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Supply Chain Managers

• Tasks to perform include Planning, design,
  execution, and implementation of the supply chain
• Components if the supply chain include
• Inventory
• Raw Materials
• Manufacturing and Order Fulfillment
• Transportation and Logistics

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Information Processing Needs

• Inventory
• Number of items left in inventory The number of
  items that are left outstanding per week, per
  month, per year.
• Dates of fabrication The dates each item has
  been produced and introduced into inventory.
• FIFO, LIFO The Companys inventory policy can
  be either First in First Out or Last in First
  Out, depending on the type of inventory.
• Average inventory count each year The time and
  average count of inventory each year according to
  the physical count realized periodically.
• Sales Figures How each product sells based on
  the type of product, line, and how often they
  sell.
• Chain of production How much (in ) material is
  in raw materials, work in progress, and finished
  goods.
• Inventory Obsolescence The average time it
  takes inventory to become obsolete, depending on
  the type of product.
• Cost of Goods Manufactured Total costs of
  producing a product, including material costs,
  labor costs, and factory overhead.
• Inventory Turnover The days it takes to sell
  each line of products in inventory.
• Inventory Lines The product lines the company
  has based on sales and outstanding inventory.
• New Productions How often the company launch
  new products.
• Revision dates How often each product in
  revised or replaced.
• Stolen or damaged items How often and the
  percentage of items in inventory are damaged or
  stolen.

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Information Processing Needs

• Raw Materials
• Pricing of materials How much materials costs
  and how those costs fluctuate throughout the
  year.
• Costs of shipping How much it costs for
  materials to be delivered from the suppliers to
  the company.
• Supplier contracts Which suppliers the company
  does business with, how long the contracts are
  due, and the specifications to meet the legal
  requirements of those contracts.
• Timing The time raw materials arrive, how long
  they stay as raw materials, and how long it takes
  for them to be converted into finished goods.
• Promotions promotions on pricing of materials
  and new potential suppliers based on costs.
• Order fulfillment
• Retailers Which retailers the company contracts
  with and how often they request new orders.
• Wholesaling - Percentage of sales the company
  relies on wholesaling.

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Information Processing Needs

• Transportation
• Warehouse and retailer locations Location of
  each warehouse and retailer by state, city, zip
  code.
• Type of transportation Types of transportation
  services the company utilizes for delivery and
  companies that offer these services.
• Costs Cost and fees of transportation services
  depending on type of transportation and
  destination points.
• Timing The time required for goods to reach the
  destination points.
• Insurance Type of insurance needed to ensure
  the safety of goods being transported.
• Packaging Costs and materials used for
  packaging as well as the type of identification
  and barcodes.

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Information System Technology

• Supply Chain Management
• The SAP SCM application is a part of the SAP
  Business Suite. It functions with a technology
  platform called SAP NetWeaver, which enables a
  company to reduce costs in IT while joining
  technologies into a single platform. This
  platform helps companies to process information
  and data in an organizational leveling order to
  monitor processes and generate coordination in
  the supply chain.

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SAP SCM Functions
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SAP SCM Solutions
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SAP SCM Solutions
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SAP SCM Solutions
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Substitute Technologies

• Supply Chain Management
• Oracle SCM is an open integrated solution that
  ensures companies efficiency by predicting
  demand fluctuation, organizing and planning
  operations on the supply chain, and providing
  industry-specific solutions. Some of the
  solutions that this program offers are Advanced
  procurement, logistics and transportation
  management, order fulfillment, manufacturing
  operations management, product life-cycle
  management, supply chain planning, and
  optimization.

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Oracle SCM Benefits
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Oracle SCM vs. SAP SCM

• Oracle
• Less features
• Reduced information on products
• Certain services not provided
• Less customized

• SAP
• Multiple benefits
• More services in package
• More technical support
• More information provided on products

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Conclusion
The SAP SCM suite provides the best optimal
solution for problems with the management of the
supply chain. The different information needs and
technological advances in the area of inventory,
logistics, distribution, and manufacturing make
the job of a supply chain manager very difficult
and there are always different concerns that
arise as well as possibilities to enhance
operations and make the supply chain more
efficient. The SAP software provided is the best
solution to all these problems and it entails
more tools and technology to make all these
possibilities come true.
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