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Keep moving through the semiconductor shortage

Gain visibility, enhance insights, and strengthen collaboration with a resilient supply chain.
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Run at full speed during a semiconductor slowdown

Keep business moving by gaining the visibility, insight, and collaboration you need to get through the semiconductor traffic jam with SAP solutions.

Respond quickly to change

Address current pain points and better anticipate the impact of the next disruption with forecasting capabilities and real-time analytics.

Boost business resilience

Enable intelligent, analytics-based decisions to manage shortages and priority-based order promising.

Drive supply chain excellence

Reduce disruptions effectively through better tracking, monitoring, and optimization of transport and logistics.

Rely on a collaborative network

Move to a true industry business network that connects business partners for an accurate exchange of demand and supply signals.

Transform industry business models

Gain built-in intelligent technologies with a future-ready enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

Minimize the gap between supply and demand with a synchronized value chain

Explore SAP solutions that can help you maintain greater revenue certainty, higher fulfillment of customer expectations, and improved resilience.

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Break down silos in your supply chain planning with real-time planning, what-if simulations, and performance monitoring.

  • Real-time planning: Balance demand and supply, integrate financial and operational planning, and link high-level strategic plans with mid- and long-term business plans. 
  • Simulation and comparison of scenarios: Run simulations of demand or supply changes for what-if analysis and compare scenarios for fast, informed decision-making.
  • Robust statistical models: Use sophisticated forecasting algorithms combined with machine learning and pre- and post-processing algorithms.
  • Rough-cut planning: Develop a tactical rough-cut capacity plan and consider capacity and material constraints simultaneously.
  • Supply chain resilience: Buffer supply and demand uncertainty through decoupling points across the supply chain.

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Prepare for unexpected events and manage shortage situations quickly by using the SAP S/4HANA solution for advanced ATP.

  • Efficient stock management: Manage shortage situations by allocating stocks to key customers, considering sales and delivery constraints.
  • Effective product availability management: Oversee business priorities and protect customer interest while confirming orders en masse.
  • Intelligent decisions: Understand the influence of product availability and other delivery constraints during order confirmation by analyzing supply and demand and product allocation.
  • Smart selection of alternatives: Improve order fill rate by intelligently selecting stocks from alternative locations during supply shortages.

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Manage logistics efficiently across warehousing, fulfillment, and distribution and analyze reshoring capacity and capabilities.

  • Transportation resource tracking and monitoring: Keep track of the current stock and status of your transportation resources according to type and location and monitor resource-relevant key performance indicators.
  • Transportation execution: Run your logistics faster, more dynamically, and more responsively with improved cargo handling and reduced costs.
  • Outbound logistics management: Enable warehouse order optimization, wave management, packing control, and process monitoring.
  • Integration and monitoring: Use comprehensive graphical monitoring to identify, avoid, and solve potential issues with insight.
  • Logistics optimization: Improve services by increasing visibility and control with transportation management software.

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Collaborate with existing partners, identify new partners, and encourage speculative interactions that have the potential to spark innovation and new opportunities. SAP Business Network can help you transform disconnected supply chains and accelerate the pace of business.

  • Advanced supplier collaboration: Connect with all your suppliers, regardless of type or size, with a flexible and scalable network.
  • Ability to execute with confidence: Share critical information between your company and your suppliers to improve forecasting and avoid disruption.
  • Supply chain resiliency: Identify and address risks in your supply chain in tight coordination with suppliers. 
  • Strategic resource utilization: Digitalize manual supply chain processes to increase productivity, decrease operating costs, and free up FTE capacity.

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Gain built-in intelligent technologies, including AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics, with SAP S/4HANA Cloud. Our complete ERP system can help you adopt new business models, manage business change at speed, orchestrate internal and external resources, and use the predictive power of AI through tight, native integration between processes, industry depth, and a consistent in-memory data model. 

  • Embedded AI, analytics, and intelligent process automation: Eliminate manual effort and increase productivity with intelligent automation 
  • In-memory databases and simplified data model: Design new business models and maximize existing ones
  • Capabilities and best practices for a wide range of industries: Power industry transformation and elevate standards with industry best practices
  • Consumer-grade UX and personalized insights at your fingertips: Apply instant intelligence and actionable insights to consistently exceed consumer expectations

See resilient supply chains in action

Reinventing the supply chain and the customer experience

Learn how HP Inc. enhanced its ability to predict demand and transitioned into a more nimble company with deeper insights and the ability to provide real-time supply chain information.

Streamlining design, planning, manufacturing, delivery, and operations

Find out how Kaeser Kompressoren uses intelligent engineering and maintenance technology from SAP to minimize downtime and service costs and make sure its compressors meet unique customer needs.

Building a smart factory strategy by standardizing process flows

Discover how Shanghai Automobile Gear Works Co. Ltd standardized its supply chain, manufacturing, and logistics processes with the SAP Extended Warehouse Management and SAP Supply Network Collaboration applications.

Get the latest semiconductor supply chain insights

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Investing in technology to stabilize business

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