SAP Business AI in supply chain

Optimize your risk-resilient and sustainable supply chain to predict, manage, and deliver at your best.
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SAP Business AI built into your supply chain processes

Transform your supply chain with AI-driven insights, recommendations, and automation integrated into supply chain solutions from SAP. With SAP Business AI, you can predict events, make better informed decisions, and modernize functions from design to operate.

  • Predict customer demand reliably with AI-powered demand forecasting

  • Improve quality with intelligent anomaly detection and visual inspections

  • Synchronize operations and maximize efficiency with predictive maintenance

  • Intelligent access to information through the Joule copilot in SAP supply chain solutions 

Explore how AI can boost your supply chain

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Product development

Enhance new ideas by using AI to connect 2D or 3D product models to corresponding business information in ERP, and process-related data with speed and accuracy.

What does AI in product lifecycle management look like?

Augment the product engineering process

Empower end users to increase efficiency and eliminate redundant tasks. Reduce time spent on tagging master data to 3D visualization objects by 50-70%. Automatically identify and assign respective master data to each component in the 3D visualization. 

Revolutionize the innovation funnel

Support a fact-based approach to product development. Using SAP’s AI copilot, Joule, product developers can now gather and enhance new product ideas quickly and effectively using natural language queries.

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Risk-resilient demand planning

Generate forecasts based on near real-time information to better reflect market variability and changing sales trends. Use predictive material and resource planning to reduce inventory carrying costs and maximize utilization. Automate cluster and threshold proposals with intelligent segmentation. Identify job anomalies with master data anomaly detection and recommendations. Detect outliers in forecasts for faster accuracy.

What does AI in planning look like?

Uncover insights quickly and effectively

Plan demand, inventory, and supply with visibility and confidence with Joule. Gain insights on improved planning runs and recommendations of certain actions and comparison of different planning runs. 

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Improved visibility and faster insights

Improve operator productivity with machine learning for visual inspections. Enhance production efficiency with streamlined planning and automated dispatching. Accelerate root-cause analysis with advanced algorithms and machine learning.

What does AI in manufacturing look like?

Efficiently identify and fix issues in manufacturing

Accelerate the resolution of production standstills. Solve issues when connecting machines, and designing and running production processes. Use AI to analyze logs related to issues, identify root causes, and provide guidance for issue resolution.

Ensure quality without the cost

Meet your continuous improvement goals through digital manufacturing. Remove the burden of manual and expensive visual inspection tasks, and reduce the potential for errors. 

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Intelligent warehousing and logistics

Simplify setup processes using AI to automatically derive slotting rules from product data. Generate statistic-based models from relevant system data with
machine learning. Access digital cargo documents generated by AI, expediting the freight unloading process.

What does AI in logistics look like?

Seamlessly expedite freight verification and documentation

Automate the processing of tens of thousands of goods receipts and delivery notes. Get a faster processing time with greater accuracy, minimizing errors, and reducing the need for manual checks. The entire operation experiences enhanced operational efficiency and improved data quality for subsequent processes. 

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Asset performance management

Predict equipment failure based on IoT data and send advanced warnings to maintenance and operations. Generate predictive maintenance backlogs to proactively address issues. Use machine learning for insights into equipment failure modes and probable causes. Visually inspect plant assets  to automatically detect and measure asset conditions and alert business users.
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Field service management

Minimize travel time for field technicians with predictive route planning. Optimize schedules using advanced rules to match jobs to the right technicians with the right skills. Filter backlogs generated by AI with a simple query to optimize service delivery.

What does AI in asset management look like?

Improve accuracy of predicting machine failure

Significantly reduce human efforts in visual data inspection. Detect anomalies in IoT sensor data, leading to the identification and warning of machine failure. Automatically triggered alerts effectively support informed maintenance decisions. 

Optimize your operations

Save time and money on manual inspections by automating the inspection process. Increase asset availability and customer satisfaction through reliable inspection services.

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Secure an efficient, agile, and resilient supply chain

Deliver the insights and resilience to keep your supply chain flowing across the globe. Quickly evaluate risk and projected delays, zero in on the most important shipments, and make good on your deliveries.

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Stay ahead of change and improve demand forecast accuracy

Create risk-resilient supply chains and prepare for change with AI-assisted statistical forecasts that take into account multiple factors, from inventory levels and supply partner risk to weather changes and market fluctuations. 

Ready to learn more about SAP Business AI and supply chain?