McGregor Fashion Group new user A3

McGregor Fashion Group, founded in 1993, is a European fashion house that focuses on the design, purchasing, marketing, distribution and sales of brand name menswear, womenswear and childrenswear at the upper end of the market. McGregor and Gaastra are the most important brands within the group. The group furthermore includes the dress shirt brands Dimaggio, King, Elmior and Royal Cotton.

McGregor's strategy is based on a diversity of distribution channels, which both strengthen each other and contribute to a balanced spread of activities. In addition to the approximately 3,000 multibrand stores located throughout Europe, the brands of the McGregor Fashion Group are also sold via 182 shop-in-shops at department stores and larger retail fashion stores. The brands of the group are also sold via their own retail trade activities, which comprise the McGregor monobrand stores, the Adam Menswear chain and six factory outlets.

The demand forecasting and planning of both the seasonal collections and the never out of stock program, is supported by A3. Implementation of A3 started in June this year and in August A3 was operational for use during the sell-in and purchasing period of the Summer 2007 collection.

Freetex-Stone Fashion new user A3

Freetex-Stone Fashion is an internationally oriented fashion company and is specialized in the design, production and marketing of casual outerwear, both under a private label and under their own Reset brand. Half a century's experience in the clothing industry has earned Freetex-Stone Fashion a leading position in the European market. By offering a good price/quality ratio, paying extraordinary attention to design and styling and keeping the entire chain of production under control, they always manage to meet the customers' demand. Not only does Freetex-Stone Fashion use A3 to improve the planning of future demand, but they also work with the integrated production/purchase advice module of A3 for calculating net requirement on size level.

A3 and retail planning/open to buy

Many of our wholesale customers have increased their own retail activities over the past few seasons. The turnover share of shops owned by the company and of franchise or shop in shop concepts has increased considerably.
Planning and forecasting for a more controlled sales channel of one's own, requires a different approach compared to a demand pull oriented independent wholesale channel.
A3, in combination with the fully web based retail planning and open to buy modules of the retail planning solution Darwin, covers all planning needs of the future oriented apparel & footwear company.

Article A3 at Wehkamp

Home shopping company Wehkamp has improved the demand forecast with A3. Karin Janssen explains: "Our evaluation shows that this method gives us a good prediction of the demand. This meant pure and direct profit improvement."

To download a PDF of this article published by Dutch magazine Logistiek, select language: Dutch (original article) or English (translation).

A3 in the Journal of Business Forecasting

Recently the Journal of Business Forecasting celebrated its 25th anniversary. Much has changed since the Journal started. Technology has changed and so have the forecasting methodologies. In fact the whole forecasting landscape has changed.

For this special anniversary issue of the Journal of Business Forecasting 18 experts in the field were asked to share what experiences they had with the changes in the past 25 years. A3 Forecast Solutions was invited to write an article on forecasting and fashion.

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A3 at IBF Conference

Amsterdam: IBF Supply Chain Forecasting Conference November 16 & 17

On November 16 & 17 the Institute for Business Forecasting will organize its European Supply Chain Conference in Amsterdam. You can hear dedicated professionals sharing their knowledge and experience in the forecasting field. This knowledge-packed event attracts a global group of attendees and participants, including professionals and specialists in the field of forecasting, demand planning and supply chain management, all at one location. A3 Forecast Solutions will participate and demonstrate its fashion forecast software. For more information please visit www.ibf.org.

A3 is the No. 1 Forecast & Planning solution for the fashion industry

Philosophy: Control of the supply chain requires an early and accurate demand forecast.

Solution: Control the demand chain in the dynamic world of fashion.

Main features: blind forecasting, forecast of season & never out of stock collections, multichannel planning, budget control, replenishment on sizelevel, ERP independent add-on, quick-win implementation.

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