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Logistics and SCM2013M a r c h 5 – 8 • L a s V e g a s

Manufacturing2013M a r c h 5 – 8 • L a s V e g a s

PLM2013March 5 – 8 • Las Vegas

Procurement2013M a r c h 5 – 8 • L a s V e g a s

A collaboration of

Enabling Innovation and Operational Excellence

www.SCM2013.com

March 5–8, Las Vegas

Join the conversation on Twitter: #SCM2013

For more information and to register, visit www.scm2013.com or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700

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Logistics & SCM, PLM, Manufacturing, and Procurement 2013 provides an unparalleled opportunity to gain a 360-degree per-spective on how to ensure innovation and operational excellence across your extended supply chain.

Companies that understand how to achieve critical key performance indicators (KPIs), including speed-to-market, reduced lead times, real-time shop floor data and improved vendor compliance, require a new level of collaboration, informed by reliable, readily retrievable data to make informed decisions.

Organizations are challenged to be proactive, efficient, and responsive in an environment where silos are increasingly broken down and collaboration thrives between internal and external partners — from innovation to delivery.

Attend Logistics & SCM, PLM, Manufacturing, and Procurement 2013, March 5–8 in Las Vegas, and capture the latest trends, process and solution updates, critical-to-success benchmarks, and best practices from SAP leaders, customers, field consultants, and independent experts. Find out how to sustain measurable improvement and continually be prepared for market dynamics and primed for future growth across the innovation-to-delivery arena.

Look at the newest capabilities available today and in the near future from SAP to enable end-to-end business processes — from new product development and innovation, across real-time supply chain networks, through procurement and sourcing, sales, production, storage, delivery, and after-market parts management.

I hope that you will join us and look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas.

Sincerely,

Richard Howells Head of Solution Marketing Lines of BusinessSAP

Thomas OhnemusVP Solution Marketing SAP PLM, SAP Manufacturing, SAP Visual Enterprise

SchedulePre-conference

Workshops Conference, March 5 – 8

Monday, March 4

7:30 am Registration opens 9:00 am Morning

Pre-conference workshops

12:00 pm Lunch 2:00 pm Afternoon

Pre-conference workshops

5:00 pm Registration closes

Tuesday, March 5

7:30 am Registration 9:00 am General session 10:15 am Exhibit hall opens 10:30 am Extended break 11:00 am Breakout sessions

and PLM keynote 12:00 pm Lunch 1:30 pm Breakout sessions,

scM and cRM keynotes

2:30 pm Extended break 3:00 pm Exhibit hall closes 3:00 pm Breakout sessions

and Procurement keynote

4:00 pm Extended break 4:30 pm Breakout sessions

and Manufacturing keynote

5:15 pm Exhibit hall re-opens 5:30 pm Opening night

reception 5:45 pm Ask-the-experts 6:45 pm Exhibit hall closes

Wednesday, March 6

8:00 am Registration 9:00 am Breakouts 10:00 am Extended break 10:30 am Breakout sessions 11:15 am Exhibit hall opens 11:30 am Extended break 12:00 pm Breakout sessions 1:00 pm Lunch 2:30 pm Exhibit hall closes 2:30 pm Breakout sessions 3:30 pm Extended break 4:00 pm Breakout sessions 4:45 pm Exhibit hall opens 5:00 pm cocktail reception 5:15 pm Ask-the-experts 6:15 pm Exhibit hall closes

Thursday, March 7

8:00 am Registration 9:00 am Breakout sessions 9:45 am Exhibit hall opens 10:00 am Extended break 10:30 am Breakout sessions 11:30 am Extended break 12:00 pm Breakout sessions 1:00 pm Lunch 2:30 pm Breakout sessions 3:30 pm Extended break 4:00 pm Exhibit hall closes for

event 4:00 pm Breakout sessions 5:00 pm Break 5:15 pm Breakout sessions

Friday, March 8

8:00 am Registration 9:00 am Breakout sessions 10:00 am Break 10:15 am Breakout sessions 11:15 am Break 11:30 am Breakout sessions 12:30 pm conference concludes

Visit apics.org/certification for specific information about obtaining APICS certification maintenance points.


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Pre-conference foundational, orientation, and networking sessions Special three-hour, pre-conference sessions hosted on this day offer you the opportunity to explore new trends and strategies, fortify your understanding of critical SAP® technologies and solutions, and enhance your learning experience at the main conference. Take advantage of comprehensive workshops to build skills and increase your SCM IQ. Obtain best practices and hear the latest product updates. Attend introductory sessions if you’re new to the SCM functionality within SAP. Advanced sign-up is required.

Pre-conference Workshops, Monday, March 4

Conference, March 5 – 8 • 13 comprehensive tracks • 6 core disciplines

Be effeCtive: LeaderShip

Track 1: Business process transformation, network design, benchmarking, and Page 14 improvement strategies

Be proaCtive: innovation

Track 2: R&D and engineering Page 17

Track 3: Project and portfolio management Page 20

Be CoLLaBorative: proCureMent

Track 4: Strategic procurement strategies Page 21

Track 5: Procure-to-pay Page 23

Track 6: Supplier management Page 25

Be reSponSive: SuppLy Chain

Track 7: Order processing Page 27

Track 8: Demand and supply planning Page 28

Track 9: Sales and operations planning (S&OP) 1

Track 10: Inventory optimization and collaboration Page 32

Be effiCient: ManufaCturing

Track 11: Manufacturing operations Page 34

Track 12: Manufacturing execution Page 36

Be reLiaBLe: LogiStiCS

Track 13: Warehouse management Page 39

Track 14: Transportation management Page 41

Track 15: Track and trace Page 42


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More than 130 educational sessions and forumsExpand your skills and knowledge by learning from the top experts at SAP, independent consul-tants, and your industry counterparts.

Pre-conference WorkshopsTake advantage of comprehensive sessions to build skills and increase your innovation and operational excellence IQ. Obtain best practices and hear the latest product updates. Attend introductory sessions if you are new to SAP logistics, SCM, PLM, Ariba, or manufacturing functionality.

Ask-the-ExpertsSit down one-on-one with the leading experts to ask questions and get detailed, authoritative answers.

Live solution demonstrationsSee demonstrations and hear directly from SAP and leading vendors about innovative new solu-tions and their impact on SAP applications you want to extend, develop, or introduce to your employees and customers.

Customer-led case studiesTake away best practices and methodologies taught by the companies that practice them. Learn from highly experienced SAP customers to solidify your own strategies and tactics.

Interactive customer discussion forumsHear about your peers’ projects, challenges, and ongoing initiatives during forums facilitated by an expert moderator.

Exhibit hall receptionsInteract with the best and the brightest minds working with SAP software. Build a lasting net-work of peers and meet with leading product and service vendors.

SAPexperts LIVEThis popular forum offers attendees the opportunity to meet leading authors from the SAPexperts SCM hub and discuss topics from recent articles. Follow the framework of the article as the author guides you through the most important parts. You’re not just a reader — you’re a participant.

Educational and networking opportunities

Ready … Set ... Reinvent —Your Business Now and for the FutureAs consumers, our world revolves around real-time connectivity — think cell phones, Facebook, Twitter, Linke-dIn, Instagram, and more. But until now, companies have not had the technology or capacity to conduct their business in real time, to their disadvantage.

Imagine being able to plan for issues at any point in your supply chain; understand immediately the impact of logistical and procurement delays on your manufacturing timelines, and know not only what customers bought, but how they felt about what they bought. This is the type of critical information that will keep com-panies ahead of their competitors and working in lock step with their customers and suppliers.

