SAP Integrated Business Planning Features

Manage and track all inventory records across warehouses and retail locations through a single unified database.

Maintain a visual on product stock levels throughout your facilities with flexible inventory dashboards.

View the history of individual items and compare the sales performance of new to old stock in order to inform purchasing decisions.

Set low stock thresholds and receive automatic alerts when stock decreases to that level.

Automatically adjust inventory for product bundles, kit orders, and product variations within the system.

Use barcode or radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology with specialized readers or mobile applications to track inventory assets throughout warehouse facilities.

Optimize inventory levels with features that suggest reorder points and economic order quantities (EOQs) that facilitate inventory management.

Integrate shopping carts, eCommerce platforms, POS, and payment gateways with the system to link inventory records between across platforms.

Track inventory costs and costs of goods sold (COGS) with accounting software integrations.

Transfer large volumes of inventory data records into and out of the system with built-in import / export tools.

Analyzes aggregated supply chain and shipping data to gain predictive insight

Monitors and tracks the physical status of goods and materials

Aggregates and centralizes data regarding product movement, materials management, and financial information

Generates reports that identify KPIs and other relevant metrics

Provides users with automated reports and dashboards on all demand plans, and forecast KPIs

Allows users to perform ABC and XYZ analyses and assess forecastability with rules adjustable by business users.

Allows users to forecast the demand impact of events such as new product launches product up-gradation, pricing, rebates, marketing activities, product discontinuation

Allows users to create simulation scenarios with factors such as changed pricing

Allows users to pull historical data in order to more accurately predict future demand

Provides comprehensive visibility and oversight into supply chain operations

Provides inventory scheduling and inventory management functionalities

Automates the tracking and recording of activities within the entire supply chain lifecycle

Track products to determine when they are shipped, in transit, or delivered.

Optimize inventory to improve fulfillment and increase customer satisfaction.

Manage multiple delivery modes such as truckload, less than truckload, rail, parcel, and ocean.

Identify the financial impact of deliveries based on costs and revenues.

Provide performance metrics such as delivery performance, on-time arrival performance, and compliance.

Use supply chain data to identify trends and their impact on performance.

Allows users to create warehouse-to-warehouse transfers knowing the exact stock levels for both locations when sending and receiving

Allows users to sync inventory across multiple stores, marketplaces, and warehouses

Allows users to connect sales channels to specific warehouses.

Allows users to manage all thier clients on one system

Allows users to connect marketplaces for each client

Allows inventory tracking for specific customer required attributes such as lot, serial, style/color/size

Real-time inventory tracking. Maintains accurate "On Hand" information by matching reserved inventory requested on purchase and sales orders.

Ability to establish costing methods such as Average, LIFO, FIFO, and Specific Unit.

Manage and track all inventory records across warehouses and retail locations through a single unified database.

Optimize inventory levels with features that suggest reorder points and economic order quantities (EOQs) that facilitate inventory management.

Integrate shopping carts, eCommerce platforms, POS, and accounting with the system to link inventory records across platforms.

Allows users to integrate their demand planning software with ERP and SCM software

Allows multiple users to simultaneously input thier data online, offline or remotely

Allows multiple stakeholders into planning data for increased visibility

Allows users to have multi-tier visibility into current stock and purchase orders

Provides users with a planning dahsboard for real-time data

Allows users to ensure production capacity meets demand

Allows users to conduct demand planning for seasonal and intermittent demand

Allows users to tailor demand planning by business function including sales and marketing

Allows users to customize demand planning that take all data on particular goals into consideration.

The system automatically accounts for data related to consumer demand and any planned network changes.

Allows users to automate routine steps for demand planning or data preparation

Ability to track inbound products to determine when they are shipped, in transit, or delivered.

Ability to track and search for the location of shipments by PO or SKU

Ability to use historical tracking data and machine learning in order to accurately predict ETAs

Ability to establish geofences to determine precise and accurate arrivals

Access up to date rates from carriers, including spot market

Ability to request a bid from multiple carriers and directly book shipments

Ability to manage and automate invoices

Ability to utilize paperless documents to automate reconciliation process including bills of lading, proofs of delivery, and weight certificates

Ability to access full coverage of required geographies

Ability to efficiently onboard new carriers during network implementation

Ability to access data enrichment, sources, & normalization to serve up actionable and clean data

Provide support for multiple languages

Provide rule-based notifications to empower real-time collaboration at key milestones and quickly resolve issues.