Sapphire Systems: End-to-End Visibility and Control to Drive Every Aspect of Textile Business

As new fashion trends emerge, the production as well as supply chain has to respond to the market demand. In such a scenario, the textile companies struggle to obtain a complete view of the entire business from design, production and sales, and customer relationships by making viable recommendations around products, and eliminating data redundancies. Sapphire Systems, an enterprise software provider with offices based throughout the US, offers an industry specific apparel solution that integrates and automates manufacturing, supply chain, sales and financial processes, to provide a complete overview of business. “The software helps apparel businesses run more efficiently and effectively, especially where meeting deadlines are crucial key and a delay in the plan, even by a few days, will affect the subsequent phases in production,” asserts Richard Hudson, Marketing Director, Sapphire Systems.

“Our observation has been that lots of textile companies have disjointed systems, separate CRM, WMS, Accounting, EDI and others,” says Hudson. However, more and more businesses require a completely integrated solution which is exactly what Sapphire offers. The company offers a completely integrated ERP product that provides complete transparency and real-time access to information for all departments such as design, merchandising, sales, and accounting.

Today, as textile companies are increasingly adapting overseas manufacturing, apparel products are often designed in the U.S. yet manufactured by firms spread across continents. Sapphire Systems aims to close the barriers between designers and manufacturers by offering tech packs. “Sapphire is well positioned because as an international company, we are able offer round-the-clock support and we have consultants that speak many foreign languages such as mandarin, not to mention the fact we and have hands-on experience in the apparel industry,” remarks Hudson.

Often people perceive textile as color and size, however, Sapphire goes beyond this concept by engaging in product data management, the costing sheet, the critical path, and production of tech packs, right through to sales, shipping, invoicing and collection and more.