We put together a sample business case that highlights direct cost benefits as well as other areas that can drive significant value to your organization.

• Use this model as a baseline to build your own business case and help with the evaluation of SAP Application Managed Services
• Learn how SAP AMS can extend and optimize your IT environment to generate more value from your application portfolio

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Consumers don’t shop like they used to. E-commerce has soared, yet people don’t shop exclusively via digital channels — they also make purchases in stores. This means retailers must have their technology in a place where it not only allows them to embrace omnichannel shopping but also win in omnichannel.

Download our whitepaper to learn more about how integrated processes can help transform your fashion brand into an adaptable global business while helping increase revenue, margin and efficiency.

You will be able to identify:

• Why digital ERP technology is key to meeting shopper needs
• The benefits of implementing digital ERP tools like SAP S/4HANA
• Why Carhartt turned to SAP S/4HANA Fashion

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Start with the end in mind.

The first step in your SAP S/4HANA implementation project – is understanding your business objectives and clearly defining expected outcomes. Your leaders have objectives – profit, market share, customer engagement, innovation, use of resources, or increased productivity –  and technology should align to support and enable that vision. Perhaps your leaders have aligned on fixing a specific weakness that will enable these goals or on innovation to accelerate success above and beyond your competitors.

Whatever the purpose of the technology engagement, leadership alignment at the outset, not only on the objectives but also on the priority and weight of each objective, guides implementation project decisions. Throughout your project, you, your technical team, and your business leaders should return to this often, especially when changes to scope are proposed, questions arise, or decisions are needed. The outcomes you all agree to should guide difficult choices and decisions that will be needed throughout your project.

A successful SAP S/4HANA implementation:

1. meets the business requirements,
2. is delivered on schedule,
3. is maintained within the allocated budget, and
4. provides a return on investment (ROI)

ROI is only achievable with an understanding of expected outcomes and clear adherence to business goals.

Define your fashion or retail industry challenge: What’s holding you back?

Many users will go into a project like an SAP S/4AHANA implementation with specific requests in mind:  “I need better reporting, so give me SAP Analytics Cloud,” for example. As a business analyst, my first question to every user was, “what is the business problem you are trying to solve?” because simply applying technology won’t solve all your challenges.

Consumer Industry experts who really understand fashion and retail processes and know SAP will be crucial to your success.  Conversations about your unique challenges – your pain points, benefits, competitors’ successes, and future vision – lead to a greater understanding when you and your consulting team are “speaking the same fashion/retail language.”

What are your fashion and retail competitors doing?

Considering your business case, project plan, and defined outcomes, it might help to look at other customer success stories. In fashion and retail especially, it pays to have a healthy understanding of your competition – including how they optimized their technology.

Success with SAP S/4HANA for Fashion and Retail

Case #1: Simplification enables the agility to support responsiveness to customers.

Goal: Achieve leadership’s aggressive growth strategy.

What held them back: A complex legal structure strangled the efficient movement of goods. The legacy ERP was unable to handle this kind of complexity.

Solution:

• The company’s complex legal structure was setup using standard out-of-the-box capability in SAP S/4HANA
• Innovation by Rizing provided a seamless and transparent process by automating the flash transfer process
• S/4HANA functionality enabled a relatively simple process for statutory reporting required for the complex legal set-up

Carhartt managed rapid growth and marketplace disruption with flexible omnichannel capabilities. Read more.

Case #2: Retail inventory audit and tracking contains expenses.

Goal:  Increase profitability and eliminate waste.

What held them back: The inability to track and trace or audit inventory discrepancies in stores resulted in differences between stores and warehouses that had to be written off.

• Significant inventory discrepancies in the retail stores
• No ability to track and trace inventory or audit inventory discrepancies in stores
• At the end of the day, inventory between the warehouse and stores would be overlayed as the new inventory – any differences would have to be written off without an audit

Solution:

• SAP’s suite of FIORI applications for store operations provided the customer with the capability to perform inventory operations in stores in real-time
• The store operations apps, along with SAP CAR (Customer Active Repository) provided the customer with the capability to have real-time visibility of inventory in the stores
• Rizing-developed enhancements enabled the capability to audit discrepancies due to over and under-deliveries from the warehouse

Maxport Improved FI month-end closing lead times with real-time logistics movements. Read their story.

Case #3: Increase customer satisfaction with real-time inventory evaluation

Goal:  Prioritize key customers and manage backorders in the proper sequence.

What held them back: Outdated ERP platform needs to provide real-time data.

