Growing consumer products companies need a backend system that will grow with them.
Whether a manufacturer, a distributor, or a seller of consumer products, continued growth requires workflows and backend infrastructure that can scale and meet the needs of the business both today and tomorrow. If a consumer products business is struggling with complexity, data silos, or IT systems limitations, it is time to consider an ERP solution such as SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is a complete enterprise resource planning solution (ERP) for fast-growing small to mid-sized consumer products businesses that have a strategic growth plan, are going through digital transformation, need to replace old or disconnected systems, or are struggling with automation and error-prone manual business processes.
If your business is not yet in the Fortune 1000, S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition might be the system to help get you there.
How S/4HANA Cloud Helps Growing Consumer Products Businesses
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is a best-in-class software backbone that seamlessly scales as a business grows, and assists a business with growth through best-practice business processes. S/4HANA Cloud serves as a single source of truth for a business, and both enable company-wide automation and widespread integration with other internal systems, cloud services, and online marketplaces.
Some of the ways that S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition helps a consumer products firm include:
Making Customers Happy: S/4HANA helps ensure that the right products are at the right places at the right time, ensuring availability across sales channels.
Harnessing the Supply Chain: S/4HANA helps a consumer products business level stock across channels, eliminate over-stock and stock-out situations, and make predictive, data-driven decisions based on accurate real-time insights.
Managing Liquidity: With S/4HANA, growing consumer products businesses can tightly align capital with sales and operations, as well as integrate directly with banks and financial institutions.
Leveraging AI Across the Enterprise: S/4HANA can automate and accelerate processes and improve efficiency, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and robotic process automation (RPA) so employees can keep their eye on the prize instead of handling paperwork and manual processes.
Sustainably Serving Customers: Through S/4HANA, businesses can monitor and manage their Green Ledger, including the use of intelligent returns management. With S/4HANA, consumer products businesses can ensure industry adherence and sustainable practices while lowering costs at the same time.
Get the Functionality Needed for a Growing Consumer Products Company
While businesses of all types rely on SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, there are specific modules that make the solution ideal for growing consumer product companies.
Supplier Management. The SAP Supplier Portal Extension for S/4HANA gives business visibility into purchase orders, invoices, order confirmations, shipping notifications, receipts, service entry sheets, and credit notes. Suppliers receive a transparent view of the order cycle, including the status of goods receipts, invoice processing, and payment. Changes are no longer lost in communications, and a consumer products business has an auditable record of revisions/change orders to eliminate confusion and errors. Learn more about the SAP Supplier Portal.
POS Management. SAP Customer Checkout for S/4HANA is a full-featured POS that enables sales through both brick-and-mortar stores and eCommerce. The front-end component, SAP Customer Checkout POS, enables customers to easily and securely pay for their purchases. The back-end component, SAP Customer Checkout Manager, is the central management solution that allows the business to manage sales and returns all from a single web interface. Learn more about SAP Customer Checkout.
Manufacturing Process Management. The SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud is a manufacturing execution system (MES) that supports sustainable, risk-resilient manufacturing operations through a resource-efficient Industry 4.0 approach. Consumer products businesses that use the Digital Manufacturing cloud with their S/4HANA system can fully manage production planning and scheduling, production execution, quality management and both generate reports and analyze manufacturing trends more easily. Learn more about the SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud.
Extended Warehouse Management. With SAP Extended Warehouse Management, consumer products businesses can manage high-volume warehouse operations and integrate complex supply chain logistics with their warehouse and distribution processes, delivering high levels of visibility and control. SAP EWM as part of S/4HANA can help reduce inventory and labor costs, improve space utilization, and increase process and stock transparency, among other benefits. Learn more about SAP Extended Warehouse Management.
Integrate with Online Marketplaces and Distributors. SAP Business Technology Platform Templated Integrations make it easy for a consumer products business to connect a S/4HANA system with online marketplaces such as Amazon, eCommerce solutions such as Shopify, logistics partners such as UPS, and suppliers or distributor systems through pre-build EDI connections. Templated integrations available on the SAP Business Technology Platform are pre-made connectors and configurations that address common integration scenarios, saving a consumer product's business time and effort with integration configuration. Learn more about Navigator's Business Technology Platform (BTP) Templated Integration Solutions.
A Backend So You Can Focus on Business Growth
The world’s largest businesses rely on SAP S/4HANA, and so can your growing consumer products company.
With the public cloud version of S/4HANA, a business can future-proof its backend without having to roll out, maintain, or pay for more than it needs today. SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition takes the same foundation used by Fortune 500 companies but makes it modular, scalable, and hosted by SAP so a business can start small but keep expanding as it grows without additional system upgrades.
Learn more about SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition for consumer products companies, or contact one of our experienced ERP consultants at (801) 642-0123 or info@nbs-us.com for answers to your specific questions.