Learn how to make this dream a reality by utilizing a powerful combination of your existing applications and processes running on top of a next generation, in-memory platform known as HANA. In this unique keynote address, Steve Lucas, EVP and GM, SAP Database & Technology, gives you an entertaining, no-nonsense introduction to the SAP Business Suite powered by HANA, and shows how it enables you to rethink your business processes, embed intelligence into your transactions, and invent business models never before possible. Lucas will draw on a combination of real-world examples, demos, and case studies to illustrate how you can dramatically increase the performance of your SAP applications now and continue to innovate without disruption to your core business.

Steve LucasEVP and GM,

SAP Database & Technology,

SAP

Keynote Address


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Thomas Ohnemus

VP Solution Marketing, SAP PLM, SAP Manufacturing,

SAP 3D Visual Enterprise

Graham Conlon

Global Vice President, SAP PLM Solution

Management

Enabling a proactive approach to innovation and excellenceThe ongoing benefits of an integrated product lifecycle management strategy are well documented as a way to achieve significant top- and bottom-line benefits: reducing time to profit, decreasing development costs, and ensuring a comprehensive change process. How do you then implement, maintain, and monitor this strategy that aligns with your organizational goals from design-through- production synchronization? This keynote provides discrete and process industry leaders with a com-prehensive integrated product development roadmap that supports differentiated product development strategies, aligns cross-functional project resources, and enables portfolio and project management, and workflows - from idea to obsolescence.

Re-thinking your supply chain: Changing the game with real-time capabilitiesThe 2013 supply chain is global, complex and volatile; offering an unprecedented and equal opportunity or challenge. The stakes are high and the stakeholders many, with a common strategic imperative, to achieve measurable, and consistent innovation and operational excellence. This requires game changing technology and leadership that enables a cus-tomer-to-supplier engagement that connects ideas to time; collaboration to savings; responsiveness to real-time analytics, reliability to process transparency, and efficiency to smart modeling from planning to production and fulfillment. What if…you had the tools to rethink your supply chain? This keynote provides supply chain executives with a roadmap to sense and respond to demand, based upon illuminating data that can transform insight into action.

Hans ThalbauerSenior Vice President,

Supply Chain Management,

Industry Business Solutions, SAP


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Enabling procurement excellence in today’s networked enterpriseCompanies today are operating in a hyper-networked world where their global business relationships with suppliers, partners, and customers drive their success. In order to thrive in this environment, procurement teams are challenged to rethink and innovate how they work: creat-ing new collaborative source-to-pay processes that bring both top and bottom line value. Extending this automation and collaboration to all suppliers – large and small – is critical to achieving sustainable savings and increasing profitability. This keynote provides you with information on game-changing spend management applications and technology, with a focus on the future roadmap of SAP and Ariba’s market-leading solutions, along with an introduction to the world’s largest business network – the Ariba Network. Find out how your peers are changing the way they do business and see how you can transform strategy into action on your journey to procurement excellence.

General Assemblies

Mike LackeyVP of Solution

Management, LoB Manufacturing, SAP

Joseph FoxVice President

at Ariba, An SAP Company

Emily RakowskiGlobal Head of

Procurement Solutions Marketing,

SAP

360 degrees of operational excellence for ManufacturingIs your manufacturing a competitive differentiation or just a fixed capacity? Can it meet the challenges of globally shifting labor costs, changes in consumer profiles, and rapid technological advancements in machinery? This Keynote will offer a 360 degree view of operational excellence, enabling the requisite transparency and responsiveness that today’s global value chain demands. Find out how to create an environment of excellence as the launch-pad for the exchange of ideas and innovation: converting raw materials into fin-ished product, responding to demand, and delivering customer value. Examine the SAP manufacturing solution toolkit as an enabler to help you transform your operations into a competitive differentiator throughout your organization. Find out how SAP is delivering innovation for manufacturers who boldly enter the 3rd Industrial Revolution.


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Pre-conference WorkshopsMorning sessions • 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

What every SAP customer needs to know about mobilizing the extended supply chain and enabling on-device strategies

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SAP Supply Chain Management 101: A comprehensive introduction to SAP’s operational planning and execution platform

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A complete and up-to-date guide to SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM)

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SAP APO demand and supply planning 101: What’s in the box?

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A comprehensive introduction to the Ariba Network and On-Demand procurement solutions

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Warehouse management primer: Leveraging the latest functionality from SAP

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Lunch • 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Afternoon sessions • 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Interactive workshop: Assess, improve, and execute an effective reporting and analytics strategy for your extended supply chain: A comprehensive guide to the SAP tools, process maps, and implementation tips

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Lessons for building your own PLM technology roadmap

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Interactive workshop: Business process management — moving to optimization

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A comprehensive guide to implementing SAP APO functionality for production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS)

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From capacity to capabilities: The future factory and the role of technology

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A comprehensive guide to transportation management functionality, deployment and migration options, and optimization strategies

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Special deep-dive sessions that enable you to: � Fortify your understanding of critical SAP technologies and solutions

� Explore new trends and strategies

� Enhance your learning experience at the main conference

By registering for Pre-conference Workshops, you can: � Attend any sessions of interest to you

� Benefit from expert-led instruction, demos, guidelines, and dedicated question-and-answer time

� Gain online access to the session slides and take-homes

� Participate in a networking lunch with other attendees

Join us for Pre-conference Workshops — Monday, March 4

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SAP Supply Chain Management 101: A comprehensive introduction to SAP’s operational planning and execution platformAshish Saxena, IBM

Whether you are considering an SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) implementation, are in the middle of one, or are planning to upgrade or expand your SAP SCM footprint, this three-hour session will help you understand the full functionality and application history of SAP SCM — both on its own and in relation to the SAP ERP features it supplements.

y Get an overview of all five components of SAP SCM: - SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO) - SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) - SAP Forecasting and Replenishment - SAP Event Management - SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM)

y Understand how SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) integrates with the SAP SCM suite, and examine the associated costs and implementation options

y Explore the architecture, technology landscape, dependencies, and requirements needed to implement one, a few, or all of the SAP SCM applications

y Learn how to assess the costs and benefits of implementing SAP SCM

y Get steps to build the business and technical criteria to help you prioritize which applications to implement first, next, and last

y Examine the requirements and challenges of data conversion from SAP ERP

y Gain insight to determine if, whether, and how to replace or enhance existing SAP ERP functionality with next-generation releases


What every SAP customer needs to know about mobilizing the extended supply chain and enabling on-device strategiesWinni Hesel, Enowa

This detailed three-hour session is designed for those SAP customers who want to refine their existing enterprise mobility strategy or who are looking to expand key SAP processes on-device. Get critical information to ensure your success and:

y Walk through a guide on the business and technology trends that are shaping mobility initiatives for the extended supply chain

y Create a common terminology and understand typical misconceptions when it comes to defining ”mobility”

y Understand the SAP and partner technologies that support mobile initiatives and how your business process requirements map to those solutions

y Learn how to integrate critical SAP ERP data to achieve the requisite decision-support and ensure ROI

y Look at hardware and device options and see how these are best utilized by function

y Examine hidden costs, implementation timelines, and project management-related issues to execute on your mobile strategy

y View demos that show how business dashboards, approvals, and alert messaging enable workers inside and outside the four walls of your business

Morning sessions • 9:00 am – 12:00 pm



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A complete and up-to-date guide to SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM)Dan Bender, SAP Labs

This special three-hour session is back by popular demand to offer you an opportunity to evaluate SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) features, operations, and usage scenarios. View a roadmap showing what you can expect in the next release.

