SAP Supply Chain Management
Planning, Execution, And Collaboration Across The Responsive Supply Network
You face enormous pressure to reduce costs while increasing innovation and improving customer
service and responsiveness. SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) enables collaboration, planning, execution,
and coordination of the entire supply network, empowering you to adapt your supply chain processes to an
ever-changing competitive environment.
SAP SCM is part of the SAP Business Suite, which gives organizations the unique ability to perform essential business processes with modular software that is designed to work with other SAP and non-SAP software. Organizations and departments in all sectors can deploy SAP Business Suite software to address specific business challenges at any time and without costly upgrades.
SAP SCM can help transform a linear, sequential supply chain into a responsive supply network – in
which communities of customer-centric, demand-driven companies share knowledge, intelligently adapt to
changing market conditions, and proactively respond to shorter, less predictable life cycles. SAP SCM provides
broad functionality for enabling responsive supply networks and integrates seamlessly with both SAP and
non-SAP software. The application:
- Delivers planning and execution functions that are integrated by design
- Supports best practices and provides preconfigured software for enabling collaborative business,
accelerating implementation, and reducing costs
- Is recognized by key industry analysts as the market-leading SCM application
For a complete view of SAP SCM capabilities, see the solution overview (PDF).
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Real-time demand and signal-based replenishment need to drive supply chains. Companies need to balance
supply and demand and run their businesses based on actual-versus-forecasted demand.
With SAP SCM, you can model your existing supply chain; set goals; and forecast, optimize, and schedule
time, materials, and other resources with these planning activities:
- Demand planning and forecasting
- Safety stock planning
- Supply network planning
- Distribution planning
- Strategic supply chain design
Key Planning Benefits of SAP Supply Chain Management
SAP SCM enables you to:
- Increase demand accuracy and order fulfillment satisfaction levels
- Reduce inventory levels and increased inventory turns across the network
- Increase profitability and productivity
- Integrate sales and operations planning process
Read more about these
strategic, tactical, operational, and service-parts planning activities.
Get a complete view of supply chain planning capabilities with SAP SCM solution maps.
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 "Building a Collaborative Demand and Supply Planning Network".
To meet the challenges of rapidly changing market dynamics, your company needs to synchronize all
logistics, transportation, and fulfillment operations in a 24/7, always-on, environment.
SAP SCM enables you to carry out supply chain planning and generate high efficiency at lowest possible cost. You can respond to demand through a responsive supply network in which distribution, transportation, and logistics are integrated into real-time planning processes. Features include:
- Order fulfillment
- Procurement
- Transportation
- Warehousing
- Real-world awareness
- Manufacturing
Key Execution Benefits of SAP Supply Chain Management
With SAP SCM, you benefit from:
- Improved order, production, and execution tracking with RFID-enabled processes
- Seamless integration and global visibility of different transportation process steps, and higher
transparency
- Improved warehouse efficiency and extend real-time visibility and control of warehouse
operations
- Reduced costs of goods sold throughout your company
Read additional details about order-fulfillment, procurement, transportation, and warehousing activities.
Get a complete view of supply chain planning capabilities with SAP SCM solution maps.
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To meet pressure to reduce costs while increasing innovation challenges, you may do business in regions
and countries where costs are lower, develop and maintain relationships with global suppliers, or outsource
nonstrategic activities to suppliers. To do so, you must foster collaborative relationships with suppliers,
outsource manufacturers, and customers.
SAP Supply Network Collaboration, included in SAP SCM, helps you connect to and collaborate with:
- Suppliers – Give them easy and seamless access to supply chain information to
facilitate your ability to synchronize supply with demand.
- Customers – Provide broad capabilities for replenishment, including min/max-based
vendor managed inventory (VMI) and for exclusion of promotions and transport load building.
- Contract manufacturers – Provide easy, seamless access to supply chain information by
extending visibility and collaborative processes to their manufacturing processes.
Key Collaboration Benefits of SAP Supply Chain Management
With SAP SCM, you can gain these benefits:
- Streamline collaboration with your suppliers, contract manufacturers, and customers
- Significantly decrease procurement, sales, and inventory costs
- Enhance supply chain visibility and increases overall speed, accuracy, and adaptability of your supply network
- Reduce inventory levels while managing variations in supply and demand
- Improve communications and reduces errors and processing costs
Read more on the supply chain collaboration process support. For a more detailed overview, see the SAP SCM business maps.
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"SAP Supply Network Collaboration: Bringing Clarity by Extending Your Enterprise to Your Network" (PDF) Log-in required
"Enable Your Supply Chain to Meet Changing Supply and Demand" (PDF)
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