Fibre Fashion

Information Management System

By : ______

Introduction of the System

Information Systems for Design and Clothing Industry combines trends in information systems.
The fashion and apparel industry is rapidly growing. In support of fashion business operations,
computerized information systems are important and the latest advances in social media, and
e-commerce technologies are all behind groundbreaking industry trade initiatives.

These information systems helps in storing data in a comprehensive and sophisticated manner,
makes the process of searching convenient and helps in business growth. With such
information, a company can analyze how certain actions affected the business as well as
prepare cost estimates and forecasts. Through such an information system, organizations can
compete in the market in a better way and get their share easily. Once developed information
systems pay a lot more in return

Issues fashion industry facing

The need for such systems is felt due to various reasons that includes following:

Fragmented information – scattered information in various excel sheets or files creates mess
and reduces efficiency. In this way, data is inconsistent and hard to dove-tail.

Data duplication is another issue, as normally we cannot impose primary key and other
constraints therefore, duplicative data may exist that can increase the size of data and also
creates ambiguities.

Due to non-availability of such constraints, irrelevant data may also exist in the spread sheets.
Data searching issues are also there as there is no proper indexing on the spread sheet
columns.
Such system do not support for rules and regulations of the domain and industry. Fashion
industry have its own norms which must be maintained with the help of technology. To convert
a customer into a regular customer, Excel do not have sufficient features e.g. managing sale and
returns, offers on specific brands according to seasons etc.

In Excel, data is presented in the form of texts and numbers. Whereas, other applications
converts such number and texts in to understandable statistics and attractive charts and graphs
etc. This actually helps the top management and policy makers to devise future plans and
marketing strategy.

Lack of data format to produce reports for management and ultimately all this is wasteless
when you want to plan for future activities.

Need of Information System in Fashion Industry

Computerized information systems are essential to support fashion business operations and
recent developments in social media, mobile commerce models, radio frequency identification
(RFID) technologies, and ERP systems are all driving innovative business measures in the
industry. Information system is a dire need of fashion industry to compete in the market.
Organizations want to excel and grow and it cannot be achieved without the use of latest
technologies and gadgets.

Fashion industry needs to manage their clients in appropriate manner. Managing customers
means managing outlets, brands, designs, sizes and colors in efficient manner. To retain the
customers, increase the sale, expand the business, and make future predictions, reliable and
efficient information system is necessary.

What we have for you?

Here we proposed a web portal replacing traditional manual working with automated latest
technologies. This system is called Fibre Fashion Information Management System. This
System will be developed to cover all the major and minor functional and non-functional
requirements of a complete online fashion business. It will provide large data storage options,
secure data and efficient and updated reports which may help in devising business growth
plans, HR plans and marketing plans.

What IMS Offers in terms of functional requirements?

The key feature of Fibre Fashion Information Management System are User Friendly Interface,
Ease of customization, Monitoring of the business, Business growth, and Better future
predictions with reports. Manger of the system may be able to deal with multiple outlets,
vendors, customers, brands, sizes and colors at the same time. Proposed system is supported
with SQL Server database which is considered to be excellent for medium sized organizations.

User Friendly Interface

Proposed system offers attractive and user friendly front end where user of the system can
interact in easy manner. Data will be entered with the single click and hardly needs to enter
data with keyboard. Proper validation checks are implemented to stop the user entering wrong
data.

Ease of customization

Reports may be generated in multiple forms e.g. textual format, tabular format and graphical
format. Alerts can be enabled and disabled as per requirement and for specific offer, season or
brand.

Monitoring of the business

With the help storing related data, lesser redundancy, and duplication, accurate data may be
generated to monitor the business.

Business growth

Efficient and accurate data will help in future planning and marketing strategy formulation
which will ultimately help in business growth.

Better future predictions with reports

Data helps in proper planning if it is stored in appropriate manner. Proposed system will allow
the management to compare statistics and plan for future.

What IMS Offers in terms of non-functional requirements?

In parallel to functional requirements, this system fully considered the non-functional
requirements. Hence this system is efficient and reliable, provides improved data and system
security, optimized data storage and Support for data recovery. With the help of SQL Server
backup of the data may be obtained on regular basis in shape of full or incremental. In case of
any data loss or system crash, data may be restored from backup file. Data may be protected
with login password and multifactor authentication system.

Storage: With Microsoft SQL Server, you don't need to have a different datastore of the same
database if you are using a different device. This allows you to easily and efficiently manage
your data with minimal troubleshooting and maintenance costs. Hence, you can save time and
work on other important aspects of your business.

Recovery: In the event of a power outage or server failure, data can become corrupted, which is

a big problem for businesses with little or no backups. Microsoft SQL Server eliminates the risk

of data loss with data recovery and recovery features. As a result, you have more peace of mind

knowing that your data is protected with frequent caching, log files, and backups no matter what

happens to your server.

Data security: One of the main goals of Microsoft SQL Server is to secure your database,

especially with the Microsoft SQL Server Database Administration Service. This software allows

you to work with a table structure that links functions and data elements to help protect the data

you have. For databases that contain customer information and other sensitive data, the security

and integrity of the database is imperative.

Customization: Unlike other database management software, installing and configuring

Microsoft SQL Server is easier. You don't need a special set of tools to install the software, and

the updates are completely automatic. You can also install other components to modify your

company software without any complicated process. So if you are looking for user-friendly

database management software, then Microsoft SQL Server is for you.