Pebblestone Fashion helps fashion companies to improve profitability

Pebblestone Fashion helps fashion companies to improve profitability and efficiency, exceed customer satisfaction goals and adapt quickly to changing business conditions. Pebblestone Fashion relieves you of many of the burdens in your daily work and substantially improves your ability to take better business decisions faster!

Pebblestone Fashion is the industry specific ERP solution for fashion. ERP is short for Enterprise Resource Planning. It integrates all departments, functions and business processes across your company to create a single software solution that runs off one database. By sharing common data and practices across the entire enterprise, and producing and accessing information in a real-time environment, it makes an enterprise more streamlined, more effective and more profitable. In combination with the high level of experience of our industry specialists, we can generate the best business results together with you!

Whether your company is in manufacturing, wholesale or retail, Pebblestone Fashion is the solution for you!!

Specific fashion features * Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) * Product Data Management (PDM) * Remote Sales * Intercompany * Vendor Rating * Corporate Wear * And many more fashion specific features!

Want to know more? Contact us now. Our support team will be happy to provide you with more information!

Tel: +31 (0)10 2667600 E-mail: info@pebblestonefashion.com Website: www.pebblestonefashion.com

Do you know when your order arrives?

In fashion companies it is not unusual that buying and manufacturing is done outside the home country of the companies, like in China , Vietnam and Laos . Due to this an important part of the delivery time is determined by the transport time/period.

From the moment of buying or production it is not quite clear what happened with the goods; are they in production, are they waiting by the quayside to ship or are they already on the ship or on the truck? Often a shipment contains several purchase orders, maybe even of several manufacturers. Pebblestone has developed the "Traffic"granule, integrated in Pebblestone Fashion, which gives you a sound grasp of the location of your goods.

Where is my order?

Probably you know when your goods are ready on the quayside, when they are on the boat or in the plane, or when they are ready to be cleared by the customs. You can keep this in an Excel overview, registrering your orders with item numbers, container numbers, boat names and several other data.

In case of delay, all information needs to be adapted. You have to look up the relevant orders in your application which will cost a lot of time. You also want to know the consequences of a possible delay of the arrival of the buying orders and which customers and/or sales orders are affected. This probably means a double data-entry and comparison of data from different systems, which are not centrally managed.

Often there are more "versions of the truth". Wouldn't it be more practical when you manage all transports centrally?

Day to day follow-up

In order to follow your shipments from day to day, Pebblestone developed a special granule for you. You are able to interfere when a problem with a delivery occurs. It is an additional advantage that related sales orders can be linked to a purchase order. In this way you know exactly who has to be informed in case of delay. Perhaps one of the orders is of such an importance that you decide to send it by plane.

This transport also needs to be followed, so this is new "traffic".

The "Traffic" granule is fully integrated with Pebblestone Fashion and enables you to identify problems in an early stage and to react in an effective way. Consequence of this: satisfied customers and perhaps less grey hairs...

For more information you can mail info@pebblestone.nl

from our sponsors Watching your orders in detail!

Whether you are a private label company, or sell your own collection, or maybe you do both, you always face the fact that there is a time span between the beginning of the sales period and the actual delivery.

In this period it is nice to know to how to control the developments of this process. It is even often necessary for the progress of the process, for instance the approval of samples in order to start the production of the order. Now it is possible to control every possible process. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) of Pebblestone enables you to keep an eye on the time schedule/span and to improve the quality of your service.

Are you familiar with the following: you have a sample for approval but at that moment no action is being taken. Your supplier is waiting for approval and does not start the production yet. There is a chance that the delivery is delayed. You start worrying about the refusal of the delivery by your customer and decide to have the delivery air freighted. This will cost you more money and a lot of trouble. This could have been prevented when you had had the right signal at the right moment.

Central registration of activities

To prevent such a situation, you can make reports outside your software solution, with which you communicate with your colleagues and your supplier. A big disadvantage is that these reports are not managed centrally and that they differ: there is not "One Version of the Truth". The Product Lifecycle Management granule enables you to manage all the activities of the production process in one central place.

Activities can roughly be divided in three categories. The first category concerns private label activities, like approval of labdips, labels and prototypes by the customer. The second category is about all the activities concerning samples, like producing, receiving and possibly fitting. These activities may not delay the start of the production.

The third category of activities concerns the status of your order; have the raw materials been bought; is your collection already on the cutting table; are the products ready for shipment. For all these categories of activities, not controlling the different steps of the process can cost you time and money unnecessary. With the PLM-granule you are able to control with the process and take action in an early stage in case of a possible delay.

Employees are warned automatically

It often happens that one activity of the whole process has not been carried out in time, as a result the whole process stagnates. The standard integration of the PLM-granule with Microsoft Outlook comes in handy. The notifications make sure no activities are forgotten. In case of someone's absence, the notification can be sent to a colleague.

Less effort, more quality

With the PLM-granule you can divide the complete order process into logical steps and control each step, in a way that you make adjustments with less effort. Because of the notification system nothing will be forgotten. You will experience that with less effort the quality of your deliveries will improve considerably and your customers will be more satisfied.

