Fashion's rapid seasons demand precise inventory control. Without real-time integration, you're either out of stock on trends or stuck with last season's inventory.
Fashion has high return rates requiring quick processing. Manual returns management creates backlogs that tie up valuable inventory.
Fashion customers change minds quickly. Slow cancellation processing leads to unnecessary shipments and increased return costs.
| iPaaS & Custom Builds | Legacy OMS | Pipe17 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Native API-First Connectivity | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Pre-Built Commerce Connectors | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Custom Integration Mappings | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Advanced Order Orchestration | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Exception Management & Alerts | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Unified Inventory Management | ❌ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Rapid to Implement & Go-Live | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Easy to Add / Swap Channels & Flows | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
| Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ |
Automatically adjust operations for fashion seasons. Handle peak periods and markdowns with intelligent routing, reducing excess inventory by 35%.
Turn returns into available inventory quickly. Process fashion returns 70% faster than your competition.
Stop shipments immediately when orders cancel. Save on shipping and reduce return volume.
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Pipe17 connects Bergen Logistics to your ecommerce, marketplace, and ERP systems through a pre-built connector, so you skip custom development. Bergen is an East Coast fashion 3PL handling apparel, beauty, and lifestyle fulfillment from its North Bergen, New Jersey base, with garment-on-hanger handling, kitting, and specialized packaging. Pipe17 maintains the connector inside its managed commerce network and runs every flow through its order management layer, so orders, inventory, and returns move between Bergen and your channels automatically.
Pipe17 syncs orders, shipments, inventory, products, locations, and returns between Bergen and every connected channel. It pushes shipment requests to Bergen with gift-wrap and special-packaging instructions, pulls fulfillment and tracking back, and monitors stock by size, color, and season. Product pushes carry size charts and care instructions, while SKU mappings keep complex size-and-color matrices accurate. Orders from Shopify, Amazon, and your other channels route to Bergen automatically, and Pipe17's order management layer reconciles every status in real time.
Pipe17 connects Bergen Logistics to NetSuite without custom integration code, keeping orders, inventory, fulfillments, and returns in sync between the ERP and the 3PL. Sales orders flow from your channels into NetSuite, route to Bergen for fashion fulfillment, and post shipment and tracking confirmations back so financials and stock stay accurate. Pipe17's order management layer maps SKUs, locations, and statuses across both systems, so NetSuite reflects Bergen's East Coast inventory in real time. The connector is maintained by Pipe17, not your team.
Pipe17 holds a single inventory source of truth across Bergen and every other warehouse, store, and channel, updated as events happen rather than through batch syncs. For fashion brands, it tracks stock by size, color, and season so you avoid overselling trending items or overstocking last season's range, reducing excess inventory by up to 35%. This real-time inventory control feeds accurate availability to Shopify, Amazon, and marketplaces at once, eliminating the race conditions and phantom stock that come from disconnected systems.
Pipe17's order management engine routes each order to the best fulfillment location based on real-time inventory, location, and business rules, so Bergen serves East Coast and coastal demand while other sites cover the rest. It splits multi-item orders, consolidates where it can, and re-routes automatically when a location rejects or runs short. The same rules engine coordinates Bergen with 3PLs like Radial and ShipBob, plus ship-from-store fulfillment, from one picture of your network. Business users adjust routing with drag-and-drop rules, no developer required.
Pipe17 turns Bergen returns into resellable inventory faster, processing fashion returns up to 70% faster by pulling return status through quality inspection and pushing authorizations back with restocking priorities. For cancellations, it stops orders before pick-and-pack begins, cutting unnecessary shipments and return volume when fashion customers change their minds. Pipe17 also connects returns platforms like Loop and Happy Returns into the same flow, so refunds, exchanges, and restocks stay in step with the inventory you can resell.
Yes, Pipe17 runs direct-to-consumer and wholesale orders through Bergen from one order management system, so apparel brands fulfill retail dropship, marketplace, and DTC demand against the same inventory. Wholesale and B2B orders from Faire, Shopify B2B, and EDI trading partners route to Bergen with the right packing, labeling, and routing-guide requirements, while DTC orders flow in parallel. Pipe17 applies separate business rules to each order type, so wholesale compliance never slows your consumer shipments.
The Bergen connector itself activates in days once credentials are in place, since it is pre-built and maintained inside Pipe17's managed commerce network. The larger value comes from adopting Pipe17 as a modern order management system that replaces legacy and custom-built OMS platforms on your own timeline. Pipe17 runs alongside existing systems, proves out Bergen and channel flows, then takes over order routing and inventory management in phases, so there is no rip-and-replace. Enterprise apparel and lifestyle brands use this progressive approach to lower total cost of ownership.
An order management system is what makes Bergen Logistics work as part of a full operation rather than a standalone 3PL. Pipe17 is a modern order management system with connectivity built in, not a point connector you maintain yourself: the Order Operations platform orchestrates orders across channels, holds a single real-time inventory picture, manages catalogs, and automates holds, returns, and exceptions. It is also AI-native, so Pippen AI answers natural-language order and inventory questions and an onX-compliant MCP server lets agents act on Bergen orders like any other channel. That combination is what legacy OMS platforms and custom builds never delivered together.