SAP S/4HANA Fashion and Vertical Business Training
SAP S/4HANA Fashion and Vertical Business training teaches you the successor to SAP AFS and the fashion capabilities that replaced it.
- 40 hours
- Intermediate
- Live online
What is SAP S/4HANA Fashion and Vertical Business Training?
SAP S/4HANA Fashion and Vertical Business training teaches you the successor to SAP AFS and the fashion capabilities that replaced it. You cover master grid and generic article with variants for size and colour, season, collection and theme management, stock segmentation, allocation run and its strategies, order scheduling and Advanced ATP for fashion, value added services, subcontracting for apparel manufacturing, wholesale order management, retail and e-commerce channel integration, and returns handling at fashion volumes.
What you get
- Explain why fashion needs vertical ERP capabilities
- Model generic articles with master grids and variants
- Configure season, collection and theme management
- Set up stock segmentation and use it in planning
Who this course is for
New to the field
- Apparel and footwear supply chain staff
- SD or MM consultants entering fashion
- Merchandising and allocation planners
Working professionals
- Teams migrating from AFS to S/4HANA Fashion
- Consultants on a fashion implementation
- Anyone supporting an FMS landscape
Prerequisites
- SAP SD or MM experience is important.
- Apparel, footwear or retail experience is a strong advantage.
What you will be able to do
- Explain why fashion needs vertical ERP capabilities
- Model generic articles with master grids and variants
- Configure season, collection and theme management
- Set up stock segmentation and use it in planning
- Run and adjust allocation runs with strategies
- Configure order scheduling and Advanced ATP for fashion
- Handle value added services, subcontracting and returns
Salary range
- India
- 9-28 LPA
- United States
- 110k-155k
Market ranges for SAP Fashion / FMS Consultant, not a guarantee. Actual pay depends on experience, location and employer.
Curriculum
Fashion industry and FMS foundations
Understand why fashion breaks standard ERP.
- What makes apparel different: size, colour, season
- AFS and its succession by S/4HANA Fashion
- Fashion and Vertical Business scope
- Wholesale, retail and e-commerce channels
- Organisational structures for fashion
- Season driven planning cycles
- Key transactions and Fiori apps
- Migration considerations from AFS
Master data: grids and variants
Model an article that exists in fifty combinations.
- Generic article and variants
- Characteristics for size and colour
- Master grid concepts and setup
- Grid value determination
- Article hierarchy and merchandise categories
- Season, collection and theme assignment
- Sales and purchasing views for variants
- Master data creation at fashion volume
Season and collection management
Plan and retire product by season.
- Season, collection and theme master data
- Season determination in documents
- Season based planning and reporting
- Carry-over and never-out-of-stock articles
- End of season handling and markdown
- Season change and its data implications
- Reporting by season and collection
- Governance of season master data
Segmentation and inventory
Track stock by attributes standard ERP ignores.
- Stock segmentation concepts
- Segmentation structures and strategies
- Requirement and stock segments
- Segmentation in planning and ATP
- Batch versus segmentation
- Inventory visibility across channels
- Physical inventory in fashion
- Stock reporting by segment
Allocation run
Decide who gets scarce stock, systematically.
- Allocation run concepts
- Allocation strategies and rules
- Priority and fair share logic
- Allocation table and its execution
- Simulation before committing
- Allocation results and adjustment
- Reallocation and cancellation
- Explaining allocation outcomes to sales
Order fulfilment and ATP
Promise dates you can keep at fashion volume.
- Order scheduling in fashion
- Advanced ATP overview
- Backorder processing and prioritisation
- Product availability check for variants
- Delivery scheduling and consolidation
- Value added services configuration
- Subcontracting for apparel production
- Order monitoring and exception handling
Channels, returns and operations
Serve wholesale, retail and online from one system.
- Wholesale order management specifics
- Retail store replenishment overview
- E-commerce order integration
- Cross-channel inventory availability
- Returns processing at scale
- Refurbishment and second quality handling
- Fashion analytics and reporting
- Common production issues in FMS
Projects you will build
Article and grid build
Create a generic article with a master grid across sizes and colours, assign season and collection, and set up sales and purchasing views.
Allocation scenario
Configure allocation strategies with priority and fair share, simulate against constrained stock, commit the run and explain each customer's outcome.
Order to delivery with segmentation
Set up segmentation, take wholesale orders across variants, run ATP and backorder processing, then deliver with a value added service.
Tools you will use
- Generic article and master grid
- The variant model that underpins every fashion document.
- Season and collection master data
- Time-boxed product management for seasonal ranges.
- Stock segmentation
- Attribute based stock and requirement separation.
- Allocation run
- Strategy driven distribution of constrained stock.
- Advanced ATP
- Availability and backorder processing at fashion volumes.
- Value added services
- Labelling, tagging and packing services in the order flow.
Certification
- Exam
- SAP has no current dedicated associate exam for Fashion and Vertical Business. We prepare you against SAP's FMS learning content, with the S/4HANA Sales (C_TS462) and Sourcing and Procurement (C_TS452) exams as the nearest credentials.
What learners say
Allocation run is the topic clients care about most and it is genuinely hard. Simulating before committing is the habit this course drilled into me.
We are migrating off AFS. The comparison of AFS concepts to the S/4HANA equivalents was exactly the map I needed.
Grids and segmentation are the two things that make fashion different. Both taught with real data rather than theory.
Fees and training modes
Choose how you want to learn. No-cost EMI is available on the live and 1-to-1 modes.
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Live Online Training
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Interactive live batches, weekday or weekend, with the full cohort and lifetime recordings.
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1-to-1 Training
₹49,000
Fixed for every course, no-cost EMI
Private one-on-one coaching at a pace and schedule you set.
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Self-paced Training
₹9,000
One-time fee, lowest-cost option
Learn on your own time with recorded sessions and the same materials.
Refunds and cancellations are covered in our refund policy.
What a day looks like
- Allocation questions
- Sales asking why a customer received less than ordered, which means explaining the strategy honestly.
- Master data volume
- New season article creation, which is a genuine workload spike every cycle.
- Order exceptions
- Orders that will not schedule or deliver, usually segmentation or availability.
- Returns waves
- Fashion return rates are high, especially online, so returns processing is constant.
- Season transitions
- End of season markdown and carry-over decisions, with data consequences across the system.
Training a team?
We run this course as private corporate training, tailored to your systems and scheduled around your team. Tell us your group size and what you need to cover.
Request a corporate quoteFrequently asked questions
What happened to SAP AFS?
Is there a Fashion certification?
Do I need SD or MM experience?
How does this relate to SAP Retail?
Is the fashion market big enough?
Is there hands-on access?
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