Supply Chain Management Based on SAP Systems: Architecture and Planning Processes

✍ Scribed by Gerhard F. Knolmayer, Peter Mertens, Alexander Zeier, Jörg Thomas Dickersbach (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Series: SAP Excellence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is not a buzzword like many others in management and IT - it is here to stay. "Megatrends" such as globalization and increasing specialization result in a complex division of labor at national and international levels. Lean and agile supply chains have become a major management target, and the interorganizational coordination of business processes has become highly relevant.

The complexity of today's supply chains cannot be mastered without the support of powerful information systems. SAP has established itself as the market leader in this type of IT systems. The book describes SCM using a pyramidal framework and relates it to the SAP SCM Solution Map. Desired features of IT support for SCM are formulated, and the extent to which SAP systems provide these features is shown. We describe the functionalities of SAP APO™ in detail, present case studies on implementing and running SAP SCM™ systems, and discuss SCM aspects of the new SAP Business ByDesign™ approach.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-10
The Scope of Supply Chain Management....Pages 11-58
Processes of SCM Covered by mySAP SCM 5.0....Pages 59-71
SAP Systems for Supply Chain Management....Pages 73-159
Supply Chain Management Case Studies....Pages 161-188
Supply Chain Management in Midsize Companies, Based on the New Hosted Solution SAP Business ByDesign™....Pages 189-194
Back Matter....Pages 195-207

✦ Subjects

Business Information Systems; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing; Management/Business for Professionals