Glossary

How does SAP support the digital supply chain?

In light of constantly changing business requirements, companies need agile, resilient, and connected supply chains to remain competitive. SAP’s cloud-enabled product portfolio supports the digital supply chain and supply chain management (SCM) with predictive analytics, automation, and Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities. The various solutions ensure intelligent supply chain planning and enable efficient and sustainable supply chain and logistics processes.

In the area of supply chain planning, SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain supports forecasting, sales and production planning, as well as inventory optimization and replenishment planning. The SAP Ariba Supply Chain solution, in turn, promotes collaboration with international partners and suppliers across all relevant processes, from order processing to monitoring supply and demand.

SAP’s solutions for supply chain and logistics management provide real-time insights into the supply chain and optimize warehousing, order fulfillment, and distribution. The portfolio includes:

  • SAP Extended Warehouse Management: This solution for warehousing and order fulfillment manages procurement logistics, warehouse operations, and distribution logistics.
  • SAP Transportation Management offers functions for transportation logistics, such as strategic freight management, order management, and transportation planning and execution.
  • SAP Logistics Business Network facilitates the logistics network. The solution supports collaboration in freight logistics as well as global tracking. In addition, it creates greater transparency through real-time alerts and notifications.
  • SAP Yard Logistics supports yard management. The solution simplifies order and schedule planning, improves the handling of yard logistics, and identifies potential problems through graphical monitoring.
  • SAP Transportation Resource Planning is a solution for planning transportation resources. It tracks the inventory and status of transportation resources, optimizes empty runs, supports planning, enables forecasting, and sends event-driven alerts.