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Our business is a truly global business, we have to manage a very complex environment. SAP helped us to reduce the complexity of our current infrastructure by providing an integrated and scalable ERP platform. Combined with attune’s deep SAP AFS and fashion experience this enabled us to improve the collaboration with our subsidiaries and also our distribution and retail channels on one single ERP platform. In particular attune’s extension of the SAP AFS platform into a retail solution for wholesale and manufacturing companies that have retail sales channels greatly improved our ROI for SAP. With this initiative attune also helped us to simplify our business processes and to bring consistency and integrity to our company data. With attune we have an experienced and reliable partner along the whole fashion supply chain.
Mike Day, CIO Global,
Tommy Hilfiger Europe

Apparel

Trends are ever changing - no industry has to adjust as quickly as the fashion industry

Challenges faced by the fashion industry today are fundamentally different than those they faced a decade ago. This places special demands on the IT systems of all fashion businesses - exclusive High Fashion Brand owners (like Burberry, Strellson), manufacturers of Lifestyle Fashion Brands (like Tommy Hilfiger, Benetton) or Intimates (Victoria Secret, Triumph).

These challenges include managing enormous volumes of data that come with ever-increasing design variations, the changing seasons, and huge numbers of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs). In addition, creating effective marketing strategies that convince business customers and consumers to buy your lines despite increasing competition and price transparency.

Challenges like managing collaborative business scenarios, partnerships, and licensing agreements. As well as dealing with vertical integration as manufacturers venture into retailing and as retailers expand into production.

To thrive in today’s economy, fashion companies need to be more efficient, faster, and more flexible. attune will help your company react to market pressures by utilizing IT as an enabler in the collaborative fashion value chain.

Business Case

Tommy Hilfiger Group

The Classic American Cool – Tommy Hilfiger is one of the world’s most recognized premium lifestyle brands and one of the largest designer apparel brands globally

Challenges
SAP AFS release upgrade (Europe)
Full set of retail specific functions within SAP AFS (US)
Highlights
Upgrade: ten times faster done than estimated by other SAP service providers
attune Retail Solution: customized and scalable solution on the same SAP system
Benefits
Upgrade: more functionality available and extended support
attune Retail Solution: only one single ERP system supported by one Competence Center. Standardised processes and applications even sharing warehouse premises. Cost reduction on SW licenses and maintenance