Woodland walks away from in-house systems

MUMBAI, INDIA:  Woodland has selected SAP to manage its brand portfolio, to boost its planning, manufacturing, warehousing, sourcing, distribution processes, modernize retail operations and global supply network. Woodland will centralize its operations on the SAP platform, replacing existing systems with the goal of bringing wholesale and retail operations onto a single, vertical platform sharing the same master data, global inventory and processes.

As an announcement explains, SAP will replace the company’s previous in-house system and will be used to manage retail processes at all company locations, from orders and warehouse management to store deliveries.

SAP AFS as a part of solutions suite will enable Woodland to manage its sophisticated supply chains, consisting of international raw materials suppliers and contract manufacturers. It will also provide a fully integrated system to enable a single, common view across orders, products, and inventory, enabling better customer order fulfillment says. It will bring together procuring, manufacturing, wholesale, and retail business operations onto a single platform.

Woodland Managing Director, Harkirat Singh said, “Woodland is known to have continually innovate ahead of time and now with the use of SAP solutions in our processes, we will be able to lower technology related risks, reduce costs, improve execution quality, thereby accelerate the whole business cycle.”

"We are thrilled to have begun our implementation project and we are currently in the process of migrating systems. Over the coming months, we anticipate big and exciting changes for our current operations”, he said further outlining plans of this outdoor gear major that was founded in Quebec, Canada, over twenty five years ago and now has a footprint of over 40 countries globally and about 450 exclusive stores and 4000 plus multi retail outlets.