PLAN YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN
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 – Use forecasting algorithms for product life-cycle and trade promotion planning.
- Safety stock planning – Assign optimal safety stock and target stock levels in network inventories.
- Supply network planning – Integrate purchasing, manufacturing, distribution, and transportation plans.
- Distribution planning – Allocate available supply to meet demand with existing supply elements.
- Strategic supply chain design – Improve visibility, reduce inventory buffers, increase velocity in pipelines, improve customer service, and increase revenues.
Read more about these strategic, tactical, operational, and service-parts planning activities.
For a more detailed overview on the planning process support see the SAP SCM business maps.
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CUSTOMER REFERENCES
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Borealis
This provider of plastic compounds and resins participated in SAP Ramp-Up for SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization.
See how (PDF, 317 KB).
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Brown-Forman Corporation
Brown-Forman cost-effectively integrated supply chain planning with inventory and order management processes.
Read more
(PDF, 100 KB).
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Siemens Power Generation
Siemens used SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization to improve logistics processes for production and planning.
Read more
(PDF, 197 KB).
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