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Introducing the Evolution of Supply Chain Management

<div id="content"><p tabindex="0">This lesson explores the transformation of supply chain management, from traditional efficiency-driven models to modern resilience-focused frameworks. It highlights how SAP Business Suite helps organizations navigate disruptions, enhance operational visibility, and improve decision-making with AI-driven insights.</p><div class="kalturaVideoLessonWrapper"><div aria-label="" class="kalturaVideoLessonContainer" data-testid="video" id="1_78wr97qr"></div></div><div tabindex="0"><h3>Let’s summarize what you’ve learned:</h3></div><div class="formalblock"><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li tabindex="0">Supply chain management has evolved from efficiency-driven to resilience-focused strategies.</li><li tabindex="0">SAP Business Suite plays a critical role in integrating and modernizing supply chains.</li><li tabindex="0">Real-time visibility and AI-driven analytics enhance decision-making and risk mitigation.</li></ul></div></div>

From Efficiency to Resilience: The Evolution of Supply Chain Management

Discovering SAP Supply Chain Management Solutions

discovering SAP Supply Chain Management and SAP Business Network. Introducing the evolution of supply chain management. With 2025 on the horizon, SAP launched new SAP Business Suite. The timing is right. The market is ready. The need is clear. And the value our suite brings to customers is unmatched. As pioneers of enterprise resource planning, SAP has continuously evolved, adapting to dynamic industry needs, and expanding, our portfolio to meet the growing demands of businesses. Today, SAP's business suite builds on this legacy, empowering organizations. To scale, innovate, and adapt faster than ever, bringing out the best in every business. Fast, agile, flexible, integrated, unified. The SAP Business Suite brings out the best in our customers. Each challenge is unique, yet they all demand more intelligent and connect, technology solutions to succeed. In this introductory lesson, we'll explore SAP's new strategy and how it helps chief operating officer leaders address modern challenges in supply chain management. In recent years, there has been a significant shift in the focus of supply chain management. While efficiency was the primary focus in the past, now, in light of numerous disruptions, emphasis has moved to resiliency. Pandemics, geopolitical instability, and natural disasters underline the importance of adapting to constant changes. Let's start by recalling efficiency. Traditional SAP solutions enabled companies to optimize their operations and ensure compliance with standards. This significantly reduced costs and increased productivity. However, this is no longer sufficient. Today, resiliency is paramount. Resiliency is not only the ability to recover from disruptions, but also the ability to anticipate and mitigate their impacts. With SAP solutions, companies can quickly respond to any environmental changes and minimize risks, which is critical in this era of uncertainty. We offer tools that help make contextual decisions faster and more accurately, reducing the path from data analysis to action. This allows our clients not only to react to changes, but also to foresee them. Now let's talk about orchestration, the new stage in supply chain management. With powerful data capabilities and advanced AI, SAP offers integrated processes that elevate management to a new level. This is not just the automation of individual tasks, but the creation of a unified, coordinated network that can adapt to changing real-time conditions. Orchestration with SAP enables companies to utilize information from various sources to gain a deeper and more accurate understanding of their supply chains. This provides the ability not just to respond to to current events, but to stay ahead by leveraging intelligent forecasts. As we continue exploring SAP's new strategy, it's important to recognize the more ambitious and critical objectives that come with this evolution in supply chain management. On the left side, we see the top objectives identified by supply chain leaders today. Customer service and transparency, emphasizing business performance, speed, innovation, and sustainability. Ensuring transparency in operations helps build trust and delivers exceptional service to customers. Agility and resiliency. By leveraging real-time operational visibility and insights, businesses can make better, more informed decisions. This agility allows companies to quickly adapt to market changes and unforeseen disruptions. Productivity and speed. It's about minimizing waste of time and resources through higher levels of automation. Increased productivity means that businesses can do more with less, achieving greater efficiency and quicker results. Conquering these objectives requires all supply chain processes to work in unison. Through the SAP Business Network, each component from logistics and manufacturing to product design and procurement execution, plays a critical role. For example, logistics maximize service through efficient warehousing and transportation operations. Product design accelerates innovation to meet evolving market demands. Procurement execution manages forecasts and coordinates demand with sophisticated insight-driven automation. By integrating execution, visibility, and analytics, SAP aims to provide the highest levels of productivity across every aspect of the supply chain. In summary, by addressing these top objectives collectively, businesses can not only enhance their operational performance, but also adapt rapidly and sustainably to any challenges ahead. Let's revisit the top objectives identified by supply chain leaders today. Your focus on improving customer service and transparency remains paramount, with an emphasis on enhancing business performance, speed, innovation, and sustainability. Agility and resiliency are also crucial, as real-time operational visibility and insights empower better, more informed decisions. Moreover, boosting productivity and speed by minimizing waste of time and resources through higher levels of automation is essential. However, achieving these objectives is made more difficult by a range of unprecedented challenges. Among the external forces adding complexity are global conflicts, regulatory changes, the race to carbon zero, the cost of capital, logistics bottlenecks, competition for global talent, and the acceleration of AI implementation. Internal barriers also contribute to these challenges. They include data silos and poor data quality, lack of end-to-end integration, a focus on firefighting, manual error-prone processes, multiple legacy systems, and a lack of supplier visibility. These external and internal factors compound operational struggles, making the achievement of strategic goals more challenging. Nonetheless, understanding and overcoming these barriers is key to success in the modern landscape. Thank you.