How a Shoe Manufacturing Company Benefited from Merchandise Hierarchy Reports
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Shoe manufacturing peaked in Canada at about 52.9 million pairs in 1968. Imports were not substantial in the Canadian market until the early 1960s when they jumped from 6.8 million pairs to 75 million pairs in 15 years, this accounted for 63 percent of the whole Canadian market for footwear that year. Imports from Asia dominated the low-cost sector, while imports from Europe dominated the fashion footwear industry. According to the industry, the existing market share of less than 50% jeopardizes the existence of not only the Canadian footwear industry but also the leather industry and many suppliers. Under government protection, due to competition, the industry continued to invest in automation and electronic technologies, as well as restructuring plans to help it compete with foreign firms. The Canadian footwear sector is also expanding its export markets and specializing in winter footwear, for which it has already established a global name.
About the Client
NetSuite 2022.1 Pack Station app comes with new mobile enhancements that help warehouse workers process with faster times and more accuracy. There is a built-in converter for weighing packages that seamlessly switches between pounds and kilograms based on user preference. For accuracy and speed, workers can now check the packing instructions for items for each order packaging in the app before getting started. For speed again, the release comes with a bulk activation feature that helps to accelerate the pack and unpack “Ship As Is” products, rather than doing it individually.
For Warehouse managers, NetSuite 2022.1 helps to make the picking, scanning, releasing, and filtering much easier. The feature highlights customizations in the NetSuite Warehouse Management System (WMS) app that improve picker movement and wave filtering through automation.
ERP Buddies solution
Problem
In this case, our client was running into problems focused on the organization of their many products. Although this company has many popular products that are winter-specific, they also have other lines of seasonal wear for the Summer and Fall times. This includes products such as sandals and sneakers. These different product lines introduced their need for a more structured and organized solution that would need to be implemented in their ERP system, in this case, NetSuite. This added feature to their solution would allow the company to create more seamless and automated workflows.
Requirements
With our client’s extensive product lines due to seasonal wear and new designs, they required a system that would be able to seamlessly provide hierarchy reports that would organize information based on product sales, inventory, and organize the items in a hierarchical manner. By enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of their allocation, store-replenishment planning, and procurement processes, merchants may increase sales, raise profits, and reduce inventory costs.
The solution and Process
ERP Buddies knew exactly what would benefit this client and solve their unique needs. The solution was simple, with NetSuite already implemented, their next step was to develop a category system composed of all of the client’s current types of products. This includes categories such as seasonal (Summer, Winter, Fall, Spring), colours, style types, gender, and more! Determining hierarchy needs provides useful methods to categorize and determine relationships between the products, you can also group merchandise that shares similar characteristics. Having this type of organized structure allows for insight on year-to-date sales, trends and helps determine what the needs of the customer are so that the client can adjust and give their consumer what they need.
The Benefits
Our client’s successful NetSuite hierarchy reports project ensures that their business is operating in an efficient manner that best meets their product lines needs. They can now utilize the hierarchy reports to categorize processes or products for a specified time period and place them in their unique category. Having this organized process can now decrease the loss of capital. After you’ve allocated items, you’ll have a solid structure for workbooks, reports, pricing, promotions, and more in the downstream process. You can make informed merchandising selections using this framework. Using merchandise hierarchy to organize your workbooks or reports makes it easy to examine specific details. Such data is useful for identifying sales trends across product categories and creating sales strategies such as promotions.
Shoe manufacturers develop a wide range of shoe styles, in this case, our client’s product range was so wide due to demand and popularity that they now were seeking new methods of organization in order to help grow and scale their business further. Creating merchandise reports was the ultimate solution that will not only help organize but also provide insights into trends regarding their sales and product demand.