y Examine the latest SAP PLM release features to learn how SAP PLM supports the new product development lifecycle for discrete and process industries

y Review the critical business processes that the continued expansion of the SAP PLM application portfolio meets to support the needs of your integrated enterprise and end users

y Examine mobile-enabled capabilities and learn how the SAP PLM platform embraces in-memory (SAP HANA®) and cloud technologies

y Learn how to manage specifications and recipes

y Understand how SAP PLM manages the bill of materials (BOM), product structures, and product documentation

y Look at SAP PLM functionality for engineering change management (ECM)

y See examples of the newest graphical interface for computer-aided design (CAD), and walk through integration compliance scenarios

y Understand how SAP PLM functionality for project and portfolio and project management can support your end-to-end plans and ensure collaboration

SAP APO demand and supply planning 101: What’s in the box?Alan Hendry, SCMO2

This three-hour session provides the foundational knowledge you need to start putting SAP Advanced Planning & Optimization (SAP APO) functionality for demand planning and supply network planning to work to improve forecast and supply accuracy and support ever-changing customer demand.

y Learn what’s in the statistical forecasting toolbox and get practical tips to set this up to optimally meet your demand patterns

y Understand how to incorporate sales force or customer forecasts to fine tune your demand signal

y See how SAP APO supports consensus planning in your sales and operations planning (S&OP) process

y Assess three supply network planning methods — optimization, heuristic, and capable-to-match (CTM) — and understand the benefits and tradeoffs of each when it comes to modeling a supply network that can fulfill estimated sales volumes

y Determine whether the optimizer tool could help you create cost-effective purchasing, production, and distribution plans

y See how the DP and SNP statistical engines combine to help calculate optimal safety stock levels in your network

y Learn how to automate your planning and set up exception alerts so that your planners can focus on solving the real issues in your supply chain

y Examine the SAP landscape architecture and dependencies between SAP APO, SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW), and SAP ERP to know how your data design will affect system performance

y Get tips to avoid common deployment pitfalls, such as poor data integrity, lack of user education, or over-ambitious design

y Walk away with practical implementation tips that will help you plan and execute an SAP APO demand or supply planning project

Morning sessions • 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Continued




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Morning sessions • 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Continued

A comprehensive introduction to the Ariba Network and On-Demand procurement solutionsSundar Kamakshisundaram and Chris Haydon, SAP

Whether you are an SAP customer already running Ariba or interested in learning what it’s all about and how it works in an SAP envi-ronment, this session provides answers to your questions. Be among the first to see in-depth demos, and participate in discussions with solution experts, including:

y A comprehensive overview of all solutions from Ariba for procurement, finance, and collaborative commerce including:

- Spend analysis, sourcing, and contract management

- Close-loop procure to pay solutions, including direct, indirect, and services

- Catalog Management

y How to automate and integrate the purchasing order-to-invoice process with suppliers

y A look at the Ariba Network supplier benefits for indirect, direct, and services procurement

y Invoice automation and reconciliation process for purchase order (PO) and non-PO based spend, including dynamic discounting and supplier financing

y Look at how the Ariba Network supports the Seller organization

y Grasp the licensing structure and best-in-class security that Ariba On Demand deployments offer and understand how to ensure affordability, capture application upgrades, and more

y Examine Ariba’s integration with SAP today and gain insight into enhanced integration capabilities planned for the immediate and long-term future

y Find out how to evaluate Ariba solutions against your business requirements and determine if and when it makes sense to bring it on board in your organization

y Get examples of efficiencies other companies using Ariba have gained across the procurement process

Warehouse management primer: Leveraging the latest functionality from SAPKyle Sorensen, LogiStar Solutions

This special three-hour session provides a comparative overview of the SAP solution offerings for warehouse management. If you are just implementing or evaluating SAP as a solution for your warehouse and distribution needs, or if you are looking for the best ways to optimize your existing solutions, this session will demonstrate different deployment scenarios, matching release to function so you can decide the optimal solution for your warehouse and distribution needs. Attend to:

y Get a functional overview and demo of SAP ERP functionality for:

- Inventory management (IM)

- Warehouse management (WM)

- SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM), including release and enhancement package information, features, and system architecture

y Understand how to map your business requirements to these three different release options to manage typical activities:

- Stock placement and removal strategies - Task and resource management - Labor management capabilities that track

operational efficiencies

y See a matrix that compares deployment options by release, including the accompanying functionality and enhancement packages and deployment accelerators

y Learn how SAP EWM has been adopted and implemented across various companies’ supply chains to effectively manage and adapt to their organizational needs

y See where SAP EWM extends and complements SAP ERP functionality for warehouse management

y Find out how to optimally design your warehouse operations based upon different deployment options that support:

- Cross-docking - Yard management - Dynamic cycle counting - 2D and 3D warehouse visualization, and more

y Fortify your knowledge of SAP options for supporting radio frequency barcode scanning, RFID, and voice solutions for real-time data analysis to ensure sound decisions on inventory levels and consolidation, space utilization, and order fill rates

y Leverage what you learn in this session to derive greater value from the next four days of the conference




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Afternoon sessions • 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Interactive workshop

Assess, improve, and execute an effective reporting and analytics strategy for your extended supply chain: A comprehensive guide to the SAP tools, process maps, and implementation tips Todd Smith and Ken Campbell, PwC

Through lecture and discussion, this interactive forum will help you to define and refine your reporting strategy across the extended supply chain. Industry experts provide:

y An overview of the present day and next generation SAP solutions that enable effective reporting and analytics by release/version, including:

- SAP SCM - SAP ERP - SAP NetWeaver BW - SAP BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence (BI) - SAP HANA

y Find out how to identify standard, readily available SAP reports to reduce costs and promote process efficiencies

y Step through examples of how SAP NetWeaver BW can be used for supply chain analyses

y Step through criteria for determining which tool, or combination of tools, supports your critical supply chain reporting needs and understand the impact of tool selection on system performance

y Examine key integration points between logistics and supply chain functionality and planning, reporting, and analysis solutions

y Examine the pre-built data integration and data models that enable compliance with standards such as the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) framework

y Find out how to deploy KPIs and alerts via dashboards to provide insights that support improved decision-making and action steps

Lessons for building your own PLM technology roadmapAlan Mendel and Boma Koko, LeverX

Whether you are interested in SAP PLM, are not sure how and where to start, or are presently underway with an SAP PLM imple-mentation, this session will help you increase the solution ROI. This three-hour session shows you how to use your current product development process as a baseline to gain a pragmatic approach to assess and enhance your product lifecycle management environ-ment. By attending, you:

y Learn a methodology to help you map your business requirements and strategic drivers to the SAP PLM solution roadmap

y Walk through common pain points and challenges experienced by both discrete and process companies who seek to ensure a single version of the truth and increase new product time to market

y See how other companies are achieving their KPIs for new product development, and when the expected ROI will take effect

y Understand the differences in functionality between SAP PLM releases and map processes and KPIs to SAP functionality

y Define and refine ongoing business metrics

y Learn to maintain your PLM process reengineering efforts to identify new ROI opportunities from SAP PLM solutions

y See how companies have categorized various SAP PLM benefits into soft, hard, and cost avoidance areas

y Gain consensus from key stakeholders for ongoing support and investment of your SAP PLM go-forward initiative

y Review the proven benefits that both discrete and process industry companies have achieved by adopting and implementing SAP PLM and find out where the quick wins are in order to support your launch and ongoing strategy for success




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Afternoon sessions • 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Continued

