- Wolverine Worldwide
is a portfolio of brands
from our namesake, Wolverine Brand,
to our global brands, Merrell and Saucony.
We sell over 70 million pairs
of shoes and pieces of apparel
in over 170 countries and
territories around the world.
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- Storytelling's really
important to our brand.
We make shoes and boots.
For us, it's the ability to
build great, innovative product
that's trend right, priced right,
that solves consumer's problems.
And then really finding
ways to develop meaningful
and deep relationships with the consumers.
Technology's super important
to everything that we do,
regardless if we're trying
to build great products
or engage with the consumer,
we have to work to create
frictionless experiences.
- We've been with SAP
for over two decades.
We use SAP for order to cash,
procure to pay, finance,
planning, and analytics.
- We're aggressively moving
away from our on-prem sites.
The biggest effort is moving
our complete SAP landscape
to RISE with SAP on the Azure cloud.
We actually broke up our journey
into two different phases.
The first phase was really around lifting
and shifting the existing
application suite
to the Azure cloud with
SAP and Microsoft support.
The second journey is
migrating and updating
to S4 fashion from our
current ERP SAP landscape.
- Wolverine's moving to RISE
with SAP to allow us to keep up
with the pace of change, to
simplify our overall operations
and allow us to have more
technical flexibility
to scale up and scale down.
- One of the biggest
benefits of RISE with SAP
for us has really been being
able to focus on functionality,
user adoption, and
driving business results
versus making sure
that we've got the
appropriate server up time.
- Moving SAP to the cloud
checks all the boxes.
Obviously it follows our
cloud first methodology,
that it's also scalable,
it removes complexity,
and allows our teams to
focus on the differentiators.
- The cloud transition's
critically important to us
as we think about the next
chapter in Merrell's history
to make sure we create
systems and processes
and tools that allow our teams
to operate anywhere they are
in the world and making the job easier
to allow them to go do great work.
- Our customers benefit
because we've got more data
and more insight to make
sure we're providing them
with what they want.
Our employees benefit
because they're getting rid
of some of those mundane
tasks and being able to focus
on what differentiates our brands.
We're not building a
landscape for five years out,
we're building it for tomorrow.
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