PEBBLESTONE FASHION: SOFTWARE THAT FITS

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Software That Works the Way You Do

CONFIDENCE
YOUR PARTNER IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY
Choosing the right partner and the right solution for your
company can be diffcult. As a Microsoft Gold Certifed
Partner, Clients First Business Solutions makes this choice
easy. Working closely with you and your people, Clients
First Business Solutions uses a proven methodology to
provide you with a fast and customized implementation,
with unprecedented customer support.
Clients First Business Solutions
670 N. Beers Street
Holmdel, NJ 07733
Tel.: (866) 677-6290
E-mail: info@clientsfrst-us.com
www.clientsfrst-us.com
Whether you produce or distribute apparel, footwear, or
accessories, staying on top of the latest business trends
requires you to have more than just a keen fashion sense.
You must also have a reliable enterprise resource planning
(ERP) solution that addresses your companys industry-specifc
needs and lets you manage your business in confdence.
Pebblestone Fashion, powered by Microsoft Dynamics NAV,
is the premier ERP technology solution designed for the fashion
industry. It provides powerful functionality that targets the
specifc business needs of the fashion industry, such as the
ability to effciently manage styles, colors, sizes, fabrics,
designs, dimensions, and more. Pebblestone Fashion lets
you see into the entire product life cycle through one
familiar and easy-to-use interface so you spend less time
managing software and more time gaining meaningful
insight into your business.
At Clients First Business Solutions, we believe that the best
software and technology are meaningless without the right
people to apply them. The real value of a software solution
comes in the ability to execute change rapidlywith minimum
disruption to your businessby people with fashion industry
knowledge and expertise.

Run Your Entire Business Through One Integrated Software Package

Your software should work for you, not the other way around.
Because it runs with familiar Microsoft software, Pebblestone
Fashion works the way you do and provides you with robust
functionality that spans your entire business.
With Pebblestone Fashion, your business-critical information
is readily accessible, helping you to quickly view and assess
business operations. Pebblestone Fashion takes advantage of
the core functionality of Microsoft Dynamics NAV, including
the following:
MANAGE
Product Life Cycle Management
Financial Management
Customer Service
Forecasting and Purchasing
Inventory Management
Warehouse Logistics
Supply Chain
Production
Business Analysis and Reporting
Customer Relationship Management

Address Your Industry-Specifc Needs

In the fashion industry, products come in many style variants,
sales are often based on samples, and production planning
must take into account the many components that make up
a product. Pebblestone Fashion addresses all of your
industry-specifc needs through advanced features.
Account for Complex Style Variants
Pebblestone Fashion offers the functionality that you need to
account for the specifc dimensions of your items, such as
colors, sizes, fabrics, labels, and even custom dimensions.
Managing a range of styles that come in countless variations
can be a laborious task, especially if your accounting,
warehouse management, and other business-critical systems
require you to enter that data separately. The fexible matrix
functionality of Pebblestone Fashion helps you manage all
item variants from a central location, making that information
readily available throughout the entire business and
eliminating the need for data reentry.
ADAPTABLE
SUITABLE FOR ANY SIZE OF BUSINESS, ANYWHERE
Whether you are managing wholesale and distribution or your
entire company, your company will beneft from the modular
construction of Pebblestone Fashion. To extend this functionality
worldwide, the software comes in several languages:

Work With, Not Around, Your Unique Presales Process
Fashion collections are often sold based on samples and
delivered to the customer after productionusually months
later. With Pebblestone Fashion, you can address this unique
presales process by saving historic orders, entering sales order
targets, and viewing the progress of presales on a daily basis.
You can also replace items in sales orders with other items and
register items not delivered.
Plan Production According to Your Bill of Materials
Effcient planning means being able to view and manage a bill
of materials in a way that is both fexible and adaptive to your
business needs. From zippers, buttons, and thread to pants,
jackets, and dressesPebblestone Fashion helps you organize
a products bill of materials at any stage in the production
process. To facilitate effective planning, Pebblestone Fashion
includes powerful master production scheduling and material
resource planning processes.
Bulgarian Italian
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English Portuguese
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German Spanish

