The Future Reference Solution is a fit-for-purpose SAP S/4HANA for Fashion solution, built to your business requirements with leading practice processes
and high-level documentation.
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Customized with your data for an early understanding of SAP S/4HANA Fashion
Working template to test the viability of S/4HANA Fashion for your fashion brand
Prioritizes high-level solution gap identification and analysis for the blueprint
Leverages attune Fashion Suite™ as a base to build and personalize a reference solution to a fashion company's unique requirements. This helps identify potential clusters for harmonization, and determine the future state of your SAP S/4HANA Fashion solution.
Fashion companies will see actual S/4HANA Fashion screens from the start of the program. This way, brands are equipped to start the blueprint phase with an enriched, better-defined template, supported by high-level documentation covering key areas such as "TO BE" business processes, enhancements and integrations.
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Greatly minimizes the risk associated with ERP roll-outs by serving as a reference solution to demonstrate how SAP S/4HANA Fashion handles a brand’s business processes and provide insights into how new processes will impact the organization.
As the co-innovation partner of SAP Fashion Management and close collaborator of SAP S/4HANA Fashion, the Future Reference Solution (FRS) is a result of our leading practice methods and in-depth knowledge.
Extends beyond a generic industry template by including fashion-specific business processes around seasonality, segmentation and order allocation.
Utilizes attune Fashion Suite™ – bringing proven practice processes out of the box and keeps brands in line with SAP S/4HANA practices.
Can be reused in the blueprint phase - increasing delivery quality, expediting the timeline and minimizing efforts during the entire course of the program.
Templates includes end-to-end business processes along with RICEF’s and industry add-ons, which typically meets 50%-60% of a fashion brand's requirements.
Utilizes fashion industry specific best practices across wholesale, retail and manufacturing to innovate continuously and deploy solutions faster.
Supports an accelerated and templated “why not” approach, complete with business process/solution documentation and technical/functional documents.
Validates potential clusters for convergence or divergence for the development of reference process documents to be utilized in the blueprint phase.
Brand-specific data can be added to the Future Reference Solution, along with a brand's major in-scope processes to enhance validation in the subsequent phases.
Drives the Global High-Level Design/Validation phase with a higher quality template, complete with prebuilt configurations, test cases and gap analysis.
Process issues are addressed during the FRS program and prior to the Global Design phase to drive the adoption of a tailored SAP S/4HANA Fashion solution.
Helps to rapidly validate and adopt processes by documenting 'TO BE' business processes prior to the blueprint phase for less risk and lower cost.
All FRS material can be leveraged to plan, prepare and conduct the Blueprint, as integration points and detailed customization have already been identified.
Adds lead time to address items that can impact scope/timeline, minimizing business interruption and accelerating resumption of daily operations.
Provides an initial understanding of how proposed changes will impact the people, processes, and technology across various brands and departments of a fashion company.
Increases early adoption, and “grows” a group of super users who will be used as trainers for post-go-live support, eliminating the need for a separate phase of User Adoption Training.
Starts the blueprint phase with a high-level design template - saving significant time, cost and effort due to the legwork completed during the FRS phase.
Helps be more prepared with proven set of tools and methods, driving standardization across all units and brands for best-in-class design.
An early understanding of S/4HANA Fashion helps assess the viability of the solution to meet a brand's unique global and local requirements, as well as challenges in the omnichannel world.
