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Differentiating Interconnected and Network-Enabled Supply Chain Processes from Design to Operate

<div id="content"><p tabindex="0">In this video, you learn about the value of supply chain, business processes, and solution integration in SAP's portfolio and discover how SAP uniquely enables comprehensive and strategic Supply Chain Management capabilities.</p><div class="kalturaVideoLessonWrapper"><div aria-label="" class="kalturaVideoLessonContainer" data-testid="video" id="1_x33tn6cc"></div></div></div>

SAP Supply Chain Management Design to Operate Overview

<div id="content"><p tabindex="0">SAP Business Network is a cloud-based collaboration offering that can help businesses transform disconnected supply chains into unified, collaborative, and intelligent networks that remove barriers and centralize data. It can be customized through SAP Business Technology Platform to meet specific needs.</p><p tabindex="0">Currently, it supports procurement, supply chain management, logistics, asset management and finance. While initially focused on procurement, it has expanded significantly into other areas.</p><p tabindex="0">Business processes supported by SAP Business Network include:</p><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li tabindex="0">Procurement<ul class="second1" style="list-style-type:circle"><li tabindex="0">Find and discover trading partners – including suppliers who meet Environmental Social Governance (ESG) requirements</li><li tabindex="0">Supplier information management</li><li tabindex="0">Order collaboration</li></ul></li><li tabindex="0">Supply Chain<ul class="second1" style="list-style-type:circle"><li tabindex="0">Planning, inventory, and quality collaboration</li><li tabindex="0">Product genealogy tracing – great for ensuring compliance with sustainability and other regulations</li></ul></li><li tabindex="0">Logistics<ul class="second1" style="list-style-type:circle"><li tabindex="0">Freight order and invoice collaboration</li><li tabindex="0">Dock appointment scheduling and gate processing</li><li tabindex="0">Shipment and order tracking</li></ul></li><li tabindex="0">Asset Management<ul class="second1" style="list-style-type:circle"><li tabindex="0">Global assets repository management</li><li tabindex="0">Maintenance and repair services collaboration</li></ul></li><li tabindex="0">Finance<ul class="second1" style="list-style-type:circle"><li tabindex="0">Order delivery to cash management</li><li tabindex="0">Invoice collaboration</li></ul></li></ul><div class="kalturaVideoLessonWrapper"><div aria-label="" class="kalturaVideoLessonContainer" data-testid="video" id="1_q6el0rjv"></div></div><div class="parentsection"><div class="section"><div tabindex="0"><h3>Let's summarize what you've learned:</h3></div><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li tabindex="0">SAP Supply Chain Management portfolio encompasses five main pillars: design, plan, make, deliver, and operate.</li><li tabindex="0">SAP Supply Chain Management allows companies to connect every process, contextualize every decision, and collaborate with the business ecosystem, ultimately leading to benefits such as accelerated new product development, accurate demand forecasts, and efficient collaboration with supply chain partners.</li><li tabindex="0">SAP Business Network connects various systems (SAP and non-SAP) throughout the procurement lifecycle, covering demand planning, sourcing, procurement execution, logistics, and invoicing.</li><li tabindex="0">This integration enhances operational efficiency through automation, improves collaboration between suppliers and buyers, and allows for effective risk management while providing holistic visibility across procurement, logistics, and finance.</li></ul></div></div></div>

