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TRIMIT is delivered through our own offices in Denmark, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, and the Netherlands (DK/DE/NO/CH/NL), and through certified partners in selected markets. TRIMIT is implemented on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and delivered as a cloud solution to support easier maintenance, updates, and scalability. For availability and delivery model in your country, check with our support team for your country.

TRIMIT adds a style-first approach to variant handling on top of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, so teams can work with styles and their colour/size structure without turning everything into manual SKU administration. In TRIMIT terminology, this is handled through Variant Dimensions (VarDim).

The customer value is practical and measurable:

• Faster wholesale ordering: Clean colour/size matrices support quicker ordering in B2B and Sales Agent, with fewer mistakes and less back-and-forth.

• Better data reuse across seasons: When variants are structured consistently, it is easier to carry styles forward, manage updates, and keep reporting comparable.

• Less manual maintenance: A style-driven model reduces time spent creating and correcting SKU-level data.

• More reliable planning and fulfilment: Consistent variant structures improve stock visibility and reduce operational friction from picking, transfers, and replenishment.

If you want guidance on the best setup for your assortment and workflows in DE/NL/DK/NO/CH, check with our support team for your country.

TRIMIT Collection Management lets you structure collections and delivery periods (drops) so you can control selling windows and assortment availability. This supports common fashion planning rhythms like pre-season selling and in-season replenishment, and helps teams keep seasonal assortments organised without relying on manual workarounds. In practice, it also makes it easier to align what is sellable in wholesale ordering and Sales Agent with the right season and delivery window.

What this typically enables:

• Clear assortment structure by season, drop, and status

• Better control of what is orderable in each selling window

• A cleaner handover from collection planning to order intake and execution in Business Central

TRIMIT supports forward orders (preorders) in B2B ordering and Sales Agent by structuring products and variants by selling and shipment windows. You can use Delivery Period Codes to present variants by shipment window/date, and control exactly what is visible for preorder using filtering tools.

Typical setup for preorders:

• Delivery Period Codes to show variants by shipment window/date.

• Tag Filters and Generic filtering in Categories to control which products are visible for preorder.

• Availability Threshold to hide exact stock (for example, showing “10+”) during preorder.

TRIMIT performs availability checks when an order is submitted in B2B ordering and Sales Agent. This helps reduce avoidable back-and-forth by preventing orders against unavailable stock for specific color/size combinations, depending on your setup.

The exact behavior (what is checked and how it is presented to the user) is configured as part of your solution, so check with our support team for your country if you want guidance on the right setup.

Yes. Online wholesale submissions can be created as quotes or sales orders depending on your setup in Business Central. This supports different wholesale workflows—for example, reviewing and approving key account orders before confirmation, or moving straight to order processing when the selling window is open.

If you want guidance on the best setup for your process, check with our support team for your country.

Yes. TRIMIT includes a built-in Product Data Management (PDM) solution for Masters (styles) that centralises product information and makes it easier to publish consistent style documentation. You can maintain content such as measurement charts, composition and care label information, sustainability certificates and documents, and attachments in one place. Using PDM Report Set, you can bundle multiple documents and output them to screen, PDF, or email, with configurable header fields per report.

TRIMIT supports Design BOM and Production BOM concepts with configuration logic, which fits apparel structures where a style is built from fabrics, trims, and accessories. This helps connect product definition to execution in Business Central—what needs to be planned, purchased, and produced.

The exact setup (including versions and traceability) depends on how you run product development and operations, so check with our support team for your country.

A common approach is to maintain fabrics, trims, and components as shared master data and reuse them across styles, rather than rebuilding the same information each season. This reduces duplicate maintenance and helps keep data consistent when you carry styles forward or update materials and suppliers.

How you govern changes and approvals depends on your internal rules and traceability needs, so check with our support team for your country.

TRIMIT supports flexible collection setup, so you can carry a style across multiple seasons while controlling what is orderable in each selling window. When materials change, the key decision is often whether the style should keep its commercial identity (carry-over) or be treated as a new version for planning, costing, and traceability.

If you need guidance on item numbering, versioning, and how material changes affect compliance or reporting, check with our support team for your country.

Yes. TRIMIT Fashion on Business Central supports multi-company and multi-market operations, including multiple languages, currencies, and VAT setups, and it can help you structure market-specific assortments for wholesale selling. For fashion groups, the practical value is being able to run consistent core processes while still adapting assortment visibility and sales flows per market.

Local requirements and setup choices can vary, so check with our support team for your country.

TRIMIT includes an External API designed to integrate Business Central + TRIMIT with other systems. In practice, integrations such as exchanging product and sales information with customers, retailers, and freight forwarders (including EDI) are delivered on a project basis, with formats and workflows defined per partner.

