SAP BusinessObjects Solutions for the Manufacturing Industry
Supplier Risk Management
For today's leading manufacturing companies, the problems caused by economic turbulence – plant shutdowns, product delays, substandard finished goods, impaired business relationships, and contract violations – can compromise the ability to successfully meet customer demand. Increasing merger and acquisition activities, bankruptcies, and business failures threaten supply consistency, business continuity, and in some cases a supplier's economic viability. The harsh reality is that traditional business systems often lack the ability to anticipate the challenges of the new reality – or help you address them proactively.
To thrive in a challenging economy, you need a proactive approach that helps monitor supplier health from a multi-dimensional perspective, anticipate potential problems, and enables you to proactively mitigate the risk. Your decision makers need ready access to integrated, real-time data from inside and outside your enterprise – information they can use to proactively insulate your supply chain from the risks associated with supplier disruption.
With SAP BusinessObjects solutions that have been designed to support the needs of the manufacturing industry, you can identify, manage, and mitigate the risks of supplier disruption, and leverage a 360-degree view of supplier risk. Leveraging your existing enterprise investment, SAP BusinessObjects software can empower you to maintain and gain market share, satisfy customer needs, and directly impact the bottom line.
SAP BusinessObjects software provides comprehensive functionality that can enable:
- Analytics – Display detailed or summary-level analytics and indicators according to user roles.
- Business process support – Support your supplier risk management processes with sophisticated work flows, metadata, and industry expertise.
- Comprehensive decision support – Provide transactional data from your enterprise systems as well as real-time on-demand external data feeds that enable you to analyze your supplier's financial viability from an objective, external perspective.
- What-if analysis – Let users model various actions and visualize the associated effects on relevant key metrics.
Using this software, you can:
- Enhance decision making with a comprehensive, unified view of supply disruption risks across your entire supplier portfolio, available through a single interactive dashboard.
- Improve your ability to manage your vendor portfolio, so that you can identify, assess, and monitor multiple areas of supplier risk exposure.
- Better understand risk exposure and severity using external analytics.
- Enhance analysis, determining the root cause of potential disruptions.
- Proactively identify risk, using intuitive presentation of integrated data – including spend data – from internal and external sources and monitor KPIs to help identify potential risks.
- Reduce business disruption, increase customer satisfaction, and improve profitability through the ability to anticipate supply chain risks.
SAP BusinessObjects solutions that support supplier risk management include:
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SAP BusinessObjects solutions that support supplier risk management – which work with both SAP and heterogeneous enterprise applications and data sources – include industry-specific implementation accelerators, such as data models, pre-defined dashboards, and implementation guides. Empowering you to maximize the success of your solution deployment, speed time-to-value, and mitigate project risk.