VISIBILITY

Do you have a single version of the truth yet?

By connecting all channels, businesses can streamline their operations while receiving enhanced insights, eliminating the risk of data duplication, and ensure they always have the right product, in the right place, at the right time.

86%

86% of apparel and footwear directors say their #1 internal bottleneck is a lack of visibility over operations and inventory

45%

Only 45% of apparel and footwear directors say they have one source of ERP data

20%

20% of apparel and footwear directors believe that enhanced visibility is a key benefit of digitalising ERP

How a single version of the truth can benefit your business

Inventory planning:

Solutions that provide detailed visibility over inventory demand and supply planning ensure that you always have the right products at the right place and at the right time.

Better profit margins:

By using solutions that provide visibility into historical sales data and store capacity, you can better understand and plan new product ranges, ensuring aligned profit margins are maintained.

Ensure ESG compliance:

With visibility into the origin of raw materials, you can identify any environmental failures in your supply chain and ensure you comply with ESG standards.

Improved costing:

By adopting solutions that provide complete visibility throughout the whole supply chain, you can easily stay on top of your total landed cost and expenses when shipping products.

How K3 can help you with visibility

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A single version of the truth:

Our solutions integrate unconnected data sources to provide a single version of the truth to ensure you always have total visibility over all stock.

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Easily plan new ranges:

Our solutions offer granular insights into historical data that better helps inform you on how best to plan new ranges while allowing you to cut costs simultaneously.

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Quickly determine your landed cost:

Our solutions provide easy-to-use calculation templates and worksheets containing different costs, elements, and margins that help you calculate your total landed cost effortlessly.

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K3 – here to support you no matter where you are on your concept-to-consumer journey

As part of our mission to transform fashion and retail for good, we support businesses throughout their entire concept-to-consumer lifecycle. And that’s precisely why we’ve developed our solutions to help businesses in each stage of their journey.

Design & Planning

If you’re lacking visibility in your planning and design phases, we have numerous solutions that can help support you. For example:

K3 Fashion enables you to track your PDM and PLM more easily to identify ways to boost product performance and extend their lifecycles.
K3 Fashion, K3 Pebblestone, and K3 Imagine provide you with necessary visibility into product performance, meaning you can identify which products sell well and which don’t, to help optimise future collection planning.

K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone give you detailed visibility into your supply chain and help you determine areas where costs could be saved to improve profit margins.

Sales

If you’re lacking visibility in your sales phase, we have numerous solutions to help support you. For example:

K3 Fashion, K3 Pebblestone, and K3 Imagine provide you with necessary visibility into product performance, meaning you can identify which products sell well and which don’t, to help optimise future collection planning.
K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone enable you to easily plan for future seasons by completing presales orders and attaching an order type to ensure it arrives when you need it.
K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone link the item number and prepack number together to ensure that they remain as one entity throughout the entire system to give you maximum visibility.
K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone virtually separate consignment stock and reserved products to ensure you don’t accidentally sell products that have already been reserved by valuable customers.
K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone provide fashion-specific fields throughout the whole system to ensure you have total visibility of the information needed to sell the right products to the right people. These fields include collection, theme, gender, fit, weave type, and finish.

K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone, and K3 Imagine provide you with enhanced visibility into your inventory planning to ensure that you offer the right items to the right customers at the right time.
K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone give you visibility into never out-of-stock (NOOS) information and availability before ordering the product directly to warehouses ready for picking.
K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone associate necessary information, like wash and care instructions, composition, and tariff numbers, to garments to ensure they remain linked with the item throughout the entire system.
K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone provide 2D and 3D matrices to help you better visualise your items in multiple dimensions, colours, sizes and fits, to ensure you can manage items throughout the whole system.

Procurement & Manufacturing

If you’re lacking visibility in your procurement and manufacturing phase, we have numerous solutions to help support you. For example:

K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone offer you greater control over your total costing to help you identify areas that could be optimised to save on costs and maintain margins.
K3 Fashion enables you to track your PDM and PLM more easily to identify ways to boost product performance and extend their lifecycles.
K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone offer you additional visibility, which you can use to gain more control over the availability of items and their respective variants across different processes to boost efficiency.

K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone supply you with a single view for orders, worksheets, and journals in the manufacturing phase.
K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone provide you with comprehensive material and production planning features that allow you to identify areas that could be optimised to save on costs.
K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone store all essential information about garment measurements, including chest, waist, hip, and centre back, to ensure that products can be checked for quality.

Distribution

If you’re lacking visibility in your distribution phase, we have numerous solutions that can help support you. For example:

K3 Pebblestone offers you increased visibility into where your containers and shipping is are at during each step of the journey, allowing you to plan more effectively.
K3 Fashion enables you to track your PDM and PLM more easily to identify ways to boost product performance and extend their lifecycles.
K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone give you greater visibility into your supply chain and help you determine areas where costs could be saved to help improve profit margins.

K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone enable you to accurately monitor item phases to ensure products are delivered or shipped to the intended destination for every season, on time.
K3 Fashion and K3 Pebblestone allow you to choose a brand when creating a sales order and automatically filter the products needed specifically for that brand to increase your efficiency.

Retail

If you’re lacking visibility in your retail phase, we have numerous solutions that can help support you. For example:

K3 Fashion, K3 Pebblestone, and K3 Imagine provide you with enhanced visibility over your inventory planning to ensure that you offer the right items to the right customers at the right time.
K3 Fashion enables you to track your PDM and PLM more easily to identify ways to boost product performance and extend their lifecycles.

K3 Fashion, K3 Pebblestone, and K3 Imagine provide you with necessary visibility into product performance, meaning you can identify which products sell well and which don’t, to help optimise future collection planning.

Helpful resources

How K3 Fashion enabled Création Gross to modernise its wholesale channel offering blog header

Case Study

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Have a no-obligation chat with our specialists to find out how we can help you meet your customers’ demands.

Do you have a single version of the truth yet?

How a single version of the truth can benefit your business

Inventory planning:

Better profit margins:

Ensure ESG compliance:

Improved costing:

How K3 can help you with visibility

A single version of the truth:

Easily plan new ranges:

Quickly determine your landed cost:

K3 – here to support you no matter where you are on your concept-to-consumer journey

Helpful resources

How K3 Fashion enabled Création Gross to modernise its wholesale channel offering

How K3 enables fashion brands to handle the enormous demand for data

Bradshaw Taylor simplifies complexity and unifies its nine brands with K3 Pebblestone

Drop us a line, and we will walk you through our solutions