SAP Business Transformation Study | Retail | BONITA
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BONITA is one of Europe’s leading fashion brands, dealing in clothing for men and
women aged 40 and over. Its customers can easily combine articles to create their
own unique look. The company launches 12 collections every year, selling them online
and in more than 1,000 BONITA stores across eight countries.
BONITA’s main, fully automated distribution center in Hamminkeln, Germany, is known
in fashion retail as “Germany’s biggest wardrobe.” This logistics center is managed
using the SAP® Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) application and
handles huge quantities of goods. BONITA picks 15,000 hanging garments from its
high-bay warehouse per hour – and up to 10,000 boxes of packaged clothes from
carton storage every day. In total, the distribution center turns over 400,000 items
daily. Impressively, goods returned from the stores go straight back into order
picking, which operates on pick-to-light and put-to-light systems.
Picture source | BONITA, 46499 Hamminkeln. Used with permission.
BONITA: Reducing Storage Costs
and Gaining a Competitive Advantage
with SAP® EWM
SAP Business Transformation Study | Retail | BONITA
Economizing and streamlining storage with SAP® EWM
Company
BONITA GmbH
(part of the Tom Tailor
Group since 2012)
Objectives
•• Ensure high logistical quality
•• Replace isolated solutions with fully integrated ones
•• Streamline processes by minimizing manual tasks
Headquarters
Hamminkeln, Germany
Why SAP
•• Support for all warehouse processes in the logistics chain through the
SAP® Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) application
•• Possibility to adopt standard processes while simultaneously integrating
homebuilt software (for example, BONITA Quality Check)
•• Simple management of complex, automatic conveying technology
•• Continuous development of SAP EWM by SAP
Industry
Retail – fashion
Products and Services
Men’s and women’s
fashion
Employees
6,950 (Tom Tailor Group)
Revenue
BONITA:
€326 million (2015)
Tom Tailor Group:
€956 million (2015)
Resolution
•• Smooth implementation of SAP EWM thanks to SAP standard processes
•• End-to-end integration of customer-specific processes
•• Intelligent push and pull methods
•• Online and multichannel capability provided
Future plans
•• Optimize plant design, and increase the efficiency of daily deliveries
•• Expand supply chain processes
•• Introduce new processes through a flexible parameterized system
Web Site
www.bonita.eu/en
“We were able to increase turnover of goods while significantly
cutting distribution and storage cost per piece.”
Paolo Lai, IT Manager for Logistics, BONITA GmbH
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Reduced
Storage costs
Increased
Degree of automation
Optimal
Distribution of goods
across all points of sale
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