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March 10, 2008
SAP Announces the Future Release of New Supply Chain Management Solution
By Jayashree Adkoli TMCnet Contributing Editor
SAP (News - Alert) announced the future release of new Supply Chain Management Solution (SCMS), at SAP Insider Conference for Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Orlando, Florida.
SAP is a provider of business software. It defines business software as combination of enterprise resource planning and related applications such as supply chain management, customer relationship management, product life-cycle management and supplier relationship management. SAP software helps enterprises of all sizes around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations.
According to SAP, transforming network of employees, suppliers, customers, partners and distributors into a shared, customer-focused, demand-driven community, a company can intelligently adapt to changing market conditions and gain competitive advantage through accelerated innovation.
Flexible supply chain management solution, SAP SCMS, can put foundation for seamless integration of geographically dispersed business partners. It can also provide optimized planning, execution and coordination of business processes within a network.
“Managing relationships with geographically dispersed customers, suppliers and partners has resulted in a need for increased levels of adaptability, collaboration and visibility when dealing with supply chain solutions,” said Andrew White, research vice president, Gartner (News - Alert), at the press release, “As companies expand their operations globally and outsource production, they are faced with the challenge of maintaining timely and accurate supply chain data, responding to shifting customer demand, and reducing costs to remain competitive. The more that these companies can optimize their supply chain software solutions to better collaborate with the various parties involved, the better positioned they are for long-term success.”
SAP SCM Solution has capabilities which will help the companies to meet global business challenges. It was developed in close collaboration with business partners to improve visibility. This will give enhanced capability for outsourced manufacturing in supply network collaboration (SNC) which will help in improving supply network inventory and work order collaboration.
SAP SCM Solution will give enhanced capabilities to supplier collaboration and replenishment collaboration (vendor-managed inventory), which will allow suppliers to create Web-based invoices with a unique menu approach, which will display various levels of details according to supplier’s needs.
SAP SCM Solution will also provide enhanced labor management functionality with out-of-the-box reporting, which is designed for direct and indirect labor. This will increase the productivity of the warehouse workforce.
SAP SCM Solution has new features such as capacity reservations, which will help in shortening of delivery times to strategic customers. Enhanced supply network planning, production planning and detailed scheduling will help company’ business in creating new innovative planning scenarios that can optimize capacity utilization and will also ensure in-time delivery.
“SAP is dedicated to providing solutions that meet and predict the needs of our customers, enabling them to solve business challenges across diverse industries,” said Lori Mitchell Keller, senior vice president, suite solution management, SAP AG, in the press release, “SAP is the trusted partner for companies facing emerging challenges such as the broader geographic dispersion of partners, which stretches the supply chain and increases fulfillment risks. SAP SCM further underscores our commitment to support customers in their accelerated effort to innovate their supply chains to gain competitive advantage.”
SAP SCM is fully integrated with the SAP Business Suite family applications, which includes SAP ERP. All SAP Business Suite applications are based on the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. This will enable companies to leverage existing IT resources and thereby reduce the total cost of ownership
across the entire IT landscape.
SAP SCM solutions leverages on enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) and the new features will be delivered as services which will allow rapid deployment and faster return on investment.
Jayashree Adkoli is a TMCnet Contributing Editor.
SAP is a provider of business software. It defines business software as combination of enterprise resource planning and related applications such as supply chain management, customer relationship management, product life-cycle management and supplier relationship management. SAP software helps enterprises of all sizes around the world improve customer relationships, enhance partner collaboration and create efficiencies across their supply chains and business operations.
According to SAP, transforming network of employees, suppliers, customers, partners and distributors into a shared, customer-focused, demand-driven community, a company can intelligently adapt to changing market conditions and gain competitive advantage through accelerated innovation.
Flexible supply chain management solution, SAP SCMS, can put foundation for seamless integration of geographically dispersed business partners. It can also provide optimized planning, execution and coordination of business processes within a network.
“Managing relationships with geographically dispersed customers, suppliers and partners has resulted in a need for increased levels of adaptability, collaboration and visibility when dealing with supply chain solutions,” said Andrew White, research vice president, Gartner (News - Alert), at the press release, “As companies expand their operations globally and outsource production, they are faced with the challenge of maintaining timely and accurate supply chain data, responding to shifting customer demand, and reducing costs to remain competitive. The more that these companies can optimize their supply chain software solutions to better collaborate with the various parties involved, the better positioned they are for long-term success.”
SAP SCM Solution has capabilities which will help the companies to meet global business challenges. It was developed in close collaboration with business partners to improve visibility. This will give enhanced capability for outsourced manufacturing in supply network collaboration (SNC) which will help in improving supply network inventory and work order collaboration.
SAP SCM Solution will give enhanced capabilities to supplier collaboration and replenishment collaboration (vendor-managed inventory), which will allow suppliers to create Web-based invoices with a unique menu approach, which will display various levels of details according to supplier’s needs.
SAP SCM Solution will also provide enhanced labor management functionality with out-of-the-box reporting, which is designed for direct and indirect labor. This will increase the productivity of the warehouse workforce.
SAP SCM Solution has new features such as capacity reservations, which will help in shortening of delivery times to strategic customers. Enhanced supply network planning, production planning and detailed scheduling will help company’ business in creating new innovative planning scenarios that can optimize capacity utilization and will also ensure in-time delivery.
“SAP is dedicated to providing solutions that meet and predict the needs of our customers, enabling them to solve business challenges across diverse industries,” said Lori Mitchell Keller, senior vice president, suite solution management, SAP AG, in the press release, “SAP is the trusted partner for companies facing emerging challenges such as the broader geographic dispersion of partners, which stretches the supply chain and increases fulfillment risks. SAP SCM further underscores our commitment to support customers in their accelerated effort to innovate their supply chains to gain competitive advantage.”
SAP SCM is fully integrated with the SAP Business Suite family applications, which includes SAP ERP. All SAP Business Suite applications are based on the SAP NetWeaver technology platform. This will enable companies to leverage existing IT resources and thereby reduce the total cost of ownership
across the entire IT landscape.SAP SCM solutions leverages on enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) and the new features will be delivered as services which will allow rapid deployment and faster return on investment.
Jayashree Adkoli is a TMCnet Contributing Editor.
