Sap Fashion Management Solution

SAP FASHION MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
Today customers manage their vertical fashion companies as two different business processes
— design, develop, buy and sell to wholesale customers and to customers through their own
retail channels — using two different SAP systems. Both systems use different data models
and concepts and are integrated through data interfaces.
SAP Fashion Management is an integrated solution to bring the processes for vertical fashion
companies into one system. This solution enables them to manage their business processes
across one large data system landscape. It also enables the companies in the fashion industry
to use the power of in-memory computing to analyse large data volumes for a fast and
accurate overview of products. This results in greater efficiency, quicker time to market, and
better inventory control.
Features
SAP Fashion Management aims at harmonizing the following processes:
 Master data concepts for articles

 Planning and Procurement
 Inventory Management
 ATP or Re-Scheduling and Allocation Run
The solution provides the following features:
 Flexible data processing: The solution supports companies to handle accurate end-to-
end flow of material across all relevant procurement applications. It also enables data
processing based on the characteristic values such as style, color, size, and season,
and other flexible segmentation characteristics such as seasons, sales channels, and so
on.
 Segmentation: The solution allows you to categorize materials or articles based on

their physical and logical characteristics. For example, color and size are physical
characteristics of a fashion article, quality and country of origin are logical
characteristics of a fashion article. Requirement segment is important in sales, for
example in sales orders and planned independent requirements. Stock segments are
used for the logical distribution of the existing physical stock and the future receipts
or procurement proposals, such as purchase requisitions.
 Multichannel planning: You can forecast future demand and procure supplies for
multiple sales channels. You can also manage the demand of different channels
separately, for example retail, wholesale, e-commerce, or franchise, according to the
channel-specific processes. MRP on HANA now supports materials (articles in
Retail) with segmentation. For materials with segmentation, the system executes the
MRP processes based on the rules defined in the segmentation strategy. MRP run
happens at the variant level of the generic article. As a result, separate documents
(purchase requisitions) are created for each of the variant belonging to the same
generic article to fulfil the open requirements at variant level. And the planner or user
must spend lot of time checking or going through multiple documents for variants
belonging to the same generic article. You can enable grouping of purchase
requisition functionality, and during the MRP run the system groups the variants
belonging to same generic article into a single document based on the certain criteria.
 ATP with segmentation: With advanced methods of requirement segmentation and

availability check, you can ensure that high priority channels receive their planned
quantities even if their demand is delayed.
 Season management: You can define the production of fashion wear according to the
season for which it is manufactured. Summer and winter are few examples of seasons.
In the fashion industry, a season belongs to a season year and have collections
associated with it. The collections in turn have themes associated with them. You can
define a validity period for every season. The seasons assigned to the articles are used
or determined in both the sales and the purchasing documents. These seasons can then
be transferred to the follow-on documents such as, outbound or inbound delivery and
billing document.
 Characteristic value conversion: You can represent the value of few characteristics of
a fashion article on different scales for different countries or region. Apart from
defining base characteristic values, the feature allows you to define characteristic
values in different country scales. You can maintain characteristic conversion type
controls which can be country or region-specific identifiers. You can define the
characteristic conversion IDs for an article, customer or vendor, and a user parameter.
 Value added services (VAS): You can request for special labels, packing according to
certain criteria, or other special services for their goods. Depending on the service
requested, additional articles or additional personnel/labour or special skills are
required. These services increase the value of the finished goods, which are being
delivered. You can handle these services including the costs through value added
services in the fashion industry. You can assign the information related to different
services using conditions. Later, the services are determined in the application
documents (sales order, stock transport order, purchase order). During the special
business processes in sales, such as Third Party Order (TPO) and Purchase-to-Order
(PTO), the VAS information is copied to the purchasing documents from the sales
documents and you cannot change the values in the purchasing documents.
 Order allocation run: The unique situation in the fashion industry necessitates an
optimized assignment of existing stock to open requirements (sales orders and stock
transport orders). For example, the allocation run ensures an assignment of the
available stock to the open requirements according to your business requirements
when there is a shortage of stock. The allocation run creates a fixed assignment
between the requirement records, physical stock (batch managed or non-batch
managed) and future receipts. You can only manually undo this assignment. The
allocation run is a process based on rules. You can use the settings to sort the stock or
requirements, release the allocation to decide when each individual requirement
should be processed and the priority.

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SAP FASHION MANAGEMENT SOLUTION

SAP Fashion Management aims at harmonizing the following processes:

 Master data concepts for articles

The solution provides the following features:

 Segmentation: The solution allows you to categorize materials or articles based on

 ATP with segmentation: With advanced methods of requirement segmentation and

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