Fashion and Apparel

Fashion and Apparel is an expanding sector globally and is an important vertical for SAP. The fashion industry deals with extreme seasonality with trends changing throughout the year. Products are often multi-dimensional (size, material, and colors) causing a huge impact on supply chain and inventory management as well as pricing, merchandizing and digital storefronts.

For fashion companies, this means leveraging a platform that connects across all sales channels – wholesale, retail, manufacturing and e-commerce, empowering decision-making and giving you a significant advantage in today’s digital economy. Successful companies aim for a single source of truth and advanced analytics to drive decision making and performance.

SAP and partner solutions in fashion and apparel

Fashion and Apparel is an expanding sector globally and is an important vertical for SAP. The fashion industry deals with extreme seasonality with trends changing throughout the year. Products are often multi-dimensional (size, material, and colors) causing a huge impact on supply chain and inventory management as well as pricing, merchandizing and digital storefronts.

For fashion companies, this means leveraging a platform that connects across all sales channels – wholesale, retail, manufacturing and e-commerce, empowering decision-making and giving you a significant advantage in today’s digital economy. Successful companies aim for a single source of truth and advanced analytics to drive decision making and performance.

SAP and partner solutions in fashion and apparel

SAP S/4HANA Fashion is a comprehensive ERP solution, designed to help fashion businesses meet the demands of the digital and global marketplace. It allows fashion companies to manage the entire fashion process ranging from wholesale, retail, manufacturing and e-commerce through a single platform. The fashion platform allows retailers the flexibility and agility needed to deliver seamless customer experiences and adapt to rapidly changing customer requirements. It also provides reporting capabilities in real time, by function, region, category, channel and product.

Additional examples of scenarios where SAP and partner products help are:

  1. Stock protection helps companies achieve this goal by protecting inventory for high priority demand even if important sales orders are received late and low priority orders precede them.
  2. Backorder processing enables available-to-Promise (ATP), a function provided to help fashion businesses confirm order delivery dates based on actual supply chain and manufacturing resources.
  3. Flexible fulfillment and order orchestration by providing inventory availability to sales associates so that associates are able to view item availability at nearby stores and source intelligently from another store to fulfill in-store customer orders for out-of-stock products.

Key Considerations for SAPinsiders:

Several fashion and apparel companies have achieved significant benefits through SAP and partner solutions.

  • Case Study: Why Real-Time Analytics? Think Swimsuits. Read this case study on how apparel companies can be nimble despite drastically changing demand using SAP HANA driven analytics.
    • Case study: Columbia Sportswear Connects Active People with Their Passions Faster Than Ever Before. Learn insights from this case study on how Columbia Sportswear moved to SAP Apparel and Footwear, and used automation software to speed and simplify data conversion.

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