A3 at G-STAR

G-STAR is known for its innovative products specializing in jeans, shirts, jackets and sweaters. The company has sales offices in The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, France, Italy, Scandinavia, United Kingdom, Australia and the USA. G-STAR has a turnover of € 200 million. 

In total 18,000 different SKU’s are kept in stock. The products are sold via direct orders and on a pre-order basis. The size issue is rather complex. Jeans styles are on average available in 4 different lengths and 7 width sizes.

In the past at G-STAR much time was spent on calculating the new forecast and purchase orders. Much time was needed because of the dynamics of the jeans market, the complexity of sizes and the long lead-times.

Julien van der Veen, Planner: "At G-STAR A3 calculates the new forecast once a month. We can concentrate only on critical styles. The system even automatically calculates a forecast for the new styles. Usually once a week we generate purchase advices with A3. Because of the easy and fast way of generating purchase advices we save much time. Thus more time is left for purchase issues like monitoring the deliveries."

The size key used to be updated occasionally at G-STAR. With A3 the dynamic size key is recalculated every week. This way the forecast on size level is much more precise and the service level has improved a lot.