Fashion and apparel industry

ERP for the fashion business
Tailor-made for your success

BE-terna Fashion is a tailor-made industry ERP solution made by BE-terna. It combines our extensive fashion industry know-how with the latest Microsoft technologies. Fashion ERP is a key competence of BE-terna, and we have helped over 100 customers in the fashion and apparel industry get future-ready. Our fashion business software excels in every detail, and it helps you steer safely through every season. 

Benefits of fashion ERP software

  • Designed for your industry: BE-terna Fashion brings integrated ERP core functionalities, preconfigured and customized fashion process chains and tailor-made tools, ensuring smooth operational processes. 
  • Transparency across all processes: All processes from the design of an article through production to the provision of goods are intelligently and efficiently connected. 
  • Integrated Business Intelligence: With BE-terna Fashion you can steer your company safely through every season, identify trends earlier, address your customers in real-time, and exceed their product and service expectations.  
  • Value chain under control: No matter if you are a manufacturer, retailer, or distributor, or you have a medium-sized company or internationally operating group, you have your entire supply chain under control - from the initial product idea through collection planning, procurement and production, to sales, goods management and distribution across all channels. 
  • Higher inventory turnover rate: Through more accurate forecasts and automation of inventory management, you improve inventory turnover and avoid unnecessary discount campaigns. 

Modules and functionalities

Quick overview of Fashion ERP functionality

Concept to Product

Purchase to Pay

Order to Cash

Commerce

Logistics

Systems

Our solution ensures a seamless journey from creative concept to the final market-ready item. The "concept to product" process chain involves every step from ideation and design to marketing, sales, and post-launch analysis, which brings a fashion product successfully to market. 

  • Measurement Charts and Universal BOM
  • Product quality, care, and certifications
  • Collection management
  • Calculation

BE-terna Fashion encompasses the entire procurement process. It starts from the selection of suppliers and the creation of purchase orders, through the receipt and inspection of goods, invoice verification, and concludes with the actual payment to suppliers. This ensures efficient and accurate management of financial transactions in the supply chain. 

The "order to cash" process chain in our fashion solution represents the seamless flow of operations in both B2B and B2C environment. From the customer placing an order for a fashion product, through order processing, inventory management, fulfillment, invoicing, and ultimately receiving payment, ensuring a smooth and efficient transaction and customer satisfaction. 

  • Automatic allocation
  • Block order
  • Consignment
  • B2B replenishment
  • Value Added Services
  • Order validation and warehouse release

Commerce in the fashion industry spans both e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retailing. This comprehensive process chain covers product merchandising, inventory management, customer engagement, transaction processing, and order fulfillment. Whether online or in physical stores, the goal is to provide consumers with a seamless and satisfying shopping experience.  

  • POS
  • Webshop from Microsoft or third party 
  • Direct carrier connection
  • Third party omnichannel
  • Merchandise actions

Logistics in the fashion industry involves the strategic planning, coordination, and execution of the entire supply chain. This includes the movement of goods from manufacturers to distribution centers, retailers, and finally to consumers. The logistics process optimizes transportation, inventory management, and overall supply chain efficiency to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of fashion products.

  • Third party warehouse
  • Third party SCM
  • Extended logistics orchestration

Sophisticated tools and frameworks play a critical role in enhancing the functionality of the ERP. These ensure smooth transitions during migration, enabling large-scale data processing for improved analytics, and facilitating seamless communication and integration with diverse systems, thereby optimizing the overall efficiency and performance of the fashion business operations.

  • EDI framework
  • Migration framework
  • Batch scheduling
  • Search
VAUDE

The smart colleague – AI agent supports internal sales

The medium-sized family business is breaking new ground and relieving its internal sales team with an AI agent: This agent actively works on incoming orders and inquiries, thereby comprehensively relieving its human colleagues of time-consuming administrative tasks.

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MORE & MORE

Successfully completes comprehensive IT-Transformation

With the expertise of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and BE-terna Fashion, MORE & MORE has transformed its business, achieving unprecedented efficiency and paving the way for continued success.
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WHY CHOOSE US?

BE-terna has helped over 100 companies with fashion ERP

Fashion is one of BE-terna's key industries. We have supported over 100 companies with our industry-built solution, BE-terna Fashion, which targets both small businesses and large, global enterprises. BE-terna Fashion ERP combines extensive industry know-how with the latest Microsoft technologies and excels in every detail. Let’s be your trusted go-to partner for your fashion ERP, fashion CRM, or fashion project management solution. 