More information: info@pebblestonefashion.com

from our sponsors Pebblestone Fashion for Small Business

A complete solution to support your company processes, an attractive price and the freedom to extend according to your needs. Pebblestone Fashion for Small Business offers this.

Many fashion companies start with software for the financial administration and the order administration is added afterwards. Invoicing is automated but not integrated. Because of this there is less insight. Who has received which quotations and invoices? Is customer relation management a isolated part within your company? Is it unclear which correspondence has been carried out with which prospects and/or customers? Do you have to re-enter your data again in Outlook?

Pebblestone has a fully-developed fashion solution at an attractive price! Pebblestone Fashion is an integrated solution with more possibilities. Only single data-entry is necessary in order to get the required information. As a consequence of this, prompt action can be taken and fewer mistakes are made. Everybody works with the same business software on one joint central system, from the financial department to sales and from warehouse to invoicing.

Fashion specific functionalities

You decide how to set up your solution. You can easily extend Microsoft Dynamics(tm) NAV and the fashion add-on Pebblestone Fashion. In this way the solution can grow with your company. Pebblestone Fashion offers you the functionalities characteristic to the fashion industry, from the two dimensional matrix for sizes and colors to a multidimensional structure, from Fashion Sales Target & Analysis to replacements, from storing the history of orders to a clear distinction between presales and direct orders. In this way you can save money and time and you increase the service to your customers.

Taking decisions in a better way.

Because Pebblestone Fashion admits you a quick access to your data, you will have information about the results of your company at a single glance. Because you decide in advance about the conditions that are important to you, you can determine the lay-out of your management reports yourself. In this way you can create statistics and overviews of your (pre)sales, purchases, margins, costs and results.

Besides this you have all the information you need to inform your customer immediately. Quotations, contracts, orders, delivery times, stock availability and correspondence, everything is available for your employees. Even your sales people can log in to the central system through their laptops.

Which are the advantages of Pebblestone Fashion for you?

* Saving time and money * Fashion specific functionalities * Direct (over) view of margins, costs and results * Delivering quick and reliable * More detailed information about margins, turnover, prices and stock * History of your deliveries * Growing with your company * Up & running quickly - 5 till 15 days implementation support.

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From our sponsors Internationally well known brands discover the advantages of Pebblestone Fashion(r)!

More and more companies choose Pebblestone Fashion(r), in the Netherlands but also in other countries of Europe, America, Australia and the Far East. Pebblestone Fashion(r) offers a whole range of integrated functionalities for companies in the fashion industry. In case of specific issues we work together with specialized partners. Because of this Pebblestone offers a complete solution for all company processes. Well known Dutch companies with international style that choose Pebblestone Fashion(r) are for example Oilily and Freetex/Stonefashion.

Oilily ( www.oililyworld.com ) is a premium worldwide fashion label offering a resource for highly original textile based products from integrated portfolios of clothing and related accessories. Oilily collections are sold hroughout Europe, the United States, Japan and Korea. Products are manufactured in select locations within Europe and Asia. The head office of Oilily in Alkmaar, the Netherlands, will use Pebblestone Fashion(r) for all its back office processes; wholesale, production and retail finance.

Freetex/Stonefashion ( www.stone-fashion.com ) is supplier of jackets and coats for ladies, men and children with its own label (Reset), but also private labels. Both the employees of the Dutch office as well as the employees of the offices in France, Spain and Portugal will work with Pebblestone Fashion(r).

Italy

Through the Pebblestone reseller in Italy (Altea) several well known Italian labels decided for Pebblestone. Two examples of this are Legea from Naples and Artezurlo form Padova. Legea ( www.legea.it ) is a wholesaler of sporting goods with own label. Artezurlo brings accessories (hats, scarves, belts, bags etc.) on the market with the name Almaplena ( www.almaplena.it ) .

The Far East

In India, the company Anokhi uses Pebblestone Fashion.

Anokhi ( www.anokhi.com ) manufactures and sells fabrics and apparel with a highly traditional Indian character. In Hong Kong, Li & Fung ( www.lifung.com ) uses Pebblestone Fashion(r). Li & Fung is a trade company with offices all over the world, dealing with all aspects of the fashion industry: production, wholesale and retail.

Pebblestone fashion Gold Certified

Gold Certified Partner is the highest level of competency Microsoft can grant a partner. Pebblestone recently achieved this status and is now part of the top level of Microsoft Partners world wide, with specialised solutions for companies in fashion, footwear, sporting gear and accessories.

Being a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner means: having the highest level of competency, expertise and proven skills in a specialized field.To receive this status from Microsoft, the partner must meet a high level of requirements; like high qualified employees with proven knowledge and experience in their field, meet the multiple demands of the customer, continuous retraining, customer satisfaction etc.

Pebblestone is Gold Certified Partner with the competencies Microsoft Business Solutions and Independent Solution Vendor. This means that with Pebblestone you are always assured of a partner with great expertise and experience in your industry, by Microsoft supported and guaranteed quality of Pebblestone Fashion, proven technology with companies comparable to yours, always the most up-to-date technologies for your company and focus and expertise in your industry.