Luxury Fashion Brand Accelerates Global Agility on SAP S/4HANA Fashion & Retail with CeleRITE
Overview
A leading global luxury footwear and fashion organization undertook a major transformation journey to overcome the constraints of fragmented legacy platforms and outdated retail systems. With complex operations spanning retail, wholesale, and e-commerce channels, persistent inventory inaccuracies, and inflexible integrations, the business required a modern, unified digital core. By partnering with Applexus and leveraging the CeleRITE AI-driven platform, the organization migrated to SAP S/4HANA Fashion and Retail to streamline order fulfilment, enhance customer experience, and adapt swiftly to evolving business demands.
Key Challenges
- Outdated legacy systems limited the company’s scalability and global responsiveness, causing bottlenecks as business needs changed.
- Fragmented platforms resulted in inefficiencies, inconsistent processes, and duplicate efforts across diverse business models.
- Inaccurate inventory data led to order fulfilment issues and disrupted the end-to-end customer experience.
- Rigid, difficult-to-maintain integrations slowed down adaptation to market shifts and new business requirements.
Solution
Applexus leveraged a Selective Migration approach, moving only business-critical and legally required data from the legacy SAP AFS environment to S/4HANA Fashion. This eliminated decades of accumulated technical debt, redundant configurations, and obsolete customizations while preserving essential historical data for compliance and analytics. By combining Selective migration and CeleRITE’s AI-powered Code and Data Transformation Studio, the migration achieved a significant reduction in data footprint and custom code, establishing a clean core foundation that accelerates future innovation.
Client
A leading global luxury footwear and fashion brand
Solution
Selective Migration approach
At a glance
A leading global luxury footwear and fashion brand modernized its fragmented, legacy retail ecosystem by partnering with Applexus
Facing scalability limits, inventory inaccuracies, and rigid integrations across retail, wholesale, and e-commerce channels, the organization adopted SAP S/4HANA Fashion and Retail.
Using Applexus’ CeleRITE, an AI-powered platform for accelerated S/4HANA migrations, the transformation unified operations, enhanced inventory accuracy, and reduced technical debt, enabling faster fulfilment, better customer experience, and agility in adapting to changing market demands.
- Unified Digital Retail Core: Integrated previously disconnected retail, wholesale, and e-commerce systems into one agile S/4HANA Fashion and Retail platform for consistent, end-to-end operations.
- AI-Driven Code Optimization: Used CeleRITE’s AI capabilities to identify and eliminate redundant custom code, reducing system complexity and ensuring easier upgrades.
- Automated, Insight-Driven Operations: Deployed automation across inventory, reconciliation, and analytics processes, delivering real-time visibility, accuracy, and faster decision-making.
- Flexible API-Led Integrations: Introduced modular, API-based connections leveraging SAP Integration Suite to replace rigid interfaces, streamlining order orchestration and enabling rapid adaptation to new business models.
- Intelligent Data Governance: Implemented centralized governance with AI-led data quality checks, ensuring reliable master data and consistent reporting across global markets.
- Scalable Global Template: Developed a reusable SAP template supporting rapid rollouts, compliance alignment, and operational standardization across regions.
- Compliance-Driven Role Optimization: Streamlined user access and eliminated obsolete roles, strengthening system security posture and reducing licensing costs.
Major Benefits Realized
- Unified, Modernized Core: Delivered a harmonized S/4HANA environment that optimizes processes, reduces duplication, and enhances system performance.
- Reduced Technical Debt: Retired obsolete custom objects and interfaces, cutting maintenance costs and improving agility for future upgrades.
- Accurate, Real-Time Inventory: Achieved precise stock visibility across channels, enabling dependable fulfilment and superior customer experience.
- Omni-channel Agility: Enabled plug-and-play integrations with digital commerce platforms, ensuring synchronized operations and consistent customer engagement.
- Smarter Procurement & Planning: Enhanced forecasting, procurement, and fulfilment efficiency with predictive analytics and real-time ATP capabilities.
- Faster Expansion & Compliance: Leveraged the reusable global template for accelerated market rollouts and consistent compliance across geographies.
