attune Consulting and SAP's Innovative Fashion Management Application Leads to a Pilot Project for Tommy Hilfiger

LONDON, June 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

attune Consulting, a global solutions provider to the fashion and lifestyle industries, today announced the success of its collaboration with SAP to co-develop the new SAP Fashion Management application - the first customer implementation of FMS will begin in July with Tommy Hilfiger Europe.

SAP Fashion Management is a vertical wholesale, manufacturing, and retail solution designed to bring all business operations onto a single platform powered by SAP HANA®.  The beauty of SAP Fashion Management is that it enables fashion companies to fully integrate their cross-channel operations, increasing efficiencies and driving revenues.

attune initially announced its collaboration with SAP in February, outlining plans to co-develop a vertical fashion solution aimed at enabling fashion brands to manufacture their products and sell them to retailers and consumers using a single solution. With the launch of SAP Fashion Management, attune's continued role in co-developing the solution includes:

• Collaborating with SAP on the solution design, product development, and delivery of proof of concept
• Providing feedback and guidance throughout product testing cycles and preparing customer training materials
• Developing a data migration tool for existing SAP® Apparel and Footwear customers to seamlessly transition to the new solution
• Offering its years of industry expertise to help fashion businesses quickly realize the full benefits of SAP Fashion Management, including strategy and roadmap, proof of concept development, implementation, and training and continuous support

"attune is privileged to be selected as a co-innovation partner with SAP, as we share a common goal of bringing best practices back into the fashion industry," said Vajira De Silva, CEO of attune. "With SAP Fashion Management, fashion brands will be able to optimize their wholesale, manufacturing, and retail operations for the omnichannel and create more adaptable global businesses, while increasing revenues, margins, and efficiencies."

To learn more about attune Services for SAP Fashion Management, visit http://attuneconsulting.com/en/fashion-management-solution.

About attune
attune is a team of trusted business technology advisors who work with fashion and lifestyle brands to transform their business performance. attune offers services across the fashion and lifestyle value chain, developing solutions that maximize competitive advantage, integrate and transform activities across people, processes and technology. For more information on attune, please visit http://www.attuneconsulting.com

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