The client is one of the world’s largest apparel companies known for its denim jeans.
The client wanted to upgrade its enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform to unify its financial processes across order management, inventory management and omni-channel allocation. Infosys handled program management, organizational change management and training, technical solution delivery, and post go-live hypercare support.
Key Challenges
- Ensuring timely coordination between different vendors for smooth program management
- Integration difficulties due to disparate processes and manual operations across ERP
- Highly customized and ageing software technology
- Maintenance and support challenges across multiple landscapes
- Handling end-user resistance arising from the need to execute user training, user acceptance testing, go-live, and hypercare remotely due to the pandemic
- Limited availability of business due to country-specific holidays
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The Solution
SAP S/4HANA FMS rollout to multiple countries
Infosys conducted a pilot implementation of SAP S/4HANA Fashion module in Mexico. The aim was to enable global as well as Mexico-specific business functionalities across order management, inventory management and omni-channel allocation, thereby creating a single global financial system of record. This template, will be deployed globally.
Infosys used a release-based approach with a defined scope, whereby each release has multiple go-live dates for a country or a cluster of countries.
- Deployed SAP S/4HANA version 1909 and SAP Solution Manager 7.2
- Building an integrated Fiori launchpad with standard Fiori apps that support daily purchase-to-pay, order-to-cash, FICO, and retail operations
- SAP Cloud and SAP UI5 leveraged to access external vendors on-the-go with unified views
- Multiple third-party system integrations with S/4HAHA including centralized monitoring
- Cloud platform integration (CPI) used for easy electronic data interchange (EDI) with third parties
- Minimized customization through standard APIs that are enhanced by in-app/side-by-side extensions
- Easy integration of CFDI portal using SCP
Benefits
Helping the client achieve a fit-for-purpose ERP platform that acts as a single solution for global operations, thereby driving future business growth
The SAP S/4HANA platform serves as the core for all real-time transactional processing — including order management, inventory management and omni-channel allocation — as well as a single global financial system of record
Efficient reporting supports fact-based and agile decision-making
Improvements in revenue growth and gross margins through enhanced analytics and access to data
Optimized working capital via enhanced systems that can be managed effectively
Brought down selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses through optimized cost, strategic analytics and lesser manual effort
Reduced the overall IT application footprint, thereby reducing cost of ownership, application overlap, etc.
