Synchronize Demand & Supply
Rapidly Responding To Demand And Supply Changes Across A Multi-Level Network
In an environment where product life cycles are getting shorter and margins are dropping in the face of aggressive competition, managing increasing levels of uncertainty and complexity in your global demand and supply networks grows more challenging by the day. To be successful, you must sense and respond to changes in the market, channel, and customer requirements in real time to rebalance demand and supply throughout your entire network.
High-tech companies that are successfully synchronizing demand and supply have been able to:
- Significantly reduce out-of-stock occurrences
- Improve forecast accuracy
- Reduce build planning cycle time
- Dramatically improve inventory turns
Solutions and Services for Collaborative Demand and Supply Planning
SAP delivers value by enabling you to drive profitable growth by effectively connecting these core value-generating activities into an end-to-end business process:
- Collaborative demand management – Maximize revenue and market share by collecting and reconciling actual demand from diverse sources - and collaborate among different internal and external groups – to create a single statement of demand.
- Collaborative supply planning – Improve customer service and reduce supply chain costs by synchronizing the supply network across suppliers, as well as outsourced and in-house manufacturing, to have the right components and products in the right place at the right time.
- Sales and operations planning – Increase on-time delivery to customer request dates without increasing inventory through demand-driven synchronization of supply to demand across the network.
SAP and our partner services help you to drive the transformation and to secure the benefits of increased responsiveness in a fast and reliable manner through our business and IT strategic consulting services offerings based on SAP's multi-year experience in enabling responsive supply networks.
High-tech companies leverage RosettaNet standards to quickly on-board and effectively collaborate with suppliers. With the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, integration of internal and external data sources provides global visibility into inventory and production across the entire supply network. In addition partner applications further strengthen your end-to-end processes.
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