SAP for AFS

Approach today the tomorrow's challenges

The many challenges of the fashion industry place special demands on IT systems. From seasonal collections to complex distribution and supply systems, from real time production planning to realistic forecasting, there are so many issues that have to be solved in this dynamic industry.

The SAP AFS solution benefits from special features including an “available-to-promise check” function, useful to monitor stocks, production and delivery plans, based on the leads times and for comparing with the customer demand. It is also important to note that special functions like “allocation run”, optimize available stock to certain customers in the perspective of short-stock situations.

With a comprehensive set of functions, SAP AFS brings you the advantage of staying ahead of your competitors and to easily adapt to market changes.

  • Globalization: integrated platform to manage the whole product lifecycle, from design to sales process and outsourcing, collaborative business scenarios, partnerships and licensing agreements: monitor complex processes, independent of time and place.
  • Seasonal changes: monitoring and tracking all changes in seasonal collection products, creating a logistics infrastructure for handling these changes.
  • Design variations and product configuration: manage and analyze a huge amount of critical data (size, style, colour, quality etc.) and calculate the cost of stock keeping units.
  • Multi-sales channels: supports e-selling in both business-to-business and business-to-consumer scenarios.
  • On-demand customer services: automatic order scheduling and back-order processing capabilities, as well as support for all types of rebates and price discounts.
  • Outsourcing: this includes dedicated functions for contracting, overseas - and third-party manufacturing.
  • Extensive analysis: critical internal and external information necessary to run apparel and footwear businesses; accurate analysis of past performance giving you the opportunity to plan realistic goals for the future and set appropriate budgets.