SAP Business One for Sports Apparel: From Order to Delivery

Client Overview

A privately-owned business specializes in sports apparel (Textile & Apparel) personalization and decoration for some of the world’s greatest sporting events, boasting a combined history of 200 years. The Group operates manufacturing units across Europe, including England, Ireland, Spain, Italy, France, and Turkey, and serves 80 countries around the world.

Challenges

As a growing business, they faced numerous challenges with existing legacy systems, including integration with e-commerce platforms, financial consolidation, and intercompany transactions at the Group level. Additionally, They also needed an ERP that could support a large number of SKUs and manage inventory efficiently to speed up the dispatch process.

Why SAP Business One?

The company chose SAP Business One with SilverTouch as a partner for its robust capabilities in handling complex business processes, scalability, and seamless integration with other systems, making it an ideal solution for growing businesses.

Business Benefits

• Auto creation of items and sales orders directly from Magento to SAP.
• Auto creation of respective documents (Items, SO, PO, Delivery, GRPO, Invoices) in intercompany database through BPA automation.
• Manage bulk sales orders and dispatch every day.
• Manage a massive list of SKUs and inventory.
• Easy tracking of stock across the company and orders in lines.
• STTL developed WMS to help warehouse and dispatch management online and offline, further integrating with SAP to reduce duplicity and errors, enhancing effective stock management and better control and visibility across all levels of the process.
• Improved customer service.

The Solution

The company selected SAP Business One, and Silver Touch Technologies led the team through the implementation process from start to completion.

• Designed Inter-Company Process automation.
• Seamless integration with e-commerce.
• Tailored to the business requirements.
• Fully integrated with the SAP solution.

The following SAP modules were implemented in their:

• Accounting and Financials
• Purchasing & Operations
• Inventory & Distribution
• Reporting & Administration

Outcome

The Client had Enhanced operational efficiency and improved customer service & had seamless operations that increased their top & bottom line