Asset Management application designed to manage a broad portfolio of trim and packaging items
Nexgen’s software offerings have enabled our teams globally to better understand what is happening in our supply chain and quickly adjust our strategy to ensure the on-time delivery of quality products even during unprecedented market disruption.
Nexgen’s software offerings have enabled our teams globally to better understand what is happening in our supply chain and quickly adjust our strategy to ensure the on-time delivery of quality products even during unprecedented market disruption.
NEXGEN SOFTWARE PLATFORM
An industry leading, cloud-based solution designed specifically for the retail, apparel and footwear industry.
overview
Industry Driven
Built from the ground up leveraging industry best practices specific to retail, apparel, and footwear companies.
Global User-Base
Global user base consisting of over 12,000 apparel and footwear manufacturers.
Cloud Based
Nexgen’s cloud based platform provides users with a scalable solution for global collaboration and serves as the foundation for manufacturing efficiency, product quality and faster time to market.
Software Analytics
Capture and analyze vast amounts of data for improved visibility into your manufacturing and supply chain operations.
Supply Chain Optimization
Actionable insights and recommendations concerning order status, global product allocations, inventory management and other areas that ultimately accelerate time to market.
Open Platform
Our software platform was designed to integrate and share data with other critical systems such as ERP platforms, PLM solutions and care label systems. Leveraging the data from these systems to optimize design and manufacturing of your products.
APPLICATIONS
The Nexgen Software Platform (NSP) was designed specifically for the retail, apparel, and footwear industry by listening to our customers and hearing the challenges they experience managing their supply chains. Our goal was to develop a cloud-based platform that could organize, streamline, and bring visibility to the design and development of trim items for retailers and their vendor community. Used by 100% of our retail customers and over 12,000 vendors, NSP is now widely considered the industry’s leading solution for managing the design and development of tags, labels, and other trim items.
ASSET MANAGEMENT
Hang tags
Price Tickets
Printed Labels
Woven Labels
Heat Transfers
Hang tags
MAT.CODE: NXG10978
MATERIAL: 17PT U2S
FINISH: MATTE AQUAEOUS COATING
QUALITY: OFFSET
Price Tickets
MAT.CODE: NXG10979
MATERIAL: 10PT U2S
FINISH: MATTE AQUAEOUS COATING
QUALITY: OFFSET/THERMAL
Printed Labels
MAT.CODE: NXG10952
MATERIAL: DOUBLE FACED SATIN
EDGE: WOVEN EDGE
QUALITY: SCREENPRINT
Woven Labels
LOOM: BROADLOOM
WEAVE: HD SATIN DAMASK
FINISH: OFFSET
Heat Transfers
INKS: WATER BASE
As a full-service provider of tags and labels, we provide our customers with creative products that strengthen our customers’ brands as well as variable data products are critical to an effective global supply chain. Asset Management was designed to meet both requirements.
The design functionality and digital storage capabilities of our Asset Management solution ensure our customers maintain brand integrity across all types of branded ID trim items. Our creative and product design teams work closely with our customers to protect their brand investments in their trim portfolio and Asset Management provides brand consistency across a global supply chain.
Asset Management also provides our customers with a platform tailored for managing variable data products in their portfolio. Everything from PO data, SKU data, and technical print and product specifications are aggregated and tracked within Asset Management. We understand our customer’s IT resources are limited and that our data integration specialists must therefore provide the support and expertise needed to integrate all varieties of data streams within Asset Management.
Asset Management is an open application. We believe that the retail, apparel and footwear industry needs more collaboration across suppliers of all types. We have integrations with a variety of PLM providers to synchronize garment items with their trim portfolio. Other data sources such as testing reports and care label information are also aggregated within Asset Management to provide customers with one consolidated source of creative and technical information.
ORDER MANAGEMENT
Used by more than 12,000 vendors globally, Order Management is the industry leading e-commerce platform for ordering tags and labels. A seamless integration between our Asset Management and In-Plant Printing applications ensure that orders are placed for approved items with accurate quantities and geographic requirements.
Understanding vendor order activity is critical to managing supply chain issues such as inventory levels, regional activity and counterfeit products. Working closely with our customers and vendor user base, Nexgen provides supply chain analytics that bring clarity and insights to a complex supply chain landscape. These analytics can be tailored to the strategic goals that are specific to each of our customers.
Order Management is an open application. In many cases, our customers are using the Nexgen Order Management application (and Asset Management) to manage all their trim and label suppliers, including non-Nexgen items. In these cases, we work closely with other suppliers to ensure their products are integrated and that customer expectations are met across the entire portfolio of trim items. We know that our customers need to leverage the global community of suppliers for their entire component needs and we are committed to helping them meet this goal.
SOLUTIONS
DATA INTEGRATION
IT resources are limited in any organization and organizing data and documenting business processes is not always a top priority. However, variable data for RFID, 2D bar codes and traditional 1D bar codes is becoming more and more important to retailers and brands. Inventory management, omnichannel capabilities and consumer engagement efforts are dependent upon a cohesive data strategy.
At Nexgen, we understand the importance and complexity of data management and process mapping. As a result, we created our Field Implementation team to work with our customers on their data strategies and reduce the internal resources required from their IT department. Our Field Implementation team consists of global experts in data mapping and analytics with significant experience in retail, apparel and footwear. Our goal is ease the burden of variable data management for our customers and bring industry insights and expertise to the process.
This is a critical element of our relationship with our customers and their vendors. We work closely with our customers to bring visibility to their supply chain by creating custom reports and powerful analytics by leveraging this data. We believe that our focus on data and analytics creates a strategic relationship with our customers that ultimately results in improved supply chain execution.
IN-PLANT PRINTING
Speed and flexibility have never been more important to the global retail supply chain. The most successful sourcing strategies are centered around the ability to quickly respond to changing market dynamics and consumer behaviors. One of the most effective ways to do this is by leveraging localized on-demand printing of variable data products whether that is in the factory or supporting your omni-channel operations at the distribution center or in the store.
Nexgen’s cloud-based print management solution was designed to enable our customers to take advantage of these solutions quickly, confidently and with minimal involvement. Our centralized data and print management capabilities ensure consistent and accurate print of both RFID and non-RFID variable data items. With a full suite of product capabilities and equipment solutions our global product experts and technical support teams are here to identify the optimal solution and execute in the field to help you lead your global supply chain forward.
ANALYTICS & REPORTING
Today’s supply chain for retail, apparel and footwear companies is complicated and is constantly changing. COVID-19, tariffs and regional instabilities are pushing companies to diversify their regional manufacturing footprint. This is making it ever more difficult for brands and retailers to have visibility to the daily activity taking place throughout their supply chain. Nexgen is committed to supply chain transparency and we have invested in a data platform that provides our customers with global reporting for monitoring performance and analytics to dig deeper into what is driving business results.
CARE LABEL MANAGEMENT
Brands have never been as widely distributed globally as they are right now. The retail industry has experienced an accelerated digital transformation and as a result managing variable care and content data has only become increasingly more complex. Nexgen’s team of industry experts are here to help with that journey from beginning to end. Our global teams offer design recommendations for the most efficient label layout, understand and document the complex global compliance regulations, map variable data elements for every care label item, and store critical care and content translation libraries.
To help manage this complexity globally, Nexgen’s systems have been designed to simplify the order process for the vendors and factories through the use of drag and drop features in place of traditional manual entry. We combine this easy to use step by step process with your specific care labelling rules and translation glossaries stored in our Order Management application to ensure your care labels are accurate and consistent.
