Inventory Optimization with SAP: Effective Inventory Management with MySAP ERP and MySAP SCM (SAP PRESS: englisch) - Hardcover

Hoppe, Marc

 
9781592290970: Inventory Optimization with SAP: Effective Inventory Management with MySAP ERP and MySAP SCM (SAP PRESS: englisch)

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To protect against shortages, companies tend to maintain additional inventory at various points in the supply chain. This priceless reference illustrates in detail how those costly buffers can be significantly reduced in order to sustain profitability and operational efficiency – without putting at risk customer satisfaction or the ability to deliver.

This book provides readers with a systematic description of the options and functions available for mastering inventory management with mySAP ERP and mySAP SCM. Relevant business principles are discussed in detail and help introduce readers to each of the key processes. Learn about factors influencing inventories, inventory analysis, sales planning and forecasting, disposition, batch sizes, inventory monitoring, and much more.



Demand planners, MRP controllers, and production planners – as well as consultants, IT administrators, department managers, and anyone requiring comprehensive, task-related information on how to optimize inventory using SAP – will find this book to be very useful.

Highlights include:

  • Why Inventory Is Necessary: Inventory Concepts, Factors Influencing Inventory, Optimization Potentials
  • Inventory Analysis: ABC and XYZ Analysis, Creating ABC-XYZ Matrices
  • Demand Planning and Forecasting: Bullwhip Effect, Selecting and Running Forecasts
  • Material Requirements Planning: Make-to-Stock and Make-to-Order Production, MRP Strategies
  • Service Level and Safety Stocks: Global ATP in SAP APO, Safety Stock Planning in mySAP ERP
  • Lot Sizes: Lot-Sizing Procedures in mySAP ERP and SAP APO
  • Production: Reduction of Backlogs, MRP-II and APS, Planning with SAP APO PP/DS
  • Inventory Controlling

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

After finishing his studies in business administration at Fachhochschule Nordostniedersachsen in Lüneburg, Germany, and at John Moores University in Liverpool, England, Marc Hoppe joined CAS AG, Germany as an SAP developer in the logistics and production planning areas. Later, he became a logistics consultant and was responsible for implementing national and international SAP R/3 projects. Since 1998, he has worked as a Supply Chain Management (SCM) consultant at SAP SI AG. Marc Hoppe is responsible for the business-relevant and IT-based implementation and optimization of SCM processes, as well as the re-engineering of entire supply chain processes. In 2001, he became Consulting Director for SCM, and since 2003, he has managed additionally the Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) unit. Marc Hoppe consults for large corporations such as Siemens, Unilever, Gillette, Philips, Deutsche Telekom, and Philip Morris, as well as medium-sized companies like G+H Isover or Fertiva. He has published numerous works on inventory optimization.

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