Supply chain management with SAP
Companies face a large number of challenges in their supply chains. In addition to short production and delivery times, customers also expect transparency and affordable products. Global crises, volatile markets, and increased customer expectations are forcing companies to rethink their approach and move away from rigid structures and toward agile, transparent, and resilient supply chains. For this reason, it is increasingly important to create a transparent network throughout the entire value chain, to plan internal processes, and to control them efficiently. You can achieve all of this through integrated supply chain management. SCM systems optimally support all company departments along the value chain using software and technology.
But implementing a digital, intelligent, and sustainable supply chain requires more than just software—it calls for expertise, strategic thinking, and an experience partner.
What is supply chain management?
Supply chain management is a broad management concept that refers to the set-up and management of integrated logistics chains. Supply chain management (SCM) is used to integrate all your business activities - from sales and material requirements planning, to production planning and shipping to customers - into a single seamless process.
So supply chain management refers to the entire value creation process and a company’s holistic supply chain, with the aim of providing the end consumer with products, goods, or services in the best possible way. Logistics is a component of the entire supply chain. What’s more, the relationship with suppliers plays a key role when considering SCM.
The main focus is always on improving efficiency, productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction. As in almost all areas of a business, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing supply chain management. Thanks to the use of advanced algorithms and machine learning, processes can be not only automated but also precisely optimized—for more efficient workflows, significant cost savings, and data-driven decision-making.
How can SAP software provide support in supply chain management?
SAP solutions provide support across the entire supply chain management process. From the planning with SAP Integrated Business Planning and logistics with SAP Extended Warehouse Management and SAP Transportation Management to manufacture with SAP Digital Manufacturing and product life cycle management with SAP Enterprise Portfolio & Project Management and SAP Integrated Product Development. This is rounded off by Enterprise Asset Management with solutions such as SAP Asset Performance Management, SAP Service and Asset Manager, and SAP Field Service Management.
SAP software minimizes risks and allows your company to achieve sustainable growth! The following illustration provides an overview of SAP supply chain management:
The advantages of SAP Supply Chain Management:
- Reduction in lead times
- Increase in delivery reliability
- Reduction in inventory levels
- Reduction in storage costs
- Increase in delivery reliability
- Increased productivity
- Greater transparency
SAP Supply Chain Management portfolio by ORBIS
As an expert in digitalization in production, we are passionate about the digital supply chain. We make use of the powerful SAP portfolio, which we enhance with our own solutions and add-ons to digitalize your shop floor. We support you throughout the entire supply chain end-to-end process and offer SAP process consulting, SAP implementation, and SAP managed services from a single source.
Find out more about our solutions here:
SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP)
Use the software solution SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP) to efficiently control your business processes. SAP IBP is based on SAP HANA and, as a solution in the cloud, helps you holistically to optimize your supply chain. The cloud application offers numerous functions designed to forecast and control the planning process for end-to-end supply chain planning in both quantities and values, in any granularity and dimension.
SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing for Planning and Scheduling (SAP MP&S)
Transform your customer and planned independent requirements into a feasible production plan that is consistent over multiple stages. Use SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing for Planning and Scheduling (SAP MP&S—formerly SAP PP/DS or advanced planning in SAP S/4HANA), SAP’s strategic detailed planning tool, to easily create a finite production plan across all parts list levels.
SAP Digital Manufacturing (SAP DM)
SAP Digital Manufacturing (SAP DM), the manufacturing execution system (MES) from SAP, is a cloud-based and data-controlled production solution. The MES system creates end-to-end transparency of systems, workstations, and individual machines across sites and on a global level. SAP DM integrates directly into SAP S/4HANA or your SAP on-prem ERP system and links your business systems and production to increase transparency across all production sites in the cloud. Turn Industry 4.0 into a reality in your company with SAP Digital Manufacturing.
SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM)
SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) is the strategic warehouse solution from SAP under SAP S/4HANA. Compared with its predecessor SAP WM (Warehouse Management), the solution provides a significantly broader range of functions with many new features and can help to optimize the processes in your warehouse.
SAP Stock Room Management
Use SAP Stock Room Management as a warehouse management solution within SAP S/4HANA and benefit from basic functions for controlling and optimizing warehousing processes. Compared with SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM), the solution is geared toward companies that have less complex warehouse requirements but that nevertheless need efficient inventory management.
SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM)
Use SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) to control physical transport activities while simultaneously managing freight costs and having end-to-end visibility of your transport flows, so that you can improve service quality and make decisions in real time! With the integration with SAP S/4HANA and other SAP solutions, such as SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM), SAP TM can provide seamless data processing and improve transparency across the supply chain. The solution is especially geared toward logistic service providers, forwarding agents, retailers, and manufacturing companies with complex transport requirements.
SAP Business Network for Logistics
SAP Business Network for Logistics interlinks companies with their business partners to enable cross-company collaboration, transparency, and agility. The open network facilitates the exchange of information between all parties in the supply chain at global level in order to exploit synergy, promote common understanding, and optimize processes - with low costs and better utilization of capacities.
SAP Field Service Management (SAP FSM)
SAP Field Service Management is the comprehensive cloud-based solution from SAP for technical field staff. Benefit from our end-to-end consulting expertise and take your field service to the next level. SAP FSM can give your improved deadline and deployment planning with AI support, optimized resource management with guided workflows, and a mobile app with smart forms.
ORBIS as full-service partner for End-to-End Supply Chain Management
ORBIS stands for implementable concepts and assumes consulting responsibility from the concept creation phase to the live operation phase. We will work with you to develop the perfect solution to suit your needs, based on our many years of practical international experience in the field of logistics and SAP. Our in-house Smart Factory solutions allow us to round off the SAP portfolio in production and logistics.
Get in touch with us and benefit from ORBIS best practices! Our SCM consultants advise your global organization, your supply chain managers, and your staff, drawing on their industry-specific expertise relating to all aspects of SAP Supply Chain Management. We are also on hand to help you with our consultants once the implementation process is complete. What’s more, we even help you to further optimize the level of knowledge within your company by providing webinars, webcasts, and workshops. Use the potential and functions of the SAP software for your supply chain management!
