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Supply Chain Management: SAP Supply Chain Planning
The art of orchestrating supply chain planning can be intricate. Unforeseen changes in supply, demand, and market changes are a test in agility. The ability to synchronize planning for sustainable growth is the key to building a resilient supply chain.
Supply Chain Planning Defined
Supply chain planning (SCP) is a forward-looking process. It is coordinating assets to optimize the delivery of goods, services, and information from suppliers to consumers. Organizations can leverage solutions to help navigate the complexities of planning and orchestrating supply chain operations flawlessly. SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is powered by SAP S/4HANA memory and is a cloud-based planning software for supply chain management. IBP is a process for aligning a company’s business goals across operational functional areas.
Supply Chain Management: SAP Supply Chain Planning
The art of orchestrating supply chain planning can be intricate. Unforeseen changes in supply, demand, and market changes are a test in agility. The ability to synchronize planning for sustainable growth is the key to building a resilient supply chain.
Supply Chain Planning Defined
Supply chain planning (SCP) is a forward-looking process. It is coordinating assets to optimize the delivery of goods, services, and information from suppliers to consumers. Organizations can leverage solutions to help navigate the complexities of planning and orchestrating supply chain operations flawlessly. SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is powered by SAP S/4HANA memory and is a cloud-based planning software for supply chain management. IBP is a process for aligning a company’s business goals across operational functional areas.
Key integration elements are:
- Supply and demand
- Finance and Operations
- Functions and business processes
- Strategy outcomes
- Non-financial measures
- Cash flow, costs, and revenues.
A structured process that comes from an IBP approach enables companies to make better informed and fact-based decisions. It provides planning, what-if scenario capabilities, and real-time demand commitments, considering constraints. Increased visibility enables companies to incorporate insights from supply chain projections, financial projects, and strategic plans. There are unmatched benefits of IBP for SAP Supply Chain Planning, like optimization of logistics, improved cross-functional collaboration, planning agility, risk mitigation, and improved forecast accuracy.
SAP Supply Chain Planning yields several benefits:
- Decreased costs
- Increased profits
- Reduction in delays
- Improved efficiency
- Increase in output
- Better cooperation.
Vendor partners that can offer software solutions or operational intelligence include – SAP, Reveal or Gib.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders are:
- Video Q&A with Eric Jones from GIB on Connecting the Dots Between Supply Chain Planning and Execution. Learn how to tame many supply chain complexities with end-to-end -supply chain solutions by watching this video. The discussion gives a perspective on why supply chain planning tools are an imperative in today’s highly complex supply chains.
- Demand Planning Alerts Increase the Accuracy of your Forecasts. David Ducray explains that demand planners are often faced with converting large amounts of data into an accurate forecast. Review different ways to spot trends and errors in data by using alerts to help you create a more accurate forecast. Allow planners the ability to manage by exception.
- Meeting Demand with a Constrained Supply Using Product Allocation in SAP APO Global ATP. Alok Jaiswal reviews the process flow of how product allocation can be used in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO). This utilizes global available-to-promise (ATP) to meet customer requirements by managing the supply of scarce products.
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Cloud Can Address Supply Chain Planning ChallengesJul 15, 2022 — Supply chain planning capabilities have evolved from being a portfolio of tools and technologies used to run and plan supply chain operations to a set of capabilities that can be leveraged to build business agility in resiliency in today’s complex business environment. Cloud provides additional capabilities to supply chain planning technologies to align better with the rapid proliferation of data, system complexities, and business complexities.This article explores why cloud computing will define the future of supply chain planning and associated technologies.
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Analytics as Extension of Supply Chain Planning TechnologiesJul 13, 2022 — In responses to the survey for our upcoming research report, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud, SAPinsiders highlighted advanced analytics capabilities as the top technology when the current state and immediate next steps timeframe are considered together. SAPinsiders have indicated that they have started building capabilities in foundational aspects like advanced analytics and those who not done it yet, are actively evaluating it. This article discusses why advanced analytics has risen to the top in the list of supply chain planning related technology capabilities.
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Strategies to Build Supply Chain Planning FoundationsJul 8, 2022 — SAPinsider will be publishing a research report, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud this month. As the survey for this research come to a close, many interesting insights emerge. One of the key ones is how SAPinsiders view supply chain planning as an important tool to build business resiliency and agility. Since the top business drivers focus on resiliency and agility, strategies that SAPinsiders are formulating to address business drivers also revolve around resiliency and agility. This SAPinsider article covers the top drivers that were highlighted by respondents.
SAPinsiders are formulating or implementing strategies to address their business drivers. The top strategies they have identified for building robust supply chain planning capabilities are shown in figure 1. Building end-to-end visibility (67%), Developing a single source of truth for the end-to-end supply chain (39%), and leveraging real-time insights (39%), all pertain to the resiliency and agility and support associated business drivers. The article explores the top strategies SAPinsiders have highlighted as priorities for building robust supply chain planning capabilities.
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Developing a Supply Chain Visibility RoadmapJul 8, 2022 — SAPinsider will be publishing a research report, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud this month. As the survey for this research come to a close, many interesting insights emerge. One of the key ones is how SAPinsiders view supply chain planning as an important tool to build business resiliency and agility. Since the top business drivers focus […]
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Eliminating Data Silos for Supply Chain AnalyticsJul 7, 2022 — Fragmentation of data remains a key obstacle on the path of integrated supply chain planning. Many organizations have invested in point systems for planning various elements of supply chains over the years, have legacy systems, and also have data pertaining to supply chain residing in enterprise systems like ERP, CRM etc. With the advent of Big Data, the number of data sources and opportunities for data fragmentation have also increased. Supply chain data is therefore fragmented in data silos across multiple systems and data sources across the enterprise. This is one of the factors behind SAPinsiders selecting creating a "single-source-of-truth" as one of their key strategies as it pertains to supply chain planning. And a critical step in supporting this strategy is to eliminate supply chain data silos. This article discusses why eliminating data silos is important for supply chain planning.
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Supply Chain Planning and Business AgilityJul 6, 2022 — SAPinsider will be publishing a research report, Supply Chain Planning in The Cloud this month. As the survey for this research come to a close, many interesting insights emerge. One of the key ones is how SAPinsiders view supply chain planning as an important tool to build business resiliency and agility. This was evident in the choice of top business drivers highlighted by SAPinsiders.This article shares business driver inputs from SAPinsiders indicating the importance of supply chain agility.
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Machine Learning for Supply Chain Data Quality ManagementJun 24, 2022 — Machine Learning (ML) based algorithms are slowly percolating into a wide variety of supply chain planning solutions. However, they play a key role in foundational aspects of supply chain planning as well, particularly in data quality management. Data quality has emerged as one of the aspects SAPinsiders have highlighted in their responses to our upcoming research report survey, Supply Chain Planning in the Cloud. In this article, we share a few ways Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are already being used for supply chain data quality management. We will specifically use vendor or supplier data management for these examples. Readers will learn:
• What are examples of areas where ML can be used for data quality management?
• What are some of the commonly used ML algorithm categories for data quality management?
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