Case Study 3
Hi-Tech Industry
SCM – APO DP Implementation
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CUSTOMER OVERVIEW
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The client is one of the world's leading manufacturer of computer equipment handling machines and components. Serving customers in several countries, the client manufactures, markets, inventories, and adds value to these products and provides supply chain management and engineering services.
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BUSINESS CHALLENGES
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Demand Forecasting of Supply Chain Management implementation is always more than a technology, especially when organization boundaries spread across the world and implementing a global supply chain process is more than just a software implementation. Globalization, extreme cyclical business in hi-tech, multiple partners in the supply chain, excess Inventory levels and liabilities, gross profit erosion on the parts, and competition landscape are some of the challenges faced by one of our long-standing clients.
In order to provide competitive services to the supply network participants who enable the client to compete more profitably in the global market, the client decided to pursue this route of global SOP process. To implement this complex solution in the most rapid way the client chose AMG ADVISORS as the implementation partner for this Global Demand forecasting vision to come true. |
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AMG ADVISOR'S APPROACH
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AMG ADVISORS implemented the Global SOP process of the complex business model with Demand Planning module of APO system, in a 3-month time frame. The implementation has helped the client in achieving a Global Demand Planning solution using BW and APO Demand Planning components. Integration was done through seamless data integration to BW and then fed to the APO Demand planning.
The complex DP implementation, achieved through Statistical Modeling, the Global/Regional/Local Demand Pattern Calculation, keeping in mind the product mix and regional constraints of market fluctuation. AMG ADVISORS also collaborated with SAP Long-Term Planning for rough cut planning in order to achieve the optimum and viable SOP plan. Many places where the standard software does not meet the global supply chain processes, AMG ADVISORS developed multiple custom and elegant solutions, in order to achieve a true global Forecast Platform through APO/BW Integration for data exchanges and user-defined reporting functionality. |
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RESULTS
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AMG SUPPLY CHAIN ADVISORS’s APO / BW Supply Chain solution has provided the client and its supply chain partners a clear window into forecasts, production plans, and key performance indicators.
Running on a global platform the system is always operational 24 X 7 X 365 and the batch jobs scheduling which was always a challenge has been resolved through the innovative solutions AMG SUPPLY CHAIN ADVISORS has provided. |
