Emphasizing Business Value Drivers and Benefits of Supply Chain Management

Define, develop, deliver, and manage innovative and sustainable products and projects.

• Speed up market delivery by linking product development with enterprise and supply chain.
• Connect product lifecycle data seamlessly.
• Improve products using customer feedback.
• Share assembly instructions with manufacturing.

• Accelerate product development by combining customer insights with business data.
• Design compliant products using sustainable materials.
• Analyze changes using multi-source data.

• Use Joule to ask questions in everyday language and receive concise answers about product development related capabilities from SAP Help Portal.
• Leverage generative AI to enrich or simplify campaign and idea descriptions, improving quality for both product managers and submitters.
• Harness AI to quickly summarize complex documents within collaborations in various formats like Word, Excel, or PDF, saving time and enhancing comprehension for faster decision-making.

Synchronize supply chain planning decisions and improve business performance with real-time insights and intelligent automation.

• Synchronize planning processes on strategic, tactical and operational level down to production and transportation planning.
• Automate planning processes and eliminate manual tasks.
• Extend planning beyond the organization by collaborating with suppliers to align goals and capacity constraints.

• Connect financial and operational data to develop aligned plans for better bottom and top line, and enhanced customer satisfaction.
• Leverage data on risk and uncertainty within ecosystem to better understand potential disruptions and their impact.
• Integrate data seamlessly across disparate systems, eliminating silos and enabling real-time visibility into key supply chain metrics.

• Run real-time scenarios and simulations and gain deep insights with SAP Business AI and predictive analytics.
• Utilize AI-driven algorithms to predict and mitigate supply chain disruptions by identifying potential risks in real time.
• Leverage AI algorithms to analyze historical data, market trends, and external factors to generate more-accurate demand forecasts.

Ensure procurement compliance whilst achieving greater efficiencies and increased visibility.

• Configure rules to align with business process and regulatory compliance.
• Address current and emerging country specific e-invoicing regulations.
• Automate document validation and reduce manual exceptions and reconciliation.

• Search SAP Business Network quickly and easily to find new sources of supply, ready to connect and transact.
• Evaluate suppliers across a range of criteria including environmental, social, and governance (ESG) credentials.

• Automate document exchange for end-to-end visibility and an auditable trail of transaction changes and history.
• Collaborate with trading partners for both plan-driven and self-service procurement processes.
• Leverage plan-driven process automation and historical insights to improve predictability and quality of supply.
• Enable generative AI for invoice error categorization and invoice conversion to streamline accounts payable collaboration.

Build a risk-resilient, sustainable supply chain that increases efficiency and insight with manufacturing software from SAP

• Optimize production for employee utilization and cross-skill building.
• Closed-loop planning ensures operational changes due to unplanned events are synchronized and addressed in real-time.
• Maximize warehouse and resource efficiency with AI-driven robots and an integrated material flow system.

• Improve situational awareness through live views of operational state and what needs to be addressed with priority.
• Standardized and self-service reporting from a "single source of truth" ensures that everyone is on the same page and working towards a common need.

• Leverage AI to reduce the overhead required around defect detection and correction.
• Conversational AI can streamline root cause analysis and application change management, helping to quickly resolve application integration and automation issues, while also offering guided navigation for managing configurations.

Drive growth and resilience in AI-powered logistics operations

• Lower expenses and boost efficiency by selecting the most optimal mode, route and carrier.
• Keep everyone informed with a single, unified data platform that connects every system, partner, and process.
• Maximize warehouse and resource efficiency with AI-driven robots and an integrated material flow system.

• Improve situational awareness of shipments beyond milestone reporting with real-time geolocation tracking.
• Leverage AI to gain actionable insights, predict trends, and make data-driven decisions that drive efficiency and growth.

• Link physical movements with information flow, gaining insights to avoid supply chain disruptions.
• Satisfy fast and precise delivery requirements with AI-driven conversational transportation planning.

Maximize asset performance and deliver maintenance and service excellence

• Lower operational costs, boost asset uptime, and enhance service levels by harmonizing maintenance and service processes with core ERP systems.
• Contextualize every decision by integrating maintenance and service operations across the enterprise, removing silos in the supply chain.

• Close the loop between equipment strategy, planning, and execution by linking the entire process with a single digital thread and constant feedback loops.
• Transform insights into meaningful improvements by uniting asset and service intelligence across the entire enterprise.

• Use AI-driven analytics and machine learning to proactively predict failure, identify anomalies, and propose maintenance and service.
• Accelerate service delivery and supercharge workflows with comprehensive, proactive, AI-enabled field service management and mobility.

Watch the following video to learn how integrated solutions enhance design, planning, manufacturing, logistics, assets/services, and end-to-end supply chain efficiency, leading to sustainable business growth.

• SAP Business Suite provides solutions for six key supply chain areas: design, planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and assets/services
• Design solutions help connect product development with enterprise processes, leveraging AI for better collaboration
• Planning tools support synchronization of decisions with data-driven insights and AI-powered forecasting
• Procurement applications assist with compliance, efficiency, and supplier discovery through automation
• Manufacturing solutions enable resilient supply chains with real-time process orchestration
• Logistics solutions support visibility and process integration across transportation systems
• Assets/services offerings help optimize maintenance processes with predictive analytics