What E Fashion Software does

Efashion Software srl (trading as E Fashion Software) is a privately held Italian software company founded in 1997 and headquartered in Padua, Italy. It develops and sells the Waterfall Application Suite, a set of six specialized but integrated software modules purpose-built for the fashion industry. The modules cover order entry management (OEM), manufacturing execution (MES), warehouse management (WMS), process scheduling (PSM), supplier relationship management (SRM), and data integration/ETL. The suite is designed to integrate with any customer ERP and is sold as configurable, tailor-made software rather than a packaged SaaS product. In June 2024 the company launched the Quality Control Management App, a web app for real-time monitoring of production line quality.

The company's customers are fashion brands and fashion houses; the input data references 'prestigious international fashion houses' but does not name any specific logos. Pricing is quote-based and handled through direct contact, with solutions delivered under multi-year contracts. The product is sold through an enterprise field sales motion, supported by a multilingual website (Italian, English, French), webinars, and contact forms. Revenue is generated from software licenses and ongoing professional services including implementation, configuration, customization, training, integration, and maintenance.

The company has no disclosed parent, no disclosed institutional investors, no disclosed funding rounds, no disclosed headcount, and a registered share capital of €46,800, indicating a privately held, likely founder- or management-owned srl. Operating signals (active website, recent product launch, active careers page) point to a going concern, but the absence of growth metrics makes it impossible to corroborate scale from the available evidence.

Name

E Fashion Software

Legal name

Efashion Software srl

Website

https://efsw.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Efashion Software srl is a Padua-based Italian software firm founded in 1997 that sells the Waterfall Application Suite, a modular, ERP-integrable software platform covering order entry, manufacturing, warehouse, scheduling, supplier, and data integration for fashion brands.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Verona

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Licenses and Solutions: Sale of tailor-made software solutions and modules from the Waterfall application suite for the fashion industry, including OEM, MES, WMS, PSM, SRM, and ETL modules. Solutions are configurable and customizable to customer needs.
2. Professional Services: Implementation services including analysis, system configuration, customization, training, help desk, integration, and maintenance services accompanying customers from analysis through post go-live.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

E Fashion Software sells the Waterfall Application Suite, a proprietary integrated software platform for the fashion industry composed of 6 specialized modules (OEM, MES, WMS, PSM, SRM, ETL) that manage order entry, manufacturing execution, warehouse operations, process scheduling, supplier relationships, and data integration, all integrable with any company ERP. The company also offers the Quality Control Management App, a Web App for real-time production line quality monitoring, and provides accompanying professional services including analysis, system configuration, customization, training, help desk, integration, and maintenance.

Product overview

E Fashion Software offers a platform-plus-modules architecture centered on the Waterfall Application Suite, specifically designed for the fashion industry. Waterfall is composed of 6 specialized, independent yet integrated software modules: OEM (Order Entry Management), MES (Manufacturing Execution System), WMS (Warehouse Management System), PSM (Process Scheduling Management), SRM (Supplier Relationship Management), and ETL (Extract, Transform and Loading). These modules are designed to be integrated with each other and with any company ERP. Additionally, the company has launched the Quality Control Management App, a Web App for real-time production quality monitoring. The company provides management solutions for the fashion industry, including consulting, training, help desk, integration, and maintenance services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Waterfall: Application suite for the fashion industry composed of 6 highly specialized and independent software modules (OEM, MES, WMS, PSM, SRM, ETL) that are integrated with each other and can be integrated with any company ERP.

Products and services

• Waterfall Application Suite An integrated proprietary application suite created for the fashion industry, composed of 6 highly specialized and independent software modules (OEM Order Entry Management, MES Manufacturing Execution System, WMS Warehouse Management System, PSM Process Scheduling Management, SRM Supplier Relationship Management, and ETL Extract, Transform and Loading). The modules are integrated with one another and can be integrated with any company ERP, providing end-to-end fashion supply chain management. Targeted at fashion brands and fashion houses.
• Quality Control Management App A Web App that allows quality inspectors to easily monitor materials, semi-finished products, and finished products in real time, intercepting critical issues and intervening promptly to resolve them. Features include simplification of inspector work in production departments and warehouses, configuration of production phases to control, intuitive graphical work-progress monitoring, sharing of control results across stakeholders, and definition of quality/defect levels. Targeted at fashion brands and manufacturers operating production lines.

Quantifiable outcome

• Real-time quality monitoring enabling timely intervention on production issues

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• Aptos: Sells merchandising, planning, and supply chain software specifically to fashion and specialty retail brands. Overlaps Waterfall's order management and supply chain modules for shared customer profiles.
• CGS (BlueCherry): BlueCherry is an ERP, supply chain, and PLM suite purpose-built for fashion and apparel brands — directly competing with Waterfall's OEM, MES, WMS, and SRM modules for the same fashion vertical.
• Gerber Technology: Provides software solutions for apparel and textile manufacturing, including production planning and supply chain management — directly overlapping E Fashion Software's MES, PSM, and SRM modules.
• Centric Software: Direct competitor selling PLM, PIM, and fashion-specific software modules to fashion brands and manufacturers. Highly comparable product architecture (modular, fashion-vertical) and target customer base.
• Lectra: Long-standing French vendor of fashion-industry software covering design, PLM, and manufacturing execution. Targets the same fashion/ apparel value chain that E Fashion Software's Waterfall suite addresses.

Broad incumbents

• SAP: Global ERP giant whose SAP for Fashion and apparel-industry solutions compete with Waterfall by leveraging scale and integration with S/4HANA, often crowding out specialists in large enterprise deals.
• Blue Yonder: Major supply chain planning and execution platform with strong retail/fashion vertical penetration. Competes most directly with Waterfall's WMS, PSM, and SRM modules from an enterprise platform angle.
• Infor: Large ERP vendor with a dedicated Infor Fashion offering (industry-specific ERP, PLM, and supply chain) that competes with Waterfall at the broader-suite level, especially in mid-market and large fashion houses.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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