SAP Introduces Intelligent Capabilities for Digital Supply Chain

CHICAGO, Sept. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) today announced new features to digitally optimize the supply chain and infuse it with intelligence from product design and production to delivery, operations and service. With the integration of SAP S/4HANA® to digital supply chain solutions from SAP, companies can gain new insights, make predictions and instantly adapt in an agile supply chain that extends to customers and supplier networks. The announcement was made at IMTS USA, being held Sept. 10-15 in Chicago, Illinois.

SAP's leading presence and innovation in supply chain management continues to help companies around the world embrace Industry 4.0 technologies including the Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and machine learning-enabled automation. The latest solution updates enable an integrated supply chain and manufacturing environment with enhanced capabilities for production planning and scheduling, availability and fulfillment, compliance, health and safety, and production engineering and operations.

"Intelligent technologies help businesses make better sense of data, plan and predict outcomes, and optimize the entire product lifecycle including the customer experience," said Hala Zeine, president, Digital Supply Chain and Manufacturing, SAP. "SAP helps companies embrace smarter business based on data-driven insights to run supply chains with greater insight, speed and purpose."

Highlights of the new capabilities include:

    --  Support for highly engineered products -- consolidated operations
        including bill of materials, intelligent process planning, shop floor
        execution and integrated system testing. Production engineering and
        operations can be synchronized across manufacturing execution for
        complex assembly and low-volume operations, such as in aerospace and
        defense, which traditionally required manual processing.
    --  3D visualization and production -- providing visualization from design
        through production to service and maintenance, and supporting the
        network of digital twins. Core business processing is combined with
        complete product lifecycle management to support decision-making,
        production and maintenance operations, and 3D printing of components.
    --  Deeper sourcing and supply integration with Ariba® Network -- enabling
        critical supply analysis, vendor selection and flexibility to adapt to
        changing global trade regulations and variable customer requirements.
    --  Process production now supported with recipe management development --
        including the ability to track and find optimal recipes.
    --  Proposal of suggested options for materials without purchase contracts
        -- using machine learning that can reduce exceptions and errors when
        processing long lists of open purchase requisitions and help operational
        purchasers easily create requests for quotations with algorithm-based
        suggestions.
    --  Demand-driven replenishment -- improved buffer-proposal suggestions for
        transferred products using machine learning capabilities. This more
        precise inventory management results in better service levels and better
        return on assets.
    --  Enhanced sales forecasts and delivery performance -- by gaining reliable
        sales and fulfillment insights using predictive analytics and machine
        learning.
    --  Advanced variant configuration -- with new state-of-the-art algorithms
        that have been built together with the Fraunhofer Institute in
        Kaiserslautern and are optimized for the SAP HANA® business data
        platform. This enables a better user experience, such as by calculating
        alternatives in a more accurate way to avoid inconsistencies and by
        handling decimal values very precisely. More information is available
        here.

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