Let’s own it: supply chain management is challenging right now. With resource nationalism, trade wars and the unraveling of the rules that have governed globalization for a generation, supply chain management is an increasingly tricky business consideration.
The good news is that technology can help, especially SAP’s Supply Chain Management solutions (SCM). While SCM can’t change geopolitics, it can change how your business handles changing supply chain considerations.
SAP’s Supply Chain Management solutions are a suite of intelligent, AI-driven tools built to help your business optimize and streamline end-to-end supply chain operations. As part of a larger SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition ERP solution, SCM enables your business to achieve real-time visibility, automation, and efficiency across your supply chain networks. This efficiency helps your business reduce costs, improve customer satisfaction, and increase supply chain resilience.
Whether your business is looking to scale efficiently, modernize, or weatherproof for the geopolitical storm ahead, features of SAP SCM come with a set of powerful tools for intelligently managing your supply chain operations.
Let’s look at the major components of SAP’s Supply Chain Management solutions.
SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP)
A sustainable, risk-resilient supply chain demands connected processes and fast, flexible planning that can stand up to disruption.
With SAP IBP, your business can predict demand through AI-powered algorithms for improving both short- and long-term forecast modeling, demand sensing, and automated outlier correction in your sales history data. Multilevel planning helps your business create effective supply planning, rough cut planning, and response management.
Sales and operational planning within the IBP also gives your business visibility for real-time plan adjustment, scenario simulations and comparison, collaboration, and performance monitoring.
SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM)
SAP EWM helps your business manage high-volume warehouse operations and integrate complex supply chain logistics with your warehouse and distribution processes. This delivers high levels of visibility and control required for efficient supply chain management.
The extended warehouse management component of SAP’s Supply Chain Management solution covers warehousing operations end-to-end with fully integrated quality, production and track-and-trace processes built in by default. The EWM takes direct control of warehouse automation equipment, and it uses intelligent slotting rules for space utilization optimization.
With EWM, your business can reduce inventory and labor costs by heading off problems before they occur, increase process and stock transparency for more reliable operations, and improve space utilization.
EWM can help your business drive costs down, improve speed of fulfilment, and optimize inventory.
SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)
Integrated transportation management plays a critical role in building and maintaining a sustainable, risk-resilient supply chain.
With SAP TM, you can strengthen the transportation aspect of your supply chain operations with strategic freight management that streamlines quote-to-contract processes and automates rate determination. Order management can be boosted with real-time response, sales and ordering that are aligned with logistics, and integrated intelligence for making sense of it automatically.
SAP TM also improves transportation planning by optimizing goods movement, helping your business efficiently manage delivery activities, and providing end-to-end transportation visibility.
SAP Business Network for Supply Chain
SAP Business Network
closes the gaps between trading partners, enabling transaction exchange, information sharing, and trading partner discovery.
SAP Business Network, a B2B platform that facilitates more than US$6 trillion in annual commerce, can help your business gain enhanced visibility and coordination along your partner network. With this, your business can better understand supply chain issues and respond more quickly.
SAP Business Network also helps your business manage and comply with both internal and external policies and regulations so your global supply chain becomes less complicated. You can configure policy rules, manage product genealogy, and access supplier profile data through the platform.
SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM)
Define, develop, deliver, and manage innovative products by digitalizing PLM for your supply chain.
With SAP PLM, you can combine supply chain and business data with engineering models. Through the use of digital twins, your business can create closed loops that help synchronize product lifecycles along a digital thread and create information access from across the product development process using a single, integrated platform.
SAP PLM gives a holistic view of product development information, including data from mechanics (MCAD), electronics (ECAD), software, and simulation tools, and it helps employees work more effectively with embedded quality, sustainability and compliance management features.
Digital Supply Chain Management for a Changing World
Supply chains are changing. Design risk out of your supply chain with SAP’s Supply Chain Management solutions.
With SAP’s supply chain management solutions, your business can connect processes, contextualize decisions and collaborate more effectively with your partner ecosystem.
For more on SAP Supply Chain Management solutions and answers to your specific questions about any part of the SAP solutions, call one of our experienced ERP consultants at (801) 642-0123 or by writing us at info@nbs-us.com.
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