S4 HANA Value Assessment

Client

Leading specialty retailer

Service

S/4 HANA Retail

Challenges

Replace aging IT systems to expedite customer experience and supply chain, along with improving forecasting and financial data.

Results

After detailed analysis of there system landscape, business process and future growth trajectory we submitted our report with S/4 HANA Retail implementation including SAP CAR and Hybris e-commerce.

Background

Customer is an integrated sportswear company that has been in the business of manufacturing, retail & distribution of international sports & lifestyle brands. Customer has a nationwide network of exclusive and multi-brand stores with 4 lakh square feet of retail presence. Customer have built strategic partnerships with key international sportswear brands and also manufactures footwear for international brands like Nike, Puma & Lotto.

Project Details

As part of engagement, our retail industry expert consultant and advisors conducted series of interviews and workshops with the customers to collect current business process and also discussed with leadership team to gather there future growth plan and long term roadmap. Based on availability of Investment options, we recommended S4 retail as product to be implemented along with Hybris e-commerce and data analytics. Overall solution was an end-to-end solution for retail, capable of integrating store operations with the head office and manufacturing, using a multi-layer architecture. Intend was with centralized servers and auto synchronization at the end of the day, achieve far better control over inventory mismatches. Store audits, inventory management, purchases and transfers.

The Diseno Consulting Difference

Due to our industry experience and ever changing environment, we managed to provide the long term roadmap along with all possible extension options. We gathered the best industry practice followed globally and map those with customer business requirements. We defined the integrated approach to meet the long term vision of the customer by allowing the customer to improve planning, forecasting, logistics, shorten product-to-market cycle time, and improve margin performance. We also focused on improving inventory control, significantly reducing stock level and increasing inventory turns. Our recommendation to integrate with Hybris, will allow the customer to gain more from e-commerce market.

Diseno Consulting business strategy built on our expertise in strategy, technology and advisory to help clients perform at the highest levels. Using our industry knowledge, service-offering expertise and technology capabilities, we identify new business and technology trends around SAP and develop solutions to help clients.