How does Sparkle save me money?
Sparkle saves you money by reducing your costs. Our calculations show Sparkle saves you (much) more money than any other sample tracking system, including a no-system DIY approach…
What are the costs of sample tracking?
Sample tracking costs money; there’s no way around it. There are two costs at work:
- the cost of paying your staff to handle all your samples;
- the cost of the system they use to organise everything.
It takes time to label, catalogue, and organise your samples; time to send them off to press contacts; and more time to re-organise the samples when you get them back. Not to mention the time spent chasing up forgetful press people! Time is money: in this case, salaries for your samples team.
Your sample tracking system also has a cost. If it’s a DIY, spreadsheets-and-Word-documents kind of thing, the cost is hidden. There’s no line item on a budget for building, maintaining and extending it — but believe me, it’s there. It shows up instead on the salaries of your staff, because working on your system takes time and time is money.
Or perhaps you use a commercial sample tracking system, like Fashion GPS or Fashionsoft. Now you do have a line item on a budget and you know exactly what it costs you.
Our calculations
We compared, for each of our customers, the annual cost of Sparkle to the annual cost of:
- using your own DIY, spreadsheets-and-Word-documents approach;
- using our nearest competitor¹
- using our highest profile competitor¹
— and calculated the average savings across all our customers.
¹We won’t name these competitors because we don’t want any trouble ;)
Here are the results: Sparkle saves our customers money no matter what:
- Sparkle saves