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SAP SCM: Collaboration, Planning, Execution, and Coordination Across The Adaptive Supply Chain Network
You face enormous pressure to reduce costs while increasing innovation and improving customer service and responsiveness. SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) enables collaboration, planning, execution, and coordination of the entire supply chain network. SAP SCM provides broad functionality for enabling adaptive supply chain networks and integrates seamlessly with both SAP and non-SAP software by excelling in these ways:
- Delivers planning and execution functions that are integrated by design
- Supports best practices and provides preconfigured software for enabling collaborative business, accelerating implementation, and reducing costs
- Recognized by key industry analysts as the market-leading supply chain management application
SAP SCM software has helped the best-run companies in multiple industries to improve their supply network, efficiency, utilization, and responsiveness.
For a complete view of SAP SCM capabilities, see the SAP SCM business maps.
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Customer Successes
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Brown-Forman Corporation
Using SAP SCM, this leading U.S. spirits and wine company cost-effectively integrated supply chain planning with inventory and order management processes.
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DIRECTV
The largest direct-broadcast satellite provider in the U.S. uses SAP SCM to link equipment providers with key channel providers in a closed-loop, forward-and-reverse logistics process.
Read how
(PDF, 557 KB).
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Johnsonville Sausage
This American food company balanced business risk and IT requirements by implementing the SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO) component.
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(PDF, 117 KB).
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Discover how your business network can become more seamless and flexible for a more successful business.
Operational Excellence
Realize improved customer service, decreased costs, predictable compliance, and better operational performance by unifying operations. Learn more.
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.
Product & Service Leadership
See how you can deliver new, innovative products and services for differentiation and growth with shorter time to profit. Learn more.
Optimize Sales & Marketing
Foster efficient collaboration to more effectively fulfill customer needs and deliver exceptional value, while coordinating efforts that result in more effective marketing campaigns, profitable promotions, and satisfied customers. Learn more.
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Overall Supply Chain Management Business Value
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- Synchronize supply to demand – Balance push and pull network planning processes. Replenish inventory and execute production based on actual demand.
- Sense and respond with an adaptive supply chain network – Drive distribution, transportation, and logistics processes that are integrated with real-time planning processes.
- Provide network visibility, collaboration, and analytics – Monitor and analyze your extended supply chain.
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