Axind SCM

Source smarter. Deliver on time, every time.

From first sample to final shipment — one connected system to manage orders, vendors and delivery, with full visibility at every stage.
Hours → mins
Order processing time per batch — full revision tracking, zero manual re-entry.

Simple Approach Ltd., Hong Kong

5–7 days
To go live — including remote teams across five countries set up simultaneously.

Techno Design GmbH, Germany

20+
Countries running Axind SCM across global sourcing operations worldwide.

Axind global customer base

Sourcing operations break down when nothing is connected.

Orders arrive as PDFs. Shipments live in spreadsheets. Vendor performance is a gut feeling. By the time the full picture assembles, the moment to act has passed.

01

Order errors that reach the factory floor

Buyer orders retyped by hand introduce mistakes at every step. Revisions arrive highlighted in PDFs — easy to miss until the factory has already built to the wrong spec.

02

You find out a vendor is behind when it's too late

Capacity tracked informally. POs managed over email. Delays surface in a status call — by which point resequencing costs more than fixing it would have a week earlier.

03

Quality and compliance managed reactively

QC issues surface at inspection, not upstream. Shipment delays are discovered at the port. In sourcing, the later a problem surfaces, the more it costs to fix.

04

No single picture of what's happening across your order book

Purchase data in one system. Shipments tracked separately. Vendor performance assessed informally. Nobody has a complete, current view — and decisions get made on incomplete information.

One system. Every vendor. No blind spots.

01

Every order enters the system accurately — automatically.

Buyer PDFs are extracted and imported directly. No retyping, no missed revisions, no spec errors reaching the factory floor.

02

You find out a vendor is behind while you can still act.

Live capacity tracking and automated alerts flag delays as they develop — not in a status call after the window to fix them has closed.

03

Quality issues caught upstream, not at the port.

Inspections, approvals and compliance checks are built into the workflow — so problems surface before they become shipment delays.

04

One live view across your entire order book.

Every order, every vendor, every shipment — tracked in real time from one system. No more assembling the picture from three different sources.
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Seven modules. One sourcing system.

Every stage of the sourcing process, from first sample to final invoice.

Sample development

Manage sample variants in an Excel-like layout. Create articles from approved samples.

Slideshow review

Review developments in sequence — approve, reject and comment as you go.

Sampling dashboard

Conversion rates, cost tracking and delivery performance across your full pipeline at a glance.

Variant management

Track sample variants across colourways and size breaks from development through approval.

Product catalogues

Centralised product records with custom categories and lifecycle stages configured to your business.

Fabric & trims research

Manage fabric and trim options against styles — link materials to BOMs and track sourcing decisions from one place.

Bill of Materials

Comprehensive BOM with colour and size dependencies. Excel-editable.

Wholesale / retail pricing

Manage wholesale and retail price points per style — linked to costing data and updated as the BOM evolves.

Barcode generation

Generate and manage barcodes and labelling data per style and colourway — ready for direct system import.

Techpack templates

Standardise techpack creation with templates that automatically populate new styles. AI generates techpacks on demand.

Purchase orders

Place and manage online POs per vendor. Each vendor sees only their own orders.

Purchase budgets

Set budgets and sales targets per customer with monthly breakdowns. Track actuals against plan.

LC management

Manage letters of credit placed on vendors, tracked against purchase orders.

Vendor sales contracts

Formalise and track vendor agreements within the same system as your orders.

Shipment management

Monitor shipment details per PO and per SKU — from production through to delivery.

Vendor invoicing

Manage vendor invoices against purchase orders and shipments in one place.

Multiple warehouses & locations

Stock management across warehouses with location tracking within each facility.

Goods receipt, dispatch & transfer

Full goods movement tracking from supplier delivery to store dispatch.

Ideal stock management

Target stock levels by season, location or event – tracked against actuals.

Picking, packing & carton management

Structured warehouse operations from pick to pack with full carton-level detail.

Returns management

Returns tracked across all channels — reason, condition and resolution visible in one place.

Stock adjustments & stock-taking

Cycle counts and full stock-takes inside the same system as your live inventory.

Vendor database

Contacts, bank details, compliance status and tier relationships for sustainability and traceability.

