Thursday, December 14, 2006
SAP rings up a retail win
SAP rings up a retail win: "In addition, Sport Chalet is no Wal-Mart. When dealing with vendors, Wal-Mart can dictate how vendors present information and follow processes. A retailer the size of Sport Chalet 'has to be able to handle however each vendor works,' explained Kaminsky. And the company deals with over 1,200 of them.
Sport Chalet worked with BearingPoint in the vendor selection process. One major task the companies undertook early on was documenting Sport Chalet processes against leading practices.
Because of this upfront effort, the company will be able to map its process against SAP for Retail's capabilities, and it expects many of them to fit. In fact, Kaminsky estimates that Sport Chalet has put three months of work into this already. Partially due to this head start, Sport Chalet has set an aggressive implementation goal of 10 months. "
Sport Chalet worked with BearingPoint in the vendor selection process. One major task the companies undertook early on was documenting Sport Chalet processes against leading practices.
Because of this upfront effort, the company will be able to map its process against SAP for Retail's capabilities, and it expects many of them to fit. In fact, Kaminsky estimates that Sport Chalet has put three months of work into this already. Partially due to this head start, Sport Chalet has set an aggressive implementation goal of 10 months. "
