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| Specific Requirements Automation needs of footwear industry in the areas of Retailing and Supply Chain Management are quite similar to that of the apparel industry. The following factors hold good. Click on each bullet point to see more details.  | Non-repeating SKU:  | Many items rarely repeat as it may not be manufactured again. | | This results in fairly large number of SKU, many of them not offered at a given point of time yet carried through for past reference | | | Size-Color Matrix: | The different styles of footwear will be available in multiple sizes like 7, 8, 9, 10 ... and may be different in colors and leather finishes. | | ERROR MSGIt makes sense to look at the stocks / sales etc., of styles with the figures pertaining to all sizes listed in a single line (columnar) | | Besides, the sizes are categorized into children sizes, Gents Sizes and Ladies Sizes in which case the same size number appearing in different categories will not mean the same size. | | | Style/Article Reference: | A particular style may come in various sizes and colors and finishes. | | While an SKU will indicate a particular pair of footwear of a particular size and color, references need to be made in reports and other situation to the Style which will include all the sizes and colors it comes in. | | Besides, normally a particular Style/Article is saleable only if it is available in all the sizes. | | Reports need to be available to get information on size and color-wise availability of given style or range of styles | | | Need for maintaining look-up for sizes and colors: | Typographical errors to be avoided by validating sizes and color values keyed-in against look-ups maintained | | Yet again, sizes need to be catalogued with reference to the Product (at times even brand) | | Order of listing of sizes should be user definable. | | | Product Classifications: | Classifications may be lateral rather than hierarchical like Men's range - Ladies' - Formals - Casuals - Outdoor - Indoor, Sports - Tennis, Golf, Cricket etc., | | Provision should be available to define multiple Super-Classifications such that the same item may be classified differently for different purposes of analysis/reporting | | | Product-Attributes: | These include: Styling, Upper, Sole etc., | | Sub attributes include Slip-ons, With Lace for Styling, The type of combination of leather and finish for Upper and heal and in-sole for Sole | | Due to the fact that many SKU do not repeat, for the purposes of stock and sales analysis a retailer has to look at the merchandise on the basis of their attributes like Nubuck Burgundy based Slip-on shoe with Golden Logo plate. Again, the attributes are specific to each product range. | | | Quality: | Footwear is one of the few industries wherein even if a finished product is not up to the mark it can be sold ... at a reduced price as seconds in a clearance sale or seconds sale. | | Similarly, once displayed first quality merchandise may get converted to | | Solutions The entire range of products offered by Vedha Automations suite the needs of the Footwear industry. Besides the Retail Management Solutions that have special features to cater to the footwear industry needs, specific back-end products are offered for this industry segment: | shoper retail solutions | shoper point-of-sale  | Has inbuilt Size-Color Matrix | | Dual identification of SKU by Stock Number (barcode number) and Product/Brand/Style/Color/Size | | Reports on Styles with stock-out in some/pivotal sizes | | Size-wise columnar reports of stock/sales etc | | Proper size sequencing | | Data entry forms to enter multiple sizes in one go | | Multiple product attributes | | Capturing of image of merchandise | | Super Classification | | Style/Article Catalogue with Pivotal size and Ideal size-wise stocking ratios | | Product-Brand-level size categorization | | | shoper distribution center | ERROR MSGDispatch/Delivery documents with size-wise columnar listing | | Reports on Styles with stock-out in some/pivotal sizes | | Size-wise columnar reports of stock/sales etc | | Physical stock / inwards recording using screen that allow multiple sizes to be recorded in single line | | | shoper enterprise | All the cataloguing and reporting features mentioned above | | Information on movement of Styles/Articles across the chain | | Performance Tracking of Product Story / Collection across retail chain | | | shoper customer CARE Customer Appreciation Reward & Empowerment - CRM: | Customer Profiling with apparel sizes, color and styling preferences (using product attributes) | | Cross promotions across product range using customer purchase history | | | | Vedha Automations' | Merchandising Manager | Handles planning of new merchandise including details like fabric consumptions and cost, costs of manufacturing and Trims, production processes involved, type of packing the merchandise is offered in etc., | | Aids procurement of fabric and trims: Allows PO placement and tracking receipt | | Work Order placement and tracking | | Tracking of actual consumption as against the planned and analysis of wastage | | Purchase and Fabricators bill passing | | | Warehousing application for Soft Goods: | Handles all the functions related central stocking and distribution | | Handles both barcode based inputs as well as size-color matrix based | | Most forms have columnar data entry provision to address multiple sizes in a single entry | | Tracking of stocks in pivotal sizes and enabling ear-marking stocks for Clearance Sale / End of Season sale | | | Distribution Manager | Allocation of stock available across channels | | Intelligent Replenishment of stocks at the retail outlets: Considering styles do not repeat, when a style gets sold out at the retail counter, the same needs to be replenished with a | | Web enabled order booking | | | | | | |