Interactive workshop

Business process management — moving to optimizationDaniel C. Morris, TATA Consultancy Services

This detailed three-hour session is designed to help you improve the management, structure and process design of your extended supply chain. Get practical, system agnostic techniques that will help define, and refine your business processes, improve visibility, and promote innovation within your operational planning, execution, control, and monitoring. See how to:

y Define a comprehensive model of your supply chain with application touch points, data flow and interface definitions, metrics, cost and more

y Create an environment that uses iteration and simulation to promote creativity and innovation

y Establish a solid governance organization to support organizational change and ensure executive buy-in

y Understand the tools, process flows, and value mapping available to support business process design

y Gain an understanding of the process from a project management perspective — time to implement, business process design models — and how to apply a chosen framework to your environment

y Engender stakeholder involvement with an assessment and mapping process that establishes a baseline measure of current state support across the disciplines, from which you can build specific strategies for moving to your future state

y Identify and prioritize specific actionable items and steps your organization can take to achieve a successful roadmap

y Increase your skills as a vision leader in order to achieve measurable progress rather than expending energy on organizational politics

y Enable collaborative stakeholder input and issue resolution

y Align activity with performance measurement to increase efficiencies

A comprehensive guide to implementing SAP APO functionality for production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS)Thomas Brassøe and Søren Skjødt, Implement Consulting Group

This special three-hour session provides an in-depth review of the production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS) features and functions delivered with SAP APO and provides a roadmap to getting started with PP/DS.

y Get an overview of the main capabilities of PP/DS, including:

- Heuristics-based planning - Sequence optimization - The detailed scheduling board - The alert monitor - Evaluation of planning results

y Compare and contrast production planning functionality between SAP ERP and PP/DS to understand which best suits your organization’s planning needs

y Understand what master data is required by PP/DS and get tips for sourcing and managing data from your SAP ERP system, including which data is required to get started with the detailed scheduling board

y Receive tips to maximize resource and labor utilization and optimize your schedules based on capacity and productivity

y See how to set up alerts and exception reporting using the “plan monitor” feature

y Learn what it takes to fully leverage PP/DS’s built-in optimizer to reduce downtime for line changeovers

y Understand common problems in integrating supply network planning (SNP) functionality with PP/DS and learn how to avoid them




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Afternoon sessions • 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Continued

From capacity to capabilities: The future factory and the role of technology Mike Lackey, SAP Labs and Robert Parker, IDC Manufacturing Insights

This session offers a holistic view of SAP’s solutions for manufacturing with insight into four key success factors for pinpointing and fulfilling customer demand:

1. The Productivity Imperative Get a frank assessment of the health of the

manufacturing sector and understand how the operation of manufacturing facilities has gone from an asset arbitrage strategy to a competitive capability proposition

2. The Future Factory See specific examples and detailed best practice research

findings on how and why production facilities are adjusting to support strategic capabilities in a complex world

3. The Operational Platform Examine an architectural model and decision framework

you can follow to implement and maintain world-class production, quality, and maintenance processes

4. Enabling Better Decision Making Grasp the importance of information on strategic,

tactical, and operational levels that inform decision making, and understand why manufacturing intelligence can no longer be siloed along functional lines

Come away with a holistic view of SAP’s solutions and scenarios for manufacturing, including planned roadmaps and innovation, and learn how and where to leverage them to enable the factory of the future.

A comprehensive guide to transportation management functionality, deployment and migration options, and optimization strategiesBernd Mosbrucker and Bjoern Bernard, GOPA IT

This session will not only help you to evaluate and choose the right transportation management solution for your organization, but will offer lessons learned from early adopters.

y Compare and contrast transportation management features and dependencies contained in SAP TM 8.1 and the newest release, SAP TM 9.0

y Understand how the latest functionality compares with the transportation functionality in SAP logistics execution system (LES) and SAP APO functionality for planning and vehicle scheduling (TP/VS)

y View a matrix that maps key business requirements by release changes and grasp the strengths, limitations, and proper use case for each

y Learn how to optimize and consolidate shipments and manage carriers and carrier costs

y Find out how to calculate and settle freight costs based on actual shipments and current freight rates and to verify invoices from carriers or transportation service providers

y See how the new business rules framework (BRF+) integrates with user interface technology, such as SAP NetWeaver Business Client

y Gather tips to build a business case for SAP TM, and get detailed advice to define a roadmap introducing benefits of SAP TM, including best practices for migrating from third-party solutions or legacy SAP solutions to SAP TM



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Case study

How Novus International achieves supply chain performance excellence by linking 7 KPIs to 4 critical business driversAlex Pierroutsakos and Rakesh Kharinar, Novus InternationalNovus International turned challenge into opportunity during an active merger and acquisition period. Hear how the company implemented a corporate-wide improvement initiative to promote operational excellence by achieving critical KPIs. Hear how the com-pany achieves strategic business objectives with process and data excellence. Look at the company’s SAP Supply Chain Performance Management deployment, a solution based upon the Supply Chain Operations Reference model (SCOR). Hear how Novus International leverages this solution to establish the right KPIs to accurately measure and indicate that results have been achieved across four key areas: growth, profitability, people, and rep-utation. Understand how the company has improved cross-selling performance, work-ing capital management, product and plant profitability, perfect order fulfillment, and more. Understand how these processes are measured, monitored, and reviewed, and see how the supporting conditions to achieve the goals Novus International set forth are escalated when a critical indicator is not met. Hear how Novus International leverages its existing investments in SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW, combined with SAP Supply Chain Performance Management, to cap-italize on the value of existing data assets and extractors. See how Novus International enables cross-functional collaboration to ensure success beyond initial go-live.

Who designed this supply chain? Toby Brzoznowski, LLamasoftMany of the world’s largest and best-known companies run supply chains that are as much the result of historical accidents as they are intentionally engineered systems. Often just as perplexing is the investment in ERP and advanced planning systems as a way to streamline financial operations and bal-ance demand and capacity without a clear knowledge of the critical business function and impact of supply chain design. Under-stand how the dynamic market conditions of sustained volatility and complexity, fueled by factors such as mergers and acquisi-tions, regulatory change, tax restructuring, and fluctuating fuel and raw materials costs and availability, all impact the evolving sup-ply chain. Grasp the difference between supply chain design and planning. See how to incorporate key financial considerations and opportunities to increase margins into your supply chain model, which results in sustainable and measurable supply chain improvement. See how to capture and pre-emptively plan for critical trade-offs that influence an evolving supply chain design, such as prioritization of demand, cost of cap-ital, the time-value of money, and the effects of fixed asset utilization.

A guide to analytic solutions for harnessing large amounts of data to improve supply chain planning and performanceGanesh Wadawadigi, SAPHow do best-of-breed companies optimally leverage their vast volumes and mix of criti-cal supply chain data in a way that serves the business? How do these organizations use this data to shape their decisions and adjust to dynamic business conditions? This session introduces the supply chain analytics and performance management solutions from SAP designed to enable role-based support for the entire decision spectrum, including execution, operations, and tactical and stra-tegic planning. Get examples that illustrate how others use these solutions to build agil-ity up and down the organizational hierarchy, innovate on new business models, and estab-lish a sustainable competitive edge. See a demo that shows use case scenarios that visually illustrate the power of analytics in various supply chain functions. Find out how the data can serve to analyze cause-and-ef-fect scenarios (based upon history), identify trends, and simulate and compare possible outcomes to drive insightful, coordinated decisions.

