Success Story | 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.
What we did
Completed a comprehensive technical migration assessment leveraging the CeleRITE Assessment toolset.
Leveraged CeleRITE’s Code Carve-Out Studio and SAP Custom Code Migration App to identify key objects that will require code optimization and rework along with a forecast on how much can be automated by the CeleRITE tools.
Used CeleRITE to identify processes that can be optimized during the migration and reduce manual efforts.
Conducted key business stakeholder workshops to better understand current process weaknesses and identify opportunities for improvement.
Provided strategic guidance on integration with the new Merch Planning & Allocation system to ensure seamless processes.
Leading North American Apparel Brand
Fashion and Apparel Retail
A leading North American apparel brand seeks to migrate to SAP S/4HANA, aiming to reduce migration costs and timelines while streamlining business processes. Applexus used its CeleRITE platform to conduct an assessment and recommended designing SAP S/4HANA as the foundation for an optimized, integrated Finance & Merch operating model while leveraging Applexus CeleRITE tools to reduce migration timeline and costs. This strategic migration approach can result in cost savings, operational improvements, and a smoother transition to S/4HANA.
S/4HANA assessment with CeleRITE
- CeleRITE assessment conducted to streamline the S/4HANA migration.
- The assessment outcome recommended the Brownfield approach with data reduction as the right strategy.
- Identified Automated migration for 70% of objects.
- CeleRITE identified opportunities to reduce customization by 23% by removing selected custom objects and returning to SAP Standard.
- Recommended a CeleRITE migration process for Roles and Authorizations that will optimize Access Control with minimal rework.
Key benefits
CeleRITE determined 70% of the code can be migrated with our Automation tools , significantly reducing the manual coding effort.
With the recommended Brownfield approach leveraging CeleRITE tools, the development effort including time for object migration and code optimization can be reduced significantly.
Assessed over 1700 RICEF objects. After eliminating unused and duplicates, 194 RICEFs were identified for remediation and simplification, reducing considerably the migration effort.
Applexus recommended adopting SAP Standard functionalities to eliminate 240 custom objects, ensuring future compatibility and reducing custom development needs.
Applexus recommended several improvements to their application landscape as well as many opportunities to reduce their technical debt as they moved to S/4HANA.
Applexus recommendations will lead to improved Merchandising and Financial processes and unlock additional business performance opportunities provided by S/4HANA.