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Apparel Industry
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Industry Description:
Companies that design, manufacture, market, and/or license brands for men's, women's, and/or children's clothing, footwear, and accessories.
The apparel industry makes clothing and related products, including men's, women's, and children's outerwear, underwear, sleepwear, bathing suits, hats, hosiery, furs, and many other items. In 2004 nearly 41 percent of the approximately 701,000 people employed in the industry helped to produce wearing apparel. The others were involved in the production of articles such as bed and table linens, curtains, tents, and other goods made from cloth.
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The apparel industry consists of many small firms and a few large companies. Most firms employ fewer than twenty workers. New York City, once the United States' chief garment center, remains important, but many firms are now in the South and in large cities in other parts of the country. Some firms specialize in making one kind of clothing, such as inexpensive sports shirts or expensive evening dresses. Other firms specialize in one part of the manufacturing process, such as cutting fabric or sewing garments together.
Summary:
Restructuring and returning to core competencies are common threads among the biggest operations in apparel making today. This elite group represents some $15 billion in revenue.
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Gerry Davis Sports MAS 90 Testimonial - For years, Gerry Davis Sports relied on Peachtree by Sage, one of Sage Software’s easy-to-use accounting packages for small businesses. But as the company grew, so did its accounting needs. |
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Sage Software products used in the apparel industry: |
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Sage MAS 500 ERP |
Sage MAS 500 ERP is a highly reliable, robust, and integrated series of business applications delivering a complete business management solution that’s flexible, scalable and fullfeatured— offering key business insights to make your company more productive and profitable.
When a customer places an order, the system immediately delivers data to Sage MAS 500, avoiding any hand-keying or possibility of error. The customer knows right away whether items are in stock. Credit cards are approved online for instant input into the Sage MAS 500 system. Read more about Sage MAS 500 |
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| Teva Sports Sandals (sandals) |
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Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 ERP |
Sweater.com uses its Sage MAS 90 system for practically everything, including entering orders, creating UPC codes, generating purchase orders, tracking receipt of goods, entering sales orders, allocating invoicing, picking, updating invoices and creating general ledger transactions.
When you choose a Sage MAS 90 or Sage MAS 200 ERP system, you gain the accounting and business management tools and the insights to propel your company to a more productive and profitable future. Select from more than 25 modules and hundreds of industry-specific add-ons to tailor a Sage MAS 90 or 200 system to meet your business needs. And as you grow, you can expand the system to accommodate your company’s requirements long into the future. Read more about Sage MAS 90 and MAS 200 |
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| The Game LLC (logo apparel) |
| Everlast (sporting goods) |
| Gerry Davis Sports LLC (sporting goods) |
| GoLite, LLC (outdoor apparel & camping accessories) |
| Sweater.com (online vendor) |
| Veteran Leather Company, Inc. (leather accessories) |
| Friends Marketing, Inc. (jewelry) |
| Amfit, Inc. (shoes) |
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Amfit, Inc. MAS 200 Testimonial - Amfit puts best foot forward with Sage MAS 200 and StarShip. The company selected Sage MAS 200 for its flexible reporting capabilities, diverse module offerings, and end-to-end integration. Amfit started out with separate packages for basic accounting, inventory, and bill of materials. |
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More solutions for apparel businesses: |
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| Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) |
| Many of the larger retailers including Walmart, J.C. Penny, Federated Department Stores, Macys and Kohl's require vendors to use EDI. What is Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)? EDI is the computer to computer exchange of routine business information in a standard format. EDI transaction sets eliminate the need to re-enter critical data in commercial pay systems and accounting systems. Blytheco offers two EDI software packages for Sage MAS 90, MAS 200 and MAS 500 to enable Electronic Data Interchange, RedTail and TrueCommerce. |
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