SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) and SAP AFS !!

By: S.Suren

In my previous post I listed out a few important things about SCM and the basics that need to be followed to build a efficient Supply Chain Management model. In relation to that post I would like to discuss the importance of SRM (Supplier Relationship Management). This is not a very widely spoken about subject simply because CRM has taken the spotlight away from this since the golden rule “customers are king” is more prominent in any industry and thats why the sources of supply have not been given that much of attention than the receiving party, the customer.

However, the impact of a good SRM model would definitely help in providing world class customer service. So then, let’s look at SRM in a little more detail in the context of the Apparel Industry.

SRM is more likely to play a vital role in the manufacturing companies and especially those that have very complicated products, and this is exactly what the AFS Industry is all about. Given the unique fashion needs of each and every individual it’s only apparent that this leads to complex BOM Structures that go into producing the garments that caters to these needs.

Given that fact, it’s likely that there are many suppliers that the manufacturing company will need to work with in the most efficient manner to make sure that they receive the right materials at the right quantity and quality to be able to produce quality garments and deliver them to the market at the right time.

In the AFS Industry even a simple BOM (Bill of Material) Structure for a garment would have many different components in it, for example, the button, the thread, the elastic, the embroidery material, the fabric, the embellishments etc etc.

So then how does that SAP Standard R/3 and AFS Solution caters to these needs, below is a listing of some of them:

• Sorting and Vendor ranking criteria – This option in SAP AFS proposed the best vendor to assign the purchase requisition to , based on the criteria’s specified in here.

• AFS Specific Criteria for Vendor Ranking: These include criterias such as Factory Status, Complexity Factor and Lowest ‘FOB’.

• Ability to use Fixed Criterias (AFS Enhancement available) – Using this option you can also rank and maintain the best vendor to buy from taking into account criterias such as , vendor capacity, quotas the vendor is subject to and political restrictions placed on vendors that are from a particular region.

• Complexity Factors – using this option you can judge the extent to which the vendor has the ability to be able to produce a material that requires complex production steps.

• Route Determination (AFS Enhancement available) – Even the move time, lead time and shipping types can be maintained.

• Subcontracting – With the inclusion of being able to set preference sub. Indicator for those vendors who use provision components in the material that is supplied to you.

So there you go, these are just some of the functions available. It can be argued that the information from transactions done with suppliers can be retrieved and reported in tools available in modules such as BI and FI. Perhaps in my future posts I shall discuss on these aspects.

Hope you found this post informative. Feel free to contact me on ssurenlk@msn.com if you have any queries.

For more information of features avaible on supplier management, click here.

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SAP AFS Specials !!

This post is in response to the mails I have got from my readers, to list out the key features of SAP AFS IS that distinguishes it from the standard SAP R/3 offerings.

SAP® Apparel and Footwear (SAP® AFS) is SAP's solution for the apparel and footwear industry, which meets challenges in the trade like managing the enormous volumes of data that come with ever-increasing design variations, the changing seasons, and huge numbers of Stock Keeping Units (SKUs). Challenges like creating effective marketing strategies that convince business customers and consumers to buy your lines despite increasing competition and price transparency. Challenges like managing collaborative business scenarios, partnerships, and licensing agreements. And challenges like dealing with vertical integration as manufacturers venture into retailing and as retailers expand into production.

SAP Apparel & Footwear Solution

Industry Introduction

The Apparel & Footwear Industry is a challenging industry where trends are created overnight and fashion changes very variably, there is growing pressure on the companies involved in this industry to efficiently manage all the networks and interlinks of the supply and value chain and related operations that go into delivering the final product to consumer at the right time.

The AFS Industry puts a considerable strain on the monitoring of domestic and foreign production thereby creating a complicated value chain that can be the deciding factor in determining the bottom line.

The AFS Industry puts a considerable strain on the monitoring of domestic and foreign production thereby creating a complicated value chain that can be the deciding factor in determining the bottom line.

A common practice in this industry has been the outsourcing process powered by high levels of division of labour. These practices have been the greatest cost-cutting drivers in the production process of companies in this industry.

With a spread out of production sites around the world, the importance of supervising and monitoring these production sites have become more challenging, especially with the increase in transport costs and meeting sales deadlines.

