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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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 90–180 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 8–12 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.
Discovery & Planning
Weeks 1–2, Requirements gathering, process mapping across buying, wholesale, and warehouse teams. Configuration blueprint signed off before a single line is written.
Core Configuration
Weeks 3–4, Size/colour matrix setup, chart of accounts, warehouse structure, supplier and customer data migration. Your business logic, built in.
Integrations & Training
Weeks 5–6, Shopify/WooCommerce sync activated, Xero connected, channel pricing rules configured. Role-based training for your buying, sales, and ops teams.
Testing & Go-Live
Weeks 7–8, 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.
Order Management
Wholesale sales orders, blanket/forward orders, picking sheets, despatch notes, and customer portals, with flexible tiered pricing and trade account terms.
eCommerce & D2C
Real-time inventory sync with Shopify and WooCommerce. Sell DTC while simultaneously fulfilling wholesale, one true stock figure across every channel.
Product Lifecycle Management
Manage styles from concept through development, sampling, costing, and production approval. Keep your range plan aligned from design studio to warehouse.
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.
Manufacturing & Cut & Sew
BOMs for garment construction, works orders, cut plans, and production routing, for brands that manufacture locally or manage contract CMT factories.
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.
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.
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Sales & fulfilment
Sales order to delivery
Pick list and delivery note
Walk through a sample sales order from save through warehouse pick to posted delivery, in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Purchasing
Purchase order to general ledger
PO, receipt, invoice, and GL
Walk through purchase order, goods receipt, supplier invoice, and general ledger entries in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Manufacturing
Manufacturing works order
Plan, WO, job card, and receipt
Walk through production plan from sales orders, work order, material transfer, job card, and finished goods in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Accounting
Accounting & financial reports
P&L, balance sheet, and dashboard
Walk through home, accounting workspace, profit and loss, balance sheet, and accounts dashboard in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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CRM
CRM pipeline
Lead to sales order
Walk through lead, prospect, opportunity, quotation, and sales order in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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Analytics
Business intelligence
Dashboards and KPIs
Walk through selling KPIs, dashboard charts, and a customisable Sales Order Analysis report in a NexWave-style screen, no login required.
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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 · 8–12 week implementation · 99% go-live success rate · No hidden fees
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