Schoolwear software for a year that is mostly one month
A store per school at agreed prices, orders arriving as jobs, and purchase orders raised against the season's blanks so August is buying, not keying.
The peak is the whole business
Schoolwear is a flat line with a mountain in it. Whatever admin exists in July is the admin that will fail in August, so the work is in taking the keying out before the peak arrives.
- A store per school, showing only that school's range and prices
- Orders arrive as jobs, so nothing is retyped in the peak
- POs to blank wholesalers are raised from the job lines
- Stock can be booked in against a PO and allocated out on delivery
How it runs in Zigaflow
- Set up the schoolGarments, sizes, badges and agreed prices are set up once per school.
- Open the storeParents or the school order from a branded portal at the set prices.
- Orders become jobsEach order lands in Zigaflow with the badge and price already right.
- Decorate and dispatchBlanks are ordered against the job, decorated, dispatched, invoiced.
More about Zigaflow for Schoolwear Suppliers
A store per school takes the order at the agreed price with the right badge already attached and drops it into Zigaflow as a job. Purchase orders to the blank wholesalers are raised from those job lines, so the buying is against real demand rather than last year's guess.
The problems we solve
August is spent keying orders
Orders arrive by email, phone and a paper form, and the whole team spends the peak typing rather than making.
The store takes the order at the agreed price with the badge attached and the order arrives as a job.
Buying is guessed from last year
Blanks are ordered on a hunch in June and either run out in August or sit in a box until next June.
Purchase orders are raised from real job lines and stock is booked in against the PO, so what was bought and what was sold are the same record.
Badge versions get mixed up
A school changes its crest and the old artwork is still on somebody's desktop.
The approved artwork sits on the school's record and the store, so the current badge is the only one available to order.
Works with your existing tools
Common questions answered
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