Transform Supply Chain with SAP S/4HANA Webcast Recap
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This was a “knowledge 4 u” webinar given by SAP yesterday.
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What does S/4HANA mean for the supply chain, with the 1709 release
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The 3 I’s
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Several scenarios, focus is top right
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Adoption rates (none in Utilities?)
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“enticing” focus on user experience
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“cloud first”
Same code line, but different deployment lines
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Hybrid scenarios
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Supply chain pillars, with 4 pillars
Leonardo – “system of innovation” including connected fleet
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Right 1511 purple
Middle 1610
Left is 1709
“it’s all about operations”
MRP used to run in hours and now runs in minutes
Bringing industry to the core; need to offer best practices to industries
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ATP
“ARUN” – supply assignment, used to be only available to fashion customers
Prioritize supply, and match to the demand
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Demand driven MRP; speaker recommend “Googling the topic”
“Decouple a buffer” and use real demand to replenish
Now embedded in S/4HANA
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Red will get higher priority replenishment
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Begins with a launchpad
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New approach to replenishment
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New variant configurator in S/4HANA
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Feed into hybris
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worked with universities to develop rules for the variant configurator
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Product design and manufacturing, with bills of material
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New application developed
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New UI for shop floor processes
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examples of embedded analytics
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Manage shift times and shop floor
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New production planning board, Gantt chart, front end
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Transportation management embedded in S4 stack – inbound and outbound
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New UI, clean up, “simplify” business problem
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High end best of breed capabilities
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Includes Event Management for alerting
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Goal is to reduce freight cost; for some businesses this is 10% of the cost
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