15Segment your supply chain to better align KPIs, increase responsiveness, and improve cost allocationAshok Pai, CognizantComplex global supply chains are impacted by shrinking product lifecycles, increasing mar-ket volatility, variable customer demand, and diversified manufacturing and distribution scenarios, negating the “one-size-fits-all” sup-ply chain management approach. Understand how to segment the operational and execution layers of your supply chain, and see how this enables you to align incentives, priorities, and targets. See how to leverage key inputs, such as SKU behavior, master data governance, and order history, to differentiate types of demands so that you readily understand, optimize, focus, and deliver in response to the main objective of each product or service — as a supply chain within your network. Learn different ways to determine quantitative elements, such as cost of lost sales or holding costs, to model a demand-driven supply network that enables allocation of costs to critical business decisions.

New 2013 supply chain management benchmarks and metrics: How does your supply chain measure up? Ashish Saxena, IBM Attend this session to hear the important trends, strategies, and results from IBM’s recently completed Chief Supply Chain Offi-cer and CEO studies. Review the findings of these surveys to learn how top supply chain executives view, use, and apply analytics from their SAP environments to improve business insight and gain efficiencies in both sup-ply chain and the bottom line. Find out how globalization is altering supply chains, how companies are coping, and which metrics and analytical tools they’re using. Delve into the most relevant cost containment strat-egies and understand the role technology plays in facilitating and executing those strat-egies. Examine the most important supply chain metrics and benchmarks and get tips for deriving that data from your SAP supply chain landscape. Finally, get tips for creat-ing an analytical culture in your organization in order to help identify trends and revenue opportunities faster.

Evaluate the latest performance management solution from SAP to measure, monitor, and model supply chain metricsGanesh Wadawadigi, SAPExamine SAP Supply Chain Performance Management as a decision support tool designed to improve the effectiveness of supply chain operations, lower costs, and improve ROI on working capital. See how to extract critical supply chain met-rics to model “what if” scenarios and grasp the trickle-down impacts when even one causal factor is modified. Examine the pre-built data integration and data models that enable compliance with standards such as the Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) framework. See how standard data extraction and transformation functionality enables integration with transactional sys-tems and provides pre-calculated metrics to access data and gain insight more quickly. Find out how to utilize proactive diagnos-tics to get better insight into operational drivers, opportunity discovery, and devia-tions from performance targets. View a demo that shows how to leverage pre-configured content that includes more than 350 key per-formance indicators, along with dashboards and scorecards, to enable detailed analyses and better decision making. Find out how early adopters are deriving value from their deployment to better align IT with their sup-ply chain business processes.

SAPexperts LIVE Live forum: Real scenarios for using SAP reporting and analytics tools in your extended supply chainKen Campbell and Todd Smith, PwCSAP has released several new analytical tools – such as SAP HANA – that can enhance your supply chain reporting and analysis. But how are SAP customers actually using these tools? Hear examples of ways SAP users have improved visibility into their supply chains, and get your questions answered.

Best practices to leverage standard SAP tools and reports that streamline purchasing and improve on-time deliveryKeith Searls, Reveal USAWhich standard SAP transactions and reports add value on a day-to-day basis and enable efficient and effective purchasing, produc-tion, and sales execution processes? This session introduces often overlooked func-tionality that quickly sets direction for the plant-to-plant and B2B interdependency, especially critical in today’s global climate. Learn techniques that will help you optimize the tools and define report types that are available to you as part of your SAP ERP sys-tem, and that provide the best indicators of purchase order status, inventory levels, pro-duction status, and more. Understand how to drill down to more granular levels of report-ing. Learn how to analyze the findings via dashboards and real-time alerts that provide insight into the impacts and tradeoffs across your supply chain. See how your SAP ERP sys-tem supports the setting and monitoring of key performance indicators (KPIs) as a way to measure performance improvements at an organizational and departmental level.

Deriving, controlling, and sustaining ongoing value from supply chain master data — the lifeline of your businessJoseph Grobler, Reveal USAHow do you ensure that your supply chain data is clean and provides an ongoing func-tional value to your business by way of reduced costs and increased service levels? Get steps to drive tangible business value from supply chain data by establishing data owners whose job it is to constantly measure accuracy, relevance, and effectiveness across supply chain functions (such as purchasing, produc-tion, and engineering). Know your options for harnessing real-time information and exam-ine best practices for establishing business rules and standards for managing master and transactional data. Review common obsta-cles that lead to the corruption of materials requirements planning data. Look at the advantages and disadvantages of centralized versus decentralized master data manage-ment, and get advice as to the best choice for your organization. Walk away with a clear pic-ture of how to leverage supply chain data for greater visibility, predictive capabilities, and as a foundation for process optimization.

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SAP’s vision for a mobile supply chainGanesh Wadawadigi, SAPEmployees today continue to use smart mobile devices for both work and personal reasons and have increased expectations to get the job done while on the go. These behaviors are indicative of current trends in computing: The phenomenal pace of mobile technology sales, adoption, and usage, and leapfrogging of emerging markets into mobile space. In this session, you will hear the latest about SAP’s vision and usage scenarios around mobile solutions across var-ious aspects of supply chain management, including planning, execution, collabora-tion, visibility, and analytics. Understand the capabilities available to connect mobile devices to your back-end SAP system. Step through examples that illustrate how the use of mobile devices in supply chain scenarios allows ubiquitous access to business pro-cesses that can result in gaining competitive advantage.

A look at the 6 key findings that distinguish supply chain leaders from the PwC benchmark study findingsBen Zelinsky, PwC How will the next generation supply chain management stakeholders respond to ongo-ing extreme market and demand volatility; already the “new normal” for leaders around the globe? Macroeconomic cycles of growth, contraction, and recovery is erratic, mak-ing reliable end-to-end supply and demand planning increasingly challenging. Disrup-tions caused by recent natural disasters have added to supply chain volatility. View the insights that PwC has drawn from more than 500 supply chain experts from compa-nies across Europe, North America and Asia: all sizes and industries. See how, why, and in what way “The Leaders” (as they are called), consistently outperform their peers, both financially and operationally. Find out how The Leaders see and are poised to respond to the future: balancing an efficient, fast, and tailored supply chain model that enables reli-able customer service, in turbulent market conditions. Come and hear for yourself -- just what differentiates successful, next-gener-ation supply chain leadership from those struggling to catch up -- and learn the six key findings between those that are gaining and those who are lagging behind.

From order to warehouse to transportation carrier: A guide to new solutions that support end-to-end logistics and supply chain execution excellenceMarkus Rosemann, SAP AGGet an in-depth review of the SAP supply chain execution (SCE) solutions to under-stand how its end-to-end functionality can help you increase customer satisfaction lev-els, reduce overall logistics costs, and improve logistics efficiency, readiness, and agility. Get a firsthand look at SAP’s latest vision for sup-ply chain execution convergence. Understand how and where customers are adopting the latest transportation management and ware-house management solutions from SAP. Grasp how SAP solutions for Track and Trace extend the portfolio with comprehensive traceability capabilities for increased visibility. See videos and case study information from companies that are embracing the logis-tics of the future and come away with a solid understanding of how your organization can create additional value through excellence in logistics. Get a demo that illustrates an order-to-cash process that shows the end-to-end SAP SCE platform integrated and in action, including SAP Transportation Management 9.0, SAP Extended Warehouse Management 9.0, product tracking and serialization, and freight execution and monitoring — live.

