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Apparel & Footwear Edition

ERP Built for
Fashion & Footwear Businesses

From size/colour matrix management to seasonal demand planning and multi-channel order fulfilment, NexWave gives your brand one connected platform to run every part of the business.

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NexWave, Live snapshot

97.8%
Order fill rate
12,400
Active SKUs managed
2.1 days
Avg despatch time
99.9%
Platform uptime SLA
Wholesale 68%
D2C / eComm 22%
Retail POS 10%

Industry Challenges

The pain your spreadsheets can't fix

Apparel and footwear businesses face complexity that generic software simply wasn't built for. Here's what keeps your team up at night.

SKU Explosion from Size & Colour Matrices

A single style across 5 colours and 7 sizes creates 35 SKUs. Managing reorder points, stock levels, and costing across thousands of variants without a matrix-aware system is a daily nightmare.

Seasonal Demand & Forward Order Complexity

Pre-season buys, blanket orders, and forward-order programmes require forecasting months ahead. Getting this wrong means either stockouts in peak weeks or deep-discount liquidation at season end.

Fragmented Multi-Channel Selling

Wholesale accounts, Shopify D2C, third-party marketplaces, and retail POS all running on separate systems means overselling, manual reconciliation, and no single view of true available stock.

Long & Opaque Offshore Supply Chains

Production lead times of 90โ€“180 days mean you're placing purchase orders based on forecasts alone. Without visibility into supplier capacity and shipment status, missed windows are costly and frequent.

Returns, Exchanges & Landed Cost Accuracy

High return rates in fashion demand slick reverse-logistics workflows. At the same time, inconsistent landed cost capture, duties, freight, agent fees, means margins are guesswork, not fact.

No Real-Time Sell-Through Visibility

Buyers and merchandisers rely on week-old spreadsheet exports to make markdown and replenishment decisions. By the time the data is ready, the selling window has already moved on.

Implementation

Live in 8โ€“12 weeks

Our proven 5-step methodology has delivered a 99% go-live success rate. We handle the heavy lifting, you stay focused on your range.

01

Discovery & Planning

Weeks 1โ€“2, Requirements gathering, process mapping across buying, wholesale, and warehouse teams. Configuration blueprint signed off before a single line is written.

02

Core Configuration

Weeks 3โ€“4, Size/colour matrix setup, chart of accounts, warehouse structure, supplier and customer data migration. Your business logic, built in.

03

Integrations & Training

Weeks 5โ€“6, Shopify/WooCommerce sync activated, Xero connected, channel pricing rules configured. Role-based training for your buying, sales, and ops teams.

04

Testing & Go-Live

Weeks 7โ€“8, Parallel running, UAT sign-off, and hypercare support through your first order cycle. We're on-site or on call until your team is confident.

Platform Modules

Everything your apparel business needs, in one platform

NexWave's modular ERP is configured for the specific demands of fashion and footwear, from concept to customer, all connected.

Stock Control & Warehouse

Size/colour/style matrix inventory, multi-warehouse tracking, bin locations, and automated reorder triggers, built for fashion's variant depth.

Size matrix Multi-warehouse Barcode scanning Cycle counts

Order Management

Wholesale sales orders, blanket/forward orders, picking sheets, despatch notes, and customer portals, with flexible tiered pricing and trade account terms.

Blanket orders Trade pricing Picking sheets Customer portal

eCommerce & D2C

Real-time inventory sync with Shopify and WooCommerce. Sell DTC while simultaneously fulfilling wholesale, one true stock figure across every channel.

Shopify sync WooCommerce Oversell prevention Native web store

Product Lifecycle Management

Manage styles from concept through development, sampling, costing, and production approval. Keep your range plan aligned from design studio to warehouse.

Style development Sampling Range planning BOM costing

Purchasing & Supplier Management

RFQs, purchase orders, landed cost capture, and supplier performance tracking. Full visibility from order placement to goods receipt, even across international factories.

Landed costs Supplier portal PO tracking RFQ management

Manufacturing & Cut & Sew

BOMs for garment construction, works orders, cut plans, and production routing, for brands that manufacture locally or manage contract CMT factories.

BOMs Works orders Routing Capacity planning

Accounting & Finance

Full general ledger, accounts payable/receivable, and direct Xero integration. Real-time P&L by brand, product category, or sales channel, no month-end surprises.

Xero integration Multi-currency Margin reporting Tax management

Analytics & Sell-Through Reporting

Real-time sell-through rates, margin-by-style dashboards, forward order coverage, and inventory ageing, so your buyers act on facts, not yesterday's export.

Sell-through rate Style performance Inventory ageing Custom KPIs

Get Started

See NexWave in action for your brand

Book a personalised demo with one of our apparel & footwear specialists. We'll map your biggest operational pain points to NexWave's modules, live.

From NZ$415/month ยท 8โ€“12 week implementation ยท 99% go-live success rate ยท No hidden fees