SAP solutions and applications support the following related business processes for the mill products industry:

• Inventory management – For optimal inventory management processes, you need to manage your logistics facilities cost-effectively. Support for inventory management helps you record and track materials on the basis of both quantity and value.
• Price management – Revenue and price management helps you optimize and manage prices throughout the product life cycle. SAP solutions help you manage initial pricing, as well as promotional, markdown, or clearance pricing.
• Price optimization – Price optimization models help you calculate price elasticity or demand variability at different price levels. Combine that data with information on costs and inventory levels to recommend prices that will improve profits. These models simulate how customers will respond to price changes.
• Sales order management – Your sales organization can manage the complete sales-order management cycle and handle post-sales activities with sales management and service functionality. SAP solutions address customer-focused processes, including sales, service, and aftermarket processing of warranty claims, service orders, and returns.
• Transportation management – The SAP Transportation Management application can help you consolidate orders and optimize shipments. By sharing information and combine orders directly with carriers over the Internet, you can integrate business partners into your company's processes and maintain control of plans.
• Warehouse management – Optimize warehouse activities, including inbound and outbound processing, facility management and storage, physical inventory, and planned and opportunistic cross docking. Take advantage of data collection technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID) and voice and new workload balancing tools.