Manage Projects with Ease and Aim Production for Success

ACHIEVE
Account for Materials with Comprehensive Cut Tickets
Pebblestone Fashion offers robust, material requirements
planning functionality and cost calculations to help you
make smart business decisions now and into the future.
With Pebblestone Fashion, you get more than just a bill of
materials. You get a comprehensive cut ticket that accounts
for colors, sizes, buttons, hangers, quantity, scrap
materials, growth percentages, and more so you
can truly drive production.
Include Samples Stages and Size Positions Information
Which line requires double stitching? Pebblestone
Fashion answers this question with advanced data
management capabilities that store size positions for
production. This information can also be associated
with each stage of production, including the sample
or prototype stage.
Manage the Entire Product Life Cycle
Follow a project from design to close out and save the
process as a template that can be applied to similar
projects in the future, giving you a foundation on which
to plan and make informed predictions for bringing a
product to market. Pebblestone Fashion helps you to
track starting dates, involved staff, and duration for each
step to aid in project management and planning.
Process Letters of Credit
Track, create, and manage letters of credit as they
pertain to each project. With Pebblestone Fashion, you
can attach individual sales or purchase orders to letters
of credit, view the issuing banks, establish the periods
for presentation, determine whether confrmations are
required, and process orders.
Provide Staff with Detailed Production Instruction Reports
Simplify the production process and improve employee
effciency by using the production instruction report
capabilities of Pebblestone Fashion to store color
specifcations, packing and care instructions, maker
specifcations, images, and more.

Make Informed Business Decisions to Ensure a Healthy Future

Oversee Logistics with Traffc Control
Gain insight into logistics and take charge. With the detailed
logistics schedule of Pebblestone Fashion, making informed
decisions, such as whether to ship inventory by land, sea, or
air, is simple. You can also create a project plan and link
various product lines to production orders, purchase orders,
or transfer orders. Through one interface, you can record
container data, confrm arrival and departure times, and
receive notifcations if shipments are off schedule.
Gain Insight with Advanced Forecasting
Track the past performance of a style with various scenarios
and algorithms. Pebblestone Fashion helps you substantiate
performance predictions for your product lines with powerful
mathematical analysis, enabling you to reduce inventory
levels and provide better forecasts to the manufacturing
department.
RESULTS
Make Powerful Calculations
Evaluate past projects and current conditions so that you
can project the real cost of a product, regardless of obstacles.
Pebblestone Fashion provides functionality that accounts for
duties and tariffs, different bills of materials, routing details,
and maker specifcations. This helps you compare forecasted
and actual costs, and ultimately helps you determine unit
prices.
Perform Expert Sales Analysis
Gain insight into business operations and view transactions
through manageable reports that you can write, customize,
present graphically, and interpret with ease. Because it is
based on Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Pebblestone Fashion
works seamlessly with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting
Services and the Microsoft Offce system.

Clients First Business Solutions: A Technology Provider Who Understands

the Fashion Industry
After numerous software implementation projects across
many organizations, Microsoft Gold Certifed Partner Clients
First Business Solutions believes strongly that people and
methodology successfully bring a project to completion.
Clients First provides business software solutions for large,
well-established businesses and newer, fast-growing
organizations. With more than 500 clients, Clients First has
acquired signifcant implementation expertise and valuable
best practices that can beneft all clients.
When you use Clients First Business Solutions as your
technology provider, you receive economically sensible
solutions that let you run your business the way that works
best for you. Clients First ensures you receive the best value
from your technology investment by offering reliable service
and ongoing support.
Request a FREE, no-obligation video demonstration CD
by sending us an e-mail message at fashion@clientsfrst-
us.com or by calling us at (866) 677-6290.

EFFECTIVE
CLIENTS FIRST BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
670 N. Beers Street
Holmdel, NJ 07733
Tel.: (866) 677-6290
E-mail: info@clientsfrst-us.com
www.clientsfrst-us.com
This 90-minute video demonstration CD includes:
Fashion Industry Business Challenges
Overview of Required Fashion Functionality
Software Demonstration Overview
Menus, Navigation, and Searching
Inventory Management
Traffc and Container Tracking
Forecasting and Planning
Customer Service and Order Processing
Proactive Business Alerts
Customer Relationship Management
Microsoft Offce and Web Integration
Excel Reporting
A Client Reference Story

CLIENTS FIRST BUSINESS SOLUTIONS

670 N. Beers Street
Holmdel, NJ 07733
Tel.: (866) 677-6290
E-mail: info@clientsfrst-us.com
www.clientsfrst-us.com
YOUR MICROSOFT GOLD CERTIFIED PARTNER