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Digital supply chain: more resilience for your supply chain

To stay ahead of the game, you need to provide exceptional services. In challenging market conditions, how do you deliver correctly, on time and at the right price?

A digital supply chain provides a real-time view of all the links in your chain, processes and costs. This gives you the resilience to make rapid changes. Discover how your supply chain can become a differentiator.

Supply chain customer experience

Ensuring an exceptional customer experience

Today, customers of e-commerce businesses – and, in fact, any other business too – are more demanding than ever. They want lightning-fast delivery, excellent communication and a smooth return process.

Supply chain save costs

Save costs

Your customers demand excellent service, but at what price? How do you organize production and distribution in a more cost-efficient way?

Supply chain risks of disruption

Reduce the risk of disruption

Disruptions in the market (economy, politics, etc.) and changes to suppliers’ businesses have major impacts on the supply chain. How do you anticipate and respond to these changes and disruptions?

Integrated demand and supply planning

SAP S/4HANA supports a variety of supply chain processes. In addition, you can integrate SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) to match supply and demand optimally at every step of the supply chain. SAP IBP connects the data from your SAP S/4HANA package and synchronizes every planning and supply chain process: sales & operations (S&OP), stock management, demand, supply, deployment, production and transport and financial planning.

Accelerators for Integrated Business Planning

Align supply and demand in the cloud – in no time

Align supply and demand in the cloud – in no time

Optimized production planning

Demanding customers often put the production department under great pressure. By planning the production process intelligently, you maintain a better balance between raw materials and finished products and optimize your capacity planning. And thanks to lower inventories and reliable delivery, profitability will go up.
How do you get started? SAP S/4HANA boasts several features that can be used to optimize your production plans.

Smart warehouse management

Smooth, streamlined warehouse processes are also a must for a truly well-oiled supply chain. Do you want to check the availability of products or parts in real time, follow up batches, pick an order quickly and manage returns fast? Optimize the entire workflow with a reliable warehouse management system!

The basis of SAP EWM, SAP's warehouse management solution, is also integrated into SAP S/4HANA. On top of that, it’s easy to plug a specific solution into your ERP system: for pick runs in the warehouse, voice scanning, robots, an AR application and so on.

Distribution like clockwork

What are the best transport routes? How can we deliver faster? Which distributor ensures the best transport costs? In the highly competitive transport sector, it is vital to make the right distribution choices. SAP Transportation Management answers every question. As the module is also linked to a track & trace solution, you can keep a complete overview of every distribution flow.

More collaboration? More innovation?

To collaborate more smoothly with suppliers and customers or to fully embrace the power of analytics, you need SAP Business Network or SAP Analytics Cloud.

And of course, there are countless ways to plug in innovative technology. Apps and extensions, IoT technology, robots, Virtual or Augmented Reality or machine learning? Industry 4.0: here we come!

Supply chain innovation

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Creating a resilient digital supply chain is what we do. With SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) we supported already several customers to align their supply and demand, tailored to their specific needs.

Centrient

Industry:

  • Pharmaceutical

Facts & Figures:

  • > 2.200 employees
  • 5 countries

Project details:

  • Transition from decentralised supply planning in Excel to an integrated S&OP solution in IBP
  • Global supply planning process for bulk planning and finished good planning
  • Operational Planning Process across different sites in weekly buckets

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Agristo

Industry:

  • Potatoe products

Facts & Figures:

  • > 1.000 employees
  • 7 countries

Project details:

  • An end-to-end Demand Planning Process in IBP
  • Statistical Forecasting

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Puratos

Industry:

  • Bakery Products

Facts & Figures:

  • > 9.500 employees
  • 3 countries

Project details:

  • An end-to-end S&OP process in one central tool
  • Forecasting process with statistical & manual forecasting
  • Master Planning
  • Integration with ECC and BW

Spadel

Industry:

  • Non-alcoholic beverages

Facts & Figures:

  • > 1.200 employees
  • 3 countries

Project details:

  • Demand planning process with S&OP in IBP
  • Operational planning across different sites
  • Statistical Forecasting
  • Integration with SAP S/4HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud

Puratos

Industry:

  • Chemicals

Facts & Figures:

  • > 1.250 employees
  • 5 countries

Project details:

  • Demand planning process and operational supply planning in daily buckets
  • Operational Planning Process across different sites in daily buckets
  • Integration with ECC, BW and non-SAP systems

GsK

Industry:

  • Pharmaceutical

Facts & Figures:

  • > 17.000 employees
  • 14 sites

Project details:

  • Transition from scenario planning in APO and Excel to IBP
  • Process improvements with S&OP in IBP
  • Optimized supply and inventory management
  • Proof-of-concept solution based on IBP optimizer

Lotus Bakeries

Industry:

  • Bakery Products

Facts & Figures:

  • > 2.000 employees
  • 3 countries (21 sales dep.)

Project details:

  • An end-to-end Demand Planning Process in IBP
  • Statistical Forecasting
  • Collaborative forecasting (via WebUI)
  • Integration with ECC & Business Warehouse (BW)
  • Integration with Trade Promotion Management system (USA)

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