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Supply Chain Management (SCM) enables collaborative network optimization across the extended supply chain, and helps companies to work closely with their partners, enhance responsiveness to customer demands and remain competitive.

By 2004, 90% of enterprises that fail to apply supply-chain management strategies to increase their agility will lose their status as preferred suppliers.

Source: Gartner Group

mySAP SCM is the only complete supply chain solution that empowers companies to adapt their supply chain processes to an ever-changing competitive environment. mySAP SCM enables collaborative network optimization across the extended supply chain, helping companies to work closely with their partners, enhance responsiveness to customer demands and remain competitive. This enables better demand forecasting, vendor management and available-to-promise inventory distribution and sales order consumption.

Business Benefits

Decreases the total network inventory for your supply chain and increases inventory turns
Improves customer service levels and reduces out-of-stock situations
Provides accurate product availability and substitution possibilities (GATP)
Improves order fulfillment rates and expands product margins
Improved planning through collaboration with vendors, suppliers and subcontractors
Reduces overall costs and improves customer service by integrating Sales & Marketing with Demand & Supply Planning

Industry-specific planning

Latest versions of SAP APO incorporate specific industry enhancements across the hi tech, automotive, chemical, pharmaceutical, mill products, oil & gas, and consumer products industries.

SEAL Differentiators

Methodology
Pre-configured Scenarios in our Internal System
Tested integrated processes with integration to R/3, BW, SEM and SRM
White Papers: Compare pros and cons of various options (ex: SNP Heuristics / CTM / Optimizer)
Provide watch-out for performance related issues
Templates for various BADI’s / User Exits, Proven Templates that reduce time in development and avoid double guessing
CIF Interface to existing R/3 system

Assessment of Forecasting, Demand Aggregation, Operations and Logistics planning
Development of Supply Chain Management Strategy (Industry Best Practices)
Demand Planning (Long term statistical forecasting, sales-history-based planning)
4CAST – SEAL’s Middleware tool for demand aggregation via web/EDI and forecast/data validation.
Supply Network Planning – Constraint and Capacity based supply planning, what-if scenarios
Optimization tools and Techniques for Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling
GATP – Constraint and rule based ATP
Transportation planning and optimization
System landscape and architecture design
Project Leadership and Execution
User training and change management
Application/Production support

SEAL SCM experts can assist you with planning an initial Prototype:

Prototype

Two weeks analysis and prototype development in SEAL’s system – Jump Starts Implementation

Utilize SEAL’s Accelerators

Templates for user exits in Core Interface and Custom Developments : Reduces time for development by 30%
SNP Planning Engine selection template: Right choice first time without experimenting
Business Process Templates
Knowledge Pool from Prior Implementations
Optimization Engine Performance Benchmarking Tools: Enables Right Sizing and Performance Guidelines

Off Shore Resources

Technical development: 50 % on site and 50 % offshore: Reduce Implementation Cost
Additional Resources on demand during Integration testing and Go-live

Fortune 300 global distributor with sales exceeding $10 billion

Global APO 3.0 implementation (DP, SNP-CTM and GATP)
R/3 4.6c, BW 2.1 and DRM – Ship and Debit, Price Protection, Special Buy
Approximately 400,000 Product/Location combinations
40 Plants / Distribution centers

Consumer products manufacturer

APO 3.1 Ramp-up implementation
APO Demand Planning Implementation replacing Manugistics Planning System
Extensive usage of product segmentation (Brand / Product Groups), DP Promotion Planning, DP Statistical Forecasting techniques, DP Master Data Realignment Processes

Global chemical manufacturer

Participated on One of the largest Global APO Implementations
R/3, APO, BW big bang Implementation approach
Global Supply chain spanning North America, Europe and Asia
DP, SNP – Heuristics and CTM, PPDS, GATP and CIF

Global petrochemical company

Leading the effort on implementing APO 3.0 SNP and PPDS for US locations
Evaluation of Heuristics, Capable to Match and Optimization
Implemented CTM
Modeling and configuration of PP/DS

Leading provider of supply chain and outsourced operations support services

Implemented APO 2.0 (SNP,DP,GATP) to help move orders through manufacturing quickly and cost-effectively
Client used mySAP.com to enable customers to order software upgrades from a Web store serving North America, Europe, and Asia

Global paper manufacturer

Implementing GATP for APO 3.0. Heavily involved with sourcing designs of GATP

Global packaging company

Helped client evaluate current DP design and recommended enhancements
Prepared a roadmap for additional functionality and implementation of PP/DS and GATP

Global consumer products manufacturer

Client was live on SNP and was in the process of going live for DP
Client experienced numerous instances of data inconsistencies in demand planning across the various aggregates configured in DP. SEAL helped with minimizing the aggregates and fixing the inconsistencies in demand planning data
Recommended changes to key figures disaggregation types and changes to various macros to eliminate data inconsistencies
Developed a realignment process. SAP standard realignment could not meet all the requirements and hence SEAL experts designed and configured a custom realignment process which included info cubes, Bex reports and ABAP reports. Customer is now live with DP

SEAL offers proven methodologies, best practices, and SEAL-developed tools to get your (mySAP SCM) solution implemented quickly and efficiently, enabling your business to run more effectively. We can help you develop a SCM strategy, redefine the network, incorporate best business practices, optimize processes within enterprise boundaries, and optimize the supply chain network.

Our experts will work with you to assess the key change items, establish new ways and introduce new changes. The process will include identifying the changes related to people, processes and systems. We can also assist you in assessing the ROI of any re-engineering of systems or processes.

Implementation considerations:

Implementation is not as simple as it looks. It can be more complex than a R/3 implementation
What looks perfect in a Prototype may turn to be inefficient in a production environment for performance / volume reasons. This calls for seasoned and experienced consultants
You are bound to get a few errors in your production environment that weren't seen in a quality environment
Consider all your external interfaces in your design for APO. Some have effects although they do not interface directly
Incorporate sufficient time for volume and performance testing. Do not let your slip in deadlines cut into volume testing times
Sizing of hardware. You will need 64-bit architecture
Do not assume that a feature that is supported in R/3 is supported by APO

SEAL Benefits:

3-4 weeks APO prototype
Scoping, Sizing, Estimating
4-6 months Rapid APO Implementation
Pilot projects and Industry-specific solutions
Integration to BI, SRM, SEM, and CRM

2003 SCM Forum Update- Oct 12-15th, Phoenix

2003 Supply Chain Management Forum
The 2003 Supply Chain Management Forum gave attendees the opportunity to gain the knowledge they need to leverage their SAP investment at their company. SEAL Consulting had a major presence with various presentations on both SCM and SRM.

Forum Proceedings Available
Access the SEAL SCM presentations today. Attendees can review the SEAL Sessions they attended or learn about anything they may have missed by downloading the session presentations.

Taking APO Demand Planning to the Next Level

Case Study at a Consumer Products Company.

A High Tech Distributor’s View Using SCM/APO

Case Study on Reducing Inventory Costs.