The supply chain industry, for a long time, has been primarily manual-driven and labor-intensive. Studies have shown that 79% of companies with high-performing supply chains have achieved greater revenue growth. As global market uncertainties and price fluctuations keep creating shockwaves, supply chain leaders are pulling out all the stops to revamp their traditional operations and processes. With the advent of Industry 4.0, where technological innovations are advancing at a breakneck speed, companies need to adopt modern supply chain solutions to drive operational effectiveness and deliver powerful customer experiences. SAP, for over a decade, has been consistently helping brands across the globe in managing their supply chains effectively by combining digital technologies and integrated solutions. It's state-of-the art SAP Supply Chain Management Suite, is one such prime example, aimed at creating sustainable, secure, and shock-proof supply chains across the globe.
The key here is not just to adapt but to disrupt. As rightfully described by Mckinsey:
“Supply Chain 4.0 - the application of the Internet of Things, the use of advanced robotics, and the application of advanced analytics of big data in supply chain management: place sensors in everything, create networks everywhere, automate anything, and analyze everything to significantly improve performance and customer satisfaction.”
Top Use Cases of Supply Chain 4.0
Predictive Maintenance: Predictive maintenance helps to fix equipment failures and streamline maintenance schedules through analyzing data from sensors and other entities.
Big Data:
Using big data can help businesses address unexpected risks in supply chains operations.
Blockchain Technology:
Organizations can monitor product movement, perform audits, and enable business intelligence on production chains, driving traceability and transparency.
IoT:
Through IoT, businesses can integrate sensors, automate processes, and perform data analytics to enhance overall efficiency.
Inventory Management:
Offers real-time visibility into their inventory, enabling users to optimize their stock levels and drive efficiency.
Automated Order Fulfillment:
By automating order fulfilment, businesses can minimize costs and boost productivity. Integrating RPA helps automate inventory tracking, packing, order picking, and shipping tasks.
Logistics Optimization:
Businesses can leverage a mix of analytics and AI to streamline logistics operations and curtail costs.
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Driving Supply Chain Transformations at Scale: Exploring SAP Solutions for Supply Chain Management
“Supply Chain 4.0 - the application of the Internet of Things, the use of advanced robotics, and the application of advanced analytics of big data in supply chain management: place sensors in everything, create networks everywhere, automate anything, and analyze everything to significantly improve performance and customer satisfaction.”
Demand Forecasting with SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain
SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain offers businesses a centralized view into supply chain operations starting from demand, supply to sales, and inventory. With embedded features like analytics, alerts, and ML, businesses can discover disruptions or anomalies, minimize costs, enhance forecasting, and streamline inventory management.
Digitized Manufacturing with SAP Manufacturing Execution (ME) and SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (MII)
Automating manufacturing processes in real-time, SAP Manufacturing Execution (ME), consolidates and optimizes manual operations and data collection as well as integrates with other ERP systems to improve transparency, efficiency, and minimize costs. Additionally, SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence combines people, process, and equipment on one consolidated platform, boosting employee productivity.
Developing Automated Trading Systems with SAP Global Trade Services
From import/export, compliance to customs, and trade documentation; SAP Global Trade Services helps in streamlining all the operations and activities associated with international trade. By consolidating all the data and processes into a single repository, organizations can minimize the risk of compliance risks, penalties, and violations.
Automated Purchasing with SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement
A cloud-based platform, SAP S/4HANA Sourcing and Procurement comes with company-specific pre-configured capabilities and tools to help organizations meet with changes in the supply chains. With ML, RPA, and real-time insights, businesses can make informed decisions on risk assessments, sourcing, payments, and purchasing.
Real-time Quality Monitoring with SAP Quality Management
In-built with predictive analytics, ML, and AI, Quality Management for SAP monitors and manages product quality. From production, inspection, labelling, to tracking shipment, delivering, and handling repairs; organizations can discover hidden patterns and anomalies, respond to any underlying issues, and make real-time business decisions.
Predictive Sales Analytics with SAP S/4HANA Sales
Centralizing sales processes, SAP S/4HANA Sales manages the entire sales lifecycle starting from order-to-cash, sales orders, customer accounts and deliveries, billing, and invoicing. Embedded with ML, AI, and role-based access to analytics, users can make decisions across revenue growth, order management, and customer service.
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Building Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) with SAP S/4HANA for Extended Warehouse Management (EWM)
Automating core warehouses operations, SAP S/4HANA for extended warehouse management (EWM), brings logistics, warehouse and distribution processes into a unified platform, offering real-time visibility into supply chain fluctuations.
Route Planning with SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management
Built with smart technologies such as ML, IoT, and blockchain; SAP S/4HANA Transportation Management optimizes global and domestic transportation and shipping. From planning, automating, to managing tenders, freight and booking carriers; this solution helps businesses take control over their logistics operations.
AI-driven Project Planning with SAP S/4HANA for Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management
Blending finance and logistics operations into one platform, organizations can enable SAP S/4HANA for enterprise portfolio and project management to streamline portfolios, projects, and budgets, thereby optimizing their entire portfolio lifecycle.
Predictive Maintenance with SAP S/4HANA Asset Management
Leveraging the power of analytics, health and safety management, maintenance, performance monitoring, and resource management; SAP S/4HANA Asset Management improves the asset lifecycle, reduces downtime, minimizes maintenance costs, and delivers smooth user experiences.
Logistics Automation with SAP Logistics Management
The cloud-based SAP Logistics Management offers real-time insights into supply chains, minimizing bottlenecks and risks through
- Automating Global Logistics Processes: Enables real-time integration across manufacturing, warehouse, transportation and fulfillment to optimize delivery times.
- Simplifying Logistics Execution: Improves data visualization of logistics processes, giving a contextual overview into supply chain disruptions and risks.
- Enhancing Operational Readiness: Encourages collaboration among other businesses across global logistical and transportation processes.
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Build Resilient, Risk-proof and Robust Supply Chains with Cloud4C
Around 70% of organizations believe that supply chain management is a key driver towards achieving customer excellence. More than 50% of organizations worldwide have expressed their willingness to invest in modern supply chain solutions.
This is where a company like SAP comes in, offering next-gen SAP supply chain management solutions that helps enterprises effectively manage their supply chains and gain a strong competitive advantage. To take this one step further, Cloud4C, a leading company, offers customized SAP Supply Chain Management solutions tailored to each organization’s needs. Our SAP Centers of Excellence help in architecting a fool-proofed blueprint for integrating SAP applications with a cloud platform of your own choice, modernizing and managing the workloads in a single SLA from infra till application login.
As part of the SAP Supply Chain Management Solutions, our experts offer tailor-made solutions for warehouse designing & management, capacity planning, transport planning, and recommendations for improving performance. These are:
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Armed with domain expertise, we comply with the latest best practices and leverage digital technologies to transform supply chains across industries, especially in manufacturing, retail, wholesale distribution, and BFSIs.
Want to know how our SAP digital supply chain management solutions can turn you into a supply chain leader? Get in touch with our representative today or visit our website.
