A swim style is a top and a bottom with different size scales, often a cup-sized top, sold as separates and as a set, pre-booked in June for a resort delivery in November. AIMS360 was built on apparel matrices, production and native EDI, and it holds separates, sets and cup sizing on one record with open to sell by delivery date.
Parent industry: Fashion & Apparel ERP →Whether you sell one-pieces to department stores or mix-and-match separates to swim specialty and your own site, separates sizing and pre-book by delivery are the first things the system has to get right.
A bikini top runs by band and cup, 32B to 38DD. Its matching bottom runs by dress size, XS to XL. A buyer at Everything But Water orders them separately; a buyer at a department store orders the set; a customer on your site orders a 34D top and a medium bottom. All three are the same style to the designer and three different pick lists to the warehouse.
Most apparel systems hold one size list per style, so swim brands end up splitting the top and the bottom into unrelated styles, losing the set, or forcing the set and losing the separates business.
AIMS360 holds the top and the bottom as related records with their own style, color and size matrix, sells them as separates or as a set, and shows the buyer open to sell by delivery date in NuORDER or JOOR so a resort pre-book and a summer at-once order do not draw from the same units.
Top and bottom on their own style, color and size matrix, related as a style, sold as separates or as a set. UPC per cell, price sheets per account, prepacks and case packs for the department store set programs.
Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Dillard's, Bare Necessities and Tilly's mapped natively, bulk and dropship, with the 856 and 810 off the same shipment.
Open to sell by ship date, so the resort pre-book written at SwimShow and the summer at-once order from Shopify allocate from the right units, through intelligent allocation.
The sequence a swim brand runs each year, and where AIMS360 holds it.
Swim sells through swim specialty, department stores, surf and lifestyle retail, and your own site, with the season compressed into a few months.
Swim specialty. Bare Necessities carries cup-sized swim and intimates on the same order; Everything But Water is on the EDI list and buys the separates business. Both want the top and the bottom orderable apart.
Department stores. Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Dillard's and Belk buy sets and one-pieces on pre-book with their own vendor manuals, bulk and dropship.
Surf, lifestyle and marketplace. Tilly's, PacSun and Urban Outfitters cover surf and young contemporary; Target, Amazon and Costco carry the volume.
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.
Swim runs on pre-book. The buyer commits at SwimShow in June or Curve in February for resort and cruise, the brand cuts against the order book, and the goods ship into a delivery window the retailer will not move. At-once and reorders fill in from April to July, and by August the season is over.
AIMS360 holds open to sell by delivery date, so a resort pre-book and a summer at-once order never draw from the same units. Production is raised from the order book through vendor purchase orders and cut tickets tracked in production process tracking, with the bill of materials carrying the fabric, linings and hardware.
Reps write the pre-book in RemoteLink at the booth, buyers order in NuORDER or JOOR with pre-book supported before production is cut, and the order lands in AIMS360 without re-keying. The 2027 trade show calendar has SwimShow, Curve, Surf Expo and Coterie dates for 2027.
Swim brands usually arrive at AIMS360 from QuickBooks with a spreadsheet for the separates, or from an apparel system that could hold a one-piece but not a cup-sized top and its bottom. The apparel ERP guide covers the field.
The question to ask any system: show me one style with a 32B to 38DD top and an XS to XL bottom, sold as a set to Nordstrom and as separates to Bare Necessities, with open to sell for the November resort delivery.
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, by delivery window, across swim specialty, department store EDI and your own site.
Design. Top and bottom on related records with cup sizing, images and price sheets, published to the line sheet and the platforms from one place.
Production. Cut tickets and vendor POs raised from the pre-book by delivery; work in process by ship window.
Sales and reps. Pre-book written in RemoteLink at SwimShow with the last downloaded open to sell; NuORDER and JOOR orders import automatically.
Warehouse. Separates and sets picked correctly from the same units; retailer carton labels and GS1-128 from the order.
Finance. The 810 comes off the shipment; deposits taken at the booth apply to the invoice; factoring runs as a native workflow.
AIMS360 fits swim and resort brands from a first SwimShow booth through department store set programs and cup-sized specialty business.
One that holds a cup-sized top and its bottom on one style with two size scales, sells them as separates or as a set, keeps open to sell by delivery window, and runs EDI natively for the department stores and swim specialty. AIMS360 does all of that on the same apparel matrix it has run since 1984.
The top carries a band by cup style, color and size matrix, the bottom carries a dress-size matrix, and the two are related as one style, so a set order allocates both and a separates order allocates one.
Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, Macy's, Dillard's, Belk, Bare Necessities, Tilly's, PacSun, Target and Amazon, natively, within the native EDI network of 350+ retailers. Everything But Water is on the list as well.
Reps write them in RemoteLink on an iPad, offline if needed, and they arrive as imported on reconnect. Buyers who order in NuORDER, JOOR or Brandboom import automatically. The 2027 trade show calendar has the 2027 dates.
Yes. Each is a ship window with its own open to sell, so a November resort pre-book and a May at-once order never compete for the same units.
Yes. Shopify sees sellable inventory after wholesale, EDI and marketplace commitments are subtracted, and Shopify B2B runs beside it for accounts ordering on your site.
Closeouts move through off-price and marketplace channels on the same native EDI, or through your own site, without a second inventory. See EDI dropship for the direct-to-consumer retail programs.
The full apparel platform: styles, matrices, production, EDI and every channel.
Band by cup on one style, replenishment by cell, the same specialty accounts.
Performance fabric by the roll, the Beyond Yoga story.
SwimShow, Curve, Surf Expo and Coterie by month.
Bring one set in cup sizes and dress sizes. We will load both matrices, write a resort pre-book against the November window, and show you the Nordstrom 856 on your styles.
