Infor®, the industry cloud company, announced that Anne Fontaine, a women’s ready-to-wear and accessories brand known for its white blouses marketed with noble materials (such as silk, lace, linen or cotton) and numerous finishing details, has just opted for Infor CloudSuite Fashion, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution specifically designed for the fashion, textile and luxury industries. This choice is part of a vast project to modernize the company’s information system, with the aim of introducing OMS (Order Management System) functionalities, i.e. automated tracking and management of sales, orders, inventory and order fulfillment, all with a view to creating a truly omnichannel customer experience.
The company is present in Asia, the United States and Europe through subsidiaries and some 50 boutiques, mainly in its own name. All of Anne Fontaine’s creations are designed in France, in the founder’s Honfleur workshop, and each of her inspirations begins with a simple sketch on paper. Capturing the elegance and sophistication of Parisian women, her creations are characterized by impeccable attention to detail, exceptional materials and flawless craftsmanship.
Anne Fontaine called on Prodware, a true partner in the digital transformation of companies, to identify all of the company’s needs and select various suppliers. The Infor solution was chosen at the end of 2022, in view of its functional richness and its ability to evolve in the multi-tenant cloud for greater modularity and interoperability (notably with marketplaces). The rollout of Infor CloudSuite Fashion is scheduled for the end of 2023 in France and the United States, then progressively in other countries, all within a high-availability cloud environment hosted by AWS (Amazon Web Services). ELCIMAÏ Group, a long-standing Infor integrator partner, will conduct the implementation.
Philippe Maillet, Infor’s sales director for channels in France & Iberia, commented, “Infor’s solution enables fashion brands to manage all their activities — accounting, production, purchasing, inventory and warehouse management — within a single, integrated solution and, de facto, to manage all their intersubsidiary flows, as well as localization and compliance obligations at country level.”
The company is also working on other parallel projects, such as implementing a new customer relationship management (CRM) system, and developing interfaces between Infor’s solution and other applications: These include C-DESIGN PLM software (which organizes product development data into a single, reliable interface for monitoring the progress of a collection), the Magento e-commerce platform, Yourcegid Retail Y2 store management and omnichannel control software, and, eventually, a solution for dematerializing invoices.
