Production & Logistics

How to integrate processes along the value chain

To ensure that your value chain lives up to its name, you need the right timing and reliable partners. Logistics determines the pace of today's business world - and the success of your company as well. SAP Business ByDesign supports you in setting up an efficient and flexible Supply Chain Management.

In this way, you can react directly to new market situations and orders along your entire supply chain and ensure optimal material and goods flows. Thanks to transparent processes, you can create warehouse and manufacturing processes that are tailored to your products and business strategies and improve collaboration with customers and partners.

STRUCTURING THE SUPPLY CHAIN

It is up to you in future whether you model your supply chain according to external processes at suppliers and customers or according to the internal nature of your warehouse or production locations. With SAP Business ByDesign, you can flexibly design your supply chain and securely manage the associated organizational data. You gain a clear view of the external logistics network from the supplier to the customer - as well as of your own location.

• Design by yourself internal supply chains and the material flow within your warehouse as an integrated process.
• Adapt production and warehouse processes to your business requirements in one or more steps.
• Create transparency from planning to execution - with scalable production models.
• Develop your own manufacturing strategy to meet the individual requirements of your company.

Organization of the supply chain

• Site configuration
• Planning area definition
• Establishment of the delivery network
• Warehouse layout and production structure
• Manage parts lists
• Manage work schedules

PLANNING AND CONTROLLING THE SUPPLY CHAIN

In logistics in particular, you have to set the right priorities. Demand decides when which deliveries are needed - and which are not. With SAP Business ByDesign, you synchronize your requirements and procurement planning and can precisely control material flows. With an exception-driven approach, you can plan and coordinate procurement requirements, develop feasible production plans, and set realistic delivery dates. You also define and manage individual customer requirements and the corresponding product variants.

• Check product availability and delivery dates by comparing customer requirements, inventory and product receipts.
• Combine automated processes and manual planning steps to make the best possible use of production capacities.
• You can flexibly rely on various delivery and production strategies to meet the best individual customer inquiries.

Demand planning

• Demand planning and forecasts

Demand Control and Order Confirmation

• Demand control
• Shipping point determination
• Product availability check

Exception Monitoring and Control

• Exception selection and control

Procurement planning

• Material and capacity planning

Procurement control

• Handover to the purchasing department
• Handover to production

Delivery control

• Handover to goods issue
• Manage drop shipments
• Rearrangement
• Communication

MANUFACTURING, WAREHOUSE MANAGEMENT AND LOGISTICS

Especially under time pressure, it is a great challenge to ensure the usual product quality and at the same time to increase operational efficiency in production and logistics. With SAP Business ByDesign you can safely control production and delivery and also manage returns, stocks and stock transfers smoothly. You synchronize information from procurement with the associated financial data. This not only strengthens the internal process overview, but also communication and customer satisfaction.

• Integrate all quality assurance tasks through to final inspection to ensure that your product meets all requirements.
• Support monitoring and tracking processes taking due account of inventory, labels and logistic units.
• Automate your incoming and outgoing goods - with barcode or RFID readers where it makes sense.

Goods receipt and goods issue

• Incoming goods processes
• Returns processing
• Shipment
• Collection
• Communication

Internal Logistics

• Internal replenishment
• Re-storage

Inventory Management

• Inventory entry
• Inventory

Production

• Production preparation and planning
• Production control and feedback

Quality Assurance

• Quality control
• Quality planning
• Sample administration
• Communication

Identification and tracking of stocks

• Manage handling units and logistics units
• Manage identified inventory
• Manage labels and serial numbers

Execution and automation of tasks

• Task execution and folder management
• Manage mobile terminals
• Automatic identification