SAP and Customers Innovate New Ways for Industry-Specific Parts Planning

These are the result of SAP’s intelligent supply chain for assets customer initiative, which brought together SAP and more than 45 customers to co-innovate in this mission-critical area. The announcement was made at the North American Supply Chain Executive Summit in Chicago.“Every business leader I meet is looking for new ways to procure, manage and maintain aging assets to ultimately deliver on the desires of their customers,” said Franz Hero, SAP senior vice president, Digital Supply Chain Development. “With this initiative, we went straight to the source, working directly with our valued customers to explore new techniques and come up with real-world answers. Together, we’ve found a fresh approach to supply-chain planning and asset management to benefit everyone.”The customer collaboration yielded two main scenarios that existing and new customers can take advantage of to help them plan spare parts to enhance these scenarios as part of SAP’s strategy for digital supply chain.