Supply chain- composed of all stages involved in fulfilling customers needs and satisfaction- production,

warehouse, transport, distribution, purchase, many more.

Production planning and control- streamlined activities involving the production of goods or services.

Advantages:

- Ensures the optimum production capacity

- Monitors the inventory levels; there should be no overstocking/understocking
- Ensures optimum production time
- Ensures that quality of products or services are well-maintained

Software

Old software

PLC- Programmable logic controller; 1968; Richard dick Morley (father of PLC); USA

- First introduced by bedford associates using the product name- Modicon: Modular
Digital Controller

New software

SAP- Systems, Applications, and Products in data processing; 1972; Germany

- Developed by 5 IBM engineers: dietmar hopp, Klaus tschira, claus wellenreuther,

hasson platt, hans-werner hector
- Imperial chemical industries is their first customer
- Has functions for finance, accounting, sales, distribution, purchase, security,
production, warehouse, research, and the like.

Types:

Sap business suite- for large companies- sap erp, sap crm, sap plm, sap srm, sap scm

Sap all-in-one- midsized

Sap business one- small

Sap business suite- sap scm

- Forecasting business operations, handle large no. of constraints

- Analysis and planning of supply and demand
- Analysis, planning, and management of order based capacity

Flow types

Product flow- involves the distribution of products from and to customers

Information flow- involved delivery information

Finance flow- accounting data such as credit debits, and payments

 Software types

Planning application- process of orders

Execution application- status of materials, etc.

APO- Advanced planner and optimizer- for forecasting and demanding

- Demand planning
- Supply network planning
- Production planning/detailed scheduling
- Global available to power check
- Apo with bw product
- Transportation planning/ vehicle scheduling
- Transport load builders

Sap business one- helps to reduce cost and increase profitability; used for finance, crm,
warehousing and production, purchase and procurement, and reporting and analytics

Advantages:

- Spend more times with your business

- Respond more quickly to your customers
- Eliminated the redundant data entry and errors
- Form a closer relationship with customers
- Lower technology cost and achieve faster time

Benefits:

- One complete solution

- Increased revenue
- Reduced cost
- Clear, instantaneous insights and alerts
- Personalized
- Support multi-currency transactions

How to implement business one?

Five phases

- Project preparation- 5 days; Customer kickoff meeting

- Business blueprint- 4 days, create detailed blueprint document based on
organizations needs
- Project realization- week and a half; crucial part; software installation;
system testing
- Final preparation- 5 or 6 days; trainings
- Going live and support- final implementation; support guide from
production team