Digital Supply Chain
SAP IBP (Sales & Operations Planning) S&OP enables cross-functional organizational input to the monthly cycle. It aligns all sources of demand/forecast and supply/capacity to balance supply with demand and manages exceptions in real-time. S&OP is typically the first application our customers utilize in the transformation of their supply chain.
Benefits
- Create the optimal business plan to drive revenue growth and increase market share
- Effectively balance supply with demand to attain financial targets
- Increase speed and agility of planning and drive most profitable responses
- Enable cross-functional process orchestration and collaboration
- Manage risks, assumptions, and opportunities
Accelerators
- Forecast De-Biasing
- Pipeline Predictability
- Forecast Value Add
- Total Margin Management
Predictive Insights
- Planner Exception Management
- User-Defined Alerts
SAP IBP Demand provides additional forecast algorithms (in addition to S&OP), demand sensing capabilities, and daily forecast level detail to address the short-term demand fluctuations, and execution to meet customer service levels. Typically, our customers utilize IBP Demand either concurrently or as a second phase to IBP S&OP.
Benefits
- Automate the statistical forecasting process for more accurate mid-term forecasts
- Drive more precise deployment of product based on short term demand sensing
- React faster to short term demand changes with pattern recognition-based algorithms
- Enable planning flexibility and accuracy through segmentation
- Collaborate to ensure the most accurate forecast
Accelerators
- Forecast Signal Management
- Planning Level Optimization
Predictive Insights
- Forecast Segmentation using noodle.AI
- Forecast Sensing using Noodle.AI
SAP IBP Inventory is the industry leading inventory planning and optimization application capable of modeling the entire supply chain network and determining the appropriate level of inventory to maximize customer service while “fixing the mix“, resulting in significant inventory savings and ROI. Our customers typically implement IBP Inventory as part of Phase 2 of the supply chain transformation.
Benefits
- Improve customer service levels
- Maximize the efficiency of inventory and working capital
- Reduce production and distribution costs
- Standardize the inventory target-setting process at each tier within the supply chain to feed operational plans
Accelerators
- Inventory Monitoring
- Inventory Captial Assessment
- Variability Calculators
Predictive Insights
- Lead Time Variability assessment using Noodle.AI
- Inventory Buffer constraint assessment using Noodle.AI
- Customer service level scenarios and simulation
PLATFORMS
CASE STUDY
- Entegris
SAP Response and Supply (R&S) provides the ability to execute constrained supply/capacity optimizations to ensure order fulfillment and supports allocations and replenishment planning. Our customers typically utilize R&S in an order-based model after successfully implementing S&OP/Demand/IBP Inventory time-series models.
Benefits
- Balance supply plans to demand and ensure stock availability to fulfill future orders
- Enable unconstrained demand propagation utilizing supply heuristics
- Analyze current capacity, available stock, and transport times of materials and components
- Develop constrained supply optimizations to maximize profit or costs minimization
- Execute what-if scenario planning to determine optimal plans at various constraints
- Generate ATP for inline order confirmations
Accelerators
- Allocations planning
- Replenishment planning
- STO optimization with Noodle.AI
SAP Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PPDS) is part of the legacy SAP APO application to address plant manufacturing requirements.
Benefits
- Integration of multi-level production planning and detailed scheduling
- Fast and responsive scenarios linked to manufacturing execution
- Optimization of material and capacity constraints to fulfill demand based upon the uniqueness of your manufacturing plants
- Optimization of sequencing rules and constraints to schedule resources and respect due dates
- Reduction in order lead-times, stock levels, and work in process by 15%-25%
Control Tower
Benefits
- Increase end-to-end visibility across your extended network
- Improve supply chain performance by managing Key Performance Indicators
- Manage exceptions with automated alerts, root cause analysis and resolution
- Increase supply chain agility and reduce supply chain cost
Incremental AI Benefits
- Demand Flow: Improve accuracy and remove bias with an AI-enabled, data-driven consensus demand signal feeding your S&OP and S&OE processes
- Inventory Flow: Take control of supply-demand imbalances during the execution window. Balance business-level and SKU-level inventory priorities to navigate the turbulence of supply and demand variability
- Production Flow: Ensure a seamless flow of the right products to your network by making near-term production priority trade-offs by Value at Risk. Exceptions are focused to reduce lost sales and the costs associated with inventory and shipment expedites
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