Digital Supply Chain - New innovations with SAP S/4HANA

Supply chains are now a competitive differentiator based on their speed, agility, and insight. Customers’ unique needs must be met with personalized products, new business models, greater intimacy through Internet of Things insights and deeper real-time prediction and intelligence across the enterprise.

Intelligent enterprises across all industries are focused on business outcomes and innovation by leveraging an intelligent suite of applications, intelligent technologies, and digital platforms. Discover how SAP S/4HANA and other supply chain solutions from SAP can help your business turn digital innovation into a competitive advantage.

Prediction of stock-in-transit arrival
The ability for warehouse managers to predict the arrival date of a shipment and manage delivery delays. Prebuilt set of KPIs supports robust analytics for the business scenarios. Early and efficient visibility for stock transport orders that leads to reliable processes for planning and scheduling of goods in transit.

Real-time Inventory
Live inventory management that enables unlimited simultaneous material movements and true transparency on inventory and material flows. Decreased stock buffers due to better transparency and insights.

Advanced ATP
Intelligent, real-time product availability check for sales, planned, and production orders. Includes scalable available-to-promise (ATP) for managing large transaction volumes and flexible allocation management capabilities. Provides back-order processing with intuitive priority classification and interactive exception handling.

Improve production planning
Coordinate manufacturing operations across your organization including material requirements, logistics, and receipts for proper material handling, work in process, and inventory. You can also make plan adjustments based on real-time information from the enterprise, suppliers, and the plant floor.

Accelerate manufacturing workflows
Plan and schedule maintenance tasks synchronizing labor, material, equipment and schedules. Execute planned and unplanned maintenance to ensure optimal operations including improved safety and environmental impact.

Single platform for warehouse management
Reduced TCO by landscape simplification through native warehouse management with SAP S/4HANA; a single warehousing platform for all warehousing operations, including optimization, automation, and labor management.

Single platform for transportation management
Reduced TCO by landscape simplification through native Transportation Management with SAP S/4HANA; a single platform for transportation management with basic and advanced shipping functionality and real-time embedded analytics.

Demand-Driven MRP (DDMRP)
Dynamic planning of replenishments with demand-driven MRP (DDMRP) that is fully integrated into existing MRP concept. Replenishment only for real demand and introduction of buffers at strategically important points.

Supply Chain in a Digital Economy

Digitization of the economy is continuing to accelerate the pace of innovation, shortening the product lifecycle and increasing the demand volatility. At the same time supply chains are becoming global and increasingly complex. To be in a position to create and capture opportunities, companies must develop an environment in which they can manage information and processes simultaneously across the extended supply chain. This evolution of supply chains is more connected, intelligent, responsive, and predictive.It enables companies to drive customer-centric processes and deliver personalized products uniquely built and delivered for the “segment of one.” These demanding customers have to be serviced across a business network of global partners that are increasingly challenged by resource scarcity. This transformation will continue to impact the business processes and systems that are required to remain competitive. It will change how we design, plan, make, ship, and operate our products and assets.

SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain, cloud applications such as SAP Ariba solutions and SAP Integrated Business Planning, and SAP Leonardo support a digital supply chain strategy with a digital value network that acts as an enabler for business transformation. The digital value network starts with a digital core that interconnects all aspects of the value network in real time to drive business outcomes. The digital core not only connects every aspect of internal operations but also enables real-time workforce engagement, supplier collaboration, outcome-based omnichannel consumer experience, and other market dynamics with Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data scenario.

Predictive Forecasting and Demand Sensing
Short-term demand prediction with demand sensing algorithms. Remote capture and analysis of sensor data from connected devices and feeding to demand management process.

Demand Driven Material Requirement Planning
Dynamic planning of replenishments with DDMRP which is fully integrated into existing MRP concept.Replenishment only for real demand and introduction of  buffers at strategically important points.

Live Inventory Management
Live inventory management enabling unlimited simultaneous material movements and allowing for true transparency on inventory and material flows. Decreased stock buffers due to better transparency and insights.

Warehousing and Transportation on One Platform
Single warehousing platform for all warehousing operations, including optimization, automation, and labor management. Single transportation platform with basic and advanced shipping functionality and real-time embedded analytics.

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Approyo to Sponsor “Transform Your Supply Chain with Digitalisation” event in the United Kingdom

Approyo is proud to announce that it will be sponsoring, “Transform your Supply Chain with Digitalisation” with Rocket Consulting and SAP on November 17 in Vanwell Business Park, Maidenhead. Other sponsors for the event include Descartes and Honeywell.

“Approyo is excited to bring our SAP HANA Solutions to a new audience in the UK” said Christopher Carter, CEO of Approyo. “We have been rapidly expanding across the globe throughout 2016. Rocket Consulting provides an ideal fit for a partnership.”

“We are thrilled to be part of the Transform your Supply Chain with Digitalisation event in the UK” adds Philippe Chaudron, Vice President EMEA of Approyo. “Our SAP HANA services are a great fit for the event and companies in the UK and throughout Europe.”

The objective of the event is to demonstrate how a digital supply chain execution platform brings enterprises up-to-the-minute information and analytics, allowing them to manage processes in real-time and shift from a reactive to a proactive and predictive management approach.

The event will include a presentation from Rocket’s award-winning customer Arla Foods that will illustrate the tangible results of SAP extended warehouse management, yard management and dock appointment scheduling, and interactive supply and demand management. Approyo will be on-hand to demonstrate the value of SAP HANA solutions and showcase how SAP HANA can turn huge quantities of data around in minutes, providing the ability to be much more proactive, predictive and optimize your Supply Chain. Additionally, Rocket will be showcasing a range of real-time insight and data visualization tools and the live application of IoT (Internet of Things).

Free to attend, ‘Transform Your Supply Chain with Digitalization’ is aimed at senior decision-makers, predominantly in the manufacturing and retail sectors. More information and registration is available here.