The core processes in this industry such as raw material planning & procurement, new product designs & innovations, production efficiency, coordination and control, are taking on more and more importance and therefore more often than not are centralized.

Initiation of SAP AFS Industry Solution

In January 1996, the SAP Munich development group began developing an industry solution to cater to the needs of the apparel and footwear industries and this was to be delivered by December 1997 and that was when SAP Apparel and Footwear Solution was delivered.

The new solution was developed in conjunction with such industry leaders as Reebok International Ltd and VF Corp and today this Industry Solution is being used by more than 60+ SAP AFS Customers worldwide.

SAP AFS enables you to benefit from the latest SAP technology and infrastructure enhancements. It continues to be the obvious choice for companies operating in the apparel and footwear sector.

SAP AFS Solution Characteristics

• Ability to Handle Grids

The main addition that SAP AFS gives to the standard SAP Solution is the ability to handle sizes. This is defined in the system as Grids. SAP AFS is also designed keeping in mind the details involved in production, procurement, sales & distribution and materials in an Apparel Environment.

SAP AFS is presently been categorized under the “Consumable Products” in SAP’s List of Products. Though SAP AFS Solution is primarily used in the Apparel & Footwear sector, given its design the features it also serves other industries such as jewellery and furnitures as the solution provides the ability to handle sizes.

• Seasonality in SAP AFS

Season play a very important role in the product life cycle of the apparel industry. Since apparel is very much dependant on the season, the planning and production carried out needs to be aligned with the demand of the relevant season.

The seasonality functionality is an integral part of the Sales & Distribution Module in the SAP AFS Solution. This functionality is integrated together with the ability to handle grids, thereby providing a broader usage scope of the functionality itself.

Seasons in AFS also include the ability to maintain collections and themes for each season. The presence of these features help in further classification of the offering for a season apart from providing a concept for each category of product offering.

• AFS Categories

It’s a known fact that there are large volumes of data involved with maintaining AFS Materials. This is where categories come in to logically segment materials. The categories that are usually maintained in the AFS Industry is based on the quality level, type of customer and regional requirements.

These categories are of 2 types:

• Requirement Categories

• Stock Categories

These categories are used in the Material Master with the coverage strategy assigned to it. The coverage strategy determines how the requirements categories are assigned to the stock categories. This assignment takes place during the availability check, the MRP and the allocation run.

The 3 main characteristics above is what distinguishes the highlighting features that SAP AFS IS has when compared to standard SAP R/3.

I hope you found this post, informative and interesting. Your suggestions and queries are welcome at suren@erparena.com.

A few Other SAP AFS Article on this site :

Challenges in the Apparel Industry : Article 1 / Article 2 / Article 3

For more SAP AFS Artciles click on the labels section (right hand side).

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Challenges in the Apparel Industry and SAP’s Solutions for them – Article 3:

By S.Suren

Continuing from my previous posts, I shall in this article give you more insight into the challenges faced by companies in the Apparel & Footwear Industry and how SAP AFS Industry Solution caters to them.

• Poor on time delivery


This is a common problem in the AFS Manufacturing Environment, especially for those companies that have overseas operations and have a lengthy supply chain. Delivery dates of the final product is a crucial deadline given the ever so quickly changing fashion trends, and not to the mention the cost of alternative means of transport selected at the last minute to stick to delivering the product on time.

Given this condition SAP AFS has some useful functionality that caters to these needs:

Allocation Run – also known famously as ARUN, this allocation procedure helps determines the best usage of the existing stocks to meet the requirements of those sales orders that would deliver the best return in terms of customer satisfaction. This function is quite unique to the AFS Environment, as it provides many different built in rules and definable rules that are very much in line with the process built in and around the Sales & Distribution functions of the AFS Industry.

Order scheduling Strategy is an additional process in AFS SD processing that helps to optimize the delivery dates for each item. You can define rules to take account of special customer requests or general business requirements. This process also serves in allocating inventory to key customers in liaison with the Allocation Run procedure described above.


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Challenges in the Apparel Industry and SAP’s Solutions for them – Article 2

By S.Suren

As promised in my previous posts I have posted this article to give you more insight into the challenges faced by companies in the Apparel & Footwear Industry and how SAP AFS Industry Solution caters to them.

