Levi Strauss & Co. expects to complete the rollout of a single global enterprise resource planning system by mid-2027, marking the latest stage in a modernisation programme that has been running for more than a decade, according to executives speaking on the company’s 8 July earnings call and reporting by Supply Chain Dive.
The apparel group has recently brought its Asia business and the Beyond Yoga brand onto the same platform already used in North America, leaving Europ...
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e and Latin America as the final regions to be migrated, chief financial and growth officer Harmit Singh said. When he joined the company 13 years ago, Levi’s was managing nine separate ERP systems. The aim, he said, was to reduce that sprawl to one standardised, cloud-based platform.
Industry publication CIO Dive reported that the company has now standardised more than 80% of its global processes and has completed migrations in 14 countries across East Asia Pacific and China, following earlier go-lives in markets including the US, Canada, Mexico, South Africa and India. The ERP project centres on SAP S/4 Fashion, and is intended to replace a fragmented set-up with a more consistent data structure across the business.
Levi’s says the new system should support its direct-to-consumer-led model, speed up decision-making and provide the backbone for wider use of artificial intelligence and automation. Singh described the change as a way of giving managers clearer, real-time visibility over inventory movement, sales performance and service levels across stores and distribution centres.
The technology overhaul is running alongside changes to Levi’s supply chain network. The company plans to close a distribution centre in Kentucky at the end of August as it shifts away from a wholly owned warehouse model towards a mix of owned and third-party operations. Separately, reports have said the retailer is also working with Microsoft on AI tools and agent-based systems, underlining how the ERP migration is forming part of a broader digital transformation rather than a standalone IT project.
Source: Noah Wire Services