Introducing SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANAPuneet Suppal, SAP AmericaSAP just recently announced that custom-ers now have the ability to run SAP Business Suite applications (including SAP ERP) on SAP HANA. This informative session is the first live opportunity for customers to hear directly from SAP why this is now possible and to ask questions about what is required to lever-age this opportunity. Come away with a clear understanding of:

y The ability of SAP Business Suite pow-ered by SAP HANA to uniquely deliver transactional and analytical capabilities in one database eliminating lag time between transaction execution and analysis of resultant data

y Specific advantages of this new solution, key factors and criteria you should con-sider as you evaluate SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA as a solution for your organization

How to get your supply chain management solutions up and running fast Markus Rosemann, SAP AGExamine SAP Rapid Deployment solutions, an integrated offering of software and ser-vices that can help you to quickly and affordably improve your supply chain oper-ations while reducing your implementation risk. Evaluate more than a dozen SAP Rapid Deployment solutions for supply chain man-agement, including offerings to optimize logistics, supply chain collaboration, and per-formance management. Look at the various rapid deployment models for SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) that enable global available-to-promise (global ATP), ser-vice parts planning, sales and operations planning, and more. Understand how to get started, and get tips to help you assess whether your business can benefit from an SAP Rapid Deployment solution. See a series of brief demos that illustrate how SAP Rapid Deployment solutions can work in your envi-ronment, including analytics for demand planning, and the new SAP Supply Net-work Collaboration (SAP SNC) functionality to enable the consignment inventory pro-cess. Look at an example of process guides that help to integrate SAP’s newest logistics offerings for extended warehouse and trans-portation management.

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What you need to know before you implement SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) 7.0x Eric Stajda, LeverXBased on real-life implementations, this ses-sion offers expert tips and lessons learned to help you plan for SAP Product Lifecy-cle Management (SAP PLM) 7.01 and 7.02 deployments. Learn how to prepare your existing SAP landscape: The requisite ser-vice packs, infrastructure requirements, and dependencies. Review the pros and cons of the different point-of-entry options for accessing SAP PLM, including using SAP NetWeaver Business Client, SAP NetWeaver Portal, and SAP Easy Document Manage-ment. Assess the latest available functionality and features, including SAP PLM 7.0x Visual Enterprise viewer and other advanced graphical representation tools. Grasp the skill sets you’ll need to implement SAP PLM 7.0x, including knowledge of Web Dyn-pro for ABAP, which is required to use SAP NetWeaver Business Client, and engineering record functionality for collaboration and for setting up SAP PLM workflow. Learn how to leverage the new process routing capabili-ties. Set proper expectations for the return on your investment as it impacts resources, time-to-market, and other measurable benefits.

Comprehensive guidelines for leveraging SAP PLM to achieve product leadership in the process industryDan Bender, SAP LabsThis session examines SAP integrated prod-uct development (IPD) that can be especially valuable to companies in the process indus-try. Understand what IPD functionality offers in the way of specification design, recipes and product structures, product costing, synchronization of manufacturing data, product and process testing, and col-laboration. Learn how to collaborate with external and internal partners on the eval-uation of product portfolios and projects. Get examples that illustrate how your peers are gaining competitive advantage with capabilities for product design using formu-lation development, change management processes, and material and task sourcing. Examine how this functionality can be used to extend business processes and bridge functional silos, speed time-to-market, lower development costs, and increase quality. Understand how to pursue an IPD strategy and achieve better visibility into and control over product data and documents, design changes, and costs. See a demo that shows a preview of the planned IPD scenario extensions designed to assist the new prod-uct development process.

Leveraging SAP PLM to achieve product leadership for the discrete industries Ulf Petzel, SAPSee how SAP functionality supports inte-grated product development (IPD) for discrete industries and can help you drive efficient change processes, ensure regula-tory compliance, support critical decision making, and more. 3D communication, anal-ysis and collaboration capabilities, enabling faster time-to-decision and streamlined handling of compliance related processes. Learn how to extend business processes and bridge functional silos to create an inte-grated development environment designed to lower costs and increase quality. Take away an understanding of key strategies to help you achieve better visibility and control over product data and documents, design changes, and research and development costs.

Emerging technologies in PLM: A look at mobile and in-memory analyticsDan Bender, SAP LabsGain insight into new developments in SAP PLM, including mobile and big data analyt-ics (via SAP HANA). Examine current features to learn how to use SAP PLM to support the new product development lifecycle for dis-crete and process-oriented manufacturing. Learn how mobile-enabled technology can be leveraged to improve the management of specifications and recipes, bills of materi-als (BOMs), product structures and product documentation, engineering change man-agement, CAD integration, compliance, and portfolio and project management. Walk through demos that will illustrate how to integrate iPad and iPhone applications with your SAP system to initiate services or trigger workflows remotely for engineering changes. Get tips to overcome common challenges surrounding security, authorizations, and approvals.

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A comprehensive overview of the latest SAP CAD Integration solutionUlf Petzel, SAP Learn how the newest SAP CAD Integration solution empowers new product develop-ment teams with a collaborative platform to enable faster, better, and more accurate pro-cess integration. See how this solution allows you to edit document-based structures using a CAD interface, both in the CAD sys-tem and from your SAP system. Understand how CAD Integration increases collaboration by improving access to relevant informa-tion and lowers costs by enabling a single source of truth for product engineering. See how SAP integrates multiple CAD systems in the engineering process, enabling you to manage CAD files and leverage design infor-mation directly in SAP. Understand how to utilize authoring tools like Mechanical CAD to provide an important source of product information like drawings, 3-D models, and BOMs. Find techniques to integrate disparate CAD sources into an overall product devel-opment or change process. See a demo that illustrates an in-flight CAD integration project with a spotlight on how to manage versions, releases and authorizations, and engineering change iterations, and see how to enable a “Google-like” search.

How the energy sector uses SAP Portfolio and Project Management to manage portfolio complexityGianni Pelizzo, EspediaThis session will provide a best practice approach to implement SAP Portfolio and Project Management using a deployment example from the energy and wind power sector, as a way to manage a complex proj-ect portfolio across different business units, worldwide. Look at the requirements crite-ria that the company compiled in choosing SAP Portfolio and Project Management, such as the ability to integrate actual ver-sus planned costs with SAP financials, and how to leverage organizational manage-ment (OM) structures to enable workflow. See how to configure SAP Portfolio and Project Management to monitor time management, track project progress and status, and other milestone events. Learn how to create dash-boards and reporting cockpits to analyze KPIs, such as level of chargeability for the use of internal resources, expected commercial value of a project, percentage of projects on time and budget, and more.

Critical dos and don’ts when implementing or upgrading SAP Recipe DevelopmentDave Wong, Linx/ASExplore the evolution of recipe and for-mula management and get practical advice to ensure a successful SAP Recipe Manage-ment implementation. Learn how to ensure ongoing maintenance after go-live. Get proj-ect management tips gathered from many implementations on the hidden factors that can often impact your recipe development deployment timeline, such as enabling the integration of raw material specifications and setting proper end-user expectations. Get a sure-fire technique to align product devel-opment with your production capabilities by integrating your R&D recipe structure with your manufacturing recipe structure. Learn how to preemptively ensure regulatory com-pliance by integrating compliance checks into the product development process. See how to properly design a change process for existing recipes. Come away with best practices for sharing, exposing, and collect-ing product and specification data between external partners like suppliers, contract manufacturers, design agencies, co-develop-ers, and co-packers. See a comparative demo of new capabilities with SAP enhancement packages 5 and 6, and understand how these changes integrate with your overall PLM strategy.

