Build an efficient supply chain to give you more control and enable you to respond quickly to changing markets. SAP Business ByDesign includes functionality that helps you optimise material flow, manage demand and supply and collaborate more effectively with your customers and suppliers. The integrated supply chain management solution helps you design, set up and execute flexible warehouse and manufacturing processes, and gain maximum insight into your business, introducing efficiencies along the product lifecycle, improving inventory control and visibility of the supply chain through enhanced collaboration with your customers and suppliers.
With the SAP Business ByDesign solution provided by Enterprise on Demand, you can create product designs and import them directly into your engineering system to help you adapt designs for production – and use specified product requirements as the basis for lean, make-to-order product development, handling product variants more efficiently across engineering, manufacturing and sales. You can also automatically generate bills of materials from product designs.
For a clear view of your customer distribution networks as well as an internal view of your production and warehouse layouts, use SAP Business ByDesign’s supply chain modelling software to create the required master data and achieve business process transparency between planning and execution.
You can use an exception-driven approach to plan and consolidate your procurement requirements, create production plans and determine delivery dates. SAP Business ByDesign makes it easy to define and maintain control of individual customer requirements and product variants. Also, by monitoring product availability and confirming delivery dates by checking requirements against stock, you can manage your resource capacity to meet production demand and identify problems early for quick resolution with minimal disruption. The ability to specify processes for drop shipment and stock transfers minimises storage and transport costs.
Produce the high quality products your customers require, while maximising your manufacturing and logistics efficiency. SAP Business ByDesign makes it easy to manage production, deliveries and returns, physical inventory and stock transfers. It also posts supply execution data – such as work in process and finished goods inventory – to the general ledger.