recorded, role-specific training tracks.
Phase 6, Go-live and stabilization: Planned cutover with the implementation team on standby, then a 30 to 60 day stabilization period with daily check-ins the first week.
Phase 7, Ongoing support: A dedicated account team plus 24/7 emergency support and quarterly business reviews covering adoption, new retailers and new channels.
For decades, scrubs were a commodity: bought by the facility, chosen by the purchasing department, worn because you had to. That era ended when a wave of DTC brands, FIGS most visibly, went straight to the clinician with performance fabrics, modern fits, joggers and colors, and sold scrubs the way lifestyle brands sell activewear. FIGS going public in 2021 put a marker on the category: medical apparel is a brand business now, with brand-business economics and brand-business operational demands.
The demand side keeps widening. Healthcare remains one of the fastest growing employment sectors in the US, and every new clinician, dental hygienist, vet tech, home health aide and med spa employee is a uniform wearer. Compression wear rides two demand curves at once: an aging population on the medical side, and athletes, travelers, nurses on their feet and pregnant customers on the everyday side. Supports and recovery wear follow the same pattern. The categories blur into one catalog, which is exactly how the successful brands merchandise them.
Operationally, the category punishes the unprepared in specific ways. The size-length matrix is deeper than fashion apparel. The business is replenishment-driven, so forecasting and core coverage matter more than seasonal drops. The customer mix spans DTC individuals, group accounts with rosters, uniform retailers and mass EDI programs, four operating models drawing on one inventory pool. And the winning brands add embroidery and personalization, which turns a pick-pack operation into a light manufacturing one.
The operational layer is the variable cost of competing here. A brand running five disconnected tools, a DTC stack, a spreadsheet order book for groups, a separate EDI service, a 3PL portal and QuickBooks, carries reconciliation labor, oversells and stockouts that a single-platform competitor does not. In a category where the group account switches brands over a navy 2XL tall stockout, that operational gap is the whole game. This is the case for vertical ERP in medical apparel and for AIMS360 specifically: 40+ years of apparel operations, the size matrix handled natively, in-house EDI, and an implementation team that understands the category before the brand says a word.
AIMS360 fits the medical apparel brand on the way up and the manufacturer behind it. Most brands come on board at the inflection where QuickBooks plus Shopify plus spreadsheets stops working: a mass retailer requires EDI, group accounts need pricing and terms, the size-length matrix outgrows the spreadsheet, or revenue passes a few million.
The patterns repeat across scrubs, uniforms and compression. These are the situations AIMS360 is configured to end.
The questions buyers bring to discovery calls, answered directly.
The parent vertical: the apparel platform medical apparel runs on.
Clogs and nursing shoes share the channels and the size-run mechanics.
Performance fabrics, technical BOMs and the same gear-plus-apparel catalog logic.
See AIMS360 configured for your catalog, your group accounts, your retailers, your decoration partners, your 3PL and your factories. A 30-minute call gets you a walkthrough on your data. See the apparel ERP software running 10,000+ consumer brands.
By Shahrooz Shawn Kohan, CEO, AIMS360. Reviewed by the AIMS360 implementation team. Last updated August 2026. Talk to our team.