The SAP Visual Enterprise — shifting the way you “see” SAP to improve time-to-marketRobert Merlo, SAPEvaluate how visual information, com-bined with business data, speeds product time-to-market, drives quality into your man-ufacturing and maintenance processes, and improves employee productivity. Under-stand how SAP Visual Enterprise functionality offers enhanced decision support for your design-to-sell process. Learn how to lever-age search, query, and reports, using the entire product model as the interface. See how it integrates procedures with Manufac-turing Execution Systems (MES) to simplify product assembly. See a demo that shows 3D animations that detail maintenance and repair procedures eliminating costly and out-of-date service manuals. Find out how to generate and update technical publications and training materials using visual content authoring applications. Look at the collab-oration functionality leveraging hyper-real product imagery (pre-build). Understand the technology requirements and dependen-cies required to use SAP Visual Enterprise and see how it leverages SAP ERP and SAP PLM data to create a holistic view of the product record.

SAP PLM on the go: A look at mobile and in-memory analytics updates Dan Bender, SAP LabsGain insight into new developments in SAP PLM, including mobile and big data analyt-ics (via SAP HANA). Examine current features to learn how to use SAP PLM to support the new product development lifecycle for dis-crete and process-oriented manufacturing. Learn how mobile-enabled technology can be leveraged to improve the management of specifications and recipes, bills of materi-als (BOMs), product structures and product documentation, engineering change man-agement, CAD integration, compliance, and portfolio and project management. Walk through demos that will illustrate how to integrate iPad and iPhone applications with your SAP system to initiate services or trigger workflows remotely for engineering changes. Get tips to overcome common challenges surrounding security, authorizations, and approvals.

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Collaborative PLM in SAP: Achieving a single version of the truth in a complex supply chainDave Wong, Linx/ASBusinesses with complex supply chains, such as Retail and Consumer Products industries, often have difficulty achieving a cohesive strategy to support new product develop-ment. Maintaining consistent and accurate product data across a network of contract manufacturers has both speed-to-market and compliance implications, but can also lead to an opportunity to gain a significant com-petitive edge. This session will show you how to leverage SAP PLM 7.2 integrated and col-laborative toolset as a way to engage with internal and external stakeholders, whether it is for maintaining vendor recipes and spec-ifications, or product packaging and artwork. Examine new functionality that can target object selection, such as a recipe or a pack-aging specifications, and give authorization to an outside party (vendor, manufacturer, or designer) using your system. Compare this functionality to cFolders, and look at a custom interface designed to enhance the ability to direct import specs without re-key-ing data. View a demo that illustrates an in-flight packaging and artwork collaboration scenario that closes the loop from design-to-approval, including the workflow.

A best practice approach to speed time-to-market and improve data quality leveraging the SAP PLM platform Gianni Pelizzo, EspediaTake a look at a recent SAP PLM 7 project, deployed for a worldwide leader in the Engi-neering and Construction industry, designed to enable a single collaborative platform, serving 2,000+ engineers, and consolidating disparate product data sources, to one sin-gle version of the truth. Walk through how SAP functionality for portfolio and project management (PPM) enabled the company to keep track of achievement milestones for new contract acquiring process, including actual versus price costing, and managing documentation for customer changes. See how the deployment allows engineers to edit document-based structures via a CAD inter-face, and grasp how CAD integration enables collaborative edits to models, drawings, and their associated document structures. Understand how SAP Portfolio and Project Management helps to control R&D resources and demand flow management for new product development and new contracts. Learn how the migration project was config-ured and managed when migrating between different previous, disparate product data management structures to the unique SAP PLM platform.

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Strategies for removing the pain from your engineering project and resource management effortsDavid Kramp , LeverXExamine common engineering project and resource management challenges across a range of industries and gain proven tech-niques to not only mitigate those trials but to enable you to do more with less by opti-mizing your existing resources. See how to optimize SAP Portfolio and Project Man-agement as a solution to manage product development milestones, allocate resources, manage data migration, and enable col-laboration to streamline and improve your overall portfolio management. View demos that illustrate the set-up of project phase-gates through obsolescence. See how to link engineering changes to product structures to support end-to-end product develop-ment process integration with core SAP ERP capabilities. Walk through a scenario that integrates engineering, new product man-agement, and documentation from the bill of materials (BOM) through purchasing, accounting, and production. Find out how to capture and optimally view project-based accounting costs and actual resource costs leveraging dashboards and reports to make better decisions.

How to use portfolio and project management as a strategic ally to support the business Andrea Langlotz, SAP AGThis session will provide a comprehensive overview and scope of SAP Enterprise Port-folio and Project Management as a solution to help improve the visibility of your new product portfolio, in-flight and planned proj-ects, and resource management. Understand how this new solution can help you to align your portfolio and project-related activities, including technology support, research and development, engineering, construction, and capital projects — on a single platform, with the strategic goals of your company. View a demo that shows you how to close the loop between strategic portfolio management and operational project management using stan-dard SAP ERP, SAP PLM, and SAP ERP HCM integration functionality. Get a sneak preview into technology trends and their impact on portfolio and project management processes using in-memory, project data analytics, and mobile access to project information.

Pick and fund the right projects using a combined PPM-BI dashboard solutionAshish Tewari, Deloitte If you are evaluating SAP Portfolio and Project Management or are presently utilizing this tool to plan, allocate, and prioritize project funding, this session will provide insights on how to maximize the value of the solution. Learn how to capture critical data from SAP Portfolio and Project Manage-ment and model what-if scenarios for optimal decision support. See how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards 4.0 to deliver optimized project models based upon alter-ing project parameters. See a demo that shows your display options utilizing different Web plat-forms, such as iViews (part of SAP NetWeaver Portal), and the InfoView (part of the SAP Busi-nessObjects suite). See how to model project criteria such as expenses, overhead, labor and materials costs, plan versus actual, and more — according to yearly funding allocations. Understand how SAP NetWeaver BW can be used to model and load critical data into SAP Portfolio and Project Management for bet-ter project planning and tracking. See how to deploy the combined solutions on a mobile device, giving your managers the flexibility to track project exceptions in real time.

Evaluate a new tool to manage your bid-to-execution customer projects Andrea Langlotz, SAP AGGet a sneak preview of a new solution, SAP Commercial Project Management, to sup-port the management of customer-specific projects, end-to-end, whether it is for the construction of a power plant, an oil plat-form, or the installation of production lines. As an add-on application to the SAP Busi-ness Suite, it is designed to improve project financial planning and pricing based upon a collaborative and integrated platform to sup-port the sale-to-completion project cycle. Look at the project-tracking capabilities from the pre-contract planning phase through the plan iteration process. View in a demo the creation of an in-flight project plan, and see how to track changes to the scope of this plan through to authorization. See an exam-ple of the user interface for financial planning via an embedded Excel front end. See how issues are escalated and resolved at differ-ent project phases, leveraging the Project Workspace to easily access all project-related information from a single overview page. Find out how this can help your engineer-ing and professional services teams to better plan and forecast quantities and establish costs and revenues for a project.

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Putting the “world” in world-class procurement: 2013 benchmark insightsChristopher Sawchuk, The Hackett GroupThis session presents a summary of key quan-titative and qualitative findings from The Hackett Group’s 2013 Procurement Bench-mark and Key Issues Study as well as its recent Book of Numbers research into Sup-plier Relationship Management. Examine the scope of the findings gathered from hundreds of organizations, both SAP and non-SAP, globally and across industries (man-ufacturing and service). Explore the main issues driving today’s procurement and sourcing agenda’s. Gain insights into the criti-cal best practices and capabilities that enable procurement organizations to support enter-prise-wide objectives that serve to increase market competitiveness. Walk through key performance indicators (KPIs) such as spend influence, incremental revenue from supplier innovation efforts, percentage of benefits derived from strategic suppliers, spend cost reduction and avoidance, and more, and see how world-class procurement organizations set the bar for driving improved supply value.

