April 19, 2023 10:30 AM

Intelligent Supply Chain Management with SAP Solutions

SAP Supply Chain Management (SCM) is an all-in-one software application that covers essential processes such as supply chain networking, planning, and execution. It includes warehouse management, transportation management, supply chain planning, optimization, and RFID processes. The components of SAP SCM are collaboration, planning, coordination, and execution.

Why Do Companies Need SAP Supply Chain Management?

For efficient operations, most companies that deal with goods and services require a supply chain, which includes procurement, product development, production, logistics, and warehouse management. SAP SCM automates the process of order processing, invoicing, shipment tracking, and data handling, making it simple and easy. It reduces the risks in managing warehouse data and ensures an organization's seamless flow of products, finance, and information.

Main Features of SAP Supply Chain Management

Collaboration: SAP SCM connects with suppliers, manufacturers, and customers in real-time to better align supply and demand, optimize inventory management, and improve customer relations.

Planning: SAP SCM generates operational plans based on current and pertinent data to optimize resource efficiency, improve material flow, and support business decisions at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels.

Coordination: SAP SCM synchronizes data and information flow between different business units and all stakeholders across the network to improve communication and production.

Execution: SAP SCM ensures the implementation of supply chain plans in the best possible manner to achieve the desired results for meeting customer demands and reducing production quality issues.

Business Value Added by SAP SCM

SAP SCM adds business value by managing forecasting and planning in the demand and supply process, optimizing inventory, order fulfillment, and shipping of goods, distributing critical information to all stakeholders across the network, increasing the visibility of the shipping process to help reduce outstanding sales, improving communication and collaboration between business lines to manage the supply and demand process, improving production efficiency and reducing low production quality issues, reducing the cost of goods sold, enforcing contract compliance for supply-side and supplier-side requirements, and reducing transportation duties and taxes while increasing rebates and incentives.

SAP Supply Chain Management is a critical tool for companies that need to manage their supply chain efficiently. With its comprehensive features, it optimizes supply chain management, enhances collaboration, planning, coordination, and execution, and adds significant business value.

As a trusted partner and consultant, Web Synergies analyzes your business operating environment and implements SAP's SCM solution, tailor-made for your industry, to boost your business value. We use analytical frameworks to evaluate the impact of the factors affecting your company's systems, technology, business process, and environment. With our deep domain expertise, SAP consultants engage effectively with our customers to share all that SAP offers in designing, building, and testing winning SAP business solutions.

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