Excess/redundant inventory or Stock shortages/out of stock

This is quite a familiar occurring scenario in the AFS Industry. It is understood that given the variations in demand patterns in this industry it is likely that the related functions of apparel manufacturers such as procurement and production will have to cater to these variations as much as possible in the most efficient manner.

Given this condition SAP AFS has some useful functionality that caters to these needs:

Material Substitution – This is a function in SAP Sales & Distribution that allows substitution of one material for another within a sales order. The importance of this functionality is that by allowing for substitutions during times of more than expected customer demands, the company can avoid lost sales and helps increase and maintain/or customer satisfaction with on time deliveries.

Availability Check – This is standard function in SAP which helps to identify if there is are available stocks to satisfy the schedule line’s requirements based on the delivery date. If there is not enough stocks it would then check when there will be enough stocks available and will confirm a new delivery date based on the availability.

Over/Under delivery tolerance levels is a standard functionality that SAP provides to avoid having shortages or excess stocks in your inventory. With SAP AFS this can be monitored at SKU level.

ATP Check with the AFS Component – With this function you can view whenever the item is either not available or not completely available in the system. With SAP AFS you can view this information from the system on an AFS Overview Screen that shows the availability status at the SKU levels. With the AFS component multiple schedule lines can be checked during ATP runs at SKU Levels.

Reservation in MM – This standard function allows you to make reservations on certain materials so that it can be used at a later date for a special purpose. This way you can avoid the stock outs that could occur in the future when demand is higher than expected and there is not enough specific stocks to meet the demand. With SAP AFS this processing of reservations can be done at SKU Level.

I shall keep posting more on this area in the future. Hope you found this posts informative.

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Challenges in the Apparel Industry and SAP’s Solutions for them – Article 1:

By S.Suren

Challenges in the Apparel Industry and SAP's Solutions for them:

Optimizing service levels

Service levels with any industry is about servicing customer at a higher level than competitors to make them come back to you, and its no different with the apparel industry. Given the complexities of operating in a fashion conscious industry, with new fashion lines staying in stores for a week before they go out of fashion, it is only understandable on how much pressure the end retailers would have to go through, to service their customers and in turn the amount the pressure they would be passing on to their vendors to support them in maintaining a high service level.

Let’s look at how SAP AFS has been designed to help with this aspect:

Order scheduling Strategy is an additional process in AFS SD processing that helps to optimize the delivery dates for each item. You can define rules to take account of special customer requests or general business requirements.

Distribution Rules – This way you can decide on how to fulfill the multi store orders of your important customers.

Value-Added Services – Using this function in SAP AFS you can add those services or products to the final product that is being delivered to the customer as per the customer’s requirement. By having a clear cut strategy with the value additions made to the product, it helps identifying each operation that go into delivering the value added service and charging a identifiable price for it.

Multi-Store Order – Using this function you can satisfy the requirements of you large corporate customers who have multiple stores with individual requirements for different stores.

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Streamlining operations for efficiency

It is a known fact that the logistics operation involved with the apparel industry is one of the most complex and longest sequence of networked operations, given this it is extremely important that valuable time, money and effort is not used in sorting out issues resulting from operating with a such a complicated chain. Hence it is important that you have the right tools and practices built in the chain to make sure issues are highlighted and sorted out at the earliest.

Lean Warehouse Management - Use of reduced functionality of the warehouse management (WM) in simply structured warehouses without inventory management in storage bins.

Source Allocation – This tool is to optimize your procurement activities. As a supplier/recipient relation it supports the control and organization of your business-related and interenterprise procurement structures.

Vendor Capacity Planning – its just so common in this industry where you work with vendors who are located far away from your operating plants. In this case every transaction with them is extremely important in relation to the time and cost involved in procurements reaching its destination. This is where vendor capacity planning really helps this industry.

More on this post to follow soon. Hope you found this informative and interesting. Your comments and suggestions are welcome at ssurenlk@msn.com.

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SRM and SAP AFS

By: S.Suren

In my previous post I listed out a few important things about SCM and the basics that need to be followed to build a efficient Supply Chain Management model. In relation to that post I would like to discuss the importance of SRM (Supplier Relationship Management).

This is not a very widely spoken about subject simply because CRM has taken the spotlight away from this since the golden rule “customers are king” is more prominent in any industry and thats why the sources of supply have not been given that much of attention than the receiving party, the customer.

