Is your business having to think big to work around risks such as global supply chain disruption?
Are you strategically stockpiling, struggling to find suppliers closer to your markets, battling order fulfilment delays, or having to change materials or manufacturing processes due to shortages and rising costs?
Considering a supply chain management solutions can solve most of your pressing operational challenges and respond to changes in supply and demand at the speed of business.
Are you strategically stockpiling, struggling to find suppliers closer to your markets, battling order fulfilment delays, or having to change materials or manufacturing processes due to shortages and rising costs?
Considering a supply chain management solutions can solve most of your pressing operational challenges and respond to changes in supply and demand at the speed of business.
Strategic imperatives for businesses
Increase Resilience to Disruption
With integrated demand and supply planning to enable delivery on time and in full
Manage Rising Logistics Costs
By optimising transportation, warehousing, fulfilment, inventory, and labour
Build Sustainability into the Supply Chain
By engaging suppliers closer to the customer, minimising waste and emissions, and participating in the circular economy
Top Challenges, Strategies & Benefits
Recent IDC research - 'A Guide to Growth: A global analysis of the defining characteristics of leading midsize companies' identifies the top challenges, strategies and benefits -
Challenges - Midsize companies cited supply chain disruptions as their third highest rated macroeconomic challenge.
Strategy - Their #1 strategy to improve supply chain resiliency is a greater use of technology for supply chain management.
Top Benefits - The top three desired benefits of supply chain technology are to improve reliability, reduce costs, and increase responsiveness.
*Source: A Guide to Growth: A global analysis of the defining characteristics of leading midsize companies, an IDC InfoDoc sponsored by SAP, January 2023, IDC Doc. #US49859322
Challenges - Midsize companies cited supply chain disruptions as their third highest rated macroeconomic challenge.
Strategy - Their #1 strategy to improve supply chain resiliency is a greater use of technology for supply chain management.
Top Benefits - The top three desired benefits of supply chain technology are to improve reliability, reduce costs, and increase responsiveness.
*Source: A Guide to Growth: A global analysis of the defining characteristics of leading midsize companies, an IDC InfoDoc sponsored by SAP, January 2023, IDC Doc. #US49859322
How can Supply Chain Management Solutions help
Supply Chain Management Solutions can simplify and integrate logistics and planning as well as ensuring flexibility and sustainable manufacturing.
Simplify and Integrate Logistics and Planning
Can be achieved by responding to dynamic environments with machine learning, connected processes, and increased visibility across sales and operations planning (S&OP), forecasting, supply, replenishment, and inventory functions.
Ensure flexibility and sustainable manufacturing
Can be achieved by making certain that emissions and waste are tracked and minimised, and that employee safety is secured across the manufacturing process
See what businesses like yours are achieving with SAP
100%
traceable production – from raw materials to finished parts *
One
source of truth for stakeholders, from product management through executive leadership *
100%
traceability in manufacturing processes achieved **
Source: * SAP customer references ** SAP Innovation Awards 2023 Pitch Deck
By choosing to optimise your supply chain your business can grow by..
Choosing technology solutions that grow with your business by starting to tackle your most pressing supply chain management challenges today and expand as your needs evolve.
Getting products to market reliably and at less cost by enabling intelligent alternate sourcing strategies and improving collaboration to ease intercompany logistics.
Controlling your supply chain holistically overcoming the challenges of demand volatility, supply uncertainty, and constrained capacity with a resilient, design-to-operate framework
Meeting your customer expectations for sustainability by optimising manufacturing and transportation to support circular processes and minimise waste and emissions.
Differentiating through agility by gaining the real-time, networked visibility and predictive capabilities you need to sense, anticipate, and react to unexpected events.
Getting products to market reliably and at less cost by enabling intelligent alternate sourcing strategies and improving collaboration to ease intercompany logistics.
Controlling your supply chain holistically overcoming the challenges of demand volatility, supply uncertainty, and constrained capacity with a resilient, design-to-operate framework
Meeting your customer expectations for sustainability by optimising manufacturing and transportation to support circular processes and minimise waste and emissions.
Differentiating through agility by gaining the real-time, networked visibility and predictive capabilities you need to sense, anticipate, and react to unexpected events.
Summary
Building a connected, risk-resilient, dynamic supply chain is achievable for all sizes of businesses. With advanced technologies for your supply chain you can solve your most pressing operational challenges and respond to changes in supply and demand at the speed of business whether it's in your manufacturing operation or in your supply chain.
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