Monday, June 28, 2021

Hela Clothing partners with attune, SAP to develop digital core

Ruwanthi Fernando

Hela Clothing, a global apparel manufacturer with factories across Kenya, Ethiopia and Sri Lanka, has partnered with attune for the implementation of the SAP S/4HANA® Fashion and Vertical Business solution. The SAP platform will digitize end-to-end processes and support Hela’s rapid growth.

As a leading apparel solutions provider to global brands across intimates, kidswear, and sportswear, Hela has in recent years been investing in digitization initiatives to strengthen its capabilities in order to innovate faster and better service global clients. The project implementation scope of SAP will include geographical coverage across it’s locations in the US, UK, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, and Kenya.

“We are fortunate to be experiencing exponential growth even during the pandemic. And we believe that the digital transformation journey we are currently on will help us consolidate the gains we have made, as well as propel us to the next level by facilitating greater innovation and accelerating our growth even further,” stated Ruwanthi Fernando, Chief Information & Process Officer of Hela Clothing.

“This SAP platform is one of a number of steps we have taken to empower next level management at Hela. Having the right digital capabilities in place is integral to our business especially as brands demand greater transparency in their supply chains and rapidly evolving market conditions require real-time decisions. This is why we have set up a dedicated project office with a dedicated team to implement the SAP solution with the guidance and assistance from technology experts attune,” she added.

Over the next 16 months attune will assist Hela Clothing implement the attune Fashion Suite™, a pre-configured template built on the SAP S/4HANA® Fashion and Vertical Business solution. The attune Fashion Suite™ includes proven industry best practices for contract manufacturing companies and helps to digitize the manufacturing process whilst integrating to 3rd party applications. Furthermore, to build on this solution in the future, Hela Clothing has signed up with Microsoft Azure for an Enterprise agreement to implement the SAP S/4HANA® Landscape. In this instance H-One, a fully owned subsidiary of Dialog, will provide the implementation support with the guidance of Microsoft together with their Fast Track programme. This will occur in a phased manner.

Sanjeev Walgampaya, Senior VP APAC at attune Consulting stated, “One of the key objectives of Hela is to stay ahead of the curve in adopting technology and processes to meet the demands of the market. And by choosing an ERP solution in SAP S/4HANA® it would enable to meet current business and management control requirements while providing a robust digital platform to expand the solution footprint in the future.”

 

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