SAP Fashion Management !

Hi,
Last month, SAP introduced an add-on module called SAP "Fashion Management" specifically targeting apparel customers, who are into retail and manufacturing. I've few questions with regards to this module. Can you please answer,
1) Is Fashion management going to replace AFS module ?
2) Unlike AFS-Retail integration through interfaces, will it be like Fashion management integrated to IS-retail module ?.
3) Some of the functionality like grid pricing are not available in fashion management as per the reading in SAP library. Is there any feature that replaces grid pricing ?
4) Is Fashion management, a stand alone solution ? or we need retail as a mandatory module for fashion management ?
Regards,
Sat

Hi Sat,
basically in the past, SAP AFS adressed the wholesale fashion companies whereas SAP Retail addressed the Retailing fashion companies. As vertical fashion retailer, it was often necessary to use SAP AFS as well as SAP Retail.
SAP FMS shall (in the future) adress manufacturing, wholesale and retail business for vertical fashion retailers.
In SAP FMS, the majority of the active AFS processes are planned to be brought onto an SAP Retail based integrated ERP Solution.
Therefore:
1) Yes, in a certain way. SAP FMS is a way for vertical fashion retailers to avoid multiple ERP systems (one for manufacturing/wholesale, one for retailing).
2) Yes, SAP FMS will be deployed on top of SAP Retail using the master data structures of SAP IS Retail.
3) I cannot answer that question, as I don't exactly know the "grid pricing" functionality as I am no AFS consultant. But in FMS, you can use generic article from SAP Retail to maintain prices for different colour/size combinations - maybe that's what you are looking for. Nevertheless: SAP FMS is actually in Ramp-up with Release 1.0. Development is ongoing and other features/functions will be released in the future.
4) No, SAP Retail is the functinal basis for SAP FMS. SAP FMS can be deployed on top (I think via activating specific business functions) of SAP Retail.
Hope it helps.
Regards
Tobias

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