"SAP SE is helping companies transform supply chain planning with new capabilities for networked supplier collaboration through SAP Ariba solutions, machine learning automation and self-regulating replenishment," said a company spokesperson.
The SAP Integrated Business Planning solution provides planners with greater visibility and insight to manage people, processes and equipment across all phases of an intelligent digital supply chain.
SAP is designed to help companies address the convergence of physical asset and digital information in Industry 4.0 to extend planning beyond manufacturing and address functions including marketing, sales, service and the full customer experience. SAP Integrated Business Planning is a cloud-based solution for sales and operations planning, demand sensing and forecasting, inventory and supply optimization and exception-driven response management. It is designed to help supply chain planners take advantage of technologies such as the Internet of Things and Big Data to anticipate and adapt quickly in an environment of heightened customer expectations and volatile demand.
A new enhancement is SAP Integrated Business Planning capabilities for inventory demand-driven materials requirement planning (DDMRP) add support for decoupling and buffer-level recalculations. Automatic selection of decoupling points with reason code documentation now explains what points were selected for decoupling and why they were selected. Enhancements also include a simplified user interface based on the SAP Fiori user experience.
The supplier collaboration feature adds convenience, connectivity and scale through greater integration with the SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration for Buyers solution. Companies can collaborate in real time with multiple tiers of trading partners using network intelligence. SAP also has added 10 new key figures for easier, more effective exchanges of requirements between manufacturers and suppliers. The integration with SAP Ariba solutions provides extensive resources for collaborative supply and demand planning and helps SAP customers advance in collaborative supply chain maturity.
New machine learning algorithms improve "management by exception" by alerting users according to priorities for the most actionable and important issues. SAP Integrated Business Planning uses machine learning to help planners make better sense and gain faster insight from the high volumes of data smart assets, devices and systems.
"We are enabling our customers to plan in real time across key corporate functions, and to consider both customers and suppliers in an intelligent digital supply chain," said Hala Zeine, President, SAP Digital Supply Chain and Manufacturing.
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