TradeStone Software™
Merchandise Lifecycle Management
THE CHALLENGE
Retailers, consumer packaged goods and apparel manufacturers are
under unrelenting pressure to bring more innovative and profitable
merchandise to the sales floor. To compete effectively, design and
delivery cycle times need to be compressed and new products sped to
market all while ensuring that quality and safety are not compromised.
Until now achieving these goals has been difficult or even impossible:
Internal departments - from designers to buyers and QA to logistics need to work together and communicate with far-flung suppliers, agents
and factories across multiple time zones and geographies.
CUSTOMER BENEFITS
Department Store Retailer
• Cut production lead times by +50%
Mass Merchant Retailer
• First month cost savings of $16M
Apparel & Accessories Retailer
• Saved 6 weeks ($6m) in design cycles
Drug Store Chain
But this collaboration is hampered by technology. With disparate
systems, information silos and disconnected processes to overcome,
achieving competitive advantage is difficult, time consuming, labourintensive and costly.
• Improved on time and full by 20%
Hardlines Retailer
• Added 250 points to gross margin
WHY TRADESTONE?
“TradeStone is truly the only end-toend retail solution that will provide
us with supply chain visibility and
shorten our concept to market
times.”
Calvin Hollinger, CIO
Urban Outfitters
Source: RSR Research, April 2010
THE ANSWER
Merchandise Lifecycle Management is the holistic, informed, and
efficient retail process of inspiring, designing, sourcing, procuring, and
delivering private label and branded goods. This approach enables true
cross-functional visibility, interaction, and collaboration, resulting in a
more agile retail supply chain.
An MLM-enabled business is more responsive to market and consumer
trends, more effective in managing product mix, and better able to
optimize merchandise decision-making.
TRADESTONE SOFTWARE
TradeStone Software helps retailers,
brand manufacturers and suppliers
increase market share and improve
margins through the use of
Merchandise Lifecycle Management
solutions that unify the design,
sourcing, ordering and delivery of
their private label and branded goods.
The practical result of MLM is seen by enhanced gross margins, gains in
market share, improved vendor/supplier relationships, better quality
merchandise and reduced operational costs.
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TRADESTONE’S MLM SOLUTION SUITE
Adopting an MLM approach to unifying your buying process delivers
increased visibility across the organization, the ability to identify and resolve
issues, meet critical milestones and remove both time and cost from your
supply chain. TradeStone's embedded best-practices and industry-specific
content, ensures rapid deployment, increased user adoption and a faster
return on investment.
PLM for Retail
Developed specifically for retailers and wholesalers who are more
concerned with rapid product design and delivery versus the
intricacies of manufacturing highly engineered products. From initial
inspiration to technical specification, TradeStone PLM for Retail
facilitates the design, development and testing of private label and
branded merchandise.
Global Sourcing
Ensures rapid adoption across the supply chain by breaking the
sourcing process into easy to understand steps and providing a
collaborative tool for online communication among retailers, agents,
suppliers and factories. From issuing requests for quotes to supplier
selection, TradeStone Global Sourcing supports the intricacies of the
sourcing process while masking its complexity.
Order Management
As the system of record for order management it unites domestic and
import orders into one single solution. From pre-buy to replenish,
TradeStone Order Management handles sample, factory,
customer/divisional and replenishment ordering, taking weeks out of
the order placement and collaborative confirmation process.
ANAYLST VIEW
“Retailers seeking a broad
spectrum of capabilities
that want a real retail PLM/MLM
application, not a replacement
supply chain or traditional PLM/MLM
application, are selecting TradeStone
Software.”
Leslie Hand, Research Director
IDC Retail Insights
TRADESTONE SOFTWARE
HEADQUARTERS
17 Rogers Street
Gloucester, MA 01930 USA
Tel: 978.281.3723
Fax: 978.281.0673
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WORLDWIDE LOCATIONS:
North America
Gloucester, MA (Headquarters)
Atlanta, GA
Logistics & Finance
Integrates the sourcing and ordering process with logistics activities
such as packing lists, advance ship notices, bills of lading, and the
downstream financials including costing, invoicing and payment
processing. TradeStone Logistics & Finance provides buyers,
merchants, suppliers and banks a single view of financial and logistics
information across the entire purchasing and delivery process.
EMEA
London
Asia Pacific
Hong Kong
Bangalore
Supplier Management
TradeStone Supplier Management provides increased visibility and
collaboration with trading partners to improve performance and the
quality of relationships. Supports the social, legal and ethical
compliance issues retailers and wholesalers face when dealing with
factory and supplier audits.
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info@tradestonesoftware.com
info@tradestonesoftware.com
www.tradestonesoftware.com
© 2011 TradeStone Software. All Rights Reserved.