A Special Message for SAP Customers:
You Will Be in Excellent Company
Setting the just-right inventory levels -- and striking the optimal balance between customer satisfaction and your company's financial goals -- has traditionally relied more on mysterious rules of thumb, a little luck, and maybe some "spreadsheet magic."
This is true even though your company may already have mySAP SCM, SAP's comprehensive demand and supply planning solution. (At this point, we could go into intricate detail as to why this is true. But if only as a courtesy, accept the notion that reality-based, accurate inputs are the foundation for trustworthy outputs. As Bayer MaterialScience, Hewlett-Packard and others would attest, the question becomes: How strong are your inputs?)
SmartOps is the only SAP inventory optimization partner to be selected for multiple SAP Industry Value Networks (IVN) -- the IVN for Chemicals and the IVN for Consumer Products. Combine that with SmartOps' "Powered by SAP NetWeaverTM" designation -- which means you can seamlessly integrate the two systems while leveraging your SAP NetWeaver implementation -- and you've got yourself a winning solution. Others agree.
Bayer Corporation, Kellogg Company, Deere & Company?
Yes, we're name-dropping. You will, no doubt, recognize the names above as fellow SAP customers. Why are such giants working with SmartOps? Because our Multistage Inventory Planning & Optimization(MIPOTM) solution allows them to improve order fulfillment and product availability with the lowest possible investment in inventory.
Deere & Company has achieved a $1 billion asset reduction target in three years, not the projected four. This equates to $120 million in Shareholder Value Added.
In a recent issue of Consumer Goods Technology, there was an article about Kellogg's implementing a "comprehensive SAP backbone" with over 5,000 users. Here's one revealing passage:
"In order to drive a layer deeper into its SAP backbone, Kellogg Company has implemented the latest version of the SmartOps Multistage Inventory Planning & Optimization (MIPO) software, which offers improved inventory planning decision support. 'With SmartOps, we can update important operating targets such as safety stocks more frequently and at a more granular level,' says Rich Dregne, senior director of Product Availability for Kellogg. 'Now we're able to more closely align our inventory deployment with what is actually expected by our customers in a dynamic environment.' "
A Lower Total Cost of Ownership
Our inclusion in the Industry Value Networks for both Chemicals and Consumer Products is recognition by SAP of our core strength in integrating with SAP solutions to improve business processes, enhance operational performance, and drive cost savings -- especially within the highly complex supply chains of the Chemicals and Consumer Products industries.
And our industry-leading MIPO solution fully supports SAP's powerful, open, flexible NetWeaverTM integration and development platform. As a matter of fact, MIPO is one of the first supply chain optimization solutions to achieve the "Powered by SAP NetWeaver™" designation.
Let's Begin a Highly Productive Dialogue
Read more about SmartOps' inclusion in the SAP Industry Value Networks, and the value SmartOps can bring to your organization in press releases announcing the IVN for Chemicals and the IVN for Consumer Products.
And if you're running SAP for your complex, multistage supply chain and would like to learn how SmartOps solutions can make a dramatic, quantifiable difference in your company's supply chain and financial performance, email us or call us at 412-231-0115 ext.136.
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