Maximizing Business Efficiency with SAP Business Network

Positioning SAP Supply Chain Management Solutions

<div>This video provides an overview of SAP's comprehensive supply chain management solutions. It introduces the concept of "design to operate," which encompasses five key stages of supply chain management: design, plan, make, deliver, and operate. Each stage corresponds to specific business processes and functions within a company.</div><div><br></div><div>The video emphasizes SAP's extensive portfolio of supply chain solutions, which is described as the most comprehensive and integrated in the industry. It briefly outlines the capabilities within each stage of the design to operate framework, including product lifecycle management, integrated business planning, manufacturing execution, logistics management, and asset maintenance.</div><div><br></div><div>A key point made in the video is that while individual SAP applications deliver ROI, the true value lies in adopting multiple solutions across the portfolio. This integration allows companies to realize greater benefits than the sum of individual parts, particularly for processes that span multiple functions, such as new product development and introduction.</div><div><br></div><div>The video argues that many companies have recently relied on short-term fixes for supply chain challenges, but emphasizes the need for a strategic, long-term approach. It outlines three crucial aspects of effective supply chain management: connecting every process to eliminate silos, contextualizing information for better decision-making, and collaborating across the supply chain ecosystem.</div><div><br></div><div>SAP positions itself as uniquely capable of enabling companies to develop a strategic roadmap for digital supply chain management. The video concludes by asserting that SAP's ability to connect processes, contextualize decisions, and enable collaboration across the business ecosystem sets it apart from other vendors. This comprehensive approach, according to the video, should make SAP a top consideration for any system investment decision in supply chain management.</div>

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Welcome to the world of supply chain management. SAP has the most comprehensive integrated portfolio of supply chain solutions of any vendor in the world. In this short video, we hope to help you understand the following areas. The value of supply chain business processes and solution integration. Introduce the SAP solution portfolio. For any company making or moving physical products, the topic of supply chain management is critical. There are very few C-suites at these types of companies that are not actively thinking how to develop and manage their supply chains to eliminate risk and build in competitive advantage. SAP communicates its capabilities by talking about design to operate. Each of the following stages are directly linked to lines of business that supervise distinct business processes. Design speaks to topics relevant to engineering and R&D groups that develop new products and variants. Operate speaks to the classic and strategic supply and demand planning process. Make speaks to the manufacturing function in a wide variety of modes, from make to stock to engineer to order. Deliver speaks to logistics and the need to move and store goods, as well as materials. Operate speaks to the need to maintain, repair, and otherwise manage service for assets and equipment. This may be anything from a household washer to a sprawling oil refinery. Altogether with SAP, companies can address vulnerabilities in their supply chain processes, tie business processes across design to operate together, and build competitive advantage and ultimately accelerate profitable growth. So let's take a quick, simplified look at the SAP Digital Supply Chain Portfolio. The portfolio of solutions in design is as complex as the engineering and R&D processes that span efforts from developing new medications to building semiconductor lithography machines. Moreover, it offers industry-leading project and portfolio management capabilities. SAP has a comprehensive and highly competitive capability that applies to product lifecycle management related for product, whether for products ultimately produced by discrete or process manufacturing methods. SAP's supply and demand planning capabilities are largely encompassed in the integrated business planning solution. However, the portfolio also includes production planning and scheduling available to Promise, which lets organizations consider all factors across a supply chain to provide accurate order delivery dates to customers and supply chain control tower, which together with SAP BTP capabilities provides end-to-end visibility into the state of any organization's supply chain. The Make portfolio of solutions provides for sophisticated manufacturing performance and execution management, as well as quality management, which includes collaborative problem-solving with supply chain partners. SAP also includes environmental, health and safety management in Make, although the solutions apply broadly, as an example, to the same issues in a warehouse or a rail yard. That brings us to Deliver. At a high level, the idea of transportation and warehouse management is probably intuitively obvious. Yard Logistics is closely related, offering companies with large truck depots, rail yards, and harbors the capacity to manage traffic and resources within a conceptual yard. The SAP Business Network for Logistics extends these capabilities, facilitating a real-time collaboration with logistics partners at multiple levels such as procurement, shipments and transit, and rerouting. The operate pillar encompasses three major offering categories. Management is centered around solutions that enable the development of effective maintenance strategies as well as execution. The latter includes the capability to implement sophisticated predictive maintenance based on equipment sensor data. Field Service Management is all about managing a workforce in relationship to both internal and external customers. This includes scheduling, dispatching, communication automation, on-site work instructions and if needed, invoicing. The Business Network for Assets is a sophisticated collaboration platform, where, as an example, operators can collaborate with equipment manufacturers for maintenance and asset management purposes. The highlighted solutions are at the core of SalesPlace, but more on that later. The most important thing to understand is that SAP offers the most complete portfolio of supply chain capabilities of any vendor. And because many critical business processes, such as new product development and introduction, cut across functions, this means that as customers adopt more SAP solutions, they are likely to realize increasing value from their investments. In short, while any individual application will deliver ROI, the whole portfolio is designed to deliver greater value than the sum of the parts. Unfortunately, in the past few years, many companies have attempted to adapt with reactive, short-term fixes. In reality, supply chain management capabilities need to be built strategically for the long term to ultimately deliver the greatest value and business impact. So what needs to be done? What is the best way forward for companies? Ideally, they should develop a roadmap that progressively enables them to connect supply chains to the entire business, contextualize information during work process and decision-making, collaborate inside the business and across supply chain networks. Aren't most companies doing this? No, not really. Connecting every process means eliminating data disconnects and process silos to ultimately realize critical benefits such as accelerated new product development and introduction, accurate demand forecasts, and just-in-time flow of supplies. Contextualizing decision means bringing accurate, in-the-moment operational data together with always up-to-date business information. This means time efficiently, making better, more informed decisions to realize benefits such as cost and delay reduction, as well as more strategically providing enterprise-wide visibility to plans and performance to plan. A good example of this is ensuring maintenance plans don't compromise production schedules needed to meet high-value demand. Collaborating with a supply chain ecosystem is a complex process. Any given organization may be working with outsourced product design resources, suppliers, contract manufacturers, logistics partners, and services providers, in addition to customers. Facilitating efficient teamwork is critical to realizing multiple benefits to ultimately get the right product, at the right price, to the customer on time. A simple example of this is rerouting perishable goods to an alternative, closer customer, if a truck's refrigeration starts to fail. Think of a truckload of strawberries, oysters, or fish. If there is one take-home message for you today, it is this. SAP uniquely enables a company to develop a strategic roadmap for their digital supply chain management capabilities. SAP enables an organization to connect every process, contextualize every decision, and enable collaboration with the business ecosystem. No other vendor can offer as complete of a portfolio of solutions from design to operate. This means that while SAP can provide individual solutions, it is the promise of an integrated supply chain management environment that should put SAP at the top of a shortlist for any system investment decision.

