AUTONOMOUS SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Planning Assistant
Use the Planning Assistant to help planners make quick, informed decisions across all time horizons.
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Overview
The Planning Assistant introduces a new set of powerful AI-driven agents directly into day-to-day planning workflows, including exception management, demand fulfilment, and inventory driver assessment. This helps planners detect issues earlier, understand constraints more quickly, and respond more consistently to change.
Tasks this assistant can help with:
- Converting supply chain alerts into one-click resolutions
- Identifying structural capacity issues and persistent shortages, and creating data-driven scenarios for prompt decision-making
- Evaluating new stock targets, identifying key drivers, and approving workflows
- Resolving unmet demand by identifying limiting factors and recommending feasible mitigation strategies
Example use cases for this assistant:
- Accelerated exception management including monitoring, context creation, what-if scenarios, and plan change recommendations
- Proactive identification of structural capacity issues and persistent shortages, including evaluation of strategic mitigation options
- Automated analysis of supply chain constraints and gating factors to resolve unmet demand situations
- Orchestrated evaluation and approval guidance for new stock targets, including identification of stock drivers
Benefits
Accelerated decision-making
Compress decision time through automated analysis and one-click resolutions to protect service levels and prevent costly expedites.
Proactive risk mitigation
Identify structural capacity issues and persistent shortages in advance to improve adherence to scheduling and stock targets.
Improved order fulfilment
Resolve unfulfilled demand by analysing constraints and propose feasible mitigation options to increase order fulfilment rates, improving customer satisfaction.
Intelligent stock control
Optimise stock targets while maintaining full governance and traceability to increase working capital efficiency.
Featured agents used by this assistant
Use the Planning Assistant to orchestrate specialised AI agents, including Joule Agents that apply SAP’s process expertise or custom agents you create.
Exception Management Agent
Reduces fire-fighting by detecting and prioritising exceptions, proposing mitigations, and speeding planner responses.
Inventory Decision Allocation Agent
Improves fulfilment and inventory targets by analysing changes, explaining drivers, and automating approvals with governance.
Component Shortage Agent
Detects component shortages early and highlights their root causes to accelerate decision-making and maintain stability.
Deployment Order Confirmation Agent
Stabilises short-term operations by resolving overloads and adjusting deployments to reduce rework and avoid surprises.
Long-term Resource Capacity Shortage Resolution Agent
Identifies capacity bottlenecks, quantifies their impact, and generates mitigations to prevent production and delivery delays.
Footprint Optimisation Agent
Enhances operational decision-making by highlighting footprint hotspots, simulating reduction levers, and comparing scenarios against the baseline.
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