Smart Red - Uniform Management System

In the world of large-scale , , and supply, one size doesn't fit all. The more industries you are involved in, the more diverse your client base and the more services you offer means that it can be hard to accommodate everyone, without changing your business. Clients in the uniform market are ever increasingly relying on modern technology to streamline their process as well as using software to enhance their service offering.

Introducing Supplier Premium, our most advanced and customisable System. This cutting-edge uniform management platform is designed specifically for market-leading suppliers regularly targeting accounts with 1000+ wearers, offering unparalleled functionality, customisation and flexibility to help you win both public and private sector tenders and stand out in your sales process.

It goes beyond the scope of our Supplier Lite and Supplier Plus platforms, offering a comprehensive solution for suppliers with the most complex client needs.

Read all about its launch in our latest article.

Supplier Premium: Enterprise Level Uniform Management for Industry Leaders Introducing Smart Red Supplier Premium - the most comprehensive, customisable and integration-ready uniform management system in the market

Smart Red Supplier Plus is a system designed for entreprenurial targeting the mid-market uniform wearers.

Its flexible uniform management functionality has been carefully curated over the last 10 years to accommodate all common requests from uniform suppliers who target the 100 – 1000 wearer market.

Supplier Plus is more than just a uniform management system; it's a comprehensive solution built to help uniform suppliers expand their reach, streamline operations, and compete for larger contracts and tenders This modern, modular platform is engineered to be future-proof, ensuring that your investment continues to deliver value as your business grows and evolves.

Read our latest article to find out how it could potentially help your business grow!

Introducing Supplier Plus: The UMS for Entreprenurial Suppliers Smart Red launches Supplier Plus. Built for Small-to-Medium uniform suppliers, it has all the functionality required to elevate uniform suppliers.

Introducing our newest platform - Smart Red for SME Uniform Suppliers.

In the current competitive business landscape, standing out is crucial. Relying on high-volume, low-margin orders often proves insufficient for differentiation, and it’s hard to build a small business this way. While exceptional service is valuable, it alone may not provide a decisive edge. Companies must find innovative ways to distinguish themselves beyond these traditional approaches.

This is where modern technology comes into its own. A system like a - Uniform Management System - can allow even smaller to take advantage of cutting-edge functionality to offer something ‘extra’ to clients, who will see the true value of it.

We're excited to introduce Supplier Lite, our new Platform designed specifically for small uniform suppliers servicing small to medium-sized businesses. Supplier Lite is perfect for uniform suppliers who primarily serve businesses with 100+ wearers (it can accommodate up to 500 wearers). It's the perfect solution for businesses that need a simple, yet effective uniform management platform.

Read our latest article to find out its key features and how they could help your growing business.

Introducing Supplier Lite – The Uniform Management Platform for SMEs Introducing Supplier Lite - the Uniform Management System specifically built for SME uniform suppliers

In today's business landscape, large organisations require sophisticated tools to manage their uniform needs effectively. We're proud to introduce the Buyer Premium Uniform Management Platform, a comprehensive solution designed for businesses with over 1000 employees. Building on the success of our Platform, Buyer Premium offers enhanced features to handle the intricacies of larger, multi-faceted organisations.

Expanding on Buyer Lite's Foundation
Buyer Premium incorporates all the core functionalities of Buyer Lite, including setting employee allowances, order processing, approvals and basic reporting. However, it goes several steps further to address the unique challenges faced by larger enterprises.

Read our latest article to find out how it could benefit your business.

Spotlight on Buyer Premium- Smart Red’s Uniform Management System The Smart Red Buyer Premium Platform is a Uniform Management system for large organisations bringing efficiencies and costs savings in-house.

In today's business landscape, large organisations require sophisticated tools to manage their uniform needs effectively. We're proud to introduce the Buyer Premium Uniform Management Platform, a comprehensive solution designed for businesses with over 1000 employees. Building on the success of our Platform, Buyer Premium offers enhanced features to handle the intricacies of larger, multi-faceted organisations.