Discover how the SAP Business Network for Procurement integrates SAP and non-SAP systems throughout the procurement lifecycle, enhancing operational efficiency, collaboration, and risk management while providing holistic visibility across procurement, logistics, and finance.

Streamlining Diverse Business Processes with the SAP Business Network for Procurement

Welcome to a new era of procurement transformation. Today, we explore how the SAP Business Network for Procurement seamlessly integrates with your entire system landscape, bringing innovative solutions to elevate your business processes. Imagine a unified approach that effortlessly connects SAP and non-SAP systems, enhancing collaboration, and driving automation across your procurement life cycle. Let's dive into a holistic view. of an end-to-end process. Integrating with SAP integrated business planning enables forecast -based requisitioning, ensuring your business is always one step ahead. With SAP EREBA sourcing, suppliers actively engage in sourcing, enabling your team to select the best partners based on performance and cost. Real-time collaboration comes to life as purchase orders traverse the SAP Business Network, fostering immediate supplier engagement. Advanced ship notices and shipment tracking are integrated seamlessly with SAP transportation management, providing clear visibility across your supply chain. Streamlined invoicing through SAP S4HANA Finance, with real-time payment updates shared across the network, simplifying financial processes. Finally, harness the power of SAP Analytics Cloud to analyze procurement, logistics, and finance data, enabling and finance data, enabling informed decision-making. This integration offers key benefits that elevate your business operations. Experience end-to-end tracking of all transactions, giving you comprehensive insights. Automation minimizes manual tasks, reducing errors, and saving valuable time. Enhance relationships with real-time interactions between suppliers and buyers. Support your global operations with robust multiluage and multi-currency functionalities. Integrated risk management tools provide actionable insights, allowing for proactive responses. Transform your procurement processes with the SAP Business Network. Unlock your organization's potential for efficiency and collaboration and harness the power of SAP Business Network for Procurement to analyze procurement, Logistics, and Finance Data, enabling informed decision-making.