Supply Chain Management SIG

Our SCM SIG covers the entire supply chain: IBP (integrated business planning); forecasting; inventory optimisation; planning and scheduling; sales order processing; procurement; receipt of goods from suppliers; manufacturing; sub-contracting; warehousing and storage and despatches to customers - anything SAP related to these business processes.

Rachel Morris from Boeing will be delivering the following two sessions:

Detailed scheduling and dispatching – Trying to use core SAP ECC as the only production scheduling tool. Tackling the little used, and slightly dated functionality to provide detailed capacity driven scheduling for small fast turnaround parts. Using work centres, materials, and dispatching of planned and production orders.

Hints & Tips – A reminder of the basics for some, and unveiling time savers and tricks for others in SAP ECC6 (also compatible with HANA). It's always surprising what you don’t know, this is hopefully an opportunity to open up the floor for other tips from more experienced users.

Chris Stainthorpe & Ruan van Vuuren from Olivehorse will present Why would you want to transition from SAP APO to SAP IBP, and what are your options?

SAP APO is a dated solution with some deficiencies e.g. user experience, scenario planning, financialisation and embedded analytics & alerting.

SAP IBP has recently received significant development investment by SAP and has developed considerably as a replacement for APO. IBP now meets or exceeds the functional capabilities of APO in demand, time-series supply and inventory planning. Chris and Ruan will talk through some of the new functionalities and discuss how businesses who have already transitioned are leveraging SAP IBP to maximise the supply chain business value.

Moving from APO towards IBP presents an opportunity to also consider processes and system adoption issues. This session will discuss some of the learnings and best practices we have seen to grow supply chain planning maturity levels. Many customers have already undertaken this journey and the session will detail the various possible approaches and the pros and cons.

Olivehorse specialises in supply chain planning implementations and has a number of services to support a company from an APO landscape to an SAP IBP footprint and beyond, to create a sustainable process and technology solution.

John Robinson from SAP will present What is the business case for S/4HANA enabled Supply Chain transformation?

In this session we will discuss the challenges faced by supply chain professionals, IT departments and SAP with respect to S/4 enabled supply chains. Key topics will include:

• Historic (pre-2020) supply chain developments
• The impact of the last 20 months events
• The need for change
• A new approach to supply chain transformation – The Quorum Principle
• The role of S/4 in supply chain transformation
• Building the business case for S/4 based on supply chain & manufacturing value delivery (not TCO)
• Customer examples

We are looking forward to seeing you in person again but please do not attend on the day if you or anyone in your household have any symptoms of COVID-19. We will keep you up to date on the secure measures taken to ensure your safety at the event, if you have any concerns please email us at [email protected]

Your UKISUG SIG Chairs for Supply Change Management:

Richard Symes: Richard is responsible for SAP running in a hundred countries at the British Council and has manufacturing and supply chain experience on SAP since 2000. Prior to SAP arriving In Richard’s working life he held management positions in Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Change Management roles.

Martin Crangle: Martin became involved in SAP during 2009, starting off as a ABAP developer and Basis analyst. Responsible for the scoping and implementing of SAP changes. Martin moved roles to become the SAP Application Specialist across Europe, helping in multiple Go Lives and system improvements. Martin now works as the IT BRM for BorgWarner in Bradford, responsible for the IT and SAP at Plant level.