Manage inventory efficiently across the entire supply network

Allocate stocks based on business priorities, considering suitable alternatives; identify, analyze, and meet current and future demand; and take concurrent orders into account. Prepare for unexpected events and manage shortage situations quickly by using the SAP S/4HANA solution for advanced ATP to manage business processes and improve service levels, lead times, and goods in stock with analytics and intelligence.

• On-premise or cloud deployment
• Tight integration with other SAP solutions
• User-friendly available-to-promise (ATP) functionality
• Next-generation order promising and order fulfillment capabilities

Key benefits

Improve service levels with allocation management

Allocate the right stock to the right demand in a supply shortage situation, and improve delivery performance for important customers.

Manage shortages and priority-based order promising

Confirm orders accurately, protect key customers and products, avoid penalties, and make commitments based on capacity and delivery constraints.

Enable intelligent decisions based on analytics

Understand the influence of product availability and other delivery constraints during order confirmation by analyzing supply and demand and product allocation.

Key features

Efficient stock management

• Manage shortage situations by allocating stocks to key customers, considering sales and delivery constraints
• Commit based on capacity or critical component availability for make-to-order products
• Protect the interests of key customers and sales groups by reserving stocks

Effective product availability management

• Promise what and when you can deliver accurately in real time, based on current and future stock information
• Manage business priorities and protect customer interest while confirming orders en masse
• Avoid over-confirmation and penalties

Intelligent selection of alternatives

• Improve order fill rate by intelligently selecting stocks from alternative locations during supply shortages
• Select the best alternatives dynamically, considering all substitutable products
• Reduce backlogs and inventory carrying costs, and perform impact analysis for confirmation changes