SAP will collaborate with apparel, footwear and accessory companies such as adidas, Luxottica and Tommy Hilfiger to bring a new best practice fashion solution to the marketplace.
Retailers are facing issues in integrating previously siloed inventory information, delays in bringing new stock to market, and difficulties in moving into new markets and channels. The solution aims to tackle these issues by creating a single big data-enabled view of inventory, analysing large data volumes to give a rapidly generated and accurate overview of products. This will enable greater efficiency, faster time to market and better inventory control.
“With this development, we plan to help our fashion customers become truly vertical,” said Lori Mitchell-Keller, global head, industry business unit retail, SAP. “As a result of this planned collaboration, we aim to bring the processes for vertical fashion wholesale, manufacturing and retail into one system using the power of our proven, Big Data-enabled business suite on SAP HANA.”
SAP is working on several aspects of the new solution development with attune Consulting, a global solution and technology provider to the fashion and lifestyle industry.
Group CIO of adidas, Jan Brecht, said the partnership with SAP will enable the company to bring its global wholesale and retail businesses closer together.
