Sage Accpac ERP - A complete front to back office solution for Garment and Shoe Retailers

Q. Describe the nature of your business and your association with Sage India (http://www.sagesoftware.co.in)?
A. Greytrix is one of the largest Gold Development partner of Sage Software providing migration, integration, customization and modification solutions globally as well as consulting and implementation expertise to the Sage product lines in India. Founded in 1997, Greytrix has been in forefront of SME ERP and CRM development and consulting with GUMU™ products for migration and integration. Greytrix has also been awarded a number of times for its contribution to SME ERP industry and it has been notable winner of Sage Software Development Partner of the year in 2006, Sage CRM Development Partner of the year in 2004, Sage India Platinum, Gold and Premier Partner of the year 2009 and Microsoft Gold Partnership since 2007. Headquartered in Mumbai, Greytrix has more than 350 + customers in 50 + vertical industries and serves them through its various offices in UK, US and branch offices in India. Greytrix is an authorized reselling and development partner for Sage Accpac ERP, Sage CRM, Sage Saleslogix CRM, Sage Pro ERP, Sage MAS 90, Sage MAS 500, Sage Line 50, Sage 200.
Q. Which are the verticals where you have implemented Sage Accpac ERP?
A. Greytrix has expertise in implementing and consulting with regards to ERP and CRM across verticals like Financial Services, Manufacturing, Distribution, Retail, Hospitality, Real Estate, Media and Entertainment.
Q. What business challenges made it necessary for Apparel and Shoes Retail vertical to adopt Sage Accpac ERP solution?
A. SME Apparel and Shoes Retail vertical is one of the most difficult to manage in terms of software implementation because of disparate and non integrated software's for front end POS, back end accounting and inventory management systems/warehouse management.
Various Islands of Automation make it problematic to take out Analytical business. intelligence reports for seasonality, inventory movement, stock level checks, replenishment scheduling. Also, unique feature of Apparel Retail business is its inventory matrix system which categorizes each of its products in style, size and color matrixes and almost all of the standard ERP systems are not compatible to this kind of inventory stock maintenance, we have realized these facts while implementing ERP at one of the largest shoe retailer in India which has company owned outlets as well as presence in some leading Large Format stores. Another aspect of taxation in terms of excise and special processes to handle multi format shops were needed.
The industry requires a strong financial, Supply Chain Management and Inventory solution along Business Intelligence and Inventory Grid management which can be easily integrated with front end POS systems like Tally Shopper so that a complete 360 view of the data can be viewed at glance for taking immediate decision.
The main reasons for Apparel industry to adopt Sage Accpac ERP system are:
• Completely integrated Financial, Operation and Inventory modules
• Grid Inventory Matrix system developed by us to take care of style, size and color type of items during purchase, sales and transfers
• Indian Taxation for Excise and TDS built-in within the modules
• Seamless Integration with Tally Shopper for POS integration with finance
• Inbuilt Business Intelligence tool for data analysis
Q. Which are the functional areas and modules of Sage Accpac ERP are used in this vertical?
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• Financial Modules: Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable , General Ledger
• Operations: Sales Order, Purchase Order, Inventory Management
• Business Intelligence: Alchemex BI
• Grid Inventory Matrix: Greytrix Item Matrix
• Point of Sale: Tally Shopper
Q. How has the process improved and what are the benefits accrued with the implementation of Sage Accpac ERP?
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• 360 degree view of the data from purchase, sales and warehouse side at real time for up to date information to the central office
• Integrated accounting, supply chain and inventory with Shopper front office for updated sales figures vis a vis purchase/manufacturing
• Business Intelligence reports availability for projections and analysis for inventory planning
• Any time availability of exact stocks level and replenishment planning for multi format stores
• Special reporting for inventory management in terms of style, size and color enabling planning and analysis to the micro level
• Warehouse, Store and in Transit details of inventory reducing wastage
• Tracking of inventory at the SKU level to help reduce pilferages
Q. What innovations/ customizations that you have contributed as Greytrix to the product to better service your customers?
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• Greytrix build up an module Inventory Grid Matrix for taking care of Apparel and Shoes industry special needs and integrated it with Sage Accpac ERP inventory management system to take care of the entire end to end system
• A complete integration with Tally Shopper with Sage Accpac ERP yields a complete front to back office solution
• Greytrix is coming up with Customer Loyality management system built up on Sage CRM and integrated with ERP and POS to make it cover all aspects of customer relationship with clients
• We have also made our tax modules and business intelligence reports specific to apparel industry.
• Sage Accpac ERP for Apparel industry vertical integrate with Tally Shopper by Greytrix is unique for its ROI provided to the retailers with a presence of around 10-100 shops with growing needs in the future
Greytrix has been one of our top partners over years of our association. Sage India acknowledges Greytrix's participation and contribution to the Sage India family and look forward to many more success stories in future as well.