- Keep the Fill Rate high: Ensuring that the items ordered are actually available in inventory helps prevent stockouts and backorders, which can lead to customer dissatisfaction
- Accurate Delivery Promises: By checking availability, businesses can provide accurate delivery dates to customers, enhancing trust and reliability with customers
- Efficient Resource Allocation: It helps in planning and allocating resources more efficiently, ensuring that production and procurement processes are aligned with actual demand
- Reducing Order Cancellations: Confirming availability at the time of order creation reduces the likelihood of order cancellations due to unavailability of products
- Optimizing Inventory Levels: Regular availability checks help in maintaining optimal inventory levels, reducing carrying costs, and minimizing excess stock
- Inventory management: Poor inventory management can lead to overselling or running out of stock, which can delay orders.?
- Freight Cost: Shipping can be expensive and a challenge to manage. Slow or missing deliveries or damaged items can harm a company's reputation and sales.?
- Supply chain execution: Improving transparency in the supply chain can improve customer satisfaction.?
- Picking and packing errors: Picking and packing errors can be reduced via proper planning and execution.?
- Order visibility and tracking: Inadequate order visibility and tracking can be a challenge
- Avoid Order Changes: Order changes are expensive and have a significant impact on downstream processes in shipping and warehouse activities.
- Order Based Planning in TMS to determine the duration and scheduling by considering accurate transit and schedule during delivery date determination.
- aATP (Advanced Availability To Promise) is robust enough to handle most of the order fulfillment and order confirmation challenges most accurately.
- BPS (Business Process Scheduling) is the new way to determine delivery scheduling which is an innovation from SAP to design your business activities to map your business process.
- Touchless planning via planning strategies to automate freight planning
- Automate the carrier selection and tendering via SAP standard strategies
- Carrier Tendering via email / B2B / LBN and receive the carrier confirmation
- Delivery Proposal based on freight plan
- Leveraging UPB (Unified Package Builder) to determine the no.of pallets
- A simplified way to integrate the supply chain process (Delivery, TMS, and EWM)
- More visibility on the overall process using ASR Cockpit
- Door and Load Point assignment at Freight Order level to efficiently plan docks
- Effective coordination between transportation and warehouse team
- Automatically integrate all requirements systematically vis ODO
- Auto Wave planning at hierarchy (Freight Order / Delivery)
- Auto Wave Release and Pick Task Creation
- Queue determination and resource allocation
- Shipping Conditions are still to be maintained manually
- Shipping Condition / Ship Type / MoT are not tied together
- Transit duration and Scheduling simulation at ATP vs Actual Planning might different
- Route vs Transportation Lane conflict
- EWM Queue management is challenging to keep the S/4 synch with EWM
- Order Changes / Cancellation are challenging
- Order Changes are very minimal after the delivery creation due to delivery
