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Aero Infotech presents 'Supply Chain Management Software' Helps Garment Industry to Meet Demands

In the garment industry, with its close-cut margins and unforgiving seasonal deadlines, any break in the supply chain—a typhoon at a plant in India, a deadbeat raw materials supplier in Indonesia, a late container ship slogging its way to New York—can sour the best supplier-retailer relationships and wreak havoc on the bottom line.

As insiders know, even relatively simple garments like basic coordinates might depend on the combination of a shirt from one factory, buttons from another, and pants from yet another, all of which must come together in time for the finished clothes to be stacked on store shelves for the big back-to-school sale.

“It’s a global business, which makes it more complicated than many other businesses, and you’ve got extremely tight margins,” says Alison Hardy, president of Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based FabriCAD, a fashion industry technology consulting firm. “It’s amazing how the bits and pieces of one garment can come from so many different places, and getting all of that information together is incredibly difficult.”

To clean up the dangling threads that can leave profits falling faster than cloth on a cutting room floor, top retailers and other industry players are turning to supply chain management software to keep tabs on the supply chain from beginning to end.