Built on apparel experience
Our work is grounded in decades inside the apparel industry, concentrated in California and New York, where most of the country's wholesale apparel business actually runs. We have seen how showroom orders, retailer mandates, and production calendars collide, and what it takes to keep that collision from costing you margin.
Start with the guides.
Most of what we know is published free. These are the same analyses we run inside paid engagements, minus your specific numbers.
Apparel-specific versus general-purpose systems, built-in EDI versus middleware, and the scorecard that actually decides a selection.
Read the guideWhat EDI is and why retailers require it, built in or third-party, what Nordstrom and Saks require, and what it really costs.
Read the guideShopify, wholesale, work-in-progress production and QuickBooks in one stack. Manufacturing-first platforms compared with apparel systems.
Read the guideCalculators and templates you can use today.
No sign-up. The calculators run right in your browser, and each one comes with a plain-English guide to the numbers.
Sell-through to date, weeks of supply, and the weekly sales you need to hit your target.
Open the calculatorPlan six months of sales, markdowns and inventory, and see what you can still buy.
Open the calculatorPrice from landed cost up or from the shelf price down, and see what a markdown does to margin.
Open the calculatorFactory price plus duty, freight and fees, so you know what each unit really cost.
Open the calculatorCreate SSCCs with correct check digits for carton labels, or check one you already have.
Open the calculatorHow long goods take to reach your warehouse from each sourcing country, and when to place the order.
Open the calculatorBOM, graded specs, construction, a size and UPC matrix, and costing in one workbook.
Get the templateCompare ERP, EDI and inventory vendors on the same weighted criteria.
Use the scorecardEvery X12 document an apparel brand is likely to see, with guides to the 850, 855, 856, 810, 846, 860 and 997.
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