Ensure on-time, profitable sourcing and product delivery across your manufacturing network

Gain greater control of your internal and external production processes across the globe. Integrate manufacturing with your supply chain processes for rapid, flexible response to engineering changes, supplier glitches, and customer demands.

  • Shrink lead times across plants, products, and suppliers
  • Minimize inventory costs and customer stockouts
  • Improve on-time, on-demand production execution
  • Instantly respond to events with full network visibility
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Sauer Danfoss: Streamlining Supplier Collaboration

See how Sauer Danfoss uses SAP software to enable real-time interaction with suppliers and improve productivity. With faster order reaction time, it has reduced inventory and staffing levels.

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Improve Communication, Streamline Collaboration

Increase visibility beyond your plant walls with our supply network collaboration solutions. We can help you turn suppliers, contract manufacturers, customers, and service providers into extensions of your organization – resulting in higher profits and lower processing costs.

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Discover how you can fully monitor supply chain performance, optimize your manufacturing network, and enable supplier-managed inventory with our supply chain management systems.

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Solutions for Supply Chain Management

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  • Supply Chain Planning

    Facilitate collaborative supply chain planning processes, including strategic, tactical, and operational planning – as well as service parts planning.


    • Set achievable goals with better forecasting, optimizing, and scheduling of materials and resources
    • Maximize return on assets and align supply and demand to ensure profit
    • Improve forecast accuracy and boost customer satisfaction

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  • Supply Network Collaboration

    Improve communication with your suppliers, contract manufacturers, and customers to streamline collaboration and reduce errors and processing costs.


    • Enhance supply chain visibility to increase speed, accuracy, and adaptability of your supply network
    • Reduce inventory levels, while managing variations in supply and demand
    • Significantly decrease procurement, sales, and inventory costs

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  • Supply Chain Performance Management

    Measurably improve supply chain effectiveness by gaining end-to-end visibility and focusing on the metrics that impact
    supply chain performance.


    • See the impact of supply chain decisions on total costs and operational effectiveness
    • Get visibility into supplier performance and advance warnings of potential bottlenecks
    • Take advantage of root-cause diagnostics that help you understand and address problems

    Demo: Supply Chain Performance Management Solution Brief: Supply Chain Performance Management

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  • Inventory Optimization

    Achieve optimal inventory management by responding to changes in demand, supply, and network alignment.


    • Strike the right balance between your service levels and inventory investment
    • Set and manage stock targets at a granular level more frequently
    • Help customers realize savings from lower inventory and reduced working capital

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  • Response Management

    Speed supply chain response to demand-driven opportunities with rapid analysis of what-if scenarios.


    • Boost supply chain efficiency, while improving service levels
    • Achieve single-platform visibility across a globalized, highly distributed supply chain
    • Quickly evaluate real or hypothetical changes to demand and supply
    • Identify and take advantage of new demand-shaping opportunities

    Solution Brief: SAP Supply Chain Response Management by ICON-SCM

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  • Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence

    Connect shop-floor systems and business operations directly. Our software can help you gain real-time visibility into all your data.


    • Lower total cost of ownership with pre-built, standard compliant connectors
    • Deliver useful information to plant employees, including alerts, reports, and KPIs
    • Control process-improvement initiatives, including Six Sigma and lean manufacturing

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  • Information Sharing and Integration with Trading Partners

    Become more agile by collaborating with your business partners on the provision of materials, goods, and services.


    • Share information to eliminate repetition and reduce IT costs
    • Lower your compliance risks using up-to-date profiles
    • Accelerate your decision making with accurate data

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