Apparel and Footwear
Step out with more apparel and footwear designs faster and for less.
The most important step to making money in the apparel and footwear business is a tailored value chain that matches the design, sourcing and distribution of products to customers’ buying patterns and distinct channel expectations without escalating costs and risk. This is particularly hard when your supply chain extends around the world and you have CSR obligations.
Jonova delivers business modeling expertise that enables you to examine a range of management options to mitigate inherent demand uncertainty with smart supply solutions. With this insight, you will better understand the economics and dynamics of your value chain and focus improvement activities and resources to improve performance.
Industry Challenges
- Unpredictable fashion trends
- Short product lifecycles with aggressive downward price curves
- Large numbers of size, color and style variations
- Long procurement lead times
Jonova Solutions for the Apparel and Footwear Industry
With Jonova software, you can identify the time and cost drivers that affect the total costs of the value chain, including the opportunity costs of inflexibility. This will allow you to stratify and segment your value chain to bring products to markets using the smartest business model and the flow path with the lowest total cost. The following Jonova applications will deliver new insight and opportunities to improve your business outcomes:
- Deliver category profitability optimization
- Understand channel cost-to-serve
- Drive cash-to-cash & Working Capital reduction
- Hedge against demand uncertainty given product economics and service expectations
- Allocate scarce materials to products and channels
- Balance the mix of product lines to achieve portfolio profitability
- Manage variety and complexity to balance customer expectations and cost
- Utilize inventory positioning and replenishment optimization to achieve quick turns and reduce stock-outs of popular items and excess stock of slow movers.
- Supplier selection and contract design
- Apply robust strategic sourcing and supply base segmentation to improve supply chain performance
- Establish Supply Chain Risk Management and Supplier Risk Management to protect your bottom line
- Execute a carbon footprint analysis
- Evaluate CO2 reduction business tradeoffs (emissions against cost and speed)
Corporate Strategy and Performance Management
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
Portfolio Optimization and Product Performance Management
Supply Chain Management
Sustainability
