Case Study: Calzedonia Spa
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Case Study: Calzedonia Spa
Case Study: Calzedonia Spa Solution Implemented Microsoft Dynamics NAV Pebblestone Fashion C alzedonia is a manufacturer and worldwide supplier of men’s, women’s and children’s hosiery. The company is directly represented in more than 25 countries in five continents. Calzedonia manufactures in more than five countries, owns 800 stores and has licensed 1200 franchised stores across the globe. Business Challenges Maintaining three brands, Calzedonia, Intimissimi andTezenis, the company’s activities cover many areas, from design and manufacturing, through wholesale distribution, to retail operations and franchising. Managing such a complex international model creates many typical challenges: compliance with local statutory requirements, corporate reporting and consolidation, local language issues, multiple currencies, and many more. available in multiple colours and sizes. These combinations can total several thousand in each brand. Managing similar numbers of combinations across all three of Calzedonia’s brands is an enormous challenge. The problem is further exacerbated by the short life cycles of the fashion industry. Every collection is changed at least twice a year. Business Challenges Solved LLP approached these challenges in two ways – first, by recommending a solution both broad enough to cover all of Calzedonia’s activities, whilst at the same time possessing industry-specific capabilities, secondly by developing techniques to manage a diverse project over a number of countries, maintaining standard functionality in each location, consistency and common corporate accounting and reporting, and at the same time meeting local requirements. This secondary aim was resolved by creating a core system both for Managing a complex international model creates many typical challenges: compliance with local statutory requirements, corporate reporting and consolidation, local language issues, multiple currencies, and many more. In addition to these, there are a number of industry-specific pressures. One of these is the maintenance of a very broad range of items organized into different collections, with each item BELGRADE BRATISLAVA BUCHAREST BUDAPEST PRAGUE SOFIA www.llpgroup.com ZAGREB Calzedonia Spa, cont. manufacturing and distribution, based on the ‘international’ version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV. During each ‘roll-out’ the Calzedonia Core Version is incorporated into the country’s local version of Dynamics NAV, ensuring compliance with local legislation. LLP has sole responsibility for the creation of the Core Version and for all rollouts, subcontracting local Dynamics NAV vendors to ensure local support in countries where LLP does not have Benefits / Advantages f Consistent solution for all Calzedonia subsidiaries in multiple countries f Easier and transparent maintenance of the system f Global corporate rules, and local execution and support f Consistent approach to local roll-outs f Easier version control and upgrade to new versions f Industry specific solution f Reduction of time spent on direct representation. processing orders and new collection launches f Reduction of item lists through usage of colour/size combinations matrix at item level Industry-specific issues were addressed by using Pebblestone Fashion, a specialized fashion add-on for Dynamics NAV. This enabled Calzedonia to eliminate a large number of items, introducing in their place an item ‘matrix’, available from manufacturing through distribution to retail. This matrix makes it possible to indicate at item level various combinations of size and colour for one and the same item. This effectively means that Calzedonia can reduce not only the number of items in their system, but can also simplify the entry of purchase orders, manufacturing orders, sales orders and others, by selecting an item and then specifying all quantities for each colour/size combination in a single line. This significantly accelerates the introduction of new collections and the processing or orders. LLP Sofia 22, Zlaten rog. str, 7th Floor Lozenetz, 1407 Sofia, Bulgaria Tel: (+359-2) 962 73 81, 962 73 82 Fax: (+359-2) 962 73 54 E-mail: [email protected] About LLP LLP Group provides consulting and software services to local and international companies in the Central and Eastern European region and beyond. LLP‘s approach combines consulting and project management skills with international software products and software development to deliver affordable and realistic solutions. The Group focuses on the operational, financial, analytical, customer relationship and reporting needs of local and regional organizations with consulting and development teams based in Prague, Bratislava, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia, Belgrade and Zagreb. BELGRADE BRATISLAVA BUCHAREST BUDAPEST PRAGUE SOFIA www.llpgroup.com ZAGREB