Securing The Bag: How AIMS360 Management Software Streamlined Clare V’s Business Operations

Summary

Los Angeles based handbag brand, Clare V. was founded in 2006 and has made a substantial impact on the fashion industry. Inspired by French culture and fashion, the Clare V. business created a line and aesthetic that is easily recognizable worldwide by tastemakers, celebrities, and influencers who wear the line. What started as just a handbag company, the Clare V. line now produces a full range of bags and accessories, including travel goods, fragrances, clothing and shoes.

As the business grew, receiving attention from The Los Angeles Times and Vanity Fair, they found themselves facing common industry problems. Lack of data organization, manually entering information were slowing Clare V’s rapid growth and couldn’t keep up with its increasing popularity. They felt that AIMS360 fashion business management software was the right fit and the best solution for their business

Challenges + Insight 

As their business grew the company had trouble organizing all the styles, prices, and other information. 

“There was no way to organize the massive amount of data we keep,” said Clare V’s Development Team. 

Clare V.’s Warehouse Team also had issues regarding inventory. Constantly having to manually transfer inventory data from one warehouse to the next was wasting valuable company time. Furthermore, making sure they were matching the correct UPC stickers for shipment took up a fair amount of time.

The company had to:

• Manually update information such as price, fabric, vendor, etc.
• Create purchase orders and receipts
• Track inventory and shipping between their

The company soon realized that in order to grow their brand, they had to find a way to maximize their productivity.

Solution + Result

With the AIMS360 fashion management software, Clare V. was able to oversee every aspect of their company with clear visibility. From development to distribution, the team now had better understanding and control of the brands growth than before.

Most importantly, using AIMS360 has allowed Clare V. to have all their information in one place. The AIMS360 software integrates with a product lifecycle management system (PLM), WFX, which allows Clare V. to coordinate information and manage the entire lifecycle of their goods.

“The AIMS360 WFX integration helps our business so much!” said the Clare V. Development Team. “We are now able to transfer all of our final data from WFX to AIMS. Now that we have learned how to use the importing feature, we’re able to have all materials in once place.”

Clare V. is a proud domestic manufacturer and ships products to their non-EDI consumers from their warehouses. However, this process can be tedious; manually creating UPC compliant barcodes can take up time that could be better used elsewhere. To help save time and better the shipping process, AIMS360 assisted Clare V.’s distribution team through the UPC compliant sticker features. With this, the team is able to print formatted UPC stickers for styles, orders, or purchase orders. 

“UPC stickers is a requirement for some of our non-EDI wholesale customers, so it’s a great help for warehouse that we are able to print UPC stickers straight from the AIMS360 software,” said the Clare V. Warehouse team. 

Having the convenience to simply print the UPC labels from their AIMS360 system, Clare V. has the peace of mind knowing that their sticker will always be compliant with UPC rules and regulations.

Looking Ahead

Clare V.’s beginnings may have been humble, but as the brand continues to expand they’re still bringing, “quintessential Parisian charm” to all products. 

For companies, like Clare V. that handle large quantities of inventory and orders, our new Intelligent Allocation features would allow the team to reserve goods based on set rules made in advance. This could help ensure that Clare. V’s customers will get their orders on time, every time.

This is only the tip of the iceberg and we can’t wait to see where they go from here. 

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