The first implementations of ERP5 have been achieved in the clothing industry.

In this sector, companies have to face the globalization. They are working with partners in low labor cost countries and have to manage a complex supply chain. They also have to deal with numerous dimensions of variation of their products (color, sizes,...) and have to create several collections of new products every year. This process involves designers, members of research departments and sales managers and needs to be well organised. Concerning the manufacturing, clothing companies are often used to managing the dye bath of the fabrics they are transforming and want to have complete traceability of the produced goods.

With its original workflow engine which allows to organise the collaboration of large teams around product data management, with its generic integration of multiple dimensions of variations for any ressource which reduces the cost of the design of bills of materials and operations, with its manufacturing traceabilty features which link the flows of consumed and produced items, with its international web based interface which allows to use the software over a VPN connection and to give access to the information system to commercial partners, ERP5 meets the specific needs of the clothing industry and still offers a reduced total cost of ownership.