This supports common needs like sharing product and price/availability data, enabling order-related data flows, and connecting to partner systems where required. What’s included depends on scope and requirements, so we recommend a short scoping step to confirm data domains and triggers before implementation.

Common integration scenarios:

• Product and price/availability data to web or partner systems

• Order intake and order updates (and returns data flows where relevant)

• Exchanging product and sales information with customers/retailers/freight forwarders (often via EDI; project-based)

TRIMIT MRP can plan across multiple locations and create transfer orders to support replenishment and balancing between sites. For fashion and apparel teams, this matters when you need to build stock ahead of a season, replenish during the season, and shift inventory between warehouses to meet demand without overbuying.

A consistent planning setup inside Business Central helps you coordinate supply and movement across your warehouse network, rather than managing stock balancing manually.

If you want guidance on the best setup for your locations and workflows, check with our support team for your country.

Yes. TRIMIT Container Management supports container setup, nesting, tracking and tracing, posting, and updating orders. This helps you organise outbound shipments in a structured way and maintain clearer visibility from warehouse to delivery.

For fashion and apparel businesses shipping across multiple warehouses and markets, this can be especially useful when you consolidate orders and want more consistent operational control and follow-up.

If you want guidance on how this fits your shipping setup, check with our support team for your country.

Yes. TRIMIT offers a Web Returns module that supports return handling through online ordering, and inventory can be updated in real time on returns depending on your configuration.

For fashion and apparel teams, this helps reduce manual administration and keeps stock visibility more up to date during the season. If you want to confirm the best setup for your process, check with our support team for your country.

Yes. TRIMIT e-commerce can show sustainability/ESG information on the product details page in B2B ordering and Sales Agent, and the content is maintained in TRIMIT Business Central. You can also use sustainability-related tags to improve discovery, so customers can filter and search for ranges such as “Recycled” or “Organic.”

TRIMIT can support the display and discovery mechanisms, but the exact ESG data schema and field set depends on your setup. If you want help deciding what to store and where, check with our support team for your country.

TRIMIT supports market-specific pricing and campaign setups on top of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central through price list–based pricing and TRIMIT campaign pricing logic. This helps fashion teams manage different price structures, customer terms, and seasonal selling needs across multiple markets, while keeping pricing governance inside Business Central.

Typical approach:

• Set up market- and customer-specific price lists and campaign rules in Business Central + TRIMIT

• Align pricing with your seasonal setup (collections/drops) and wholesale ordering flows where relevant

• Confirm localization details (for example VAT handling and market-specific requirements) with your support team for your country

TRIMIT includes a built-in costing and calculation tool that works like a spreadsheet, letting you model cost and sales price scenarios per style — or even per colour/size variant — before a style is committed to production. Expected costs can include purchase price, freight, customs, and other landed costs, so you can see retail price, vendor markup, and your own margin in one view.

The exact cost structure and margin logic depend on how you set up your calculation templates, so check with our support team for your country if you want guidance on the right setup.

TRIMIT calculates available quantity from inventory, open sales orders, purchase orders, and production orders — including quotes and blanket orders — for a specific style, colour, or size. If stock isn't immediately available, the system shows the next availability, for example goods due in from a purchase order the following week, so wholesale customers get an accurate promise instead of a guess.

What this typically enables:

• Realistic delivery promises shown directly in the ordering matrix

• Availability reporting broken down by week or by document type (sales, purchase, production)

• Fewer overpromised orders during peak pre-season buying

When a style, colour, or size needs to be pulled from a collection — typically because pre-sales volume doesn't justify producing it — TRIMIT's item replacement functionality lets you swap it for another option, or remove it entirely, across a batch of existing sales orders in one action. The same tool can update prices, discounts, locations, and shipment dates on existing sales lines, or clean up leftover lines at the end of a collection.

The exact rules for which orders get updated automatically depend on your setup, so check with our support team for your country if you want guidance.

Yes. TRIMIT supports blanket orders for managing framework agreements with wholesale customers — individual sales orders deduct automatically against the agreed volume, giving you a running view of the agreement's status. On pricing, TRIMIT supports four campaign price types: a fixed campaign price, a percentage-based discount off the regular price, mix-and-match pricing across a group of items, and free-goods offers (for example, buy 3 pay for 2).

Also supported:

• Sales commission per salesperson, with different rates by customer or item group, and support for up to three salespeople per customer

• Bonus schemes that reward customers for reaching purchase thresholds by order, season, or collection

Exact setup depends on your commercial model, so check with our support team for your country.

