Monday, October 29, 2007

Birth of SAP AFS

By S.Suren

Many people wonder how SAP AFS IS was conceptualized. There needed to be some sort of an activity that spurred the development of the SAP AFS Industry Solution.

This initiation was taken by Dr.Peter Zencke in January 1996. Dr. Peter Zencke, a mathematician and economist, joined SAP in 1984. As a member of the Executive Board of SAP AG since 1993, he has led major development areas for SAP R/3 and SAP industry solutions.

In January 1996, he called on the SAP Munich development group to develop an industry solution to cater to the needs of the apparel and footwear industries and this was to be delivered by December 1997 and voila the SAP Apparel and Footwear Solution was born.

The new solution was developed in conjunction with such industry leaders as Reebok International Ltd and VF Corp and today this solution is being used by more than 60+ SAP AFS Customers worldwide.

There you go, thanks to initiatives taken by people like Dr.Peter Zencke that SAP Continues to dominate in the world of ERPs and consistently spring out solutions for emerging industries.


Hope this has given you an insight into the how SAP AFS came to be, I shall update more on the future of SAP AFS very soon.

Have a nice day!!

S.Suren

ssurenlk@msn.com

1 comments:

garcia said...

Just to add to your point , the initial development of SAP AFS was done by a company called clientis AG. After the first version was built half way SAP bought over the solution and enhanced it.
Even till now consultants of clientis still support the SAP AFS solution.

- Girish