Cole Haan: mySAP ERP Financials Helps Footwear Manufacturer Streamline Business, Reduce Costs

Overview

Cole Haan is one of North America's premier designers and marketers of quality footwear, accessories, and outerwear. The key challenges were to integrate financials with other critical business systems, streamline business processes and build enterprise-wide visibility. The solution and services offered were mySAP ERP Financials and SAP Apparel and Footwear (SAP AFS). The existing environment consisted legacy systems (including nonintegrated accounting system). The key benefits reduced time to close by 40%, improved days sales outstanding (DSO) by 5%, cut resources devoted to credit and collections by 10% and streamlined business processes.