SAP Business AI in supply chain
Turn concepts into market-leading reality
SAP Business AI built into your supply chain processes
Transform your supply chain with AI-driven insights, recommendations, and automation integrated into supply chain solutions from SAP. With SAP Business AI, you can predict events, make better informed decisions, and modernize functions from design to operate.
- Predict customer demand reliably with AI-powered demand forecasting
- Improve quality with intelligent anomaly detection and visual inspections
- Synchronize operations and maximize efficiency with predictive maintenance
- Intelligent access to information through the Joule copilot in SAP supply chain solutions
Explore how AI can boost your supply chain
Product development
Enhance new ideas by using AI to connect 2D or 3D product models to corresponding business information in ERP, and process-related data with speed and accuracy.
What does AI in product lifecycle management look like?
Augment the product engineering process
Empower end users to increase efficiency and eliminate redundant tasks. Reduce time spent on tagging master data to 3D visualization objects by 50-70%. Automatically identify and assign respective master data to each component in the 3D visualization.
Revolutionize the innovation funnel
Support a fact-based approach to product development. Using SAP’s AI copilot, Joule, product developers can now gather and enhance new product ideas quickly and effectively using natural language queries.
Risk-resilient demand planning
What does AI in planning look like?
Uncover insights quickly and effectively
Plan demand, inventory, and supply with visibility and confidence with Joule. Gain insights on improved planning runs and recommendations of certain actions and comparison of different planning runs.
Improved visibility and faster insights
What does AI in manufacturing look like?
Efficiently identify and fix issues in manufacturing
Accelerate the resolution of production stillstands. Solve issues when connecting machines, and designing and running production processes. Use AI to analyze logs related to issues, identify root causes, and provide guidance for issue resolution.
Ensure quality without the cost
Meet your continuous improvement goals through digital manufacturing. Remove the burden of manual and expensive visual inspection tasks, and reduce the potential for errors.
Intelligent warehousing and logistics
machine learning. Access digital cargo documents generated by AI, expediting the freight unloading process.
What does AI in logistics look like?
Seamlessly expedite freight verification and documentation
Automate the processing of tens of thousands of goods receipts and delivery notes. Get a faster processing time with greater accuracy, minimizing errors, and reducing the need for manual checks. The entire operation experiences enhanced operational efficiency and improved data quality for subsequent processes.
Asset performance management
Field service management
What does AI in asset management look like?
Improve accuracy of predicting machine failure
Significantly reduce human efforts in visual data inspection. Detect anomalies in IoT sensor data, leading to the identification and warning of machine failure. Automatically triggered alerts effectively support informed maintenance decisions.
Optimize your operations
Save time and money on manual inspections by automating the inspection process. Increase asset availability and customer satisfaction through reliable inspection services.
Featured customer stories
Component defect checks with a single click
Smart Press Shop extended their existing SAP digital manufacturing solution with a camera component and a fully automated AI service.
Mitigating supply chain risk
Microsoft uses predictive planning capabilities for data-driven and actionable insights, helping it minimize inventory and supply chain risk.
92% faster forecasting and uncompromised reliability
Read how ZF Friedrichshafen implemented AI to improve forecast speed and accuracy, enabling data-driven decisions on demand.
What does AI in supply chain look like?
Why AI is a game changer for CIOs, CTOs, and supply chain professionals
Executives across industries are looking to AI-enabled supply chain management to increase visibility, improve logistics, and optimize inventory and service levels. Find out how you can use AI to get out in front of the competition today.
Secure an efficient, agile, and resilient supply chain
Deliver the insights and resilience to keep your supply chain flowing across the globe. Quickly evaluate risk and projected delays, zero in on the most important shipments, and make good on your deliveries.
Stay ahead of change and improve demand forecast accuracy
Create risk-resilient supply chains and prepare for change with AI-assisted statistical forecasts that take into account multiple factors, from inventory levels and supply partner risk to weather changes and market fluctuations.