Supply Chain Management

We help you build a sustainable, risk-resilient supply chain that minimizes cost while maximizing speed and profitability.
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Explore supply chain management products from SAP

Risk-resilience means the ability to connect every process, contextualize every decision, and collaborate with your ecosystem. We can help.

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Make informed, responsive, in-context planning decisions by bringing business and operational data together in the moment.

  • Collaborative supply chain network
  • Integrated business planning
  • Optimized inventory
  • Procurement and supplier management
  • Predictive analytics, AI, and machine learning
  • Sustainable plans for ethically sourced material

Simplify and integrate demand planning in the cloud

Respond to changing demand with machine learning, connected processes, and increased visibility across sales and operations planning (S&OP), forecasting, supply, replenishment, and inventory functions.

Manage your global supply network in real time

Collaborate with your global suppliers and partners across supply chain processes for tasks and activities such as ordering, forecasting, inventory management, supply and demand monitoring, and onboarding.

Take your aftermarket business to the next level

Get the right parts in the right place at the right time across the entire supply network.

Manage inventory efficiently across your supply network

Boost business resilience by quickly responding to disruptions and intelligently selecting alternatives for supply shortages.

Modernize planning and scheduling

Drive efficiency, increase agility, and manage by exception with manufacturing planning and scheduling that’s connected to business planning, ERP, and manufacturing execution.

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Deliver as promised with risk-resilient, reliable, and sustainable logistics operations.

  • Warehouse management
  • Collaborative transportation management
  • Order fulfillment and promising
  • Yard management
  • Logistics network and track and trace
  • Sustainable load optimization
  • Automated slotting rules with machine learning

Automate warehouse management

Manage inbound and outbound warehouse processes in a single system – from receiving and put-away to pick, pack, and ship activities.

Optimize global transportation management

Improve on-time deliveries and lower freight costs with accurate order fulfillment, multiple shipping modes, carrier selection, cargo handling, and more.

Track orders and shipments in real time

Optimize logistics processes with visibility into goods in transit, notify stakeholders about deviations, and monitor fulfillment.

Simplify yard operations and management

Integrate your logistics processes in the cloud, and gain visibility and control over planning, execution, processing, and monitoring activities.

Streamline carrier collaboration

Gain visibility into the freight order lifecycle to better manage appointments, share insights, and digitally manage transactions.

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Respond quickly to market change and shifting customer demand with cloud manufacturing capabilities for controlling costs, improving quality, and managing risk.

  • Manufacturing execution with harmonized analytics
  • Resource orchestration for faster production runs
  • Optimized quality management and compliance
  • Workplace safety management and risk mitigation
  • Emissions tracking for sustainable manufacturing operations
  • Improved operator productivity with AI

Increase manufacturing agility and visibility

Meet demand in every market with connected manufacturing operations and business data.

Protect your workforce

Reduce risk with predictive visibility into hazards and improved safety practices​.

Enhance manufacturing collaboration

Integrate and connect engineering and manufacturing processes to meet production requirements.

Protect the environment

Centralize ESG data, forecast emissions with built-in calculators, and generate reports that measure performance.

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Define, develop, deliver, and manage innovative and sustainable products by connecting every aspect of product development.

  • Enterprise product development
  • Product costing and engineering
  • Project portfolio management
  • Commercial project management
  • Project network
  • Sustainable design of recyclable products
  • Precise cost prediction with machine learning

Speed time to market with project management software

Support flexible new product development processes and streamline the management of project proposals, progress, tasks, timelines, and more.

Support real-time product cost calculations

Get a cost-centered view of the product design and development lifecycle to determine costs, target price, and profitability.

Meet your product compliance requirements

Automate regulatory and sustainability requirements, track registrations, classify products, and manage hazardous materials properly with accurate labeling.

Facilitate cross-discipline product engineering

Combine mechanical, electrical, and electronic design data on a single platform to provide secure and fast access to product development information.

Collaborate and share project information with contractors and partners

Manage and share project plans, tasks, issues, punch lists, and deliverables on a collaboration platform that provides a common data environment.

Design and develop innovative products faster

Gain insights and tools for requirement-driven product development using a shared workspace, 3D viewer, and integrated inbox for streamlined collaboration.

Streamline interoperation between enterprise systems

Facilitate efficient product data flows and collaboration by integrating SAP and non-SAP product lifecycle management systems data.

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Track asset performance, execute maintenance and service, and maximize uptime with advanced technologies.

  • Maintenance and service management
  • Asset network and collaboration
  • Asset strategy and performance
  • Intelligent asset health prediction and optimization
  • Mobile enterprise asset management (EAM)
  • Sustainable asset and equipment operations

Optimize asset health and performance

Empower asset owners, managers, plant managers, and reliability engineers to measure and improve asset performance and optimize maintenance strategies.

Drive transparency with asset collaboration

Collaborate on a single version of the truth across trading partners for optimal asset data integrity and service efficiency.

Act on visual insights with a mobile app

Review and manage work orders and asset processes online or offline with comprehensive visualizations and insights, location services, and GIS integration.

Resolve customer issues fast in the field

Empower your technicians to boost customer satisfaction with mobile tools, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and IoT capabilities.

Transform maintenance planning and scheduling processes

Gain actionable insight into your maintenance workload and available capacities for current and upcoming maintenance activities.

Transform EAM to excel operationally

Plan, schedule, and execute maintenance operations with integrated and optimized asset management processes.

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Record, report, and act using SAP Sustainability solutions to enable a risk-resilient and sustainable supply chain.

  • Build a circular supply chain
  • Reduce the carbon footprint of your value chain
  • Minimize waste
  • Gain transparency into your ecological footprint
  • Collaborate with your ecosystem
  • Track compliance throughout the product lifecycle
  • Maximize occupational health
  • Manage environmental risk

Automate product compliance tasks

Enforce compliance at each step of the product lifecycle by managing regulatory and sustainability requirements.

Reduce waste and emissions

Plan resources, manage inventories, and optimize demand and supply matching.

Achieve sustainable operations

Realize sustainability goals by extending equipment life, engaging in circular economy, and leveraging risk management.

Operate sustainably and reduce environmental impact

Measure emissions and track compliance with real-time analytical tools to mitigate risk to the environment and run sustainably.

Improve safety and minimize the risk of incidents

Prevent incidents, manage operational changes, and build a safety culture that helps protect workers while driving productivity.

Improve agility and drive sustainability with transportation management

Optimize routes and automate processes to minimize empty space, eliminate redundancies, and achieve sustainability targets.

Embrace a circular economy and eliminate waste

Optimize material choices by calculating extended producer responsibility obligations, plastic taxes, and corporate commitments.

Determine your extended carbon footprint

Decarbonize your value chain with carbon accounting software that combines supplier data and existing business data.

Improve your ESG transparency

Unlock the power of data to record, report, and act on your sustainability goals.

Transition to certified sustainable materials

Prove the sustainability of your raw materials with tokenization, blockchain, and segregated or mass balance accounting.

Rise into the future with SAP for supply chain management

Build a successful supply chain from design to operate and transform business operations at your own pace with RISE with SAP—including our advanced add-on packages for supply chain.

Start your path to a digital supply chain

Extended service parts planning

See how the SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain solution for extended service parts planning optimizes planning for complex, high-volume service parts and network locations.

View road maps for supply chain management solutions

Learn about current options, planned innovations, and future features for our supply chain management solutions.