Before picking begins, available stock has to be allocated across competing sales orders — including deciding how to split a shortage fairly. TRIMIT's allocation engine handles this with a configurable proposal that can be manually overridden, and generates picking documents that include only stock that's physically in the warehouse and not yet shipped. You can sequence picking by order date or by a defined delivery priority.

The exact allocation logic depends on how your business prioritises customers and orders, so check with our support team for your country.

TRIMIT offers two connected tools for order entry outside Business Central itself. The Sales Agent Portal is built for direct sales teams and agents — they can select their own customers or shops, place orders through a simple interface, see the latest items, customer history and availability, and register returns for their accounts. The B2B Webshop extends the same self-service model to wholesale customers and your own retail shops directly: 24/7 ordering, availability and delivery-time visibility, return registration, and back-in-stock subscriptions for items that are temporarily unavailable.

Which features are enabled for which user group depends on your setup, so check with our support team for your country.

When a claim is registered, TRIMIT pulls the original invoiced style, quantity, and price directly into the claim record and automatically re-applies the correct original price and discount — so nothing has to be looked up manually. Depending on the claim type, TRIMIT generates the matching document automatically: a credit memo for refunds, a return order for refunds-on-return, a sales order for replacements, or a repair document. Claims can be registered by the customer directly through the B2B Webshop or Sales Agent Portal, with communication on the claim's status handled through the same channels, and claim statistics available to track recurring issues by type.

Yes. Invoicing can be triggered as a truck is loaded, with documents generated and attached directly to the shipment. When one customer has multiple orders going out on the same shipment, consolidated invoicing merges them into a single invoice instead of one per order. For fashion groups with a central purchasing or production entity and separate sales entities across markets, TRIMIT's intercompany functionality gives cross-company stock visibility and includes a replication tool to copy style data between companies, so a new style only has to be set up once.

The right setup depends on how your group is structured, so check with our support team for your country.

TRIMIT's demand planning calculates seasonal and continuity styles separately, because they behave differently. Seasonal styles are typically planned once the pre-sales period closes, using confirmed order volumes. Never-Out-Of-Stock (NOOS) styles — items you always want in stock — are planned differently, combining actual sales with defined minimum stock levels, and can be recalculated as often as weekly rather than once per season.

The right planning horizon and frequency for each style type depends on your assortment strategy, so check with our support team for your country.

Yes. TRIMIT supports assortments — fixed packages of different variants of one style, such as a multi-size pack in a single colour, or a multi-colour pack in one size — that can be sold and ordered as a single unit across sales, purchase, production, and transfer orders, instead of entering every variant separately.

TRIMIT's Web Supplier portal gives your production suppliers direct, real-time access to the styles they're producing for you — including the latest specification changes from PDM as soon as they're entered. Purchase orders can also be generated directly from a sales order, useful for special or made-to-order items you want to track closely outside standard demand planning, and receiving can be posted directly against the purchase order with shortages and surpluses handled explicitly.

The exact access level and workflow for your suppliers depends on your setup, so check with our support team for your country if you want guidance.

Yes. TRIMIT's InSite portal gives a live reporting view based on open and posted sales orders — goods sold and goods still to be delivered — as an alternative to standard sales statistics. It can be configured to show the specific data points your team needs, set up directly inside TRIMIT Fashion.

The exact dashboards and data shown depend on your reporting needs, so check with our support team for your country if you want guidance on setup.

Yes. TRIMIT supports invoicing at the moment a truck is loaded, with invoice documents generated and attached directly to the shipment — useful for wholesale operations shipping frequently to multiple customers. On costing, unit cost can be calculated from last direct cost, from the bill of materials, or from a full custom calculation model, with indirect costs like freight, duty, and handling tracked and provisioned separately.

The right invoicing trigger and cost model for your operation depends on your setup, so check with our support team for your country.

New styles can be built from scratch using a guided creation wizard that asks only for the essential information, or copied from an existing style — including images, materials, and grading — cutting new style setup down to color and size selection. A configurable workflow engine then tracks each style through its design lifecycle, and the same workflow logic can be applied to sales, purchase, and production orders.

Exact workflow steps and statuses depend on how your design process is structured, so check with our support team for your country.

TRIMIT stores a full measurement chart per style and size, with grading — enter the measurements once for a base size (for example Medium) and grade the rest automatically. Multiple measurement versions can be saved and compared, which is useful for tracking sample iterations against the final production spec, and grading can be reused when creating new styles as copies.

When several styles share the same raw material, TRIMIT's Group Master links the colour options of the style to the colour options of the material. If you add or remove a colour on the raw material, every style using it gets its colour options adjusted automatically, instead of requiring manual updates style by style.