"TradeStone Software’s Unified Buying Process exemplifies our goal with this year’s ‘100’ of a technology that is at the forefront of innovation."

"Our goal is to find new and innovative technologies that allow our designers and merchants to do what they do best - design and create exciting products. We chose TradeStone in order for our merchants to efficiently communicate and collaborate with our overseas offices and suppliers around the world."

"TradeStone is recognized as the definitive Product Lifecycle Management solution for retailers and product development organizations."

"Boots is an international organization with outlets across Europe and Asia. Now, through the merger with Alliance Unichem, the enlarged group is primed to expand into new geographic markets. Our need for a sourcing solution that can unify processes between suppliers, retailers and freight service providers across the Far East is paramount to our success. After an exhaustive search, we selected the TradeStone Suite because of its ability to bring every stakeholder onto one easy to use system regardless of language barriers, time differences and processes variations."

"Key to selecting any software for our business is a deep understanding of its technical underpinnings and scalability to support our own growth. But even more impressive is the TradeStone Suite’s flexibility and built-in best practices. This is truly software that merchants love."

"On our base of around 600 suppliers we now have the ability to break out the costing for a wide range of sizes on our requests for quote. With this delineated costing information, we’re able to make better buying decisions for our own customers based on cost, quality, and time to market."

"Brand management is the heart and soul of our overall strategy, so we focus on having the best and most complete portfolio of leading action sports brands. Key to this brand management strategy is utilizing our own proprietary brands to respond to new fashion trends and expanding the breadth of our merchandise assortment and price points. TradeStone and the Unified Buying Process will play a central role in building on this strategy."

"With the increase in consumer pressure and competitiveness on the High Street across Europe, we’re seeing retailers shift from two main seasons of fashion collections to six, nine, and twelve per year, rolling new merchandise into the business on an almost continuous basis. This can be very taxing on the supply chain, especially if it is stretched out into the Far East, across several countries and product groups. As in the case with J D Williams, the best way to merge global sourcing initiatives with fast fashion imperatives is to unify the buying process and the systems used to manage it. Retailers need to streamline their buying process and not over-complicate it."

"The consumer electronics industry moves at a rapid pace with new product introductions launching throughout the calendar year, so it is mission critical that our sourcing managers, product managers and buyers are all working from the same information as our manufacturers around the globe. We are excited to use the solution to have tighter supply chain coordination and collaboration with our key vendors."

"We typically send product requests to several manufacturers in China, then work with them on designs. This includes going back and forth on such cost variables as materials, manufacturing and shipping. We then go through testing and revisions, all coordinated with our customers. The Software as a Service version of the TradeStone Suite enables us to gain the power of enterprise-class software at a much better price point. We now have the tools to make our production faster and our lives easier."

"During a focused assessment completed in 2004, U.S. Customs cited as a best practice American Eagle's ability to perform this three-way validation [1) country-of-origin; 2) product classification; and 3) valuation]. It is one of several best practices that could factor into American Eagle's ascent to Tier 3 status in the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program"

"Within one week of production, the TradeStone Suite deliveredsignificant ROI, by eliminating thousands of faxes and uncovering a freight discrepancy that was leading to excessive shipping costs. Moreover,working directly with suppliers to cut lead times has slashed inventory from our supply chain, representing millions of dollars in additional savings."

"We’re very excited to get our sourcing department using the TradeStone Unified Buying Process. TradeStone’s No-Training design philosophy is important to our team who want to be up and running quickly and gain access to even more suppliers around the world." Zavada continued, "TradeStone understands how our supplier lead times and seasonal sales patterns can impact our balance sheet. We want to start making up that time with the supplier collaboration features and by cutting out redundant data entry."

"We want to offer our customers the best merchandise from around the world, with consistent quality and good prices. Investing in the TradeStone Suite is part of our continued drive to improve our sourcing capabilities and services."

"We found whatwe were looking for in global sourcing in the TradeStone Suite. Through its intuitive, Web-based application,our purchasing groups in Asia and Germanywere finally united with one process for product planning refinement, procurement, and track and trace. Since implementation,we’ve beenable tobetter understandprofitable product mixes, and focusour Buyers and Merchandisers on what they do best: putting together collections and product portfolios that will drive store traffic and, ultimately, revenues."

"TradeStone‘s software suite stood apart from the pack, helping us to leverage our existing IT infrastructure and business processes while enabling quick, easy and seamless collaboration with our international suppliers."

"TradeStone is one of the most important changes to the merchandising process we have ever implemented at the company...And it is better than I could have thought...it is a wow...it streamlines the whole p.o. process, allows merchants to understand and analyze their businesses better, eliminates errors caused by mountains of Excel spreadsheets and ultimately reduces data entry and training hours."

"Next to product, this (TradeStone) is the most exciting thing I’ve ever seen."