Supply chain automation delivers resiliency, sustainability, and productivity

Concurrent update of bills of material (BOM) information in planning for increased supply chain readiness​

Benefits of the new product introduction use case:

• Continuously reflect portfolio changes in demand planning efforts throughout the product lifecycle​

• Reduce disruption in manufacturing by new product introduction, retirement of products, and product substitutions​

Many products include software like cars, phones, refrigerators, and watches. Software test automation for software, which is embedded in products, is critical for product success​​.

Benefits of the intelligent products use case: 

• Eliminate manual efforts to create and execute test cases​

• Generate reports and analytics about test results​

Continuous handover of engineering data like builds of material, 3D data, P&IDs, docs, Specs to operations for increased customer satisfaction​.

Benefits of the capital projects handover use case: 

• Automated handover of data from engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) to the owner/operator (O/O)​

• Enable an end-to-end process for EPC and O/O to collaborate on an integrated change process​

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Concurrent update of bills of material (BOM) information in planning for increased supply chain readiness​

Benefits of the new product introduction use case:

• Continuously reflect portfolio changes in demand planning efforts throughout the product lifecycle​

• Reduce disruption in manufacturing by new product introduction, retirement of products, and product substitutions​

Labor constraints such as shortage, vacation, skills, strikes, aging population need to be considered by supply chain systems to improve planning accuracy and speeds up work assignments​

Benefits of concurrent labor management:

• Labor constraints such as shortage, vacation, skills, strikes, and aging population, are hardly considered during supply chain planning and execution processes​

• Proactively manage labor constraints to improve planning accuracy and work assignments

Concurrent update of BOM information in planning for increased supply chain readiness​.

Benefits of new product introductions:

• Continuously reflect portfolio changes in demand planning efforts throughout the product lifecycle​

• Reduce disruption in manufacturing by new product introduction, retirement of products, and product substitutions​

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Automatic update of pipeline information for forecasting and win probability as well as bill of material fidelity for project-based sales into planning for higher forecast accuracy​

Benefits of sales automation integration:

• Improve demand forecast accuracy by automated inclusion of demand drivers like campaigns

• Enable better demand and supply planning in engineer-to-order and configure-to-order industries, where the final product specification evolves during the sales cycle​​

Dynamic update of cost and price information as well as other master data for planning increases the planning quality​

Benefits of dynamic update of planning master data:

• Enable better decision making in planning phases through more accurate financial impact insights

• Reduce dependencies on manual adjustments of financial values in planning​

Automate update of confirmed dates for purchase orders from suppliers to avoid false assumptions about delivery dates​

Benefits of automated update of order confirmation dates:

• Reduce firefighting due to unexpected late deliveries of critical raw materials or data entry errors​

• Enhance responsiveness to deviations from requested delivery schedules​

Extract the planned maintenance plans and feed these to planning, thereby reflecting the reduced capacity​

Benefits of interaction of service and asset schedules:

• Provide planned capacity availability reflects scheduled maintenance activities​

• Increase plan execution feasibility​

Labor constraints such as shortage, vacation, skills, strikes, aging population need to be considered by supply chain systems to improve planning accuracy and speeds up work assignments​

Benefits of concurrent labor management:

• Labor constraints such as shortage, vacation, skills, strikes, and aging population, are hardly considered during supply chain planning and execution processes​

• Proactively manage labor constraints to improve planning accuracy and work assignments

Use AI to automate communication with business partners and create a faster and more accurate communication​

Benefits of business partner communication:

• Reduce manual effort to work on thousands of emails and attachments and trigger appropriate actions

• Faster, easier, and more accurate communication with all business partners

Automate the check of feasibility and viability of purchase orders and suppliers to minimize the risk of violation of company policies

Benefits of purchase order creation checks:

• Reduce manual effort to create purchase orders and perform viability checks​

• Provide compliance with regulations, rules, and standards for procurement​

Enable automated onboarding of business partners. Minimize the risk of doing business with non-valid partners and making it easy to do business with partners​

Benefits of business partner onboarding:

• Reduce manual effort to onboard business partners such as suppliers, carriers, outsourcing partners, and design partners

• Provide compliance with regulations, rules, and standards for sourcing​​

Use AI to automate communication with business partners and create a faster and more accurate communication​

Benefits of business partner communication:

• Reduce manual effort to work on thousands of emails and attachments and trigger appropriate actions

• Faster, easier, and more accurate communication with all business partners

​Keep track of local regulations changes and automate processes to implement best practices. Automate process for connecting safety policies with human resources systems for training.

