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The Technology Revolutionising Fashion Businesses

Most companies manufacture clothing far away from home. For sizeable fashion businesses globalisation has allowed for production overseas where economies of scale have enabled expansion without the high operational costs. High fashion brands and designer collections often require specific production techniques like embroidery, the hand finishing...

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How Technology Can Transform Your Fashion Business

In fashion, the smallest detail can make or break a design. In an industry where the fine points matter -- the placement of a zipper, the contrast fabric of a lining -- ERP software, which stands for Enterprise Resource Planning, becomes the paramount solution for managing all business processes smoothly. The reality is the business of fashion...

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Itsperfect: "Fashion management looks to the cloud for solutions"

In the not so distant past fashion folks would fax hand-written orders to their suppliers and factories, use spreadsheets to create product costings and painstakingly keep track of sales and inventory the manual way. Why? Because technology came late to fashion. At the dawn of the e-commerce revolution, many brands, in particular luxury...