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Generation Tux runs on AscentERP
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Generation Tux runs on AscentERP

Overview: Dreamforce 2015 will be the official unveiling of George Zimmer's stealthy project that we have been working with his team on for about a year. The new brand will be called Generation Tux(GTux) and they chose AscentERP. This decision was taken with the intention to partner up with a vendor that would enable them to realize a key competitive advantage which was understood by the executive team at Gtux in running a tuxedo rental business. Some key aspects that were expected to drive strategy within the Gtux operation were accuracy of delivery speed and strong audit capability throughout the garment life cycle process. The complex nature of garment rental posed several challenges for a solution built natively on Force.com. We were asked to devise a method that would connect the front office e-commerce portal with the back office fulfillment area. This expectation came with the understanding that they were in regular communication in real time when it comes to garment availability with dependency on event dates. AscentERP recommended that GTux consider RFID technology to arrive at an appropriate scale-able solution. We are proud to say that after months of discovery, planning, and development, we have arrived at an innovative enterprise solution that not only meets the needs originally expressed by Gtux but exceeds them with a higher level of analytic depth and outstandingly efficient user interaction. Generation Tux is the first business on the Force.com platform to integrate RFID back office functionality into the cloud via AscentERP.

Technical Synopsis: GTux engages customers through an e-commerce website. The prospective customer gets a very content rich experience in mapping out their choices for garment preference. This kicks off a multi level process that checks availability via AscentERP for the chosen garments. If availability returns a negative response then internal back office functionality makes decisions on how to accommodate the customer as efficiently as possible. Throughout these various processes, several RFID readers and stations are interacting to create the visibility of all garments and their attributes/pedigree into the cloud. RFID technology has been integrated into the Force.com platform such that any user in the distribution center for GTux can perform a transaction within AscentERP and the website if fully able to access it and drive various workflows for customer care an e-commerce. Each garment has been fitted with an RFID chip in a discrete manner in order to ensure aesthetic appeal and audit capability. Thousands of garments can be moved and transacted upon easily due to the reliability and scalability of AscentERP's RFID interfaces. The simplest way to highlight the power of this capability is to imagine thousands of garments arriving at the receiving dock at any given time. It would take warehouse users several hours to sift through the garments if they had to scan a barcode for each one but with RFID, they can simply put all the garments into the view of the reader and AscentERP handles the rest by leveraging the cloud. This is innovation. This is the future. This is the power and knowledge of the AscentERP team.

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Inventory models for calculating reorder points and optimal order quantities have been in existence long before the dawn of software era. When the first affordable automobile, Ford Model T was rolled off the assembly line, manufacturers were already reaping the financial benefits of inventory management by determining the answers to ‘When to deliver?’ and ‘How many to deliver?’ However, it seems an irony today—in the days of advanced information technology—that many companies are still not taking advantage of these fundamental inventory models. Organizations tend to have several systems to manage their business and often run their entire operations on excel spreadsheets which make activities such as assets tracking, equipment scheduling, or documenting essential incident details, snowball into their biggest headaches. This is a challenge that was comprehended beforehand by AscentERP. Co-founded by industry veterans Michael Trent, CEO, Shaun McInerney, President, and Akbar Rafiuddin, CTO—who bring years of experience in manufacturing, sales, and technology space respectively—AscentERP came in as an assistance stick for manufacturers who were struggling to position their next level of growth. In the course of their initiative, AscentERP found a perturbing obstacle: the silos and boundaries created between the business and IT by the existing ERP tools within organizations.

Through its AscentERP application, the company today breaks down the communication barriers in an organization and gets everyone on the same page. With an aim to support a flexible, sustainable, and extensible mentality, and also the warehouse and production floor, AscentERP provides an environment of collaboration—creating greater enterprise responsiveness, agility, and speed. Organizations using AscentERP don’t have to configure their processes based on the tool, as the firm delivers a flexible solution which can adapt and evolve according to the business processes that are already in place. “With AscentERP, inventory management doesn’t have to be a time-consuming, complex process. Companies can save resources that can be utilized to innovate products in accordance with dynamic market requirements,” says Rafiuddin. Along with its collaborative and enterprise-responsive capabilities, AscentERP also provides advisory services that present organizations with better implementation of workflows and processes.

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