mySAP Supply Chain Management (mySAP SCM)
Our modern world economic system is in rapid change. Growing competition on a global level, short product life cycles, consumption practices, the liberalization of markets with a sharp increase in international goods and services and the expectations of shareholders are just some of the many factors. The traditional organizational structures and business processes to the requirements of modern economic world no longer needs. Companies and their partner networks must be able to respond to market changes quickly and sustain ably. This also supply chain management is a major challenge to management in the still young 21st Century. An optimized logistics chain from suppliers to end-users can be explained by supply Chain management solutions to achieve. So complex, the term supply chain management is still so it is clear yet, the active formation and ongoing upgrading of supply chains the economy is making a huge contribution to securing and increasing the company's success. An optimized flow - such as the supply chain management seeks it - can be achieved through improved Concatenation of physical and informal flows between the parties. Supply Chain Management is therefore primarily integration. SAP provides a solution with mySAP SCM, a successful vote and management of the whole-company logistics processes and activities of a company and its partners allows. It ranges from the design of the logistics chain to the sourcing and from the planning through to sales.
Overview of mySAP SCM
The focus of mySAP SCM is to create optimal workflows by-company collaboration between businesses and their partners involved in the logistics chain. The solution mySAP SCM is concerned with the management of materials, information and Capital flows within a partnership network. Partners the company is in this context, e.g. Suppliers, manufacturers, freight forwarders, distributors and customers. Core elements of mySAP SCM are the SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO), SAP Event Manager (SAP EM) and SAP R / 3 Enterprise. When acquiring a license mySAP SCM products, which the technical form bases of mySAP SCM, delivered in the current release (Figure 10.8). The following section presents the main application components are of mySAP SCM briefly described in terms of their functionality. Application components of the mySAP SCM
• SAP R / 3 Enterprise
The current SAP R / 3 Release SAP R / 3 Enterprise is the optimal starting platform
for an implementation of inter-company business processes. SAP R / 3 Enterprise is composed of three components: SAP R / 3 Enterprise Core 4.7, SAP R / 3 Enterprise Extensions and SAP Web Application Server 6.20. In SAP R / 3 Enterprise Core 4.7 Find the SAP R / 3 applications to logistics (Materials management, production, sales, quality, etc.). SAP R / 3 Enterprise contain new operational developments in different business areas. These extensions are encapsulated in the independent extensions and can be used individually to the SAP R / 3 Enterprise Core will be activated. The development levels of the SAP R / 3 Enterprise Extensions are documented on a separate release. In future, the expansion of SAP R / 3 will take place on the development existing or the delivery of new extensions. The SAP Web Application Server 6.20 provides the link between existing SAP technology and the new e-business technologies. He has common protocols and languages and provides so that communication with other technical components or also non-SAP software secure. It supports the development and management of web applications.
• SAP APO (Advanced Planner and Optimizer)
The SAP APO is a new generation of planning and optimization software the integration and synchronization of global processes of logistics chain. SAP APO includes a complete range of supply Chain planning tools and optimization algorithms for real-time planning and decision support. The Advanced Planner and Optimizer (SAP APO) includes planning functions in the areas of strategic, tactical and operational planning.
• SAP EM (Event Manager)
As a tool for monitoring the supply chain SAP EM offers end - transparency, decision support and active response capabilities. Within the mySAP SCM solution, SAP provides the EM Interface is between execution and planning, the possible confounding factors between these areas early stage and immediate reaction to allow deviations and exceptions.
• SAP LES (Logistics Execution System)
About SAP LES is the rapid and targeted implementation of all logistical Operations possible. All process steps from the storage on the transport to foreign trade processing are supported. SAP LES can be either as an integrated component of SAP R / 3 or as a standalone solution to be operated.
• SAP STM (stock management)
SAP STM made possible by the general separation of quantity and book value a flexible and lean management of stocks / transit stocks in the entire logistics network.
• SAP ICH (Inventory Collaboration Hub)
This table is used to control disposition of the stock by the supplier, allows synchronization of demands and supplies.
• SAP FC (Fulfillment Coordination)
SAP FC all logistic processes from sales, order processing can and stock movements across the entire supply chain be controlled and monitored. The handling of customer orders can be done faster and cheaper.
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