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Supply Chain Management

Make to Stock

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For midsize companies that produce and sell products from inventory, this process integrates planning, production and warehouse management to enable lean manufacturing and keep inventories low.

Make to Stock

Overview

For midsize companies that produce and sell products from inventory, this process integrates planning, production and warehouse management to enable lean manufacturing and keep inventories low.

You can increase customer satisfaction and grow profits by using forecasting capabilities to make sure the right amount of inventory is available.

SAP Business ByDesign helps efficiently manage make-to-stock production environments - from demand planning and forecasting, through production and warehousing to accounting.

Make to Stock

Key benefits

Supply planning is closely integrated with production and purchasing to facilitate the seamless handover of production and purchasing proposals for execution
Material flow analysis and exception-driven approach provides planners with comprehensive decision support; Multi-level material planning, capacity planning and load levelling can be executed
Production and warehouse are based on a unified location layout which enables demand and consumption-based replenishment to be more efficient hereby ensuring on-time material provisioning for production
Production workers are supported by comprehensive task management which guide them through their daily tasks with detailed work instructions
Quality inspection is integrated with the production process
Management of identified stock (batches, lots) or restricted inventory
Automatic inventory valuation for raw materials, WIP, and finished products
Built in analytics and reports like stock overview, confirmation journals and batch where-used lists

Intracompany Stock Transfer

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For midsize companies with multiple sites, this process allows the transfer of stock from site to site using the outbound and inbound processes.

Intracompany Stock Transfer

Overview

For midsize companies with multiple sites, this process allows the transfer of stock from site to site using the outbound and inbound processes.

You can improve customer service levels while reducing overall inventory levels. Stock transfers enable smooth operations in order fulfilment and manufacturing.

SAP Business ByDesign helps efficiently manage intracompany stock transfer: From order creation, outbound processing in one site and inbound processing in the other site.

Intracompany Stock Transfer

Key benefits

Material flow analysis and exception-driven approach provides planners with comprehensive decision support
Goods in transit can be checked in the stock overview. This in-transit stock is valuated across the whole stock transfer process: It belongs to the stock of the sender until it arrives at the receiver and is posted into the receiver�s stock. Naturally both sender and receiver belong to the same company in this scenario meaning that the stock value at company level does not change.
When you create the outbound delivery, an advised inbound delivery notification is created in the receiving site automatically
Built in analytics and reports such as stock overview, confirmation journals, and batch where-used lists

Physical Inventory Management

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For midsize companies that want to optimise the management of their physical inventory, this scenario enables you to perform item counting, including approval processes and automatic financial postings more efficiently.

Physical Inventory Management

Overview

By improving the efficiency and timeliness of the physical inventory processes, you improve your inventory accuracy.

SAP Business ByDesign helps you to effectively manage the entire item counting process, from count task initiation, actual counting, auditing and recounting, through to financial posting and reporting.

Physical Inventory Management

Key benefits

Count by logistics area and product are enabled
Count of empty bins is possible
Completeness of an annual physical inventory count can be cross-checked with the Stock Overview report

Quality Assurance

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This scenario provides a comprehensive approach to managing quality that helps reduce costs and enhance competitiveness.

Quality Assurance

Overview

This scenario provides a comprehensive approach to managing quality that helps reduce costs and enhance competitiveness.

You can run quality assurance across the supply chain.�

SAP Business ByDesign helps your company to efficiently manage quality assurance and provides advanced quality planning and quality control functions that are easy to use and to adapt.

Quality Assurance

Key benefits

Continuously improve and make product quality and services a key differentiator
Avoid costs associated with rework, scrap, warranty, or product liability
Reduce costs for sample-drawing activities and for inspections using integrated tools, such as acceptance and adaptive sampling
React quickly to internal problems, legal requirements, and market demands, and visualise processes
Access intuitive, transparent, and traceable documentation, including ISO-compliant sampling plans
Use analysis reports for quality assurance, such as defect analysis and inspection analysis

Demand Planning

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For mid-sized companies looking to efficiently fulfil customer demand, the planning process will effectively match demand and supply to ensure on-time order delivery.

Demand Planning

Overview

For mid-sized companies looking to efficiently fulfil customer demand, the planning process will effectively match demand and supply to ensure on-time order delivery.

You can interactively manage demand planning to ensure better forecast accuracy and improve inventory levels.

SAP Business ByDesign helps to manage efficiently the demand planning process: from right parameter setup, demand forecasting,� management of alternative planning methods through handover to supply planning.

Demand Planning

Key benefits

Demand planning enables forecasting of future demand based on historical data using multiple statistical forecasting methods
A guided setup activity leads through the administration tasks necessary to update and prepare demand plans
Predefined planning options are available. Reduced setup and update effort as demand planning uses settings in supply planning with respect to:
— Provision of historical data
— Release to supply chain execution and forecast consumption
Leveling of production and related cost savings in procurement and production
Avoiding cost of non or late delivery
Advanced demand planning options are available such as: Multilevel demand planning, statistical forecasting, outlier correction and forecasting of products, both in-house and externally procured.

Specify to Sell

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For midsize companies that want to increase engineering efficiency through reuse and variant management.�

Specify to Sell

Overview

For midsize companies that want to increase engineering efficiency through reuse and variant management.�

You can increase customer satisfaction and lower costs by defining your products in terms of possible variants � the production process can be streamlined when variants are known in advance. The overall complexity of handling too many products is reduced.

SAP Business ByDesign helps efficiently manage the definition of product properties to describe all possible variants of a product. Sales is supported when specifying the product variant ordered by the customer.

Specify to Sell

Key benefits

Product Master Data can be managed centrally and de-centrally in all relevant aspects, such as sourcing, pricing, etc.
Product features can be formalised through Product Properties, given by their unit of measure.
All possible variants of a product can be described by the Product Model. A Product Model combines Product Properties and possible values for that product. Product Models reduce the complexity of handling many variants of the same.
Product Specifications specify the product variant, either in a non-formal way by attached document or notes, or by values assigned to properties in case the product is a configurable one. The product specification is available in the subsequent production and delivery process steps.
A Product Specification can be included in a Sales Order, or it can be created at the same time the Sales Order is created.

Design to Product

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For midsize companies in manufacturing, this process streamlines relevant data flow from engineering to production.

Design to Product

Overview

For midsize companies in manufacturing, this process streamlines relevant data flow from engineering to production.

You can increase customer satisfaction by reducing lead time in engineering and reduce quality costs by automating the creation of the bill of materials.

SAP Business ByDesign helps efficiently manage CAD / TDM data import� and the adaption or creation of bills of material. Released designs can be handed over to production.

Design to Product

Key benefits

Improve employee productivity in engineering by using automated functions to import design and create corresponding production bills of material
Different versions can be created for each product design to help you keep an overview of the product�s evolution
Product design can be adapted to the need and capabilities of production and then converted into a production bill of material