SAP® Supply Chain Response Management by ICON-SCM
Advantages
In many industries, today’s supply chain planning challenges reflect a vastly different world than 5-10 years ago:
| Increases in supply and demand uncertainty causes planners to spend time expediting and “firefighting” | |
| Increased product complexity means planners have less time to manage more products, supply chains | |
| Increasingly complex and global supply networks means increased inter-dependence across trading partners to plan and execute together / manage risk | |
| Increased product velocity means shorter and more responsive planning cycles |
Supply chain executives are seeking competitive advantage for their companies by seeking better and faster ways to:
| Produce the best build plan given our demands & priorities | |
| Respond quickly and accurately to late changes in demand and supply | |
| Determine quickly if I can accommodate customer requests for date and quantity changes (especially upside) | |
| Understand my options and tradeoffs when adjusting the plan | |
| Manage demand priorities according to rules that I can control that are implemented uniformly |
To address these increasingly important needs, SAP is pleased to introduce a new Solution Extension to its Supply Chain Management suite of applications:
- SAP Supply Chain Response Management by ICON-SCM.
This product offers the following capabilities
Short term order-based, operational replanning to adjust for changes to demand and supply | ||
| What-If simulation and analysis to resolve real and hypothetical challenges | ||
Demand reprioritization / repegging | ||
| Build determination | ||
| Powerful and flexible rules-based demand splitting and prioritization | ||
| Smart allocation logic optimally uses available supplies |
Demand Report
Management Dashboard
Facts
This product is distinguished from all other planning and response management solutions through a set of unique characteristics:
- Fast
- Finite materials and capacity
- Multi-tier
- Collaborative
- Flexible What-If
- Transparent / Explainable
Combined with the other elements of the SAP Supply Chain Management suite, SAP Supply Chain Response Management can deliver a fast, comprehensive, end to end solution for companies facing the need to make fast and frequent changes to accommodate a changing demand and supply situation, resulting in the following benefits:
- Reduce response time from days to minutes
- Increase planning cycles and improved customer service
- Improves on-time delivery by up to 30% and ensures stability
- Reduce planning efforts by up to 30%
- Reduce overall inventory by up to 20%
- Increase capture of revenues and margins