Expanding on Buyer Lite's Foundation
Buyer Premium incorporates all the core functionalities of Buyer Lite, including setting employee allowances, order processing, approvals and basic reporting. However, it goes several steps further to address the unique challenges faced by larger enterprises.

Read our latest article to find out how it could benefit your business.

https://www.smart-red.co.uk/news/uniform-management/272/spotlight-on-buyer-premium-smart-reds-uniform-management-system

Bringing in house - introducing our Buyer Lite platform.

You may have seen a few weeks ago we launched 5 separate Smart Red - Uniform Management System platforms.

We did this to streamline our offering - instead of building each platform from scratch, we have put specific functionality into specific platforms, tailored to the end user, so it’s an ‘off-the-shelf’ offering.

First up is Buyer Lite - for SMEs looking to bring some control and automation to uniform ordering in house. Read our newest article to find out if it's the right platform to help your business control its uniform budget in house.

Spotlight on Buyer Lite - Smart Red’s Uniform Management System The Buyer Lite Uniform Management System allows SMEs to bring control, budgets and allowances in house.

In our latest blog, Web Designer Martin D'All talks about how important is in any system.

Martin goes beyond the initial branding and aesthetics, which are important, to talk about the additional design guidelines that the team at Big Red follow when implementing any Smart Red Platform.

By using these guiding principles, the design team ensure that the Smart Red platform is intuitive to use, with an effortless user experience. Read Martin's article to find out more.

The Importance of Design in a Uniform Management System In today's digital age, a well-designed Uniform Management platform is a crucial component of any successful uniform supplier’s business.

Our Head of Sales, Roisin always speaks with all of our client enquiries, as well as promote Smart Red to potential new customers.

Usually in her articles she'll concentrate on a core feature the platform has, and how it benefits clients. In this article she takes a different approach, instead concentrating on the mindset shift needed to help clients truly understand the power of the Smart Red Platform.

Intrigued? Read on!

Does The Smart Red Wardrobe Management Solution Do…? In this article you'll learn about the core mindset shift you need to make to buy into the Smart Red Wardrobe Management System

A , built specifically for , handles all the complexities that providing for multiple customers can bring. This short video uncovers how powerful Smart Red really is - and how it easily manages a multitude of requirements from end users at all levels.

What is a Supplier Uniform Management System Uniform Suppliers can be burdened with the time-consuming and complex process of managing multiple orders from customers. Each customer has different rules a...

What Information Do I Need To Launch A ?
You may be surprised at how simple this is to gather and how it can greatly speed up the build process. Watch this short clip to find out more...

What Information Do I Need To Supply To Launch My Uniform Management System? If you've just signed off the investment in a new uniform management system, you'll want to make sure you have all your ducks in a row to get off to a flying...

The Smart Red Uniform Management System is used by many industries, including logistics, medical organisations and the fire service. Today we outline why the specifically chooses to bring Smart Red in-house to hugely streamline their management processes.

Why Airlines Choose Smart Red To Manage Uniform Ordering Airlines have a large number of employees with complex needs for uniform ordering. Read this article to find out why airlines choose Smart Red UMS

Our head of sales, Roisin talks a little about Big Red Digital - the long-established software development business behind the Smart Red Uniform Management Platform.

Build Your Business With Big Red Digital Big Red Digital is the business behind the Smart Red Uniform Management Platform. Using the team and expertise of Big Red Digital, you can enhance your platf...

https://www.smart-red.co.uk/news/uniform-management/262/uniform-management-system-jargon-decoded
As a business, we always try to speak to people in plain language. It ensures that all parties are clear about our shared goals and outcomes. In this article, we have listed some of the TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) most commonly used by uniform wearers, suppliers and buyers... and, from time to time, uniform platform developers like ourselves.

