Ai2000: The Leading ERP for Footwear Brands and Distributors
Ai2000 is built for the way footwear businesses actually operate — with native support for style, color, width, and size grids; seasonal buying; wholesale EDI; and global sourcing from factory to store.
Quick answer: Ai2000 is footwear ERP for branded shoe companies, wholesalers, importers and distributors that need size runs, widths, prepacks, sourcing, retailer EDI, WMS and financials in one system.
Ai2000 (formerly A2000 Software) — footwear ERP since 1996.
Why footwear companies choose Ai2000
Ai2000 connects footwear development, purchasing, inventory, wholesale, ecommerce, warehouse operations and accounting. It is configured around footwear data rather than making teams adapt shoe lines to a generic item list.
Size-run inventory
Style, color, width and size stay connected from line plan through warehouse allocation.
Prepack management
Buy, sell and allocate retailer packs without breaking them into manually reconciled SKUs.
Global sourcing
Track factory POs, milestones, HTS codes, duty, freight, containers and landed cost.
Wholesale compliance
Process 850, 860, 856 and 810 documents with labels and routing requirements tied to the order.
Omnichannel fulfillment
Wholesale, Shopify, marketplaces and retail draw from one available-to-sell inventory pool.
Footwear margin
Report margin by style, colorway, size run, customer and channel using true landed cost.
Customer proof
Ai2000's customer portfolio includes footwear and lifestyle names such as Tumi and Injinji, alongside more than 100 apparel, footwear and home goods brands.
Generic ERP vs the best ERP for footwear brands
Most ERPs can be forced to hold footwear data. Very few were designed around it. Here is the practical difference.
Footwear industry use cases
Four footwear business models that run day-to-day operations on Ai2000.
Branded footwear
Own-brand footwear companies managing seasonal line plans, sample development, factory sourcing, and wholesale delivery windows in one footwear ERP.
Footwear wholesale
Wholesalers shipping to department stores and specialty retail with size-run allocations, EDI 850/856/810 flows, and chargeback prevention — the core of a footwear distribution ERP.
Private label sourcing
Private label programs with tech packs, multi-factory costing, duty and freight, and retailer-specific packing and labeling requirements.
DTC footwear brands
Direct-to-consumer brands syncing Shopify and Amazon inventory with wholesale demand so one pool of stock serves every channel accurately.