Welcome to SAP Supply Chain

Hello Fellow Bloggers:

Welcome!

I would like to use this blog as a hub for experts in the Supply Chain ecosystem to share / exchange ideas, best practices, market conditions, recent trends, business processes revolving around Supply Chain Planning and Execution, SAP software platforms / enabling technologies, etc.

Sharing of recent news, articles, commentaries etc. is welcome as well.

The discussions around logistics / supply chain execution will revolve around the following SAP Logistics Applications:

• Logistics - General (LO)
  
• Sales and Distribution (SD)
  
• Materials Management (MM)
  
• Logistics Execution (LE)
  
• Quality Management (QM)
  
• Plant Maintenance (PM)
  
• Customer Service (CS)
  
• Production Planning and Control (PP)
  
• Project System (PS)
  
• Environment Management (EHS)
  
• SAP Retail

Discussions around Supply Chain Management (SCM) will revolve around the following:

• SAP Advanced Planner & Optimizer (APO)
  
• SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure
  
• SAP Event Management (EM)
  
• SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SNC)
  
• SAP Extended Warehouse Management
  
• SAP Transportation Management (TM)
  

In real life, as we know all too well, such compartmentalization hardly matters from the end-user perspective. In that sense, other SAP Business Suites, such as the following, also matter in any broader discussion of Supply Chain related issues:

• SAP Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
  
• SAP Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  
• SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

It will therefore be my endeavor to engage with you all in multitude of these aspects. Again, the focus will be as much on the business process excellence, recent innovations and future evolution of Supply Chain as on the SAP Application enablers.

I see life as a perpetual journey through the process of “evolution, excellence and enrichment” leading ultimately to “enlightenment”. This applies to all spheres of our lives including our careers as Supply Chain Professionals. Someday, we all start as novices in some facet of Supply Chain, with non-stop learning we evolve on a perpetual path of enhancing our expertise so that we can excel in it. That brings enrichment, both in terms of enhanced career opportunities and gains (promotions, money and otherwise). Ultimately, this brings “enlightenment” in terms of enhanced expertise and awareness of how to bring it in action for the betterment of all in the ecosystem that we engage in.

With that in mind, I invite you, as fellow “drops of water” in the ocean of LIFE, to join me in sharing your expertise and perspectives on SAP & Supply Chain for the betterment of all.

Have a nice day!