Apparel & Footwear Solution

SAP Business One for the

Apparel & Footwear Industry The SAP Business One Apparel and Footwear application manages your entire business in a

single system. Its affordable, easy to use, and quick to install. Specifically designed for

companies in the fashion industry, the solution will help:

Build strong customer relationships with integrated customer relationship management

Improve efficiency by eliminating data redundancies and errors

Every season, customers and suppliers can be difficult to predict; they shift their focus and market

needs change, but you can respond quickly when youve got all of your business information at your

fingertips. With SAP Business Ones Apparel and Footwear solution you can easily access your

companys data from one place, in real time, with familiar tools and reports. You can see sales,

operations, and financial data, wherever you are, day or night plus workflow-based alerts let you

focus on whats important to you.

Apparel and Footwear for SAP Business One has everything a mid-sized or growing apparel

manufacturer or importer needs.

Features & Functionalities

SAP Business One allows managers and employees to access and use information to make

smart business decisions and stay ahead of the competition. The comprehensive solution

covers all the core operations necessary to run your business successfully.

Business Administration

Financial accounting - handles all financial transactions, including general ledger, account setup

and maintenance, journal entries, foreign currency adjustments and budgets.

Bank transactions - takes care of all financial processing such as cash receipts, check writing,

deposits, advance payments, credit card payments, and bank reconciliation.

Sales and distribution - helps you create price quotes, enter customer orders, set up deliveries,

update stock balances, and manage all invoices and accounts receivables.

Purchasing - manages and maintains vendor contracts and transactions, including issuing purchase

orders, updating in-stock numbers, calculating the value of imported items, handling returns and

credits, and processing payments.

Outlook integration - integrates with Microsoft Outlook so employees can synchronise calendars,

contacts and tasks.

Customer Relationship Management

Sales opportunity management - Records every

sales opportunity, from the first phone call to the

successful close of a transaction.

Business partner management - Controls all

information about customers, resellers, and vendors

including profiles, contact summaries, account

balances, and sales pipeline analysis.

Service management - Enables service operations,

contract management, service planning, tracking of

customer interaction and customer support.

Operations & Distribution

Sales and delivery - season and off-season order entry can be a painful process in fashion

companies. The Apparel and Footwear application allows users to run anything from single to

multi-store or prepack orders using a flexible horizontal matrix entry.

Inventory management - in textile, apparel and footwear companies, SKU and Bill of Material

complexity is a challenge that you face across your supply chain systems.

With Apparel and Footwear for SAP Business Ones dimensional capability, you will be able to

manage your data at the end item level to successfully forecast, plan, and manufacture your product,

delivering the right product and controlling your inventories.

Generate price quotes, enter customer

orders, set up deliveries, update stock

levels, report on customers' current

balances, and manage all billing and

accounts receivables.

Purchasing - manage and maintain your

vendor contracts and transactions

including the issue of purchase orders,

updates to stock quantities, calculations for

the value of imported items, returns and

credits, and payment processing. Handle inventory levels, item

management, price lists,

special price agreements,

Handle inventory levels, item

management, price lists, special

price agreements, transfers

between warehouses, and stock

transactions - all via integration

with other processes like sales

and purchasing.

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

SAP Business Ones Apparel and Footwear PLM collaborative suite of applications facilitate the

management of products from design all the way through to production. It will enable you to innovate

faster every season and its all integrated with the core of SAP Business One.

Product Data Management (PDM) the Product Data Management application is for product-centric

businesses that need to maintain, store and utilise large amounts of product-related data across

company processes.

Manage images, colours, materials, POMs, raw materials and labours for costing, or add sketches, concepts, documentation and images to the style from a file or an existing drawing tool. Once the style cost and pricing are approved, generate SKU information directly from the product data management.

Season and Collection Planning - have visibility of the design process that you need in order to

merchandise new collections at the beginning of each season.

Sourcing - this module provides advanced costing functionality by size and colour, with fully

configurable costing scenarios and comparisons. Costing quotes can be requested from different

vendors and compared for optimal costing scenario approval.

Web PLM - manage styles, colour and materials online. Generate and track requests, purchase

orders, critical path activities, print tech packs and review fitting process. Employee and vendors can

access the same data in real-time to complement the ERP processes.

Sales Force Automation (SFA)

Use the web to grow revenue and provide more services to your customers.

The Apparel and Footwear solution offers web presence for your sales employees and users.

Representatives can enter and track orders, shipments and invoices, and access customer and style

information, while also allowing customers access to season styles.

Web shop experience

Through our apparel merchant and e-commerce experience let your customer pick styles, colours and

other variables in a flexible web store.

Fashion book

In the fashion industry the immediacy and accuracy of the collection can make all the difference. The

fashion book presentation - controlled entirely by merchandising staff at the fashion house - delivers

accurate collection information from the Apparel and Footwear solution, including style, colour options

and inventory availability.

. This information is presented to the customer in a visually appealing,

highly intuitive style on the iPad or

any tablet device platform.

Manufacturing

Material Requirements Planning (MRP) - manage MRP through a wizard-based process that

enables users to define a planning scenario and predict demand based on forecasts.

Warehouse management - handle inventory levels, item management, price lists, special price

agreements, transfers between warehouses and stock transactions.

MRPII and Production for different strategies / organisations - the manufacturing functions

include specific strategies / functions for materials management including order and stock related

production, mixed and variant production as well as the necessary functions for the appropriate

production planning and execution of manufacturing orders.

Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) - APS is used for detailed planning in enterprises if

order times, lead times, transition periods, capacity allocations and availability of resources are critical

parameters in the value creation process. Utilising graphical visualisation and comparison of all

activities with resources, a high level of transparency is achieved, including where and how

intervention is required.

Reporting - create reports for nearly every aspect of your enterprise, including customer and supplier

debt, sales, cash flow, customer-contact summaries, bookkeeping, warehouse stock, financial

statements, pricing, and customer activity.

About SAP

SAP is the worlds leading provider of business software solutions for a variety of different industries.

With over 12 million users in more than 120 countries, and over 100,000 installations and more than

1,300 partners worldwide, SAP is the leading manufacturer of business software solutions and the

worlds third largest independent software provider.

About Sapphire

Sapphire is the global number one partner for SAP Business One and an SAP Gold partner. Since

1993, Sapphire has offered customers wide-ranging practical expertise in selecting and implementing

advanced financial accounting and business management solutions, and today provides software,

services and support for over 800 customers worldwide from their offices in the UK, USA &

Asia-Pacific. Sapphire is a founder member of the British Application Software Developers

Association and was one of the first signatories of the BASDA Green Charter.

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