AIMS360 (July 2018) Release Notes

New features and software updates? Yes and yes! Read on to check out our latest improvements inspired by you.

Note** For our existing AIMS360 customers, you’ll be able to view our reference links provided in each section.

New Features

Come on over and check out the latest enhancements we made.

Send Emails Out of AIMS360 With Your Company Domain

In case you didn’t know, we have an integrated email system with Send Grid. Our latest update allows customers to send emails from the AIMS360 system and they’ll appear from their own company email domain instead of “email@cloud.aims360.com”, helping you stay on-brand.

Existing AIMS360 customers, see: How to configure your own Send Grid account with AIMS360

Preset Default Pricing for Different Vendor POs

Here at our office, we love automation. If we could, we would love our mugs to autofill our coffee. This new system setting automatically updates to the latest pricing adjustment of your styles in the purchase orders (PO) you send to your vendors. So the next time you send a PO to a factory with the same style, it’ll preset the default price you specified for that factory. Say ‘bye’ to double-entry!

Existing AIMS360 customers, see: How to Create a Style (Production) Purchase Order and check out the “Other Costing Options” section.

Add Reasons in Discount Code Field (BI Reports)

Can’t remember why you gave a discount to a particular customer? We’ve got your back. We’ve added Reason Codes in the Discount Code field of your Business Intelligence reports so you and your team can easily refer to them and immediately know why a 10% discount was issued.

Existing AIMS360 customers, see: AIMS360 Orderline Discounts and Optional Discounts | See the section about setting default reason codes (1.2).

See All Orders (B2B + B2C) at Once with Auto-Import

Yes, we’re not kidding! With the Auto-import order feature, you can see all of your orders from your connected channels at once (ex. WooCommerce, Magento, Shopify, JOOR, NuOrder, Brandboom, ShopTheFloor, etc). Choose how often you want to auto-import your orders into AIMS360 with time interval options from 15 mins to 24 hours. Orders will fill up in AIMS360 faster than you can select a La Croix flavor.

Existing AIMS360 Customers, see: Automatic Order Import for B2B / B2C Integrations 

3rd Party Integrations Updates

 WFX: PLM for Pre-Production Planning of Styles, Colors, Bill of Materials, and Cost Sheet

We’re continually updating the WFX integration so AIMS360 can easily read in data seamlessly. Here are some of the latest updates for our customers.

• Vendor info for Materials/Trim: Vendor and vendor information can be added to materials or trim in WFX can now be imported to the corresponding AIMS360 fields. *Cues applause*
  • Existing AIMS360 customers, see: WFX Importing Materials
• Support for Style and Style/Color Images: Style default and Style/Color default image for each new Style can be imported from WFX to AIMS360. Now you’ll know the difference between an orchid peplum dress and an eggplant peplum dress.
  • Existing AIMS360 customers, see: WFX Importing Products (Styles) 
• Updated Season Mapping: Users can pull the season codes from WFX directly into AIMS360 so they can be used with Styles. *insert praise emoji*
  • Existing AIMS360 customers, see: WFX Setup
• BOM “Labor” Costing Import: Cut & Sew production and labor costs can be imported to AIMS360. Oh yes, we weren’t kidding when we said we’ll help you streamline all of your information seamlessly.
  • Existing AIMS360 customers, see: WFX Importing Bill of Materials (BOM)

EDI – Electronic Transactions with Major Department Stores

If you’re working with EDI then you know retailers frequently ask for changes! To stay compliant with our list of EDI retailers, we’re constantly working hard to stay compliant with their latest requirements. Here are some of the latest updates:

• Barney’s First Cost Price
  • Existing AIMS360 customers, see: Barney’s Customer Setup & Special Notes

In Development

Perhaps your favorite section of our release notes, here’s what we have coming really soon:

Easier Logins into AIMS360 with Email Addresses Instead of Usernames

Is remembering your AIMS360 login ID an annoyance? With all of the things you’re busy working on, we understand the last thing you want to deal with is trying to remember your AIMS360 login. We’ve made it easier for you. All AIMS360 user logins will be able to change to users’ actual email address. And, if you forget your password we got you covered with a click of a button.

Existing AIMS360 customers, see: User Logins and Email Changes

Allocate Inventory Based on Pre-set Rules with the Intelligent Allocation Feature

AIMS360 has been hard at work adding a new Intelligent Allocation module to the AIMS360 software. This module will help take all of the guesswork out of allocating goods to orders from WIP or Stock. You can take a look at some of the features coming soon by reviewing our Intelligent Allocation articles here: Intelligent Allocation (AIMS360 Customers only)

What’s a feature that would surprise you if you saw it in AIMS360? Let us know!