SAP for the Fashion Industry
Unleash advanced and robust ERP system
SAP S/4HANA provides a great opportunity for fashion businesses to run a unified platform for all channels. It offers a single global inventory, harmonised processes, and newer features like Advanced Available-to-Promise (aATP) and supply protection, leading to reduced safety stock, fewer retail stock-outs, and increased profitability.
Solution Addressing All Fashion Industry Trends & Needs
Vertical Integration
Integration with Advanced Technologies
Shorter Critical Path
Sustainability
Hyper-Personalisation
Global Supply Chain
S/4HANA for Fashion: Your Business - Transformed
Unlock the enhanced capabilities of our S/4HANA for Fashion solution,
designed specifically for businesses in the Fashion Industry and their needs:
VIP Stock Reservations with Supply Protection
Prioritise your most valuable customers with VIP stock reservations, and leverage supply protection to reallocate stock from other reservations when necessary, ensuring high-priority orders are always fulfilled.
Enhancing Business Alignment with aATP Allocation
Achieve seamless business alignment across all departments with optimal stock and order allocation through advanced Available-to-Promise (aATP) functionality, ensuring adherence to the agreed business plan.
Early Factory Slot Booking with Flexible Contracts
Secure early factory slots during the planning cycle without needing detailed specifications, using Flexible Purchase Contracts. These contracts allow for adjustments as purchase orders are finalized, providing flexibility and ensuring timely production.
Swift Transaction Processing with Fiori
Experience faster transaction processing with the advanced Fiori interface. Process large sales orders efficiently, with enhanced upload functionality that reduces dependency on multiple solutions, streamlining your operations.
Simplified Idoc Processing in S/4HANA
Streamline IDoc processing and minimise error management by directly integrating external SAP systems like SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) into the core S/4HANA environment, reducing complexity and improving efficiency.
Optimising Costs: Single-Server Vertical Integration
Lower operational costs by consolidating manufacturing, wholesale, and retail systems onto a single, vertically integrated server, eliminating the need for maintaining separate systems.
From AFS to S/4HANA Fashion with CeleRITE
with our Selective Transition
Due to significant underlying architectural disparities between AFS and S/4HANA, a brownfield migration is fundamentally impractical for fashion businesses. For a brownfield migration to work, the source and target systems must have compatible data models and tables. The architecture and the underlying data models of an AFS system differ from that of S/4HANA for Fashion.
However, at Absoft, we are able to offer AFS customers a whole new approach that enables them to selectively migrate to S/4HANA Fashion Vertical, without necessitating a greenfield approach.
With our targeted approach, we focus on key areas of your business and by selectively transitioning critical processes and data, we minimise disruption and streamline the overall migration process, ensuring a smooth and efficient journey to S/4 Fashion.
Our comprehensive AI-powered platform, CeleRITE, is specifically designed to address the diverse needs of S/4HANA migration projects.
For fashion brands transitioning from AFS to S/4 Fashion with CeleRITE, the process unfolds in three strategic steps:
Lift & Shift
Initially, CeleRITE facilitates the migration of processes where the shift to S/4 Fashion involves minimal adjustments.
The key difference between AFS and S/4 Fashion is the use of J tables in AFS which mostly impacts the fashion areas.
For the other areas that don’t use J tables, CeleRITE can facilitate a direct lift and shift to S/4 Fashion.
Enhance
In certain areas, it is possible to establish a mapping between elements in AFS and their counterparts in S/4 Fashion. For example, the key characteristics of the material grid in AFS can be mapped to the generic articles and variants within Material Masters in S/4 Fashion. CeleRITE facilitates this process by leveraging Generative AI to map, enhance, and migrate these elements to S/4 Fashion.
Activate New S/4 Capabilities
Finally, along with our functional experts, CeleRITE helps identify and activate new, industry-specific functionalities within S/4 Fashion using a fit-to-standard approach. These are functionalities that are not available in AFS, including flexible purchasing commitments, enabling direct ship flexibility, and introducing multi-level purchasing contracts, among other advanced functionalities.
Why S/4 Fashion with Absoft & Applexus?
As part of Applexus, a seasoned expert in the fashion industry, Absoft combines unmatched SAP expertise, deep business knowledge, and exceptional customer care. With over three decades of experience as a leading UK SAP Partner, Absoft understands that with SAP, one size does not fit all.
Our core mission is to provide lasting value to our customers, helping you unlock the full potential of your SAP investment. We pride ourselves on building long-standing relationships with our stakeholders, and many of our consultants and clients have been with us from the very beginning. At Absoft, our commitment is to your success, ensuring that you achieve the best possible outcomes with SAP.
Fashion Expertise
Our team has extensive experience working with major fashion brands, bringing deep industry knowledge to every project. We understand the unique challenges of fashion retail and tailor our approach to meet specific needs.
Transparent partner
Our core purpose is to deliver lasting and enduring value to our customers through innovation and technical expertise. We are here to make sure that your SAP system serves its purpose – to help your business grow, strive towards process simplification and efficiency.
Industry-Focused Solution for Fashion
Our pre-configured S/4 Fashion solution is specifically designed to address the needs of fashion industry. And with help of our proprietary tool CeleRITE we simplify the migration from AFS and achieve seamless transition.
Saving Up to 50% Costs and Time on Migration
With our tailored approach and advanced tools, we can help you achieve significant savings in both cost and time during your migration process. Our efficient methods and expertise ensure a faster, more streamlined transition to S/4 Fashion, maximising your investment.
Testimonials
Related Content