However, the impact of a good SRM model would definitely help in providing world class customer service. So then, let’s look at SRM in a little more detail in the context of the Apparel Industry.

SRM is more likely to play a vital role in the manufacturing companies and especially those that have very complicated products, and this is exactly what the AFS Industry is all about. Given the unique fashion needs of each and every individual it’s only apparent that this leads to complex BOM Structures that go into producing the garments that caters to these needs.

Given that fact, it’s likely that there are many suppliers that the manufacturing company will need to work with in the most efficient manner to make sure that they receive the right materials at the right quantity and quality to be able to produce quality garments and deliver them to the market at the right time.

In the AFS Industry even a simple BOM (Bill of Material) Structure for a garment would have many different components in it, for example, the button, the thread, the elastic, the embroidery material, the fabric, the embellishments etc etc.

So then how does that SAP Standard R/3 and AFS Solution caters to these needs, below is a listing of some of them:

• Sorting and Vendor ranking criteria – This option in SAP AFS proposed the best vendor to assign the purchase requisition to , based on the criterias specified in here.

• AFS Specific Criteria for Vendor Ranking -These include criterias such as Factory Status, Complexity Factor and Lowest ‘FOB’.

• Ability to use Fixed Criterias (AFS Enhancement available) – Using this option you can also rank and maintain the best vendor to buy from taking into account criterias such as , vendor capacity, quotas the vendor is subject to and political restrictions placed on vendors that are from a particular region.

• Complexity Factors – using this option you can judge the extent to which the vendor has the ability to be able to produce a material that requires complex production steps.

• Route Determination (AFS Enhancement available) – Even the move time, lead time and shipping types can be maintained.

• Subcontracting – With the inclusion of being able to set preference sub. Indicator for those vendors who use provision components in the material that is supplied to you.

So there you go, these are just some of the functions available. It can be argued that the information from transactions done with suppliers can be retrieved and reported in tools available in modules such as BI and FI. Perhaps in my future posts I shall discuss on those aspects.

Hope you found this post informative. Feel free to contact me on ssurenlk@msn.com if  you have any queries.

For more information of features available on supplier management, click here.

Have a nice day!!

Business Intelligence & Warehouse solutions with SAP AFS

By: S.Suren


Its fair enough that SAP AFS IS in mainly built into modules such as MM, SD and PP but what about the business intelligence modules, such as SAP SEM and SAP BW. It is arguable that these are standard modules and its relevance in the AFS Environment would be determined by the method in which it is used to access the relevant information and project it on a management dashboard; however given an AFS environment what would be the norms of generating such information from SAP SEM and SAP BW?

Let’s look at a few of the areas in which SAP Business Intelligence Modules could be in relevance with SAP AFS IS installations:

Manage Strategic Planning

Given a manufacturing environment SBUs are normally the factory (plants). Therefore critical strategic business level information can be set as KPIs of these plants and can be monitored, analyzed and controlled.

The KPIs measures that are devised can be turned into financial relevant information, such as SBUs Revenue/ Cost of Production of a particular sales order style etc. This information would form the base for calculating ROCE and making comparisons possible with target rates.

Based on the planning and forecast of possible sales order the user can use this projection to compare information such as SBUs ROCE, RM Efficiency Usage with targets and the future trends of the type of production activity that will take place for the next 10 years etc.

Since in AFS the inventory management function plays a key role, information on stock value and working capital management is crucial. Using information such as stock holding days, lead time in receipt of payments etc, and SAP BI tools could perhaps provide a clear guide on the current efficiency of these functions and help in analyzing problematic areas.

The SBU information can be analyzed together and therefore form company wide figures to make it possible to keep track of strategic goals set company wide. Keeping this in mind lets move on to the area of Analyzing operations.

Analyze operations against strategic goals

The operations in the relevant SBU need to be maintained. All issues such as supply of raw material to the plants can be monitored and strategic decisions can be made.

SAP BI tools could help to obtain a timely insight into making strategic decisions. This is brought to the attention of senior managers via dash boards etc. Using this output the top management have a snapshot view of how the strategic decisions made have contributed towards the results achieved.

Monitor KPI

As per the present needs in the AFS Industry, BI tools could serve the purpose of monitoring KPIs on a regular basis and project those using Management Dashboards.

