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On April 16th, SAP launched a game-changer for supply chain planners who are leveraging (or plan to leverage) the SAP RISE solutions, offering a comprehensive solution to optimize and streamline supply chain planning and operations. This article identifies five good reasons why you should further examine this package. Co-authored by Sujeet Acharya.
1. Create an Intelligent and Risk-Resilient Supply Chain
In the recent years, the disruptions caused by the pandemic and the later geo-political escalations highlighted the vulnerabilities in traditional supply chains, such as global sourcing challenges, transportation disruptions, and demand volatility. Companies now understand the importance of building resilience into their supply chain strategies to mitigate risks, respond quickly to disruptions and ensure continuity of operations.
RISE with SAP Supply Chain Planning package provides automated and tightly coordinated supply chain planning processes, powered by advanced AI-driven intelligence. This enables immediate response to disruptions, ensuring your supply chain remains robust and profitable.
2. Enhance Your Supply Chain Resilience
The business software package includes four essential products to establish a resilient and tightly coordinated supply chain planning process.
- Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
Traditionally, S&OP tools align sales forecasts with production capabilities, inventory levels, and procurement targets to enable companies to have strategic plan for the year, without providing them the means to respond meaningfully to unexpected disruptions. SAP IBP for Sales and Operations goes beyond that, unifying financial and operational stakeholders in one S&OP process to foster collaboration – aligning inventory, service levels, and profitability. This integrated approach enables companies to optimize resources, reduce excess inventory, and respond swiftly to changes in demand or supply chain disruptions, while protecting their financial goals.
- Supply Chain Visibility
Supply chain visibility is crucial for businesses as it provides real-time insights into the entire supply chain network, from suppliers to customers. This visibility allows companies to track inventory levels, monitor production progress, identify potential bottlenecks or disruptions, and make data-driven decisions to optimize operations. SAP Supply Chain Control Tower help planners to identify and analyze supply chain disruptions, take corrective action, and respond and collaborate with external supply chain partners.
- Manufacturing Planning and Scheduling
During periods of high demand, manufacturing companies must prioritize the optimization of critical resources, allocate labor capacity effectively, and utilize available inventories efficiently for crucial orders. SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing for planning and scheduling provides comprehensive production planning and scheduling tool that help Supply Chain planners to create production plans and schedules based on the business sales, operations, and inventory plans with instant feedback loops from manufacturing and logistic execution.
- Order Promising
Finally, order promising is the most critical aspect of supply chain resilience, allowing companies to commit accurate delivery dates to customers based on real-time visibility into inventory levels, production capacity, and logistics constraints. By improving order promising accuracy, companies can enhance customer satisfaction and maintain trust even during challenging times. SAP S/4HANA advanced Available-To-Promise provides accurate and reliable order promise dates to customer orders, considering the relevant supplies across the network and critical supply chain constraints, in real-time, while protecting companies’ business priorities and profitability goals.
3. Save Time and Cost with an Optimized Inventory Management
With RISE with SAP, you gain intelligent visibility across your entire supply network, allowing you to manage inventory efficiently. This visibility enables informed and responsive planning decisions, reducing the need for constant re-planning and optimization. You can seamlessly integrate workflows from strategic planning to order promising and fulfillment, ensuring a smooth and efficient supply chain operation.
4. Competitive Pricing and Simplified Integration
RISE with SAP offers an attractive competitive price point with a simple fixed price, making it accessible to businesses of all sizes. Additionally, with an end-to-end solution from one software provider and built on one domain model for out-of-the-box integration, you can enjoy optimized connectivity, scalability, flexibility, and the highest security standards.
5. Unlock the Full Potential of Your Business
In conclusion, supply chain planning resilience in the post-pandemic era is essential for companies to navigate uncertainties effectively. Integrated and collaborative sales and operations planning, end-to-end supply chain visibility, effective order promising, and efficient production scheduling are key components that enable companies to build agile and resilient supply chains capable of adapting to evolving market conditions and disruptions. RISE with SAP offers a comprehensive solution to transform your supply chain into an intelligent and resilient powerhouse. You will experience end-to-end workflows that enable planning and exception-based issue resolutions, enhancing your supply chain resilience. Check out our website for further details or contact your SAP trusted advisor!
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