Optimise stock levels and increase customer satisfaction
The supply chain is the backbone of virtually every business, and the ability to operate a lean, yet effective, supply chain operation, is essential to an organisation's survival.
However, optimising stock levels and balancing supply with demand is challenging in today's global marketplace, where social, political, environmental and financial events can have a significant impact on levels of supply chain response and control. At the same time, customers increasingly expect more for less, and want goods and services delivered better, faster and cheaper than ever before.
Research by the Aberdeen Group shows that organisations implementing Sales & Operation Planning (S&OP) best practice can increase their advantage by up to a factor of six in major KPIs, like customer retention, finished goods days on inventory, complete order fill rate, average forecast accuracy, gross margin as a percentage of revenue and logistic costs as a percentage of sales.
Adoption of S&OP best practice alongside the implementation of planning applications can unlock the benefits of supply chain excellence and effective execution across your organisation.
Business benefits
Adapt to rapidly changing business requirements: Flexibility in planning, including 'what-if' scenarios (e.g. pricing, exchange rate fluctuations), enables organisations to harness agility and turn it into competitive advantage.
Increase forecast accuracy and reduce planning cycle times: Facilitate collaboration between supply, demand and financial areas of the business by integrating supply chain planning with financial planning. A centralised, integrated data model will improve forecast accuracy and reduce planning cycle times.
Increase customer retention: Implement centralised closed-loop supply chain planning and execution to enhance order fill rate and, therefore, customer loyalty and retention.
Increase operational efficiencies: Streamline your supply chain processes through the deployment of sophisticated reporting and optimisation capabilities.
Bluefin Solutions can:
- Provide insight into understanding how SAP APO has significant benefits across your organisation.
- Evaluate a strategy for building a business case and roadmap for the implementation of SAP APO.
- Support the technical delivery of your SAP APO solution.
- Provide a bespoke planning application that fits into your business process requirements using SAP Integrated Planning (IP)
- Implement SAP Trade Promotion Management (TPM) to provide a closed loop trade promotion process, from raising a promotion to integration with Demand Planning (such as SAP APO).
SAP planning technology solutions
SAP Advance Planner Optimiser (APO) and SAP Integrated Planning (IP)