NOW ERP System for Textile & Apparel Manufacturers
NOW ERP is a modular, industry-specific management system designed for textile and apparel companies of any size.
It covers every phase of textile production—from raw materials to finished goods—helping manufacturers reduce costs, shorten delivery times, improve planning, and increase traceability.
Our Solution: NOW ERP System SC
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NOW is a family of management software composed of innovative functions and modules developed to help textile and fashion companies, regardless of their size.
A solution capable of meeting the new demands of the sector such as a wide variety of products, short delivery times and lower costs. Datatex NOW ERP is characterized by great flexibility, able to adapt to every aspect of the business processes.
Supply Chain | Scheduling | IOT | Products | Finance & HR | Web Application
NOW ERP Modules Overview
NOW is organized into modules covering core operations, extended functions, and focused applications.
Click on a module in the grid below to explore it in more detail.
Complementary app
Now extensions
Now Base modules
Specific app
NOW Base Modules
NOW Extensions
Specific App
Complementary App
Core functions for planning, production, costing, sales, purchasing, and inventory & logistics, forming the operational backbone of NOW.
Additional capabilities that enhance the core system, including finance, quality management, portals, workflow, human resources, plant maintenance, and business intelligence.
Focused applications that address specialized needs such as inspection, cut optimization, machine capacity and queue management, product data management, and similar targeted processes.
Mobile and integrated tools that extend NOW into areas like CRM, sales activity, and real-time operational monitoring.
Why Textile Companies Need a Specialized ERP
Only an ERP system built around textile workflows can help manage the variations, processes, and traceability demands unique to this industry.
Textile & Apparel Industry Challenges
Only a software solution that recognizes and works with unique features can provide effective management tools for the textile and apparel industry.
Why is “from one to many” a challenge?
The textile process starts from a small set of raw materials but produces a large number of product variations. This creates high variability in planning, sequencing, and stock management.
Why are processes so complex?
Each production phase—spinning, weaving, dyeing, finishing, or packaging—has specific parameters and dependencies. Coordinating these steps requires a system that understands textile workflows end-to-end.
Why is material traceability tough?
Fibers, yarns, lots, and batches move through many operations, often changing form. Tracking these transitions accurately is essential for quality, compliance, and customer requirements.
Why are lines unsynchronized?
Machines run at different speeds, capacities, and batch sizes. As orders change, routings shift, making it difficult to keep all lines aligned without real-time planning support.
Why are units & inventory tricky?
Textile materials don’t share a universal unit of measure. Inventory may be counted in cones, rolls, pallets, meters, batches, or containers, requiring flexible stock and costing structures.
Why are deliveries so tight?
Production flows are long, but customers expect short lead times. Planning must balance partially known demand with capacity, sequence changes, and short time-to-market expectations.
From one to many
The textile industry uses a few raw materials to manufacture countless finished products.
Diversity and complexity of processes
Highly specialized phases where each process from spinning to packaging has its own specific production parameters.
Traceability
Tracing a particular fiber or yarn lot across the manufacturing processes starting from a finished good.
Unsynchronized production line
Machines with different cycle times and batch sizes can make scheduling a challenge as the actual routings may change from order to order.
Units of measure & inventories
There is no unit of measure appliable to the entire supply chain. Multiple inventory levels from batches, containers, pallets, to a roll, a cone of yarn, etc.
Short delivery time
Long production processes and short delivery time requires planning concepts driven from a partially defined demand and not from a finished item.
How is the NOW application built?
NOW uses an object-oriented structure that connects every phase of operations. It supports process integration, planning, and real-time control from the first material input to the final finished product. The system collects, analyses, and monitors data at each step.
How does the modular approach work?
Companies can start with the modules they need and expand over time. The system adapts to vertical producers as well as specialized businesses, allowing each organization to scale functionality as operations grow or new processes are added.
Which technology is the foundation?
NOW is developed on Jakarta EE with a 3-tier architecture, designed for flexibility and compatibility. It works with major databases, runs from any browser, and lets companies choose their server and middleware environment without locking into a specific vendor.
Compatible today with following Application Server & Database Server:
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NOW Advantages
With Datatex you get a dedicated platform with functions that have been developed and grown as a result of feedback from people in the industry that use the software to run their business. Every significant step in the textile and apparel supply chain is fully catered for in a Datatex ERP solutions.
Latest technology
We take care that the solutions remain in step with the latest technology developments. Our current software uses advanced Web standards like Jakarta EE (Java EE), web services and XML to let users take advantages of the latest advances in supply-chain integration and IT technology making them true Industry 4.0.
Costs
The costs of development are shared across the Datatex user base. This means that the total cost of ownership of a Datatex solution in the medium to long term is well below that of a bespoke system or a customized general ERP package.
VS Bespoke System
As your business grows or conditions change, over time the cost of maintaining and upgrading the system can get seriously out of hand. In addition, our product development skills ensure that each new release is optimized and integrated in a way that no recycled solution can be – even if it claims to be a complete software ‘package’.
VS Standard ERP
The other alternative is to use a standard ERP application, either customizing it for the textile and apparel sector or using the add-ons that are available. Both approaches have their problems. The textile and apparel industry has a number of unique features that set it apart from other manufacturing sectors. Customizing a general ERP solution for textile use is therefore an extremely demanding and difficult task.
Often the people doing the customization don’t have specific expertise for the textile sector limiting its usability. Using add-ons can provide solutions with a better fit to the needs of your business. The problems arises when the upgrade of the basic ERP package is due- the add-ons must be rewritten too. You are basically having to manage two software packages – with the same kind of inflated maintenance costs we mentioned earlier.
NOW ERP System Advantages
With Datatex you get a dedicated platform with functions developed and refined through real industry feedback. Every significant step in the textile and apparel supply chain is fully supported within Datatex ERP solutions, ensuring the system grows alongside the needs of the companies that use it.
How does NOW keep technology up to date?
We take care that the solutions remain in step with the latest technology developments. Our current software uses advanced Web standards like Jakarta EE (Java EE), web services and XML to let users take advantages of the latest advances in supply-chain integration and IT technology making them true Industry 4.0.
How does NOW help reduce long-term costs?
Development costs are shared across the entire user base. This makes the overall ownership more predictable and significantly lower than maintaining a fully customized system or a heavily modified general-purpose package.
Why is NOW better than a bespoke system?
Custom solutions become difficult and expensive to maintain over time. With NOW, each release is designed, optimized, and integrated as part of the platform, ensuring that improvements apply to all users without costly re-engineering.
Why is NOW a better fit than a standard ERP?
Generic ERPs usually need extensive add-ons to support textile workflows. These add-ons often require rewriting during upgrades. NOW includes sector-specific functions by design, reducing customization work and keeping upgrades straightforward.
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