Apparel inventory management and a fashion WMS, on one stock record

Yes, with no practical limit on how many. A warehouse in AIMS360 is a location on the inventory record, so your own distribution centers, third party warehouses, retail stores, showrooms and virtual warehouses all coexist. Picking, allocation, transfers, replenishment minimums and reporting work per location and rolled up together.

Yes, and 18 fulfillment partners already have the integration built, including Bergen Logistics, Boxzooka, ShipMonk, NRI 3PL, Scale3PL, Shipbots, Emeristar and Evolution Group. Any 3PL running Extensiv 3PL Warehouse Manager connects directly. Three connection methods are available: an EDI rail using the 940 ship order, 943 stock transfer advice, 944 receipt, 945 shipment confirmation, 947 adjustment and 846 inventory advice, a REST API rail for orders, shipments, receipts and inventory, and a secure file transfer fallback.

A virtual warehouse is a location that has no physical building behind it, used to hold stock apart from general availability. AIMS360 supports them alongside internal warehouses and 3PLs. Brands use them for quarantine and damaged goods, sample and showroom pools, consignment sitting at a customer, units in transit between locations, and stock reserved for a particular channel, retailer or launch. They behave like any other warehouse for allocation, transfers and reporting, so the units remain counted and auditable without being offered for sale.

Yes, and it is a common setup. Many brands keep bulk retail picking in house, where the compliance and chargeback exposure sits, and send single unit ecommerce orders to a fulfillment partner. Because both are locations on one stock record, available to sell is a single number and order management decides which location fills which order.

It runs warehouse operations directly. Receiving scans against the purchase order, putaway records bin locations, picking works from generated pick tickets on handheld scanners, packing produces GS1-128 carton labels with SSCC codes, cycle counts run on a rolling basis with an audit trail, and the 856 ASN transmits when the last carton is scanned. The distinction that matters is that it is the same system holding your orders, your EDI and your accounting, so there is nothing to reconcile between the floor and the books.

The matrix is the native structure rather than a naming convention on flat SKUs. Stock is held, picked, counted and reported by style, color and size, each size carries its own UPC and barcode, prepacks and assortments are handled as size runs, and a brand can use several size scales at once. Reports display as a grid, which is how planners and merchandisers read a line.

It is what you can promise for a given ship date, not what is sitting on the shelf today. AIMS360 nets out open orders and allocated units, then factors in incoming production using the ex-factory and in-warehouse dates on your factory purchase orders. The result is per style, color and size, and it can be asked per location or across all of them. That same number feeds your ecommerce store, B2B portals, marketplaces and the EDI 846 inventory advice retailers subscribe to.

Yes. Bin locations record where each style, color and size sits, down to the shelf, and handheld scanners drive receiving, putaway, picking, packing, transfers and cycle counts. Barcodes and RFID are both supported. Every scan updates the ERP record as it happens rather than in a batch at the end of the shift.

Yes. Each store is a warehouse on the same record, which is what makes ship from store, store replenishment from the distribution center, and back room to sales floor tracking work. Brands running several stores see stock, sales and margin per location and in total, on the same record their wholesale and ecommerce run on.

Yes, in the same location and bin structure as finished goods. Yarn, fabric and trim carry their own units of measure and are consumed through the bill of materials when production runs, so cutting a style draws down real components rather than an estimate.

They read the same availability calculation rather than receiving a copy of it. Shopify and Shopify Plus, marketplaces, B2B portals and retailer EDI 846 inventory feeds all publish from the AIMS360 stock record, so a unit sold in one channel is reflected in the others without a reconciliation job in between.

Yes. Inventory templates are rulesets that decide which stock counts as sellable for a given location or channel: its own location only, its location plus the distribution center, or a custom set that includes incoming production up to a chosen date. Wholesale and EDI commitments are removed before any consumer channel sees a number, and units parked in a virtual warehouse never enter the calculation.

Yes, and that is where the built-in EDI matters most. GS1-128 carton labels print with an SSCC that is written to the shipment record in the same action, so the barcode on the box and the number in the ASN come from one source. The 856 ASN is built from the cartons that were actually scanned and transmits at scan and ship. Routing guide rules are enforced before shipping, and any deduction that still lands is tracked in EDI chargeback management.

No. AIMS360 is a consumer brands ERP, and the same inventory and warehouse management serves footwear, jewelry, bags and accessories, cosmetics and personal care, outdoor and sporting goods, wellness and supplements, home and lifestyle, household and home care, baby and children's products and pet products, alongside fashion and apparel. Any category that sells a product in variants, ships to retailers and cares about size or option level accuracy has the same requirements.

Yes. Peak weeks run on the same platform as an ordinary week, including a customer processing over 1.2 million orders per day. Nothing switches to a different fulfillment system for the holidays.