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.

CUSTOMER REFERENCES

RESPONSIVE SUPPLY NETWORKS

Rethink business-as-usual supply chain approaches and move toward a collaborative decision environment to achieve higher customer satisfaction and profitability. Learn more.

KEY BENEFITS

SAP software provides these benefits for planning your supply chain:

• Increased demand accuracy and order fulfillment satisfaction levels
• Reduced inventory levels and increased inventory turns across the network
• Increased profitability and productivity
• Integrated sales and operations planning process provided by the SAP Sales and Operations Planning (SAP SOP) application

Duet demand planning software enables sales and planners to leverage full capabilities of Microsoft Excel as an intuitive planning front end of SAP SCM to deliver:

• An intuitive interface that requires minimum training
• Improved user productivity through simple and timely access to relevant business information

Read about additional benefits of SAP SCM.

A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING

• SAP Sales and Operations Planning – Helps you align your company's financial goals, marketing efforts, and inventory targets in one consolidated plan. See how.
• Demand Planning with Duet and SAP SCM – Duet software from SAP and Microsoft helps you improve key processes in demand planning. See how (PDF).
• Planning & Optimization with SAP SCM – Transform your supply chain to an adaptive network for planning and synchronizing supply and demand. See how (PDF).

Contact Us

Begin a conversation with SAP about our SCM application. You can:

• Call us at 0800 50 550 550 for Belgium and on 00800 50 550 550 for Luxembourg
• E-mail us
• Find an office near you