The move to SAP S/4HANA is compulsory, but not a foregone conclusion. The decision, greenfield or brownfield approach, is a fundamental strategic question with enormous financial, structural and personnel implications.
It is also linked to the vexed question of whether the right decision has been made and when the first successes will become apparent. Should there really be no low hanging fruits? Are quick wins out of the question? At ifm, we have been dealing with this question for a long time and can answer it today: Absolutely!
The greatest benefit is transparency. We simply make the operative processes much more transparent and, therefore, know what the result is behind the core processes. This makes much more sense than simply running a process without knowing what the result is or should be.
This is how it works: The Supply Chain Excellence (SCX) software solution from our company is seamlessly integrated in SAP such that users at all times move within their familiar SAP design without noticing that they are switching back and forth between applications.
The central advantages of the ifm solution for supply chain management are immediately available and visible:
And the data? Data consistency by way of direct access to SAP Core. Therefore, you ALWAYS work with the correct, up-to-date database and this applies to every process step, every department, at any (real) time.
Long-standing GIB customers know about the advantages and have long been convinced that a change to SAP S/4HANA absolutely has to be made with the GIB intralogistics solution.
Is there also something new? An incentive that brings rapid benefits in the SAP S/4HANA system? That too! Heres how 5 striking logistics metrics show the quality of your supply chain in the areas of demand planning, inventory management, procurement, manufacturing and sales & distribution.
These Indicators are based on a sophisticated system of key figures, which is fed exclusively from the SAP Data Core. For example, the overall equipment efficiency OEE, production backlogs or material availability are used to evaluate the supply chain process quality.
All the necessary figures, data and facts for evaluating the process sections can be found in your SAP Core. These process indicators are condensed into an SCX Indicator, which, like all other parameters, reflects the quality of your supply chain in percent. Now not only the internal areas can measure themselves against each other, the logic also works across plants or companies.
Whether in series production, process manufacturing, automotive, special machine construction or trade the underlying KPIs are always the same. Therefore, sales planners, production planners or inventory and requirements planners quickly get talking about a small index.
It does exist the quick and yet sustainable benefit in the SAP S/4HANA conversion.
Björn Dunkel, Managing Director of SAP Silver Partner GIB, explains in an interview why the approach of the new Supply Chain Excellence solution is so revolutionary and why competition between experts internally and externally is an incentive to be better and more successful.
The SCX indicator shows at a glance whether your supply chain functions across all process stages of your intralogistics.
The second level illuminates the sub-steps and simply and clearly shows in which planning phase optimisation potential is hidden.
In the third level, sophisticated key figures allow conclusions to be drawn about the specific problem, for example
You, therefore, make individual works in the company comparable or measure yourself against other companies. Perhaps you will also ask at the next SCM meeting: What does your SCX indicator look like?
The core of supply chain excellence is the control loop, which consists of the process steps analysing, planning, executing and optimising and continuously ensures continuous improvement and links all process steps of the supply chain with each other.
Price volatility, shortages, new technologies, changes in the environment of market competitors, adjustments in working conditions, new laws and regulations the framework conditions in supply chain management are constantly changing. Only those who are willing and able to react quickly and make the right decisions will prevail in the market.
Reliable tools and processes are required to successfully master this intelligent and perpetual change process. The APEO principle offers a clear structure and is embedded in a highly efficient software system that reliably navigates you through the complex supply chain processes.
The user maintains an overview of his area of responsibility at all times, always knows what needs to be done, always accesses the most up-to-date data from SAP Core and is, therefore, perfectly positioned to optimise the logistical processes in and with SAP and, therefore, make the company successful.
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