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INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Software for Business

Etam Group relies on Precisely Automate to drive business agility and innovation

Major fashion retailer leverages SAP process automation to transform finance function , streamline data-intensive processes and fuel more confident business decisions .

Precisely , the global leader in data integrity , has announced that Etam Group , a major international retailer and leading lingerie brand in France , has implemented its Automate Studio solution across all subsidiaries to support companywide accounts payable processes .

By providing seamless SAP data access to decision-makers in real-time , Automate Studio ( formerly Winshuttle Studio ) enables Etam ’ s accounting teams to work autonomously without support from IT personnel , reduce operational costs and drive greater innovation across the organisation .
Business agility is critical in the retail industry , with companies seeking to balance tight margins with the need to innovate and stay competitive . With more pressure than ever to optimise margins through existing operating structures and processes , it comes as no surprise that automaton has emerged as a top consideration for retailers in 2024 .
Retail companies are increasingly seeing the need to simplify and accelerate processes across their major functions to drive business efficiencies , improve customer experience and stay compliant with an ever-changing regulatory landscape .
“ In the retail sector , businesses must stay agile and be able to implement ideas quickly , something which is also incredibly important in accounting ,” said Stéphane Delattre , Vice President – Accounting for Europe at Etam Group .
“ Automate Studio increases our productivity and efficiency , enabling mass data simplification and empowering decisionmakers to access trustworthy data in real time . We call it the ‘ miracle product ’.”
The Etam Group has an impressive history of driving innovation to optimise infrastructure and provide great customer experience – having invented the concept of just-intime automatic restocking in 1965 . But with presence now in over 1,500 stores located across 57 countries , the retailer needed a solution that would work with its SAP ERP ( Enterprise Resource Planning ) software and support all the company ’ s subsidiaries in streamlining their data management .
Automate Studio is the premier Excelto-SAP solutions platform that enables business users to automate complex SAP business processes and make mass data changes quickly and easily . The platform allows customers to eliminate manual data entries and upload and download SAP data in record time , while simultaneously improving data quality .
Automate Studio empowers business teams by reducing their reliance on IT support for automating Excel to SAP processes . Now citizen developers within business teams can create and manage their own solutions faster , while ensuring compliance and security standards are maintained .
“ Before we deployed Automate Studio , we manually handled hundreds of invoices a month which could be very time-consuming ,” said Delattre . “ This practical solution from Precisely has not only increased our internal productivity but has helped us save time . Previously , one invoice took three minutes to create and now Automate Studio facilitates the creation of nearly 600 invoices within 15 minutes . Another example is how drastically it reduced the time needed to add purchasing conditions to orders in SAP – this used to take two days but can now be completed in just two hours .” p
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