Carhartt Implements SAP S/4HANA Fashion to Support Customer Demand

The Value of an S/4HANA Digital Core

Single Platform:  Merge retail, manufacturing and wholesale data in a single system with tight integration to related systems, such as CRM, PLM, etc

Data Aggregation:  Enterprise-wide access to a single source of truth for decision-making in real-time

Extend and Innovate:  Flexible, scalable, and agile system supporting current and future needs. Enables starting businesses in shortest possible time

Inventory Management:  A fully-connected system providing real-time visibility into inventory to minimize excessive inventory, costs, and write-offs and enable fulfillment options

Merchandising:  Provides key processes around merchandising, which can be managed together with wholesale and manufacturing processes for a complete view of products, labels, inventory, and stores

Manufacturing:  Manage fashion-specific manufacturing functionality including production control workbench, master orders, marker, feasibility analysis, and collective orders

Omnicommerce Customer Experience:  Provides functionality to support in-store, online, mobile commerce, customer order management, omnichannel customer insights, and personalization.

The Outcome

Carhartt used Rizing’s preconfigured solution for SAP S/4HANA Fashion – attune Fashion Suite™ – to accelerate the implementation and migration of their retail business to the new platform. Integration testing and project cutover was all virtual. The next phase of the project includes implementing solutions to support their wholesale and direct-to-consumer eCommerce business.

Carhartt believes further investment in digital technologies is a winning strategy that will also provide a fantastic experience for customers.

Digitized Retail Operations

We successfully established retail operations on S/4HANA for improved merchandise management and digitized store operations with mobile-enabled apps, eliminating manual tasks with automated processes.

Improved Processes

The solution captures, manages, and analyzes data at unprecedented speeds, backed by standardized and integrated processes all captured in one SAP system.

This improves both the speed and quality of business process execution, decreasing overall operational costs.

The solution manages processes with a global ownership view that helps Carhartt increase performance, lower costs, and gain more meaningful business insight.

Simplified IT

The final solution provides a simpler IT landscape and business processes. It helps manage and execute all core processes in a common IT footprint – lowering TCO.

Consolidated Solution for Wholesale and Retail

We implemented a single vertically-integrated platform across Carhartt’s wholesale and retail channels, enabling omni-channel business processes and services.

Real-time Inventory Management

We created a single view of inventory to optimize stock sourcing and allocation which reduces stock-outs, lost sales, and excess inventories.