Overview
Normally, to stock the stores of a clothing chain, the following operations are carried out:
- The Fashion Buyer visits the supplier to view the new collection;
- The Buyer documents the various items viewed with photographs and notes, and begins a discretionary screening based on the type of store where the item will be displayed, the target clientele, and the size of the store;
- The Buyer returns to headquarters to organize the acquired material, importing everything into the management system (photos, descriptions, notes, etc.);
- The Buyer manually enters orders for store replenishment.
The supply process for retail stores in the fashion world is often not optimized and turns out to be cumbersome and dispersive. YouCo has therefore devised a specific solution to help Buyers, Sales Assistants, and all professional figures involved in the supply and management of stores and warehouses in fashion. The solution is called YouPocket Buyer and has been designed to help the Buyer manage orders on the go.
The Client
“The company that relied on YouCo to improve its supply management boasts” years of experience in the sector and is capillarly present throughout the Italian territory. Its stores, spread all over the boot, are located both in urban contexts (city centers and historic centers) and in shopping malls and fashion districts. The environments, therefore, change and require different considerations regarding “the supply and management of garments and warehouse stocks. In addition to this, the” company felt the need to speed up the process of selection and purchase of new collections, which had become too elaborate and inefficient over time. For this purpose, it chose the YouPocket Buyer solution closest to its needs, complementing it with customizations and additional elements.
Features and Benefits of YouPocket Buyer
Speed and optimization of time and management in “supply activities: the Fashion Buyer visits the supplier or the headquarters of the fashion brand from which to purchase and, simply through a single technological support, documents each item to be included in the” commercial offer of the stores.
The operator, through the app, can take professional photographs of the garments and enter all the information in the product sheets: supplier’s model code; description; size range; color; fabric; brand families; sell-in purchase cost; sell-out; margin percentage. All synchronized in real-time with the headquarters.
Moreover, the purchasing manager is able to place orders wherever they are, without having to waste time returning to the office for manual entry.
In addition to the purchasing and supply part, the Client requested a solution to help Sales Assistants in managing garments in the store: the application allows the Sales Assistant to verify, through BarCode reading, the presence or absence of a specific item in the warehouse, quickly and accurately, thus improving the customer experience.
