A dress shirt is neck by sleeve. A trouser is waist by inseam. A suit is chest by length. Men's apparel runs on two-axis sizes, deep basics that replenish for years, and department store programs with their own vendor manuals. AIMS360 was built on apparel matrices, production and native EDI, and it holds all three men's size structures on one style record.
Parent industry: Fashion & Apparel ERP →Whether you sell a tailored line to department stores, a sportswear line to specialty stores, or big and tall through your own site, the size structure is the first thing the system has to get right.
A dress shirt runs 14.5 to 18.5 in the neck and 32/33 to 36/37 in the sleeve. A trouser runs 30 to 44 in the waist and 30 to 36 in the inseam. A suit runs 36 to 50 in the chest with short, regular and long. Each of those is a two-axis matrix on one style, and a line carries all three at once.
Most apparel systems hold a color and a single size list. Menswear brands running on them end up with a separate style for every inseam or every sleeve length, which turns one polo into four SKUs the buyer sees as one, and turns replenishment into a spreadsheet.
AIMS360 holds the two-axis style, color and size matrix on one style record, the same way it holds waist by inseam for denim brands. One record carries the UPCs, the price sheets, the prepacks and case packs and the open to sell the buyer sees in JOOR or NuORDER.
Neck by sleeve, waist by inseam and chest by length on one style. UPC per cell, price sheets per account, and prepacks and case packs that pack a size run into one scannable unit.
Nordstrom, Macy's, Dillard's, Belk and Kohl's mapped natively, bulk and dropship, with the 856 and 810 coming off the same shipment. No per-document fees, no second vendor.
Core basics replenish by size cell from intelligent allocation rules, and wholesale, EDI, Shopify and marketplace orders all draw from one open to sell.
The sequence a menswear brand runs each season, and where AIMS360 holds it.
Men's sells through department stores, specialty chains, big box and marketplaces at the same time, and each one arrives with its own vendor manual.
Department stores. Nordstrom runs bulk, Rack and dropship as separate programs. Macy's runs several programs across its banners. Dillard's, Belk, Bloomingdale's, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus and Von Maur each have their own pages, and every one of them is mapped natively.
Specialty and young men's. Buckle, Tilly's, PacSun and Urban Outfitters buy sportswear and denim-adjacent lines; Boscov's and Kohl's cover the moderate tier.
Mass and marketplace. Target and Amazon carry the volume on basics and packs, and Costco takes pack programs.
Beyond those, the same native EDI reaches the 350+ retailer network, and boutique wholesale runs as sales orders written in RemoteLink, WebLink or the B2B platform your buyers already use.
A men's line lives on its basics: the white dress shirt, the navy blazer, the khaki chino, the black tee. They do not change season to season, and they do not sell evenly across the matrix. The 16 x 34 sells out while the 18.5 x 37 sits.
AIMS360 treats replenishment as a size-cell problem. The intelligent allocation rules hold thresholds per cell, cut or purchase quantities come from the cells that are short, and the vendor purchase orders that replenish the basics are raised from the same record the buyer ordered against.
For department store programs, the replenishment order arrives as an EDI 850 and the 856 and 810 go back natively. For your own accounts, WebLink lets the store reorder its size run without a rep, and RemoteLink lets the rep write it in the store.
Menswear brands usually arrive at AIMS360 from QuickBooks with a spreadsheet size matrix, from a general ERP that holds one size list, or from an apparel system that never learned neck by sleeve. The apparel ERP guide covers the field.
The question to ask any system is simple: show me one dress shirt with 20 neck-by-sleeve cells, a prepack of it, and a Nordstrom 856 for it, on one screen.
For a structured comparison against named systems, see the comparison pages and the ERP buying guide.
Founder and operator. One number for what you can sell, across specialty wholesale, department store EDI and your own site.
Design and merchandising. One record per style with every size cell, price sheet and image, published to JOOR, NuORDER and the line sheet from the same place.
Production. Vendor purchase orders and cut tickets raised from the short cells; work in process by delivery date.
Planning. Core basics replenish by cell; seasonal styles allocate pre-book to WIP and at-once to stock.
Warehouse. Scan a prepack as one unit, print the retailer's carton labels and the GS1-128 from the same order.
Finance. The 810 comes off the shipment; chargebacks are caught before they post; factoring runs as a native workflow.
AIMS360 fits menswear brands from a first Chicago Collective booth through multi-program department store business, in every men's category on this page.
One that holds two-axis sizes on one style, packs a size run as one barcode, replenishes by size cell and runs EDI natively for the department stores. AIMS360 does all four, and has since 1984.
As a two-axis style, color and size matrix on one style record, with a UPC per cell, the same structure it uses for waist by inseam on denim. A 14.5 to 18.5 neck run by 32/33 to 36/37 sleeves is one shirt, not five.
Yes. Chest by short, regular and long is the same two-axis structure, and extended sizes are cells on the same record rather than a separate style.
A size-run pack gets its own barcode through prepacks and case packs, so the rep orders it as one unit in RemoteLink and the warehouse scans it as one unit.
Nordstrom, Macy's, Dillard's, Belk, Bloomingdale's, Saks Fifth Avenue, Kohl's, Buckle, Target and Amazon, natively, within the native EDI network of 350+ retailers.
Reps write them in RemoteLink on an iPad, offline if the hall Wi-Fi drops, and they arrive as imported when the iPad reconnects. Buyers who order in JOOR or NuORDER import automatically. See the 2027 trade show calendar for 2027 dates.
Thresholds are held per size cell in intelligent allocation and the purchase order or cut ticket is raised from the cells that are short. The rule is yours; the system does the arithmetic.
Yes. Wholesale, EDI, marketplace and Shopify orders all draw from one open to sell, and Shopify B2B runs beside them for accounts that order on your site.
The full apparel platform: styles, matrices, production, EDI and every channel.
Waist by inseam by wash on one style; the wash as a production stage.
JOOR, NuORDER, RepSpark, Brandboom, Faire, your own portal.
Chicago Collective, PROJECT, Dallas Men's Show and the rest by month.
Bring one dress shirt, one trouser and one suit. We will load the matrices, pack a size run, and show you the Nordstrom 856 on your styles.
