Modernizing Fashion Manufacturing: Thailand-Based Apparel Manufacturer Drives Business Transformation with SAP S/4HANA® Fashion Manufacturing
This apparel manufacturer specializing in sportswear for major label brands is headquartered in Thailand, with trading offices in Hong Kong and Singapore. Its manufacturing facilities span across Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
The company is growing rapidly and needed to unify information across its operations and improve its capability to respond to customer requirements in real time. To achieve this, it chose SAP S/4HANA for Fashion and Vertical Business for Manufacturing as a way to unify processes across operations and geographies.
Project Highlights:
- Rizing Fashion Suite: The company used Fashion Suite – a preconfigured solution on S/4HANA Fashion to accelerate the implementation
- Project Approach: Global blueprint was designed with phased roll out; phase 1 implementation included Hong Kong, Singapore and Thailand and subsequent roll outs included Vietnam and Cambodia
- Global Knowledge + Local Expertise: Rizing partnered with local system integrator for the implementation
The Business Case for SAP S/4HANA Fashion – Manufacturing
Rapid Growth
To support rapid growth and respond to disruption in the marketplace, the company required a single platform to connect the whole value chain. The objective was to seamlessly transmit data across internal departments and entities and eliminate data duplication.
Leading Practices
To face the current market realities, the company needed a platform that provided industry leading practices across the organization. SAP S/4HANA provided a digital core with the ability to extend and expand as business requirements evolve.
Complete Integration
The legacy system made it difficult to respond to customer requirements in real-time. With S/4HANA, the company will be able to enhance efficiency, complete visibility of processes, and improve responsiveness to customers.
Operational Excellence
The company needed to deploy automation tools where applicable for key business areas resulting in optimization of resources.
The Result
- A proven platform that will support the group’s long-term growth strategy
- All manufacturing and trading locations on a single platform help bring visibility and a single version of truth
- 40% of Delivery, Shipment and Invoicing transactions are processed through electronic data
- Integrated solution that enables requirements calculation and procurement derived from net requirements
- Improved order fulfillment on time facilitated via fully integrated enterprise solution
- 50% reduction in customer response time from order receipt to confirmation
- Platform for quick, efficient replication, extension/rollout of new businesses
- Improved decision making via alerts and system triggers
- Increase of a merchandiser’s ability to handle customer orders
- More efficient system means users can spend more time on business-critical activities
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