  • You get one single point of contact and responsibility, invoicing, project management, service, and support. 
  • You get a flexible and customizable fashion ERP solution that adapts to the diversity and rapidly changing requirements of the fashion industry. 
  • You get an ERP solution that complies with various regulations, including labeling and environmental standards.  
  • You get to manage the entire product lifecycle, from design and development to manufacturing and distribution. 
  • You get access to real-time data and analytics to enhance supply chain management. 
  • Finally, you get a very user-friendly interface. This is essential for fashion industry users with no or limited technical backgrounds.

Fashion success stories: Real challenges, proven results

Marc Cain

Marc Cain, an internationally renowned premium women's fashion brand, partnered with BE-terna to integrate its retail and finance processes on a unified Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform with BE-terna Fashion. The solution simplifies system complexity, connects retail operations with financial data, and provides greater transparency and control across international markets.

The results:

  • Unified platform connecting retail and finance processes
  • Greater transparency across operational and financial data
  • Automated order management across sales channels
  • Improved business control across international markets
  • Scalable foundation supporting future growth
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"Our previous system landscape had evolved over many years and had naturally become very complex. Our objective was to reduce this complexity, simplify interfaces, and create more efficient processes through increased automation. Bringing retail and finance closer together turned out to be an additional advantage."

Thilo Konstanzer,
Director Finance, Marc Cain

Vaude

VAUDE, a German manufacturer of sustainable outdoor apparel and equipment, partnered with BE-terna to develop an AI agent for internal sales, integrated with BE-terna Fashion and Microsoft Dynamics 365. The solution automates order processing and customer inquiries, reduces manual work, and gives employees more time to focus on customer relationships.

The results:

  • 71 percent of incoming orders correctly identified and entered into the ERP system automatically
  • Backorder inquiries handled entirely by the AI agent
  • Automated routing of requests requiring manual intervention
  • Faster processing of customer orders and inquiries
  • More time for customer consulting and sales activities
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"Even with the intermediate step of approval, the agent provides us with enormous relief: instead of having to process every email manually, our colleagues receive a completely finished processing proposal that they simply have to confirm with a click. Humans remain in control, while the agent takes over the time-consuming work."

Daniel Köhler,
IT Manager, VAUDE

efix tricot

efix tricot GmbH, a German clothing manufacturer with over 100 years of experience, partnered with BE-terna to replace its outdated ERP system with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and BE-terna Fashion. The cloud solution automates order processing, connects production workflows, and provides greater transparency across its European supply chain.

The results:

  • 90 percent reduction in EDI processing time
  • Weekly order processing reduced from two days to two hours
  • Digital tracking of production across European partners
  • Automated consignment inventory management
  • Smooth implementation with high user satisfaction
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"Innovation is successful when it stays quiet."

Johanna Eichler,
Company Management, efix tricot GmbH

OLYMP Bezner KG

OLYMP Bezner KG, one of Europe's leading shirt brands, partnered with BE-terna to optimize its supply chain management with Microsoft Dynamics NAV and BE-terna Fashion . The solution connects procurement, production, inventory, and financial processes, providing greater transparency and flexibility across its international operations.

The results:

  • Centralized master data management across systems
  • Highly automated supply chain processes
  • Greater transparency across inventory and material flows
  • Improved tracking of goods from warehouse to point of sale
  • More flexible procurement and production planning
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"A unique selling point of BE-terna is certainly its extensive know-how in the fashion industry. We have a partner at our side who knows exactly what they are talking about, and I would also like to emphasise their high level of solution and consulting competence. We now have an extremely flexible system for supply chain management in place, with which we can implement all the special requirements we have at OLYMP."

Angela Bundschu,
Project Manager, OLYMP Bezner KG
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Matthias Breitenstein

Industry Lead Fashion & Commerce

I am your go-to expert for industry-specific challenges in fashion & commerce with Microsoft Dynamics 365. With our industry expertise and a keen sense of your needs, we can help you optimize your processes along the entire value chain - from merchandise management to omnichannel solutions and customer management. Together, we will develop the perfect strategy to drive your digital transformation, increase your efficiency and secure your competitiveness.

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