Solution:

• SAP S/4HANA® out-of-the-box functionality solved supply assignments
• Rizing delivered Advanced Available to Prioritize (aATP) functionality to manage last-minute order changes and unanticipated production problems, ensuring top customers’ orders are fulfilled in priority order
• Back Order Processing (BOP) with aATP in SAP S/4HANA provided the capability to run availability checks and reconfirm the entire order book

Nice Apparel applied industry best practices across the organization with SAP S/4HANA’s digital core providing the ability to extend and expand as business requirements evolve. Read more. 

Experience matters. Get the Right Solution with the Right Fashion and Retail Industry Expertise

When it comes to what you need to make your business excel, you are the experts. You know your business best. We’re here to help you reimagine the solutions to your real-world challenges. We’ve been there in your world, we speak your language, and we’re driven to solve the smallest or most complex challenges in fashion and retail.

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You probably wouldn’t want us to design the latest runway style. We do, however, know SAP S/4HANA for the fashion and retail industry, so let’s talk about that.

Reimagine Fashion and Retail with SAP, Rizing, and S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA for Fashion and Vertical is an end-to-end solution that supports companies with retail, wholesale, and manufacturing processes across the supply chain. Rizing works with you to take SAP S/4HANA from assessment through design, implementation, and post-go-live support – all with the understanding of someone who has worked in your industry because we have.

An important component of the design is establishing your digital core to support your business wherever it goes. Jumpstart your blueprint and make future development simple with a template built on best practices by fashion experts: Rizing’s Future Reference Solution. And, as a partner certified with advanced competency in SAP’s Business Technology Platform, we can help you design your solution to automate processes, integrate discrete applications, create custom user interfaces, and improve analytics and forecasting.

Imagine your brand supported by

·      Unified systems and processes

·      Accelerated innovation and time to market with the SAP Business Technology Platform

·      Flexible and dependable eCommerce that supports purchasing decisions by your target audience

·      Integrated, real-time merchandising management

·      Omnichannel shopping journeys to take the customer from online to in store

·      Promotional planning integrated across platforms

·      Competitive, intelligent pricing

·      Real-time customer and sales insights – harmonized across multi-channel customer experiences

·      A consistent brand image visible to and embraced by both customers and employees

Reassess the paradigms of your organization,
define your company to meet the future demands of a shifting economy and changing buyer behavior, and become the leader who wins in the digital era. 

Design to Optimize Resources and Outcomes

We know time is critical in fashion and retail, and – while there’s a lot that goes into the design of SAP S/4HANA – we can help accelerate your implementation timeline with the right technical resources combined with real-world experience in your industry. Our Future Reference Solution helps to design your SAP S/4HANA experience in a way that shortens timelines and minimizes risk. This is especially critical with global business plans.

Fast is good.

Risk-free is great.

But outcomes mean even more. At Rizing, we are focused on helping you win.

Carhartt Inc., an apparel brand for workwear, outdoor gear, hunting accessories, and – more recently – streetwear, achieved outcomes by minimizing custom code modifications and reducing web page loads to milliseconds. SAP S/4HANA is the foundation for future innovation and agile responses to disruption.

Getting the SAP S/4HANA Digital Core Right

SAP S/4HANA will form the digital core of your enterprise. The digital core enables your end-to-end business strategy and is the foundation that enables your organization to scale, to adopt innovative technical solutions, and to advance with real-time insights. It’s imperative to get the design right. Everything else – all of your future innovation – builds upon that. And innovation is what it takes to thrive in this rapidly-evolving digital market.

Learn how others have gone from imagination to design to build of SAP S/4HANA  in our customer case studies.

Case Study | Global Sportswear Brand Accelerates Business Transformation with SAP S/4HANA Fashion

Carhartt Implements SAP S/4HANA to Support Customer Demand

Maxport’s Digital Transformation Starts with SAP S/4HANA Fashion Manufacturing

Nice Apparel Group Transforms it Business with SAP S/4HANA Fashion Manufacturing

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Stamford, CT [January 2, 2023] – Rizing, a Wipro Company (Rizing), announced the consolidation of attune Consulting under the Rizing brand name, creating the leading consulting firm for SAP S/4HANA® Fashion and Retail globally.  Rizing acquired attune Consulting in May 2021, expanding global reach, scale, and capabilities to support fashion and retail clients along their digital transformation journeys. Rizing will showcase its exclusive offerings during the National Retail Federation’s 2023 show (NRF2023) in New York City, January 15 through 17, 2023.

