BILLY Footwear Names OptiProERP as its Technology Partner for Cloud ERP

October 2nd, 2019 by OptiProERP

BILLY Footwear Names OptiProERP as its Technology Partner for Cloud ERP

October 2nd, 2019 by OptiProERP

Adaptive and universal fashion apparel company to drive automation, innovation and rapid growth with cloud ERP.

LAGUNA HILLS, CA – OptiProERP Software, Inc., a leading global provider of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions for manufacturing and distribution and SAP’s strategic industry partner, announced today that BILLY Footwear has selected it as its cloud ERP technology partner.

With growing popularity for its fashion and function forward shoe line, BILLY Footwear saw the need to proactively anticipate, design and deliver to increased demand – quickly and cost-effectively. Its pace-setting growth, with sales growing nine times in 2018 year-over-year, revealed the critical need for a central business management platform to connect and automate business processes, gain real-time visibility into its operations and proactively manage its supply chain. By modernizing its technology with OptiProERP’s innovative cloud ERP solution for manufacturing and distribution on SAP Business One’s leading-edge platform, BILLY Footwear will be able to support and drive its rapid growth and best-in-class customer experience.

Smart and fast-growing companies like BILLY Footwear need tools to manage their operations in ways that unlock their innovation while delivering transparency and real-time control. We’re proud to partner with BILLY Footwear on a business and corporate social responsibility level. We wholeheartedly support their ethos of inclusion and adding value to the lives of others.
– Sahib Dudani, Founder, OptiProERP Software, Inc.

The origin story of BILLY Footwear is one of innovation and perseverance. An athletic college student, co-founder Billy Price broke his neck and suffered a spinal cord injury from a three-story fall in October 1996 and became paralyzed from the chest down. Losing the ability to move much of his body, including his fingers, he faced challenges in everyday tasks – and one challenge came from finding shoes that were both attractive and easy enough to put on without any help. Billy’s innovative problem-solving designs joined forces with co-founder Darin Donaldson’s operations know-how to create shoes that fit Billy’s needs. Located in Seattle, Washington, BILLY Footwear was born in 2012. Billy found a mission to create mainstream shoes that are fashionable and appeal to everyone, yet still preserve the functionality for those who need it. The focus of the company is to combine fashion with function and dissolve the line between adaptive and mass market footwear through universal design. It is “Fashion & Function for All.”

BILLY Footwear - Fashion and Function for All — BILLY Footwear® incorporates zippers that go along the side of the shoes and around the toe, allowing the upper of each shoe to open and fold over completely. Thus the wearer can place his or her foot onto the shoe footbed unobstructed. Then with a tug on the zipper-pull the shoe closes and secures overtop the user's foot. It's simple. It's easy.

We’re eager to work with OptiProERP and SAP because of their vast experience with companies and distribution operations like ours, and their innovation in the manufacturing ERP marketplace. Partnering with OptiProERP and SAP to connect and digitize our business, streamline our operations and strengthen our overall brand experience is just the kind of innovation we need.
– Billy Price, Co-Founder, BILLY Footwear

BILLY Footwear will also have Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), through a partnership with Edisoft, Inc., and its consumer and B2B eCommerce platforms integrated with OptiProERP’s SAP-based ERP solution. These integrations will allow BILLY Footwear to gain more accurate tracking of inventory and become more responsive to market demand. Moreover, OptiProERP will deliver management capabilities over demand streams with real-time insights into its customers, online orders and sales to retail partners such as Nordstrom, Zappos, Amazon, Finish Line, Von Maur and SCHEELS.

About BILLY Footwear

BILLY Footwear creates shoes that embody universal design, meaning they both appeal to and work for everyone – “Fashion & Function for All.” Designed to be fashionable and functional, BILLY Footwear has revolutionized how shoes are put on and taken off for men, women and children. The company’s vision is to: “Make a measurable difference, one foot at a time.” Founded in 2012, BILLY Footwear shoes can be found at major retailers such as Nordstrom, Zappos, and Amazon and at a variety of independent shoe stores. For more information, visit www.billyfootwear.com.

About OptiProERP

OptiProERP is an innovative, industry leading software company focused on ERP manufacturing and distribution solutions. In addition to the deep industry functionality found within the OptiProERP solution, it also embeds the SAP Business One platform, the market leading platform for small and midsize enterprises. Customers gain an end-to-end ERP solution, including financials, accounting, sales, and CRM and manufacturing functionality that fully leverages deep industry knowledge and expertise.

OptiProERP is the first OEM partner of SAP’s Partner Edge Program and the only one exclusively focused on the manufacturing and distribution industries. OptiProERP and sister company, BatchMaster, are eWorkplace Manufacturing companies and leading global providers of mission-critical, industry-focused Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions. Together, they have more than 3,000 customers globally and more than 400 employees. OptiProERP is a U.S.-based company located in Laguna Hills, California. For more information, visit www.optiproerp.com.