Levi Strauss targets one global ERP by mid-2027

Levi Strauss & Co. expects to complete a global consolidation of its enterprise resource planning systems by mid-2027, executives said on a July 8 earnings call. The apparel company has now migrated its Asia operations and Beyond Yoga brand onto the same platform it first deployed in North America three years ago, putting Europe and Latin America at the end of the rollout queue.

Harmit Singh, Levi’s EVP and chief financial and growth officer, said the company is replacing a patchwork of customized ERP systems with a standardized cloud-based platform. He described the project as more than a decade in the making and said Levi’s had nine ERP systems when he joined the company 13 years ago.

The company did not disclose the cost of the ERP program, the vendor, implementation partners or expected savings. For enterprise tech buyers, that omission matters: multi-region ERP replacements can absorb years of internal capacity, and the payback usually depends on process discipline as much as software selection.

What Levi’s says the platform will support

Singh said the unified system is intended to support Levi’s DTC-first operating model, speed up decisions and improve the quality and consistency of data across the business. He also said the platform should create a base for broader use of artificial intelligence and automation across global operations.

That AI framing is common in large ERP programs, and Levi’s did not provide specific AI use cases, deployment dates or productivity targets. The more concrete claim from Singh was operational visibility: he said the system lets the company see store, distribution center and goods movement data in near real time, including metrics tied to fill rates, service and sales.

The recent Asia and Beyond Yoga migration is a marker in a staged rollout rather than a new product launch. With those pieces finished, Singh said Levi’s is now rolling the technology out across Europe and Latin America, the final regions needed to get the company onto one global ERP environment.

ERP modernization keeps showing up in supply chain budgets

Levi’s program fits a broader enterprise pattern: large retailers, manufacturers and consumer goods companies are still spending on ERP projects to reduce system fragmentation and standardize data flows. Those projects have become more closely tied to supply chain planning, DTC operations and AI readiness claims.

Nestlé has rolled out SAP S/4HANA Cloud across 112 countries and 50,000 employees and plans to integrate SAP’s AI assistant into core systems. Clorox began moving its U.S. supply chain and other business operations to a new ERP system last July.

For Levi’s, the technology consolidation is happening alongside changes to the physical supply chain. The company is set to close a Kentucky distribution center at the end of August as it shifts away from a fully owned and operated distribution model toward a mix of owned facilities and third-party operated locations.

The mid-2027 target gives Levi’s roughly a year to finish the remaining regional migrations. The company’s test will be whether one ERP system delivers cleaner operational data without creating the disruption that often comes with global back-office replacements.

This story draws on original reporting from CIO Dive.