Managing your supply chain in spreadsheets can be risky, costly, and frustrating. Discover the steps in SAP to ensure planning and decisions are based upon timely, accurate, and complete data. This session looks at techniques in SAP to begin to trust the information increase the SAP functionality to begin the journey of moving to single system of truth.
Hands-on Exercise to Improve Data Integrity
Imagine a world of different SCM strategies that can help you increase automation that drives customer service, reduce working capital tied up in excessive inventory and move away from daily firefights. Business rules (master data) are the cornerstone of managing demand and supply effectively, so it’s no surprise that exceptions between business rules and behavior are a leading cause of poor service and fulfillment performance. This session provides insight on how to prioritize activities within the supply chain to remain agile and responsive to customer needs.
Hands-on Exercises Utilizing Exception Management.
Having the right product, at the right place, at the right time and at the right available level – every time – is the holy grail of every supply chain. Companies traditionally use historical performance, channel demands, and gut feel to determine product allocation and replenishment planning. However, without proper measures and analytics, this is falling short of providing the right results. More and more companies are starting to turn to predictive analytics to refine this decision making. The challenge is finding the balance between prediction and actual. Learn how to leverage standard SAP tools and reports you already own to reduce inventory averages by more than 20% while increasing the availability of inventories to production and sales.
Hands-on Exercise on Inventory Analysis.
Whether you are a discrete or repetitive manufacturer, SAP can help improve throughput. Whether you are a make to order, make to stock or assemble to order company, or a combination of these three, SAP can run multiple strategies to meet customer demand and strategic intent. In this session we will discuss the various types of strategies in addition to the finite scheduling and capacity planning capabilities in SAP to ensure not only we measure manufacturing efficiencies but improve it. Discuss the critical success factors to optimize planning strategies, including forecasting and S&OP initiatives that add value to the bottom line. The different demand planning strategies and the importance of applying the right one.
Hands-on Exercises for Production& Capacity Planning
The future is bright, and the future is now! Let’s take sometime to explore these purpose-built applications and how they can empower organizations to level up their agility game. We’ll dip our toes into the world of Fiori Analytics and discuss how specific apps are built to support planning and performance. We’ll then discuss IBP and how IBP and theERP environment work hand-in-hand to support end-to-end supply chain outcomes. We will specifically explore scenario planning, and the alignment of decision support, decision making and execution.
This session examines points of failure, lack of agility, customer and supplier issues, lack of integration, and more. Explore recommendations on how to address supply chain vulnerabilities exposed by recent events.