Benefits of health and safety​:

• Keep health and safety policies aligned with changing local regulations and ensure that emergency response and crisis management processes are applied

• End-to-end process makes sure that health and safety is an ongoing, holistic effort aimed at protecting employees, following regulations, and promoting a culture of safety within the organization​

Automatic consolidation of quality data and documents form different systems for increased product quality transparency​

​Benefits of product quality:

• Increase product quality by leveraging quality information from contract manufacturers​

• Increase efficiency in quality processes by reducing data-related errors

Continuously analyze genealogy data to identify opportunities for process optimization and quality enhancements​

Benefits of product genealogy:

• Eliminate manual efforts for filling out records and gather pieces of information coming from various internal solutions and suppliers' documents for building a full genealogy​

• Automate verification of batch data and device historical records and use AI support to perform audits and to enforce best practices​

Automate integration between engineering and manufacturing solutions for breaking the silos​

Benefits of Impact of engineering changes:

• Provide product quality, compliance, and efficiency while minimizing the risk of disruptions in production, caused by engineering changes​

• Get an end-to-end understanding of the impact of an engineering change on downstream processes like manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, and after-sales

Labor constraints such as shortage, vacation, skills, strikes, aging population, need to be considered by supply chain systems to improve planning accuracy and speed up work assignments​

Benefits of concurrent labor management:

• Labor constraints like shortage, vacation, skills, strikes, and aging population are hardly considered during supply chain planning and execution processes​

• Proactively manage labor constraints to improve planning accuracy and work assignments

​Keep track of local regulations changes and automate processes to implement best practices. Automate process for connecting safety policies with human resources systems for training.

Benefits of health and safety​:

• Keep health and safety policies aligned with changing local regulations and ensure that emergency response and crisis management processes are applied

• End-to-end process makes sure that health and safety is an ongoing, holistic effort aimed at protecting employees, following regulations, and promoting a culture of safety within the organization​

Keep track of local regulations changes and automate processes to implement best practices. Automate process for connecting safety policies with HR systems for training.

Benefits of health and safety:

• Keep health and safety policy aligned with changing local regulations and ensure that emergency response and crisis management processes are applied​

• End-to-end process makes sure that health and safety is an ongoing, holistic effort aimed at protecting employees, following regulations, and promoting a culture of safety within the organization

Enable multi-pick, multi-drop, and cross-warehouse loading and unloading with process orchestration between warehouse and transportation systems​

​Benefits of advanced shipping and receiving:

• Harmonization and synchronization of warehouse and transportation processes​

• Increase process transparency and efficiency in logistics processes by reducing data-related errors ​

Get visibility into the heterogeneous process across different stakeholders and entities, including regulatory institutions, especially during cross-border transports​

Benefits of multi-mode of transport:

• Get visibility into the heterogeneous process across different stakeholders and entities, like customs, during cross-border transports​

• Automate document verification and use AI support to perform integration for tendering, transport execution, settlement, and disputes ​

Transparency and declaration of material classifications for cross-border transactions​

Benefits of global trade – material classification:

• Transparency in processing material classification at cross-border transactions​

• Automate document verification and use artificial intelligence (AI) support to perform compliance for export and import control regulations​

Labor constraints like shortage, vacation, skills, strikes, aging population need to be considered by supply chain systems to improves planning accuracy and speeds up work assignments​

Benefits of concurrent labor management:

• Labor constraints like shortage, vacation, skills, strikes, and aging population are hardly considered during supply chain planning and execution processes​

• Proactively manage labor constraints to improve planning accuracy and work assignments ​​

Keep track of local regulations changes and automate processes to implement best practices. Automate process for connecting safety policies with HR systems for training.

Benefits of health and safety:

• Keep health and safety policy aligned with changing local regulations and ensure that emergency response and crisis management processes are applied​

• End-to-end process makes sure that health and safety is an ongoing, holistic effort aimed at protecting employees, following regulations, and promoting a culture of safety within the organization