Articles – Fashion-First ERP

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How can fashion brands allocate and ringfence inventory without risking customer commitments?

Explore how fashion brands prioritise orders, protect agreed quantities, and understand what inventory remains available to promise.

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How do fashion brands manage purchase, sales, and production orders?

Explore how fashion brands manage purchase, sales, and production orders across product variants, materials, inventory, and sales channels.

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Choosing between D365 Business Central and D365 Finance & Supply Chain Management is about more than company size

Compare D365 Business Central and F&SCM for fashion, including company size, operating model, implementation complexity, costs, and industry needs.

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K3 Fashion Solutions achieves the 2026-2027 Microsoft AI Business Solutions Inner Circle award

We’re delighted to announce that K3 Fashion Solutions has been recognised as a Microsoft AI Business Solutions Inner Circle member for 2026-2027.

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Where should sample management sit: ERP, PLM, or both?

Should sample management sit in PLM or ERP? Explore how fashion brands manage sample approvals, tracking, ownership, movement, and production workflows across both.

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The first step to DPP compliance isn’t actually the passport

As ESPR and EPR regulations approach, fashion brands must tackle supplier readiness and fragmented product data. Here's what DPP compliance really requires.

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PLM vs ERP in fashion: Why most fashion brands eventually need both

Learn the difference between PLM and ERP in fashion. Discover how product development, sourcing, inventory, wholesale and finance teams rely on both systems to support fashion operations.

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Why does generic ERP struggle in fashion?

Discover why generic ERP systems struggle in fashion. Learn how product complexity, allocation, replenishment, wholesale operations and seasonal planning create challenges that require industry-specific ERP functionality.

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Why fashion markdown management begins long before the first discount

Fashion markdowns rarely begin when the first discount is applied. Explore how allocation, replenishment, inventory balancing and planning decisions shape markdown exposure long before the end of a season.

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Why fashion replenishment breaks in most ERP systems

Fashion replenishment is more complex than simple stock replacement. Explore why generic ERP systems struggle with allocation, inventory balancing, size curves, and omnichannel replenishment in fashion operations.