[John Hill] Carhartt is a 132 year old premium 
workwear company. Our mission is to build rugged  
products to serve and protect hardworking people.
Our digital transformation here at Carhartt  
started approximately five years ago. Over a 
five year period, we'll essentially replace  
everything inside of Carhartt – the application 
footprint, the infrastructure footprint,  
our security. And even how we go about analysing 
data and driving insights from that data. 
The decision to move to SAP S/4HANA on Azure was 
based on the premise that we wanted to get back to  
standard. We felt that SAP had worked with its 
customers and built a set of business processes  
that we should be able to leverage and help us 
better react. We've reduced customizations by over  
93 percent as part of the migration to S/4HANA.
[Tim Masey] Moving to SAP on Azure has allowed us
to move out of the hardware business.
We're not having to manage power requirements, data
center requirements, memory capacity, or storage capacity.
It's there for us when we need it. That provides us with 
flexibility, agility, and availability  
that we just could not match internally.
[John Hill] We deployed onto our retail business unit earlier
this year, and they've been able to drive significant  
improvement of their own agility and insight.
Number one, the ability to be able to see in real  
time what's going on from an inventory standpoint, 
and then the ability to move that inventory and be  
able to understand their performance against 
that with a very simple user interface. 
You know, the ability for our consumer to 
be able to consume the product how they want  
is critical to our future success. 
SAP S/4HANA sitting on top of Azure,  
provides that vehicle for us to achieve that.
We’ve got the point of sale, the ecommerce,  
and the ERP managing that order flow, making sure 
that ultimately the product gets to the consumer. 
[Tim Masey] One of the features that SAP 
on Azure provides is security by design.  
We were able to build our security 
model and framework and lay that out  
ahead of time with the Microsoft architectural 
team. Before even standing up our first system,  
we had our security model in place. And then after 
that we started building out our SAP systems.  
That helped us to improve our security posture.
We have over 2,000 employees and contractors today  
working from home, and relying on Teams 
for things like Instant Messaging,  
voice calling, collaboration: you know, 
with meetings and document presentations. 
I think one of the biggest ways in 
which supply chain is using Teams  
and SAP technology is through the development 
efforts. They’ve heavily relied upon this  
during our business transformation project.
[John Hill] The paradigm that I see happening, not only within
the SAP landscape, but also with Microsoft Teams,  
is people are getting used to ‘how do I find 
what’s going on right now, and see it as  
it’s occurring’, as opposed to, ‘I get my report 
every morning, I’ll see what happened yesterday’. 
The combination of SAP and Microsoft technology is 
helping to provide that change for our business.