Steps to success for building inventory management and optimization strategies

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  1. Inventory Accuracy

    Is Your Inventory Strategy a Bottleneck?

    Reading time: 2 mins

    As supply chain risks increase and businesses become more complex and globalized, inventory management challenges are growing exponentially. Inventory Optimization emerged as a key focus area over the next two years for SAPinsiders in our recent research, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. As organizations still struggle with fluctuating demand patterns developed during the pandemic,…
  2. Make the Most of SAP WM Inventory Count Capabilities

    Reading time: 23 mins

    Learn about the three main inventory count methods in Warehouse Management — annual inventory, continuous inventory, and cycle counting — and see how you can determine which process is best for your situation. Then find out how to configure each process. Key Concept The goal of the inventory count process is to ensure the accuracy…...…
  3. How to Achieve Optimal Inventory Levels with SAP Integrated Business Planning for Inventory

    Reading time: 20 mins

    Learn how to achieve optimal inventory levels for raw materials, work in process, and finished products across the supply chain with SAP Integrated Business Planning. Key Concept The unified planning area, SAP Integrated Business Planning’s standard planning area, provides end-to-end business processes related to all the technical details of a planning area in SAP Integrated…...…
  4. How to Accelerate Your Inventory Sorting Using Batch Search Strategy

    Reading time: 29 mins

    Discover how to set up and use a batch search strategy to accelerate inventory sorting with business scenarios. Learn certain precautions to take while implementing the use of batch search strategy functionality. Key Concept The SAP system has provided a system strategy to efficiently sort materials or product batches in inventory using batch search strategy…...…
  5. Next-generation inventory management: Q&A on optimizing inventory levels while improving customer service

    Reading time: 20 mins

    An integrated approach offers a powerful way to meet all of these requirements for modern supply chains. SAP Enterprise Inventory and Service-Level Optimization and SmartOps solutions provide predictive analytics and advanced reporting functionality that allows the delivery of enhanced customer service with accurate, real-time inventory investment levels. When integrated with SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization…...…
  6. Inventory Planning and Optimization with SAP Advanced Safety Stock Planning and SAP SmartOps

    Reading time: 27 mins

    Read two case studies to learn how to implement SAP APO Advanced Safety Stock Planning (ASSP) and SAP SmartOps Enterprise Inventory Optimization (EIO). Key Concept SAP SmartOps Enterprise Inventory Optimization (EIO) provides a comprehensive, enterprise-wide process for optimizing, managing, and monitoring inventory stocking levels for finished product and raw material components across the supply chain. …...…
  7. Inventory Accuracy

    Building Foundation for Inventory Management

    Reading time: 3 mins

    As supply chain risks increase and businesses become more complex and globalized, inventory management challenges are growing exponentially. Inventory Optimization emerged as a key focus area over the next two years for SAPinsiders in our recent research, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud. As organizations still struggle with fluctuating demand patterns developed during the pandemic,…
  8. Share Strategy Management Data Easily Using SAP BusinessObjects Voyager and Xcelsius

    Reading time: 14 mins

    Publishing strategy data beyond just your strategy analysts and managers helps you proactively respond to changing business requirements, ensure alignment at all levels within your organization, and instill confidence in people making decisions. You can provide access to this data by using SAP BusinessObjects Voyager and Xcelsius on top of your SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management…...…
  9. How Does Your Inventory Management Strategy Measure Up?

    Reading time: 12 mins

    Discover where your organization is in this inventory maturity model, understand the set of required capabilities, and identify the key SAP functionalities to implement at each level. Consider the guidelines described in this roadmap to achieve higher customer satisfaction levels and reduce inventory carrying costs. Key Concept The inventory maturity model is a proposed four-…...…
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    Steps to success for building inventory management and optimization strategies

    Reading time: 2 mins

    SAPinsider’s benchmark report on Inventory Management and Optimization focuses on how organizations are recognizing the significance of supply chain visibility and the need for improved management and optimization to mitigate inventory-related risks and difficulties. The key challenges that organizations face are the lack of: clearly defined inventory strategy and policy, internal skillset for implementation, strategy…