Design to operate with SAP AI
Turn concepts into market-leading reality
Transform your design-to-operate process by using SAP AI to streamline manufacturing and strengthen product lifecycle management (PLM). With SAP AI, you can improve all activities related to identifying, acquiring, designing, prototyping, and decommissioning products or services.
Use AI in your supply chain and manufacturing process to:
Explore our AI solutions for design to operate
Plan to optimize fulfillment
Use artificial intelligence to improve supply chain processes and manufacturing fulfillment strategies.
SAP Integrated Business Planning
- Forecast near-real-time demand with next-generation demand sensing
- Forecast accurately with level shift and sales quantity trend change detection
- Reduce inventory carrying costs with predictive material and resource planning
- Classify and segment proposals automatically with intelligent segmentation
- Identify job anomalies with master data anomaly detection and recommendations
Make to inspect
Use artificial intelligence to optimize manufacturing processes: production planning, operations, quality management, performance, and receiving.
SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud
- Improve operator productivity with machine learning-powered visual inspections
- Increase production efficiency with streamlined planning and auto-dispatching
- Remove bottlenecks in quality control with simplified and automated defect detection
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- Streamline quality inspections with defect code suggestions
- Simplify defect logging and communication with digital assistants
Deliver product to fulfill
Use artificial intelligence to optimize order promising, shipping, warehouse management, and logistics.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- Reduce inventory carrying costs with prompt detection of slow-moving materials
- Increase supply chain efficiency with accurate delivery date predictions
Manage fulfillment
Use artificial intelligence to optimize manufacturing setup, sustainability, managing service partners, and service data.
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- Enable quick actions toward prevention with emissions forecasting
Acquire to decommission
Use artificial intelligence to enhance the lifecycle management of products, such as acquisition, production, onboarding, maintenance, offboarding, and decommissioning.
SAP Predictive Asset Insights
- Close out maintenance jobs efficiently with object part and damage code suggestions
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
- Prevent asset failures with master data anomaly detection and recommendations
What does AI in supply chain look like?
Stay ahead of change and improve demand forecast accuracy
Create risk-resilient supply chains that can adapt to unforeseen changes, events, and trends. Take into account how outside forces like the weather affect your business. With AI, users can take multiple demand signals into consideration and combine them with their statistical forecasts.
Why AI is a game changer in the modern digital supply chain
The importance of an efficient, agile and resilient supply chain has made it to the top of CIOs’ and CTOs’ digital transformation agendas. Despite supply chains becoming more complex and harder to manage, AI-enabled supply chain management has enabled early adopters to improve logistics, inventory levels and service levels compared with slower-moving competitors.
Prevent supply chain issues before they happen
Prevent disruptions to your supply chain faster with AI-powered custom alerts and threshold detection. Help demand, inventory, and supply planners focus on the issues that truly need their attention before they become a problem.
See what customers are achieving
with SAP AI
Intelligent demand sensing enabled by SAP IBP for Supply Chain helps us reliably predict demand for a wide range of products, so we can meet our goals for greater production and growth.
Alfred Benny Christensen, Senior Solution Architect, Arla Foods Amba