KPIs from Production Floor Operations to lead times of receiving payments from customers can be monitored and projected using the Management Cockpit option. The definition of KPI’s, Performance Measures & Objectives is what would reflect the usefulness of the SAP BI solution.

Business critical information such as :

• Write off values occurring at SBUs.
• The Idle time of Raw Material and its relevant holding costs can be monitored and controlled.
• Quality Defects % or Numbers per cluster of garments produced can be analyzed in comparison to target rates.
• On time deliveries done at SBUs can be monitored and projected on management dashboards using speedometers, graphs and/or tables.

The main criteria that would determine the successful implementation of a proper SAP BI solution would be the ability to retrieve relevant data using the various data sources available in the organization.

Respond to business needs

If you are the seller you can identify the sales for the different regions and different product lines perhaps based on the type of style sold and the different stature groups. As in AFS the statures can be maintained in many age groups, this could also be used as a measure in determining the target market and identifying trends.

Hope this post gave you an introductory insight into the potential of a SAP BI solution in the context of a SAP AFS installation, however, more importantly as the KPI’s and Measures that could be setup in an AFS environment are in abundance, its all about identifying and prioritizing them accordingly.

Also note that this post is just to emphasis on the different potential areas SAP BIW could add value to the SAP AFS solution, the best approach and method to do it; I will leave it to the technical experts in the subject.

Your comments are welcome at ssurenlk@msn.com

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S.Suren

Fashion Conscious !!

By S.Suren



Fashion is one thing that will never stop changing, there are designs being churned out just about everyday, a new design needs to go through the entire cycle from design to development to delivery at the shortest time possible to make sure the market is still there for it, that’s how fast paced this industry is.

What more, with the complexity of having different customer demands from different regions and to match and satisfy this, it just makes the whole process more cumbersome and to say the least, close to creating a chaotic situation.

The many demands of the AFS industry places a crushing strain on the IT system that is to support it, which is why it is very important that the right IT System that can withstand this pressure is selected for the job.

With the general perception that any IT system that would cater to this requirement is likely to be complex too, let look at what SAP has to offer with its unique Apparel & Footwear solution.

First of all, we need to understand that SAP AFS Solutions in itself is a new addition comparatively to the other SAP Industry Solutions available. However, it is one of those solutions that have come through leaps and bound to cater to the requirement of an industry that demands a lot. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to many when SAP AFS Consultants are in high demand out there, especially given the demand for SAP AFS.

Enough of the pep talk I guess, lets get to the facts now!!

Take for example a NIKE T-Shirt which has 3 different fabrics, more than 3 colors, many NIKE swooshes (by the way this initially cost the NIKE Founders $35 to get it done) with an excellent finish to it, a cool hang tag, a stunning heat seal and of course, the price tag attached to it.

Remember, all these items in the Nike T-Shirts were miles apart from each other, perhaps in different continents to say the least, just maybe a few days before it arrived at the store.

Now imagine the amount of coordination and commitment that would have gone into producing this finished good, that’s where SAPs AFS Solution comes into the picture.

The SAP AFS Solution provides the right tools to manage your entire supply chain from the initial purchasing of raw material to the final delivery of the finished product.

It supports the large amount of transaction processing in the system that is only normal in this industry. The Bill of Material would have at least a 6 level hierarchy for a simple one piece garment with no designs or maybe even no buttons, I’ll let it to your imagination to guess the structure of a BOM for the Nike T-Shirt mentioned above.

SAP’s AFS Solution helps in maintaining the right on time coordination with suppliers and customers, the different agreements laid out with them and the most effective purchasing and payment integration.

It is also of utmost importance that the right planning tool is made available in this environment so that production and procurement are done right on time to meet the deadlines, using SAP AFS PP, with the flexible master data structure it is simply a matter of defining dimensional matrices with an unlimited number of dimension combinations for purchasing, production, and sales.

Inventory & Warehouse Management are other 2 very important areas in which the SAP AFS Solution stands out, given the nature of the industry where a low value item as a plain white button could be eating up a high amount of overhead and holding costs, it is only obvious to make sure that these items are brought in only when they are needed, if this is just for buttons, how important would it be to track 100s of layers of fabrics brought in for production, that’s precisely where you would want a system to keep you on the dot !!!

With world famous brands such as Adidas, Reebok, Fornari and Triumph in their customer lists, it just goes to show how highly the SAP AFS Solution is regarded.

