Line Manager / Commercialization

With Line Manager, your marketing or merchandising team can build a line by Style and Colorway, later linking these at a SKU level to the Product Manager component of SoftShoe. Your overseas team can capture and update cost quotes.  Finance can run what-if calculations on the final FOB of a spec based on cost, usage and loss at the component level based on various costing scenarios. Once target FOB has been calculated, Finance can also apply various Sourcing scenarios to estimate landed cost and thus margin.  And then, your marketing or merchandising team can adopt or commercialize product giving you with end-to-end line management functionality.

Features

• Lines can be defined by season, range, customer and/or promotion – any sort of marketing segmentation your business needs.
• Within a Line, Merchandisers and other executives define and manage Styles, gross margins, product introduction dates and margin on special customers.
• Overseas staff can capture cost quotes.
• A Classification function allows staff to capture duty and quota information on any product. 
• Configurable views of Line data, event planning and tracking at the items level, links to the Product Specification and a pop-up query on Factory FOB make Line Summary the first stop for information on the upcoming season.
•  Costing scenarios and ‘What-if’ calculations can be run on the Final FOB of a spec based on cost, usage and loss at the component level and based on various costing scenarios.  Define your own calculation rules for Gross Margin, Commission Amount, Duty Amount and Landed Cost. WYSIWYG export to Excel extends TradeIT’s value.
• Ability to create a pre-production plan for every/any new style that has been commercialized or adopted.  Pre-defined templates can be chosen for users to capture and track the appropriate planned and completion dates for events.  There is an automatic calculation of planned dates as well as the number of days an event is early or late.