SAP Supply Chain Management

Brochures & White Papers

For details about the benefits, features, and functions of SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM), check out the following information:

SAP Supply Chain Management (PDF, 587 KB) – Read how SAP SCM automates customer-centric business processes across and beyond enterprise-wide operations – delivering the market's greatest breadth and depth of functionality by supporting the most comprehensive range of end-to-end processes that address business demands.

Supply Chain Planning: Synchronizing Supply and Demand (PDF, 79 KB) – Discover how the SAP SCM application can help you transform your existing supply chain into an adaptive network that can respond to today's tumultuous business environment – enabling your company to maximize its return on assets and boost profitability.
Supply Chain Execution: Sense and Respond with an Adaptive Supply Chain Network (PDF, 95 KB) – Learn how the comprehensive planning functionality of SAP SCM helps you to collaborate with partners, make accurate forecasts, and control your inventory – to improve your supply chain planning and increase customer satisfaction.
Supply Chain Design and Analytics (PDF, 243 KB) – Read how SAP SCM allows you to better adapt to rapid shifts in the marketplace and changing customer demand. This application provides visibility across the entire supply chain, facilitating both tactical and strategic business planning and promoting customer satisfaction.
"Mobile Supply Chain Management with SAP SCM" (PDF, 147 KB) – Examine how the SAP SCM application takes supply chain visibility to new levels by integrating PDAs, radio frequency devices, and onboard computers with information systems – to extend the power of enterprise computing to new processes, people, and places.

"RFID Technology: Changing Business Dramatically, Today and Tomorrow" (PDF, 245 KB) – Learn how to achieve better inventory visibility, perform exception-based reporting and event management, and respond to customer demands and market changes by using SAP RFID to automate processes and transactions in the supply chain.
"Supply Chain Coordination with SAP SCM" (PDF, 127 KB) – Examine how SAP SCM enables companies to synchronize, manage, and evaluate processes across the supply chain network – monitoring activities, sending alerts, and assessing performance.
"Supply Network Collaboration: Enabled by SAP Inventory Collaboration" (PDF, 359 KB) – Discover how you can enhance cooperation, efficiency, and knowledge sharing throughout your supply chain by implementing SAP Inventory Collaboration Hub (SAP ICH), an innovative, Web-based component of the SAP SCM application.

"Adaptive Business Networks: A Strategy For Mastering Change And Efficiency In Manufacturing" (PDF, 223 KB) – See how SAP can help you use adaptive business networks as an effective strategy to introduce new products that meet customer needs, respond faster to supply chain signals, and optimize profit during order fulfillment. Log-in required.
"Adaptive Manufacturing: Enabling the Lean Six Sigma Enterprise" (PDF, 415 KB) – Discover how SAP solutions support lean manufacturing and Six Sigma principles so that companies can intelligently adapt to exceptions and build an enterprise that lays the foundation for value creation. Log-in required.
"The Adaptive Business Network in Consumer Products Industries" (PDF, 283 KB) – Learn how the adaptive business network, an entire suite of business strategies, addresses key business competencies – including process improvement, partner collaboration, and global data synchronization – in consumer products industries. Log-in required.
"The Adaptive Business Network in High Tech Industries" (PDF, 230 KB) – Learn about SAP's vision of the adaptive business network, a set of concepts, business strategies, and capabilities that can help high tech companies respond to business changes. Log-in required.

"Replenishment Processes on the SAP Inventory Collaboration Hub (SAP ICH)" (PDF, 464 KB) – Learn why customers need visibility into complex supply networks – usually with a wide range of suppliers – and learn how the SAP Inventory Collaboration Hub component of SAP SCM provides more visibility to replenishment processes.
"Warehouse Management with SAP Supply Chain Management" (PDF, 386 KB) – Examine how the SAP SCM application simplifies processes to improve accuracy, reduce costs, enhance customer service, and support an increase in orders direct to manufacturer.