References:

An analyst at Gartner Inc., said “no other major application vendor offers a packaged suite for the apparel industry.”

In my future posts I shall discuss on how Customer Management and Business Intelligence Management is catered to in the SAP AFS Solution.

If you have any suggestions or comments, feel free to mail me on ssurenlk@msn.com.

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SAP AFS Industry Solution !!

By.S.Suren

It is well known that SAP had an integrated single solution to offer to all industries prior to the SAPPHIRE in 1994/95; it was during this event that SAP realized the importance of catering to each industry individually as all of them had their own unique way of doing business.

This brought into existence solutions that cater to 21 Industries, and one of its latest additions being the SAP Apparel & Footwear Sector Industry Solution. This solution caters not only to the Apparel and footwear but also to home furnishing, product allocation and contract manufacturing.

Given the nature of this industry where trends are created overnight SAP had to design the right solution that would take into account at most the various process complexities that are associated with this industry whilst still maintaining integration across all functional areas of the solutions.

Let’s look at a few things that SAP AFS IS has to offer:

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

As most often that not, SCM is at the spotlight again, proving its prominence in the manufacturing environment. With the SAP AFS solution you can maintain and keep track of the entire supply chain from procurement of raw materials to delivery of the final product.

A counter argument to this would be that, this is somewhat of a general comment and all other ERPs also would give you this trackability, however in SAP AFS with the use of specific Material Management Features such as “Source Allocation”, “Quota Check” and” Factory Status” helps with the operations involved in the procurement of raw materials.

Other features such as “Route Determination” and “Subcontracting” contribute with keeping track of operations related to deliveries and subcontracting respectively. Another feature designed specially in the SAP AFS Solution is the ability to use season logic in order processing with the use of basic data such as season indicator, season table etc.

CUSTOMER MANAGEMENT

This term is more affiliated with the service industry environment and given that customers in this industry are among the most demanding, its only natural that there is a lot of attention given to activities contributing to generating customer satisfaction.

SAP AFS provides special features when it comes to back order processing and automatic order scheduling. The other flexible options such as AFS Standard Sale price, factor price and 2 date pricing cater to the complexities of pricing methods followed in the AFS Environment.

MASS DATA PROCESSING

Given the nature of the AFS industry and all the operations that goes into converting a plain roll of fabric into a dazzling lingerie that would be worn by the next super model, it is only obvious that the amount of data to be maintained in the system would be overwhelming.

SAP AFS takes this aspect into account by providing a flexible master data structure and helps to simplify the time-consuming mass data change that would take place in this industry.

There are lot more features such as the ability of E-Business models and Enterprise Portal to help with specific operations in the AFS Industry and the importance of Corporate Performance Management Information and how the AFS Solutions caters to this need.

In my future posts I shall discuss the above in more details and other specific features that SAP AFS IS has to offer.

Hope you found this post informative.

Have a nice day. Feel free to contact me on ssurenlk@msn.com

I recommend that you also visit: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_afs50/helpdata/en/b2/53ae56cda511d2aca20000e829fbfe/frameset.htm

for more information on SAP AFS IS details.

Birth of SAP AFS !!

Hi All,

Upon request from some readers and being in the AFS Domain myself, I shall also update this site with relevant information on SAP AFS.

Starting off I will be posting a few articles I had already posted on some other AFS sites, so please bear with me if you have already read these.

Many people wonder how SAP AFS IS was conceptualized. There needed to be some sort of an activity that spurred the development of the SAP AFS Industry Solution.

This initiation was taken by Dr.Peter Zencke in January 1996. Dr. Peter Zencke, a mathematician and economist, joined SAP in 1984. As a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG since 1993, he has led major development areas for SAP R/3 and SAP industry solutions.

In January 1996, he called on the SAP Munich development group to develop an industry solution to cater to the needs of the apparel and footwear industries and this was to be delivered by December 1997 and voila the SAP Apparel and Footwear Solution was born.

The new solution was developed in conjunction with such industry leaders as Reebok International Ltd and VF Corp and today this solution is being used by more than 60+ SAP AFS Customers worldwide.

There you go, thanks to initiative taken by people like Dr.Peter Zencke that SAP Continues to dominate in the world of ERPs and consistently spring out solutions for emerging industries.

Hope you found this post informative and interesting.

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S.Suren

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