Boutique Style, Industry Specific Services for SAP Fashion and Retail

Rizing is a highly respected boutique professional services firm focused exclusively on SAP with offices in 16 countries and serving global clients by applying real-world experience in Consumer Industries, Human Capital Management, and Enterprise Asset Management. Rizing’s industry expertise empowers SAP clients to transform digitally with confidence. Fashion and retail clients can expect to get the most out of their SAP investment by working with Rizing to apply best practices, plug-and-play solutions, informed analytics (like Customer Active CAR – Customer Activity Repository),  seamless shopping experiences with Omnichannel POS, and ongoing attention to adopting new capabilities ahead of the competition.

“The consolidation of attune under the Rizing brand signifies to the market our exclusive commitment to a specialized focus on business transformation for fashion and retail industries,” said Mike Maiolo, CEO of Rizing. “Together with Wipro, we will bring the best technology, combined with an in-depth understanding of consumer industries, to positively impact consumer experiences and propel our clients to win in the digital age.”

Rizing’s Combined Fashion and Retail Capabilities to be Showcased at NRF 2023

attune Consulting has been empowering fashion and lifestyle companies by delivering transformative SAP solutions since 2006. Together as Rizing Consumer Industries, the team will continue to provide fashion industry clients with the expertise needed to efficiently manage the entire process – from manufacturing, private brand retail, and wholesale with a suite of integrated configurable solutions and post-go-live managed services. Rizing also plans on extending its current retail capabilities across Europe and Asia-Pacific, as well as offering application managed services to its current retail clients. These experiences will be part of the Rizing showcase at NRF2023.

Leading fashion and retail companies rely on Rizing Consumer Industries’ expertise. The combined firms will accelerate migration to SAP S/4HANA for consumer goods, retail, fashion, wholesale, E-commerce, and manufacturing. attune Fashion Suite delivers robust and cost-effective opportunities for fashion clients to adopt the latest real-time technology with SAP S/4HANA. Niche solutions like LifeCycle Pricing, available on the SAP Store, integrate into SAP to seamlessly gather data and empower informed pricing decisions. Prebuilt functionality supports multiple Fashion Manufacturing OEMs.

Trusted SAP Partner for Fashion and Retail

“We’re very excited to announce this next chapter in our journey as a specialized SAP service provider for the fashion and retail industry,” said Vajira De Silva, CEO of Consumer Industries for Rizing. “Our clients and partners can expect the same personalized, trusted expertise that attune and Rizing have been known for, as well as much more now with this integration of the two brands.”

Rizing was acquired by Wipro Limited in April 2022 and continues to operate a boutique-style consulting services firm with Wipro’s expanded global footprint and technology capabilities. Rizing is an innovation partner with SAP for fashion and retail and has the largest number of referenceable customers with SAP.

Learn more about our Rizing and the unique way we serve our clients:

About Rizing
It’s the experience that matters. Rizing professionals help your business succeed at any point in your SAP journey. Rizing’s objective is to empower your business to unlock the intelligent enterprise with SAP cloud technologies, our geospatial solutions, and our proprietary, cutting-edge products to optimize and extend SAP such as Lifecycle Pricing, attune Fashion Suite, Lyra, Carbon, Mercury, Hydrogen and OmniSpatial. With real-life experience in business areas like consumer industries, enterprise asset management, and human capital management, we know how to simplify your digital transformation so your business can be everything you want it to be. From targeted small business needs to full-scale large enterprise resource planning solutions, our SAP-certified consultants focus on your growth. For more information, please visit www.rizing.com or contact: Rizing Intermediate Holdings, Inc. at +1 (203) 517-0400, info@rizing.com.

About Wipro Limited
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready sustainable businesses. With over 250,000 employees and business partners across 66 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world.

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• Under each segment are Value Drivers; outlined to help you get a better understanding of your company’s performance
• Leverage the tool to identify gaps and get insights on where you need to improve

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What’s inside the Ebook:

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Your GPS may ask you this if you look up a destination while already heading somewhere else.

You may find yourself asking the same question about your career. Knowledge workers in technical fields like science, engineering, and information technology eventually find themselves at a career crossroads, asking:

“Should I continue down the individual contributor path, honing my technical skills? Will my career stagnate, or will I grow? Will I earn the esteem and compensation my years of experience deserve?”

Or:

“Do I take a management job and develop new skills to complement my technical skills?”

The Broken Rung

As a woman in a technology field, the path of people manager also led to the challenge of the “broken rung.”

McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.Org coined the term “broken rung.” It points out that “the biggest obstacle women face on the path to senior leadership is at the first step up to manager.”

I’ve been fortunate. I’ve worked with two accomplished women who supported my aspirations to move into management.

Aspirations Achieved

My first aspiration was to be a project manager. My employer supported that goal by sending me to project management training.

My second aspiration was to become a business intelligence manager. A brave woman on the business side of the house helped me achieve this goal. She took a chance on me, a twenty-year IT veteran, became my ally, and brought me over to the business side.

Dual Career Ladder

Not every organization gives its people the opportunity to grow in whatever direction they choose. Not every technical person wants to go down the people management path.

One of the things that excited me when I joined Rizing is that Rizing has clear career paths for individual contributors and people management. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) calls this the dual career ladder.

SHRM defines it as “a career development plan that allows upward mobility for employees without requiring that they be placed into supervisory or managerial positions.This type of program typically advances employees who have deep technical skills and/or education but who are not interested or inclined to pursue a management or supervisory track.”

Retention Through Choice

According to a Pew Research study, the second-highest driver for workers leaving their jobs during the Great Resignation is a lack of opportunities for advancement.

I would add, “What alternatives are there for those who want to advance but don’t want to manage people?”

The Rizing Advantage

Rizing provides an attractive offering with career tracks for managerial and/or technical development. There are plenty of opportunities to grow and advance as either a people leader or an individual contributor.

As for myself, once again I have the good fortune to have two women supporting me in my career. One is a Rizing coworker while the other works externally.

At Rizing, if that GPS question was about my career, I could answer it either way. I can start a new route or add a second destination to my current route.

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Moving to SAP S/4HANA^® can be that needed transformational catalyst for Retailers by enabling more efficient processes and unlocking new capabilities. The implementation can also be challenging, and industry experience is key to a successful and expedient project. That sort of experience is found at Rizing, and it forms the basis for Retail Launchpad, an SAP S/4HANA accelerator for the Retail industry.

Retail Launchpad trims down implementation time by offering a preconfigured SAP S/4HANA solution specifically tailored to Retail organizations. It also includes out-of-the-box web-based applications to support both in-store and mobile workforces. Finally, Retail Launchpad offers pre-populated deliverables and a comprehensive toolbox of templates ready for an agile implementation environment.

Covering Retail Processes End-to-End

SAP S/4HANA features functionalities that are essential to the Retail industry. Retail Launchpad offers preconfigurations for Retail processes with a master data and organizational structure at the center. Processes covered in Retail Launchpad include Store Operations, Pricing and Promotions, Procurement, Vendor Income and Rebates, Distribution Center Logistics, Merchandise Supply, and Point of Sale.

To build that preconfigured SAP S/4HANA system, Retail Launchpad incorporates Rizing’s extensive Retail Industry expertise and customer roadmaps for business process design, business process activities, and more.

Retail Launchpad is designed to deliver retailers end-to-end SAP S/4HANA functionality in 25-75% shorter project times. That means a faster SAP S/4HANA benefits realization, fewer resources required both internally and externally, and lower project costs overall.

Innovative Implementation

The preconfigured solution is just the start with Retail Launchpad. It forms the basis for an implementation that maximizes innovation while also moving forward efficiently. This process involves four steps: Prepare, Explore, Realize, and Deploy.

In the Prepare phase, Retail Launchpad jump starts the project with its accelerators and templates. During the Explore phase, organizations will facilitate workshops and verify that the solution meets business needs. The preconfigured Retail Launchpad  SAP S/4HANA system provides the sandbox for testing and documentation.

Next comes Realize, where sprint execution, walkthrough, end-to-end testing, and operations setup happens. At this time, Retail Launchpad is the baseline as the organization looks to adapt SAP S/4HANA to its unique needs.

Finally, when it is time to Deploy, Retail Launchpad has done its job and Rizing’s experts are there to provide go live support through the end and beyond.

Experience Minimizes Risk

The experience built into Retail Launchpad is borne from decades of time in the Retail industry, deep knowledge of SAP S/4HANA from certified consultants, and insight from customer-influenced industry roadmaps.

Beginning your SAP S/4HANA transformation journey on this footing minimizes risk in the project and ensures a successful outcome that wil®l capitalize on the latest SAP innovations. SAP S/4HANA can help retailers find an edge, and Retail Launchpad can help them get there faster.

Contact Rizing for more on how Retail Launchpad can jump start your SAP S/4HANA transformation.

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