ApparelMagic excels in tracking the various stages, revisions and approvals involved with Product Development. Each prototype can have an unlimited history of spec revisions, as well as unlimited history of general reviews, revisions and comments, prior to the product becoming "finalized." ApparelMagic then tracks all order, production, purchase and shipment history (including sample orders), as well as an event history of comments, complaints, suggestions and improvements that are made to the style after it has gone to market.
ApparelMagic has an automated purchasing feature, which allows for one (or many) Customer Orders to create the appropriate number of Vendor Purchase Orders. This feature, of course, depends on the Style file being set up with the appropriate default or suggested Vendor for each Style. However, the Vendor can be overridden on the PO, thus allowing Vendors to be assigned "on the fly."
Allocation is very flexible. Allocations can be run for a single order, a range of orders, a range of dates, a particular style, a range of styles, a particular customer, a group of customers, or for the entire system. By default, the system will favor earlier order due dates, and higher-priority customers. (Note: even if a Customer is Priority Level 1, any of their orders can be changed to a different priority). After any allocation is run, it can be cancelled and re-run as many times as the user wishes, to meet changing requirements, late cancellations, QC problems, etc. As well, any Order can be "force-allocated" to ship complete.
ApparelMagic allows your Vendors to participate, and to update the status of their WIP (if the client grants them access and permission to do so). Therefore, ApparelMagic can always present a timely status of what stages of work are currently at each vendor/contractor, as well as units received, units open, due date, even which Customer Orders that work is designated for. ApparelMagic goes much further, by tracking all raw materials, trims, etc., issued to, used by, and returned by each vendor, including notations or shortages and damages.
ApparelMagic tracks Actual Sales against goals or forecasts set up by the user. The Sales Forecast provides valuable live interaction between changing sales activity and the goals set up for each style, for each period.
ApparelMagic calculates demand in several ways. It knows what the net demand for a Style is, taking into account current inventory, open orders and WIP. It also understands the relationship between "blank" goods (i.e. PFD styles) and "finished" styles which use those blanks, and can therefore tell you not only "how many of each color of T-shirt" you need... but also how many blank T's you need (if any) to meet the "finished" demand. ApparelMagic goes much further, and also calculates the same answers relative to raw materials and trims. ApparelMagic also presents net availability in several report formats, including "total", and “time staged” by delivery dates, so the user can know precisely the very day commitments will exceed inventory, right down to the color and size.
ApparelMagic utilizes an integrated task assignment and history database. Any type of task can be linked to any combination of product, customer, salesperson, style, order, etc. Exceptions (for example, incomplete tasks with due dates prior to the current date) can be displayed for an individual user, a particular customer, a product, or for the entire system.
ApparelMagic has full routing and can control multi-process production which occurs in stages among an unlimited number of Vendors or Contractors. It also calculates the raw materials required by each stage or vendor, as well as informing the user whether that material is available or on order. The system also issues and does lot-level tracking and availability of materials.
ApparelMagic removes all manual work from maintaining back orders. It allows for back orders to be tracked automatically (i.e. as a result of incomplete shipments), and does NOT require that the original order quantities be overwritten in the event of the balance being canceled.
ApparelMagic features integration with the industry’s top EDI vendors, allowing “one-click” access to EDI orders from your retail customers. After fulfillment in ApparelMagic’s robust ERP system, another click automatically sends the outbound invoice to the EDI processor for completion. Contact us for a complete list of our current EDI technology partners.
ApparelMagic works in conjunction with the user's chosen email program (i.e. Outlook, Apple Mail, Eudora, etc.) to send messages. From any record with an embedded email address (i.e. the Customer record, or a Vendor PO), ApparelMagic can call to user's email program in order to send a message. Any screen or report can be output as a PDF file, or sent with one click to Excel, and then emailed right from within ApparelMagic. And with ApparelMagic's newest email integration features, you can receive your emails and keep your customer information, customer events and customer email exchanges all in the same place.