Supply Chain Management for SAP Business All-In-One Software

Operational Planning

SAP Business All-In-One ERP system offers midsize manufacturing and distribution businesses the necessary tools to maintain operational excellence via efficient business processes. Gain the ability to forecast and plan for product demand and product characteristics with state-of-the-art forecasting algorithms. Increased visibility into operations helps to streamline services, logistics, workforce, and manufacturing processes.

SAP Business All-In-One enterprise resource planning software can be implemented to meet the specific needs of businesses. Enhanced agility functionalities offer companies improved effectiveness to respond quickly to change, elevate service levels, and reduce errors and costs. Capture actual production information for complete visibility across all shop-floor processes for increased efficiency and streamlined processing.

SAP Business All-In-One ERP solution offers the following features and benefits for midsize manufacturing and distribution businesses:

• Demand Planning and Forecasting provide the tools needed to forecast and plan anticipated product demand.
• Safety Stock Planning permits safety stock and target stock levels to be assigned in all inventories in the supply network.
• Supply Network Planning integrates purchasing, manufacturing, distribution, and transportation plans for comprehensive tactical planning.
• Distribution Planning helps to determine the best short-term strategies to allocate available stock to meet current demand.
• Supply Network Collaboration delivers improved visibility into supply and demand across the supply network.

Parts Demand Planning

SAP Business All-In-One ERP system offers midsize manufacturing and distribution businesses forecasting services that cover the entire life cycle of parts for improved accuracy in parts demand planning. The parts demand planning feature is a function of the solution’s Supply Chain Management (SCM) module that provides complete transparency throughout the supply chain from demand through delivery.

Parts demand planning is based on Bills of Distribution (BOD), which pre-define the distribution routes for parts. Demand planning continuously analyzes past forecast performance and automatically adjusts forecast parameters for more efficient planning.

The parts demand planning module in SAP Business All-In-One enterprise resource planning software offers the following features and benefits:

• Gain a transparent view of inventory levels, supply chain costs, data, and processes for increased efficiency.
• Reduce operating costs with process automation.
• Respond quickly to fluctuating demand of parts requirements and necessary customization.
• Gain greater responsiveness for improved delivery capabilities and increased customer satisfaction.
• Improve forecast accuracy via better modeling of demand quantities and events.
• Increase data maintenance efficiency with aggregated forecast-parameter profile maintenance.