Uniform Management System Jargon Decoded An article that explains the key acronyms that are used when implementing a uniform/wardrobe management system

https://www.smart-red.co.uk/news/supplier-uniform-management/260/wardrobe-management-software-connects-with-erp

The Smart Red (UMS) can be a stand-alone platform, and for many organisations it works perfectly in isolation. However, for most , and , it works best when it’s integrated with core software that’s already part of your business.

The most common system we integrate with is an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system, as that’s often the driving software behind any supply business.

You can choose to partially or fully integrate with your ERP system. And you can choose to do it in phases.

Read our latest article to find out exactly how you can integrate your ERP with Smart Red.

Wardrobe Management Software Connects With ERPs For most uniform, workwear & PPE suppliers, the Smart Red Uniform Management System works best when it’s integrated with an ERP.

https://www.smart-red.co.uk/news/uniform-management/259/what-content-can-i-add-to-a-uniform-management-Smart Red - Garment Management System

Smart Red is a uniform management system (UMS) designed for large organisations, and uniform suppliers, to make managing uniform orders easier, with a seamless user experience.

Nevertheless, many of our clients take advantage of the full platform it’s built on – the Big Red Business Platform – to maximise its functionality to their benefit. Often the platform is a key communication tool between suppliers and their customers, or large organisations and their staff.

The Big Red Platform has at its core a CMS – A Content Management System. This allows businesses to add a wide range of content to the platform, at no additional cost.

Read our latest article to find out exactly what you can add to your dedicated platform.

What Content Can I Add To A Uniform Management System? A uniform management system is powerful, and does more than ease the uniform ordering process. It becomes a key information tool. Read on to find out how.

If you’re new to a wardrobe management system, or you need more flexibility than the system you’re currently using offers, you’ll need to understand just how adaptable Smart Red actually is. Built especially for uniform and workwear suppliers, it’s designed to accommodate all your customers’ needs, for their different methods of controlling and approving their uniform orders.

In our latest article we cover the various options available for uniform controls.

https://www.smart-red.co.uk/news/supplier-uniform-management/258/flexible-controls-available-on-smart-reds-wardrobe-management-system

Flexible Controls Available on Smart Red’s Wardrobe Management System Read our article to discover how Smart Red is designed for uniform & workwear suppliers to accommodate all methods of controlling/approving customer orders

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A system is a powerful piece of that takes the guesswork and headache out of ordering and issuing staff . It uniquely allows staff to control their own budget or allocation for new and replacement uniform, and ultimately reduces waste and the administration time for running a uniform program for staff.

As the system is so user friendly, our clients have started adding more to their catalogues on the portal. In this video we discuss the range of items that are possible to order through the Smart Red system.

What Products Can I Import Into Uniform Management Portal A uniform management system is a powerful piece of software that takes the guesswork and headache out of ordering and issuing staff uniform. It uniquely allo...

Our feature focus series continues on our with a close look at one of the core features of our Supplier Platform – Catalogue Selection.

Within any , you must offer many variations of catalogues to satisfy your clients’ needs. The Smart Red platform is flexible, and allows you to individually set up clients quickly, with their specific catalogue preferences, all from your central product management area.

Let’s look at the core options you can offer clients.

Feature Focus – Supplier Catalogues Our feature focus series continues with a close look at one of the core features of our Supplier Uniform Management Platform – Catalogue Selection.

https://www.smart-red.co.uk/news/uniform-management/255/uniform-management-system-vs-spreadsheets

We recently wrote an article after speaking to organisations who were trying to run their programme by tweaking an system, instead of investing in a Uniform Management System ( ).

In reality, the majority of organisations that are running their own uniform programme aren’t doing this – they’re managing the order and supply of uniform to their staff through emails and spreadsheets.

Whilst spreadsheets are an incredible tool for data management, they are not conducive to running an extensive uniform programme in a modern, growing business. In this article, we'll explore why that's the case, and therefore why you should consider investing in a purpose-built system.

Uniform Management System Vs Spreadsheets Are you managing staff uniform orders through emails and spreadsheets? Read this article to find out why you need a Uniform Management System instead.

