Actively managing the performance of your supply chain has never been more important. Increased globalization, volatility in demand and commodity costs, regulatory requirements, and greater dependency on suppliers and other partners have significantly increased the risk of doing business. Knowing your inventory positions, delivery dates, and fill rates is not enough. You must also understand the impact of supply chain changes on total cost or cash flow and optimize supply chain effectiveness for better corporate results. This requires end-to-end visibility into factors that drive performance – such as cash-to-cash cycle times, overall supply chain cost, and the quality of your order fulfillment.

Maximizing the Power of Your Supply Chain Data

The SAP BusinessObjects Supply Chain Performance Management application helps you measurably improve the effectiveness of supply chain operations and better deliver on corporate mandates, such as lowering costs and improving return on working capital. In addition to providing a more accurate measure of whether you are meeting your supply chain goals, the application can warn you of potential bottlenecks as well as identify new opportunities. Functions for root-cause diagnostics let you take measured responses where needed.

Faster Time to Value at Lower IT Risk

As a packaged application, SAP BusinessObjects Supply Chain Performance Management can significantly reduce the complexities, costs, and risks associated with deploying this type of solution. Relying on best-in-class technology, embedded data integration functionality, data models based on leading industry standards such as the supply chain operations reference (SCOR) model, and an intuitive user experience, the application has been purpose built, preconfigured, and preintegrated. In contrast to custom-built applications, this means faster time to value at a significantly reduced price point and lower risk.