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Apparels & Footwares

Apparel and footwear is a demanding business. Companies must contend with the "usual suspects" in the global business environment: relentless pressure on price, cost, and lead time. They also face special challenges in this distinct marketplace: seasonal fluctuation, proliferation of design variations and product characteristics, multiple distribution channels and customer-service requirements, and heavy reliance on outsource manufacturing.

SAP Apparel and Footwear a component of SAP Consumer Products, is uniquely designed to address these industry-specific requirements and overall business drivers. SAP AFS provides functionality targeted directly at apparel, footwear, and home furnishings, including style, color, size, and width, product allocation, and contract manufacturing. It integrates this functionality within a comprehensive, best-practices solution that accommodates the entire scope of corporate business processes – from order through cash settlement – to enable a more effective operation.

NASTEK has developed blocks of functionality around the SAP AFS system and integrated with the standard functionality apart from integrating with external applications like Bar-Coding, Time and Attendance Systems, etc.

The Modules Being Offered Under AFS Solution are:

• Financial Accounting (FI)
• Controlling (CO)
• Materials Management (MM)
• Sales & Distribution (SD)
• Production Planning (PP)
• Quality Management (QM)

Implementation time of 3 to 5 months is targeted for the AFS companies depending upon the size and complexity of the setup.

Key Features of the System

• Sales Forecasting
• Simulation and Comparison of Different Plans
• Replenishment & Distribution Planning
• Compare Capacity Vs Forecast
• Share Information by Season Steps e.g. Design, Prototyping, Sales & Production
• Sample soft copy can be stored for easy retrieval in the form of PDF, TIFF,GIF or JEPG formats using SAP Document Management system
• Handling of seasonality in sales, purchasing and production as well as reporting
• Capabilities of season/ collection/theme handling, e.g. spring/summer, Back-to-School, Halloween or Beach
• Definition of themes for two collections within one season
• Verify component and overhead costs
• Enter relevant information for cost estimate at Style/color/size level
• Product Catalog management
• Manage sales transactions such as opportunities and sales orders
• Enter quantity by color/size
• Support for Make to Order and Make to Stock Scenarios
• Material Requirements Planning matches supply and demand
• Long and mid term planning of capacity, sourcing and distribution
• Either at material or at color/size level
• Increase supply chain visibility and thereby optimize sourcing and production (e.g. determine production site for particular style)
• Monitor sourcing proposal and convert into purchase orders
• Outsource production or single operations with a subcontracting vendor
• Either provide own raw material or have third-party vendors deliver goods to subcontractor
• Monitor stock at subcontractor at color/size level
• Track shipments and report on status during transportation and increase supply chain visibility
• Take action, such as shipping notifications, information on delays, etc
• Allocation is a user-configured tool to sequence sales orders in short stock situations taking into account business or customer rules on order fulfillment
• Rescheduling selects open sales orders and re-invokes an availability check when the stock situation has changed, i.e. new planned or actual goods receipts
• Handling Country Specific requirements
• Ready to use documentations, Training Materials, Master data template, Test Scenarios, Open item template, Reports, Outputs, ADD ON Components etc..