AUTONOMOUS SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Planning Assistant
Use the Planning Assistant to help planners make fast, informed decisions across all time horizons.
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Overview
The Planning Assistant brings a new set of powerful AI-driven agents directly into day-to-day planning workflows, including exception management, demand fulfillment, and inventory driver assessment. This helps planners detect issues earlier, understand constraints faster, and respond more consistently to change.
Tasks this assistant can help with:
- Converting of supply chain alerts into one-click resolutions
- Identifying structural capacity issues and persistent shortages, and creating data-driven scenarios for quick decision-making
- Evaluating new inventory targets, identifying key drivers, and approving workflows
- Resolving unfulfilled demand by pinpointing gating factors and recommending feasible mitigation paths
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 unfulfilled demand situations
- Orchestrated evaluation and approval guidance for new inventory targets, including identification of inventory 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 inventory targets.
Improved order fulfillment
Resolve unfulfilled demand by analyzing constraints and propose feasible mitigation options to increase order fulfillment rates, improving customer satisfaction.
Intelligent inventory control
Optimize 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 specialized AI agents, including Joule Agents that apply SAP’s process expertise or custom agents you create.
Exception Management Agent
Reduces firefighting by detecting and prioritizing exceptions, proposing mitigations, and speeding planner responses.
Inventory Decision Allocation Agent
Improves fulfillment and inventory targets by analyzing changes, explaining drivers, and automating approvals with governance.
Component Shortage Agent
Detects component shortages early and surfaces their root causes to speed decision-making and maintain stability.
Deployment Order Confirmation Agent
Stabilizes short‑term operations by resolving overloads and adjusting deployments to reduce rework and avoid surprises.
Long-term Resource Capacity Shortage Resolution Agent
Spots capacity bottlenecks, quantifies impact, and generates mitigations to prevent production and delivery delays.
Footprint Optimization Agent
Enhances operational decision making by highlighting footprint hotspots, simulating reduction levers, and comparing scenarios against the baseline.
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