S/4HANA Migration Assessment for a Leading North American Apparel Brand

Company Profile

The customer is a well-established North American apparel retailer with 1200+ Stores across the USA, known for offering a wide range of fashion products, including clothing, accessories, and footwear. With a strong retail and online presence across North America, the company serves a diverse customer base, consistently adapting to trends and consumer preferences. Their focus is on delivering high-quality apparel while enhancing operational efficiency and expanding their digital capabilities.

Objective

The client needed help building their roadmap and plans to migrate to SAP S/4HANA. To justify the project, they needed a value case for how they would leverage multiple business improvements, including an initiative to implement a new Merchandise Planning & Allocation solution. This solution would provide an opportunity to streamline integrations and optimize their end-to-end Merch and Logistics business processes. Additionally, they needed a plan to update their SAP analytics and POSDM solutions.

Key Challenges

• Significant changes required to the Merchandise Ordering Process.
• Handling transaction codes deprecated with a move to S/4HANA.
• Resolving data sources for Analytics impacted by the migration.
• Transitioning to Business Partner in S/4HANA.
• Understanding code currently used in production.
• Suboptimized application landscape with decades of technical debt.
• Managing diverse processes across multiple brands and addressing manual tasks in Asset Accounting.

To address these challenges, the client conducted a comprehensive S/4HANA assessment leveraging the Applexus CeleRITE toolset, an AI powered platform for comprehensive S/4HANA migrations. The assessment explored the various migration options available and identified the right approach that would save them significant time and cost.