Affliction Clothing Selects Inovis to Manage Supply Chain Communications
Atlanta, GA — July 7, 2009 — Inovis announced today that Affliction Clothing, the hottest clothing line for rock bands and celebrities, has selected the company to standardize its supply chain communications with its network of suppliers and retailers.
"We're a young, fast growing brand," said Scott Hampshire, CIO at Affliction. "We needed a painless, scalable solution that we could bring in-house to stay connected to our retail customers and suppliers and integrate smoothly with our ERP. Inovis provides that for us."
Affliction needed a reliable platform for its business-to-business (B2B) communications to better serve its retailer customers. By using Inovis, Affliction will be able to exchange business information electronically with all of their trading partners, compress their order-to-cash cycles and get products to customer faster.
"These days, companies want to focus on what they do best and offload the rest to save costs," said Steve Cochran, chief marketing officer, Inovis. "Inovis will free Affliction from the need to manage the daily headaches in the supply chain."
Affliction is using two services of the Inovis platform.
The Inovis Value Added Network (VAN) enables Affliction to reliably exchange purchase orders, advance shipment notices (ASN), invoices and other electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions with trading partners.
Inovis Catalogue is a hosted service that enables Affliction to exchange product information with retailers, ensuring always-accurate content is available in online stores, Affliction flagship stores and retailers like Nordstrom. Inovis Catalogue is the largest data sync platform in retail, hosting 130 million items for 5,500 suppliers and retailers, including Macys and Dillards.
About Affliction Clothing
Affliction Clothing's ability to set the bar high in fashion is evident in its collection's indulgence of style and design, focus on quality, and its trademark series of divinely executed, dark and powerful themes. Affliction is a mainstay for the most elite athletes, heaviest bands, A-listers and the fashion conscious worldwide. Samples are available by request. (www.afflictionclothing.com).
About Inovis
Inovis offers software and services that enable companies to do business electronically across their entire trading community. Each day, over 20,000 companies across the globe rely on the Inovis platform to reliably send and receive purchase orders, synchronize data and manage exceptions in order to lower supply chain costs and get products to customers faster. Founded in 1983, the company is based in Atlanta, Georgia and has offices across the United States, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit www.inovis.com or email info@inovis.com.
