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SAP ERP Implementation In

Pantaloons

Abhinav Bharati

Ankita Dubey

Bijan Kumar

Deepika J

Gokul Kini

Kruthika P


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The basic need was to have a robust transaction managementsystem and an enterprise wide platform to run the operations-

Rakesh Biyani, Director, Pantaloon

Why ERP In Pantaloons?To improve financial tracking and reporting for all retail

locations and business levels

Decision making

To support financial account


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WHY SAP....

Pantaloons successful track record with SAP software

The softwares scalability and ease of integration

The software ability to meet company needs

Complete data integrity and real time updates

Expert support during migration support i.e document splitting


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SAP retail solutions supports

Product development-

Sourcing and procurement-

Managing the supply chain-

Selling goods across a variety of channels to customers-

Managing mark-downsand capturing customerreactions,analysingdata,andusing

ittooptimise the nextphase ofthe designprocess.


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The implementation......

The implementation was done by t

h

e SAP team with

h

elpof Novasoft which is based out of Singapore

Some people from Pantaloon also assisted in the project

About 24 qualified people worked on this SAPimplementation

SAP was chosen as the outsourcing party on a turnkey basis

This project was headed by Pantaloons Chief Information

Technology Officer, Chinar Deshpande


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THE FIRST PHASE.....

Involved blueprinting existing processes

and mapping them to the desired state for

formation of new state of solution.

THE SECOND PHASE.

The SAP platform developed with the

help of Novasofts template after evaluation of

Pantaloons needs in retail solution

THIRD PHASE

Stores switched over to the new system

and for current data to be ported

The implementationphases......


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MAINTAINANCE AND HARDWARE

This application is currently being used by around1,200 employees across the organization.

Pantaloon has an in-house team and it hasoutsourced ABAP resources for maintenance.

Also in the process of setting up a SAP CompetencyCentre.

The system runs on a HP Superdome server on HPUNIX 11i and the database is from Oracle.

The cost of this project was about $10 million.


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With an integrated, end-to-end planning system, your

company reaps the rewards of putting plans into practice

The results will be lower inventory levels, improved sales and

margins, and satisfied customers who have shopping

experiences tailored to their needs.

INTEGRATED PLANNING BENEFITS


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IMPLEMENTATION BEST PRACTICES

Recieved Sponsors

hip at t

he CFO level

Team of SAP Consultants and In-House experts

Use of ASAP methodology

Minimisation of business process re-engineering

LOW TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP

Significantly reduced infrastructure and processing costs

Deduction in the Database growth around to 500 GB per year

Completed project in time in approx. 4 months


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Financialand Strategic Benefits

Greater business insights through more accurate and timely

financial information

Lower costs via convergence of financial accounting and controlling

Enhanced data quality

Easier compliance with regulatory requirements via the SAP parallel

accounting feature


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Operational Benets

Greater visibility of AR and AP throughout profit centers

Increased business transparency

Ability to close books 15% to 20% faster

5% to 10% reduction in accounts receivables


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SAP is the only fully integrated retail planning solution to bring togethercomprehensive, real-time performance metrics with powerful planning and

simulation capabilities

It delivers the ability not just to plan but also to execute

Assortments based on local customer preferences are easy to build and

analyze

You can profitably balance your most controllable investment your

merchandise inventory

The result is that finance, merchandising, store operations, and yourtrading

partners are all planning and executing according to common objectives

Introductionto SAP-MAP

Contd


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It brings effective planning processes to your entire organization

It extends beyond the four key areas strategic, location, merchandise

And assortment planning to link to markdown planning, shelf optimization,

style management, purch

asing and allocation capabilities

By connecting these planning and execution processes, you are ideally placed

to maximize profits and adapt quickly to changing market conditions


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SAP Retail Merchandise and Assortment Planning

data from a single, central source

provides top management with the tools to make profitable decisions.

Helps in creating long-term, companywide, and channel-specific strategic plans

using quantitative performance

Designed to accommodate your planners busy schedules,

It offers aWeb-based workflow that accelerates the planning process from start

to finish

Tracks the status of tasks throughout the planning cycle

STRATEGIC PLANNING-

OPTIM

IZE EVERY SALES CHANNEL


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SAP MAP allows seamless integration of corporate location plans into store

management plans, and vice versa

Allows proposal review and acceptance quickly and easily via aWeb link

Maintaining weekly sales and inventory plans by store helps in identification and

react to sales trends much earlier to make the most profitable use of merchandise

inventory

Designed around industry best practices, these plans are geared to enhancing

profitability and maximizing sales

LOCATION PLANNING COLLABORATIVELY PLAN FOR FUTURE

GROWTH


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Science of forecasting sales and managing inventories balanced with the art of

identifying the merchandise your customers need.

Provides metrics on every level of the hierarchy, helping decision makers find the

ideal balance between the two extremes.

You can evaluate sales, margins, markdowns, shrinkage, purchasing, inventory

levels, and other key performance indicators on screen, in seconds.

Provides real-time integration between your open-to-buy (OTB) plan and your

purch

asing system.

MERCHANDISE PLANNING ANALYZE AND IDENTIFY PROFIT

OPPORTUNITIES


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ASSORTMENT PLANNING GETTHE RIGHTMIX

Includes powerful, yet easy-to-use functions for defining style, color, and product

plans according to regional, demographic, capacity, and price variations.

Planners can run standard assortment assessment reports to evaluate the mix and

performance of each assortment before it is approved.

You can integrate your assortment plans with your shelf optimization system to

ensure the right products are placed on the right shelves.

Assortment plan is continuously compared with in-season sales and inventory

performance to generate alerts when overstocks and understocks are forecast.

By ensuring each assortment is attractive to your target customersand profitable to

your bottom line, your company benefits from faster inventory turns, decreased lost

sales, and fewer markdowns.


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Ensuringa SmoothMigration

Pantaloon engaged SAP Consulting to assist its internal team

Opted to use the SAP General Ledger Migration service

SAP Consulting did a great job in helping us execute this critical project

-Ushir Bhatt, CEO of Future Knowledge Services Limited

With excellent teamwork among the Pantaloon and SAP personnel, the

project was completed on time and in only four months.


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Future Objectives

Pantaloon plans to use other functions of SAP General Ledger such as

Parallel Reporting

Pantaloon will also get benefits from this feature when India converges with

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), planned for 2011.

Pantaloon plans to go ahead with IT projects such asimplementation of WMS with RFID,

Customer Intelligence and CRM.

Inventory and Promotions optimisation will be pursued laterthis year

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