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There are two main reasons why need to faciliate returns for their clients - 1) inacurate ordering and 2) wrong sizes. They're costly for suppliers, annoying for customers and can make it difficult, or impossible, for staff to do their jobs until the correct items are with each employee.

Listen to our video to find out how the Smart Red Uniform Management System can reduce the need for returns by over 50%.

How Smart Red's Uniform Management Software Reduces Costly Workwear Returns There are two main reasons why uniform suppliers need to faciliate returns for their clients - 1) inacurate ordering and 2) wrong sizes. They're costly for s...

Product trials are highly valuable exercises for large organisations. They can be used to test product fit and suitability, and for some areas can also form a critical aspect of complying with Health and Safety legislation. Employees feel included and respected as their opinions are taken into account when purchasing (or replacing) items.

Lack of communication and poor data collection are the main bugbears of those running trials on an ad-hoc basis. This can result in staff ordering wrong items, out of stock garments or even those that are no longer fit for purpose on the job. Ultimately, this increases frustrations and costs.

Smart Red helps to take the pressure and human error out of ordering uniforms. It is not solely there to allow people to reorder items; it’s been developed alongside large organisations to solve key problems such as this. In this video, we concentrate on the Product Trial module within Smart Red, to see how easy it is to use and how it benefits our clients.

Conduct Product Trials Using Smart Red Uniform Management System Product trials are highly valuable exercises for large organisations. They can be used to test product fit and suitability, and for some areas can also form ...

Today we wanted to highlight something slightly different! Instead of extoling the virtues of the Smart Red platform, (see past and future posts!), we wanted to explain why clients choose us.

It's not solely about the platform that we've built. It's the people, and the business, behind Smart Red - Big Red Digital.

In our latest article, you can see why the R&D, the technical support and the wider The Big Red Business Platform offers additional benefits to clients, and that's why they choose to partner with us.

Build Your Uniform Business with Big Red Digital In this article we’ll explore the extra benefits that partnering with Big Red Digital for your uniform managmement platform can bring to your business.

The procurement and distribution of staff uniforms, PPE and workwear is a complex and demanding process. Every organisation we deal with is different. There are many variables within the procurement and distribution process that are as unique as the organisation itself.

We ran some research with one of our partners to quantify the challenges they were facing. Have a listen to find out how we reduced their admin time for running a uniform program by 91.8%.

Reduce Admin Time Running A Uniform Program with Smart Red The procurement and distribution of staff uniforms, PPE and workwear is a complex and demanding process. Every organisation we deal with is different. There ...

Our experience over the past few months have shown us that a lot of businesses out there – large organisations and – are attempting to use a standard platform as their (UMS).

Perhaps uniquely, we understand the key differences between a UMS and a traditional ecommerce system because we build and support both. We want to highlight that by trying to use an ecommerce system as a UMS, you’ll fail.

We can say this with certainly, because in the early stages of creating the Smart Red platform, we tried exactly that! We attempted to amend our ecommerce module for each client, and it became unworkable and unscalable. We were trying to service two different audiences, with contradictory aims within the same platform. After a period of time, and significant investment, we had to take the decision to separate these platforms to give our clients, and their users, the experience they were asking for.

Read our latest article to find out the exact challenges faced, and how investing in your own is the only way forward.

Uniform Management System vs Ecommerce System This article explains why a Uniform Management System is more advantageous to use than a traditional ecommerce system to run a uniform program

Our Head of Sales Roisin McNeill talks here about why an system is not a good replacement for a dedicated system.

Businesses are trying to shoe-horn in complex functionality to a platform that's not built for that purpose, and unsurprisingly becoming increasingly frustrated when things aren't working.

Have a listen as to why this isn't ever going to be a long term solution, and get in touch to hear more about how Smart Red can make running a easy.

Uniform Management System vs Ecommerce Systems We have been speaking to businesses recently trying to shoe-horn in features into a standard platform. This just won’t work. Li...