Business Central ERP for Fashion Houses in Lebanon
Beirut is a global name in fashion, from couture and bridal ateliers to ready-to-wear labels selling worldwide. Behind each collection is complex operational work: hundreds of size and colour variants, fabric bought in foreign currencies, made-to-measure orders, and stock spread across boutiques, wholesale partners, and online stores. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central brings design-to-sale operations into one system, so you know what every piece costs, where it is, and what it earns.
What Business Central Does for Fashion Houses
Size, Colour & Style Variants
Manage every style as one item with its full size and colour matrix. Each variant has its own barcode, stock level, and sales history, and you avoid creating thousands of separate item cards.
Seasons & Collections
Tag products by season, collection, and drop. Plan buying per collection, compare sell-through between seasons, and see which lines to reorder, mark down, or discontinue.
Production & Atelier Costing
For houses that design and produce, track fabric, trims, and labour on every production order. You get the true landed cost of each piece, including work done by outside workshops.
Boutiques, Wholesale & E-commerce
Run flagship boutiques, concessions, wholesale accounts, and your online store on one inventory. Stock moves to wherever the demand is, and every channel reports into the same P&L.
Pricing, Markdowns & Promotions
Manage price lists per channel and currency, schedule end-of-season markdowns, and run promotions with clear margin visibility, so a sale does not wipe out the season's profit.
Imports & Multi-Currency
Buy fabric in EUR, sell in USD, and pay local costs in LBP. Business Central handles multi-currency purchasing, landed costs, and customs charges so every item carries its real cost.
The Fashion Challenge: Margin Lives in the Details
In fashion, profit is won or lost on small numbers: the sell-through of one size in one colour, the true cost of hand embroidery, or a markdown started a week too early. Spreadsheets and basic retail software cannot show these numbers reliably, especially when a house sells through boutiques, wholesale, and e-commerce at the same time.
Business Central connects buying, production, inventory, and sales at variant level. Creative directors can see which styles sell, merchandisers can replenish by size, and finance can measure the real margin on each collection, using the same live data.
Fashion Businesses We Work With
- →Haute couture and bridal houses with made-to-measure orders
- →Ready-to-wear designer labels with boutiques and wholesale accounts
- →Multi-brand fashion retailers and franchise operators
- →Footwear, accessories, and jewellery brands with large variant ranges
- →Fashion importers and distributors supplying regional retailers
- →Direct-to-consumer brands selling online and through pop-ups
Fashion ERP: Common Questions
Can Business Central handle sizes and colours without thousands of item cards?
Yes. Business Central uses item variants, so one style holds its full size and colour matrix. Each variant has its own barcode, stock, and sales history. For larger fashion retailers we add LS Central, which provides a dedicated variant matrix, replenishment by size curve, and POS built on the same database.
We design and produce our own collections. Can we track production costs?
Yes. Production orders and bills of materials capture fabric, trims, embroidery, and labour for every piece, including work sent to outside workshops. Made-to-measure and bridal orders can be costed one by one, so you know the margin on each gown, not just an average across the collection.
Does it connect to our boutiques' POS and our online store?
Yes. With LS Central, boutique POS runs on the same system as your back office, with real-time stock and sales. Business Central also integrates with Shopify and other e-commerce platforms, so online orders, stock levels, and customers stay in sync across every channel.
How long does a fashion ERP implementation take?
A single-brand house with a few boutiques typically goes live in 10 to 14 weeks. Multi-brand retailers with production, wholesale, and e-commerce usually take 14 to 22 weeks. We schedule go-live between seasons so the next collection launches on the new system.