Case Study

Apparel and Textile :

Sahu Exports is a leading manufacturer of Ladies high fashion garments in North India. Sahu typically has a large variety of garments with short production runs. As the business grew, Sahu was facing increasing problems of managing this complexity, tracking costs and streamlining the various functions in their organization. In addition to this Sahu was contemplating getting into Retailing and hence needed a solution which could integrate all these activities.

Sahu decided to implement APPS in all their manufacturing locations. APPS helped integrate all the different functions at Sahu right from Merchandizing to shipping. The APPS team trained their IT people as well as each department on how to use the software as well as generate reports as per the user requirements. In addition to this Sahu implemented APPS Retail that manages their Warehouse as well as Point of Sale operations.

Sahu has grown by over 400% in the last few years since they have implemented APPS. They have been able to manage this growth through APPS, including integrating all manufacturing locations. Sahu brought about a minimum reduction of 2% in fabric and trims consumption, thereby saving them over $300K per annum. Through integration of APPS Retail Sahu is able to track their styles right from conceptualization to the final end customer. The Business Intelligence tools in APPS allows Sahu to perform “What-if” analysis and gain valuable insight into their Sales information.

APPS™ Supply Chain Management :

WASANS – How Does a global apparel sourcing company service global customers based in Europe where vendors are spread all over asia.

Wasans Overseas is a leather sourcing company. Wasans assists retailers in Europe in developing and sourcing high-end leather apparel from manufacturers in India and Bangladesh. Wasans customers were facing problems of delays and short-shipments due to lack of visibility on the status of production and shipments from the vendor organizations. In addition to this valuable time was lost due to the time taken to send information back and forth between vendors and the customers. Wasans merchandizers were spending a lot of time in simply gathering details from customers and vendors.

Wasans implemented the APPS™ -SCM solution. The style, purchase order, sampling, T&A and shipping tracking modules were implemented. Each customer and vendor was provided with a unique username/password to access the status of their orders through a website. Customers could enter or upload orders and vendors would periodically update the status of order based on pre-defined milestones. Online flash demos and Computer Based Training's allowed Wasans to quickly train their vendors in using the system.

Wasans was able to reduce their average lead time of production orders by 10%. In addition to this customer satisfaction increased substantially because of timely information and ease of use. Wasans was able to increase its business by 40% in the first year of operationalizing the system. Vendors were able to get timely updates of their shipments and payments. This lead to greater customer and vendor loyalty.