Planting sustainability into supply chain planning
Learn why IDC believes that sustainability is an integral part of how companies plan their integrated supply chains.
Supply Chain Planning
Respond quickly and cost-effectively to changes in supply, demand, and market conditions – with integrated supply chain planning software from SAP.
Synchronise supply chain planning tools and decisions across lines of business
Agile supply chain planning requires speed and resiliency, especially during times of disruption. By adopting an extended planning and analysis (xP&A) capability, you can s ynchronise supply chain planning tools in real time across the business in line with financial and operational plans. As a result, you can become a more agile and aligned organisation that is ready to respond to any situation.
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Supply Chain Planning Software
Build a resilient and agile supply chain with software from SAP.
Demand forecasting and management
Use demand sensing, statistical modelling, and machine learning algorithms to make accurate short- to long-term forecasts.
Multi-echelon inventory optimisation
Set inventory targets to maximise profits, while leaving a buffer to help you meet unexpected demand.
Sales and operations planning (S&OP)
Collaborate on a cross-departmental sales and operations plan that balances inventory, service levels, and profitability.
Response and supply chain planning tools
Optimise supply management with plans based on prioritized demands, allocations, and constraints, such as production capacity.
The SAP solutions enable digitalised planning, procurement, inventory management, and delivery of the vaccines.
Lars Werthmann, Head of Logistics, DRK Landesverband Sachsen e.V.
SAP planning solutions offer a broad-range of scenarios that can help your teams deliver results with greater agility. By integrating SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) for Supply Chain, you gain one connected planning solution across lines of business to strengthen collaboration throughout your entire organisation.
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Demand management and forecasting
Capture historical demand, adjust demand data, and apply dedicated forecasting models for the parts business.
Inventory planning
Automate stocking and destocking decisions and calculate safety stock as well as economic order quantity (EOQ).
Parts supply planning
Perform distribution requirements planning (DRP) and generate order proposals.
Distribution logistics
Apply push or pull deployment, balance inventory across locations, and execute distribution.
Priority-based order promising
Allocate the right stock to the right demand in a supply shortage situation, and speed up delivery for key customers.
Optimised stock allocation
Allocate stocks based on business priorities, considering suitable alternatives.
Analytics-driven decision support
Analyse supply and demand and product allocation to understand the influence of product availability constraints.
Partner and supplier collaboration
Collaborate with global partners across processes for ordering, forecasting, quality checks, inventory management, and more.
Dashboards for status monitoring
Get order status updates from suppliers, and quickly identify quality issues and mismatches between supply and demand.
Rapid onboarding functionality
Provide on-demand tools or use supplier integration options for efficient supplier onboarding and rapid user adoption.
Enhanced compliance
Improve compliance and on-time order delivery with standards-based, secure communications and configurable business rules.
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Achieving supply chain resiliency by synchronising business decisions
Learn how synchronised planning breaks down silos between planning and execution, creates flexible, agile, and executable plans, and focuses on understanding true risk and the probability of disruptions or changes and their impact across the entire value chain.
Assess your supply chain resiliency against today’s challenges
SAP has created the “Supply Chain Game Changer," a simulated game that allows you to understand how each role in your supply chain responds and reacts to disruptive change. You can choose from three different scenarios ‒ product shortages, logistics issues, and merger obstacles ‒ and various roles including demand planner, supply planner, and head of planning.