Capacity management

Vendors define available capacity by product group and month. Reserve and track usage in real time.

RFQ management

Private or public RFQs with automatic response tabulation. Al identifies the best quotation.

Shared product development

Collaborate on specs, approvals and documents in a shared environment. Everything on record, nothing lost in inboxes.

Knowledge base

Share and track revisions and signing of compliance documents with vendors.

Vendor order portal

Vendors access their own POs, shipments and WebTnA timelines through a dedicated portal.

Inspection scheduling

Schedule garment and fabric inspections against styles, vendors and production stages.

Defect management

Track defects and corrective action plans through to resolution, with full audit history.

Compliance scorecarding

Define scorecards and evaluate vendors regularly. Compare compliance scores across your network.

Approvals and testing

Lab dips, size-set approvals and garment tests recorded per vendor and production stage.

Product dashboard

Live view of development status across styles, seasons and product groups.

Purchase dashboard

Order volume, value and status across buyers, vendors and delivery windows.

Quality dashboard

Inspection performance and defect trends across your full vendor base.

WebTnA dashboards

Timeline performance and milestone tracking integrated directly from WebTnA.

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Custom dashboards, scheduled reports and self-designed data exports.

Performance reporting

Shipped per month, on-time rate, per vendor, per customer – generated automatically from live data.

AI built into every stage of the sourcing workflow.

No separate licence. No separate login. Every AI tool works inside SCM from day one.

Generates costings across every sourcing city.

Benchmarked costings from a techpack or product image, feeding directly into SCM’s supplier engagement workflow. Vendor conversations start from a solid, data-backed number.

Orders into your system, instantly.

Automatically import extracted buyer order data directly into SCM’s order management module — eliminating the manual re-entry step between order receipt and production planning.

Specs live in your system from day one.

Pull specifications, measurements and product data directly from techpacks into SCM. No manual re-keying, no spec interpretation errors — the data arrives structured and ready to use.

Communicate across languages without the lag.

Translate buyer communications, supplier messages and documents in real time. Operate across Bangladesh, China, India, Pakistan and beyond — without language barriers slowing your supply chain.

What sourcing teams using SCM have built.

Two operations. Different scale and geography. Same result: full visibility, complete control.

Hong Kong — Global

Simple Approach Ltd.

Hours → mins

Order processing time per batch — with complete revision tracking and zero manual re-entry.

1,000+

1000+ orders processed per year via AI-Order Importer

5

Markets served: UK, EU, USA, Canada and Asia

Full

Visibility and control over all order revisions — changes tracked automatically

Zero

Manual re-keying between buyer document and production workflow.

The AI-Order Importer has revolutionized the way we handle order information — saving us time and effort while enhancing our productivity and accuracy.

CFO & COO - Simple Approach Ltd. (PDS Group)

Germany — Multi-country

Techno Design GmbH

360°

Visibility on every article and order detail — across remote teams in China, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

40–100

Manual orders per week eliminated for buyer KMO (Klingel)

5–7 days

From base setup to live — including all remote locations

Weekly

Customer review meetings now run from live system data

Custom

Configured to Techno Design’s exact workflows and requirements

Axind is a holistic solution to an effective order management system and has made data handling very easy and transparent. We have 360-degree visibility on every detail of an article and order — this has helped us tremendously to improve our performance and service to our customers.

Head of Product & Design - Techno Design GmbH

Connects to the full Axind system.

Use SCM standalone, or as the sourcing core of a fully connected platform.

Axind PLM+
Product data and techpacks from PLM+ flow directly into SCM. No re-entry between development and sourcing.
Axind WebTnA
SCM purchase orders and shipments connect into shared WebTnA timelines. Every milestone visible to every team.
Axind OMNI

Sourcing and inventory data connects to retail, wholesale and e-commerce operations in real time.

Axind AI tools

AI-Order-Importer, AI-Techpack-Importer, AI-Translator and AI-Costing — all built into the SCM workflow.

See SCM for your operation in 30 minutes.

Your order workflow, your vendor structure, your AI tools setup. No generic walkthrough. No sales pressure.

Pricing is tailored to your team size and modules. Most teams are live within weeks, not months.

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