Best practices to improve sourcing performance and identify saving opportunities using spend performance management functionalityEric Xue, Bank of America See how to leverage SAP BusinessObjects Spend Performance Management as a way to improve strategic sourcing performance, identify cost saving opportunities, mitigate supply chain risk, and manage contract com-pliance. Understand why undertaking this solution deployment project is different than others and get tips on how to properly set expectations for your business users. Look at the overall system architecture, data model, and front-end technology and see how the solution is integrated with SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP BusinessObjects, and other sourc-ing applications. Learn how to use the data enrichment solution and classification feature to improve data reliability and overall qual-ity. Grasp key challenges customers typically face during an implementation, such as proj-ect scoping, optimal data collection, system integration and performance, and classifica-tion accuracy. See how to create a repeatable reporting process using advanced report-ing functions that enable deep transparency into buying patterns, catalog history, supplier compliance, and more. Take home a common classification schema that you can use to ensure diligence in the classification process.

A comprehensive look at how to optimize SAP to support commodity procurement and management Bill Hamilton, SAP Evaluate the commodity management solu-tion suite from SAP as a way to help you identify, quantify, and more effectively man-age commodity price risk, including the complex purchase order and price commit-ment process. Understand the architecture and dependencies of commodity manage-ment; part of enhancement package 6.0, as a way to manage commodity pricing con-tracts, from procurement to hedging cash settlements. Review the commodity-pricing engine, a feature of commodity procurement, and see how to calculate and track the nec-essary components of a physical commodity purchase. View a demo that illustrates how physical procurement information is auto-matically transferred and integrated with risk management, financials, and supply chain data. Look at the solution structure, which creates a real-time consolidated view of a company’s commodity risk position; mini-mizes audit risks, and by integration increases data quality. Examine the standard report-ing templates and dashboards that provide a decision support platform for collaborative commodity procurement and management.

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Ariba procurement, supplier network and invoicing solutions As details of this acquisition unfold, SAPinsider will add new sessions to this track, ensuring that conference attendees have access to the most timely, up-to-the-minute education on the impact Ariba will have on procurement and supplier management activities. SAPinsider will keep you informed as these sessions are added, and you are encouraged to check back at www.scm2013.com frequently for session updates. Topic areas that will be covered include:

y If SAP and Ariba offer overlapping solutions, which functionality will prevail?

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Best practices to capture hidden savings leveraging working capital management strategies Chris Haydon, Ariba, an SAP company As a procurement professional, you under-stand that contract price is just one dimension of the total-cost-of-goods sold equation. Find out how to secure deeper savings once the supplier is sourced, the con-tract signed, and the purchase order sent. This session walks you through strategically enabling working capital opportunities, such as discount management, as a way for buy-ers and suppliers to realize mutual benefits. Examine the Ariba Network’s dynamic dis-counting capabilities, as a way to optimize payment discounts by proposing, collabo-rating, and executing payment schedules as a single integrated process. View a demo of the process from both sides: a buyer setting discount rates, and a supplier viewing and accepting a discount proposal. Get proven examples of different ways that procurement teams have partnered with their peers in finance and treasury departments to uncover corporate wide bottom-line savings.

Tips and techniques to enable sourcing and contract best practices Rosemary Boisclair, SAPThis session highlights best practices to drive strategic initiatives through all phases of the sourcing life cycle — from supplier qualifica-tion through contract execution. Gain proven techniques, such as designing a supplier assessment, as a way to qualify your organi-zations spend categories. See how to ensure contracts are re-negotiated, automatically, and in a timely manner by establishing a pipeline of on-demand or on-premise sourc-ing events. See how your peers leverage auctions as a core sourcing strategy to signifi-cantly reduce the cost of purchases (without sacrificing quality and service). Examine ways to address common supplier objections, increase adoption, and drive additional value by monitoring and reporting on designated KPIs, such as shortening time-to-payment cycles. Understand how SAP sourcing and contract management solutions can serve as a centralized repository of critical data to support the supplier evaluation and manage-ment process as a way to improve purchasing effectiveness.


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Get control of indirect spend with SAP SRMGolrang Almgren-Jensen, Implement Consulting GroupPerhaps you have a good grip on direct mate-rial purchases but are still struggling with achieving indirect spend through negoti-ated agreements and orders as part of your SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) system. How do you get the final spend captured in an automated purchase-to-pay process — and why is it so difficult? This ses-sion troubleshoots a typical purchase-to-pay process for indirect spend, with a focus on a hidden causal factor behind much of the con-fusion — hard to find invoices and reference documentation in the system. Starting with the foundational improvement measures to track critical KPIs, the methodology begins with a change management process that sup-ports stakeholder investment. Find out how to create a spend overview that segments cat-egories catalog implementations by priority. See how to strategically structure procure-ment using service orders, as well as blanket purchase orders, catalog-based purchases, free-text order handling, as well as plan-driven procurement using maintenance orders and consumption-based planning scenarios.

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Lessons learned from Jabil Circuit’s global SAP SRM 7.0 rollout (leveraging the Business Rule Framework) Kim Dunstan and Jeff Miller, Jabil CircuitGain insight into how Jabil Circuit imple-mented SAP SRM to support an integrated, portal-based solution for procure-to-pay. Walk through the company’s journey from initial deployment to a 100+ site global roll-out. Step through the company’s order and invoice processes to understand how non-stock item purchasing is integrated with core purchasing and financials functionality in SAP ERP. Find out how Jabil Circuit leveraged the SAP NetWeaver business rule framework to manage the challenge of diverse workflow requirements by location. See an example of the gap analysis template Jabil used to help streamline the onboarding of regions. Learn how Jabil Circuit has used BAdIs and SAP notes to limit shopping cart information. See how this enables the company to display only relevant information to the requestor (anywhere in the world), which fosters end user adoption. Take home undocumented transaction codes that Jabil Circuit used to overcome country taxation obstacles.

What’s new in SAP SRM user interface (UI) and procurement mobile enhancements? Michael Jud, SAP Examine the next generation usabil-ity enhancements designed as part of the new UI for SAP Supplier Relationship Man-agement (SAP SRM) as a way to deliver an easy-to-use, familiar online buying experi-ence that requires little or no training. Get a first look at the user experience that enables search capabilities across internal and exter-nal catalogs, including product details with multiple images, content filtering, product or service reviews and ratings, and editing for including multiple items in a shopping cart. Examine the new order tracking that enables users to trace orders and initiate follow on processes to check delivery status. Learn how to quickly enable the user interface as part of your SAP SRM 7.0 deployment in just a couple of weeks. View a demo of the mobile enhancements, including closing the loop on approvals, and a new application for access-ing supplier information.


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Best practices to reduce costs with strategic procurement optimization leveraging SAP BWVinay Jain, PwCSee how to design a procure-to-pay pro-cess that not only reduces overall costs, but also increases shareholder value, leveraging your existing investments in SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse, in tandem with your SAP ERP system. This session offers a founda-tion for predictive analytics that seamlessly delivers integrated procurement and finan-cial data by exploiting, and optimizing the delivered SAP extractors and Infocubes that support the SAP source-to-pay process. Understand your options to create a role-based reporting user interface, designed to enable different user groups, such as; pur-chasing, accounts receivable, or suppliers. Learn how to combine SAP-based business intelligence functionality with non-SAP sys-tems, into a single report that provides an enterprise view of corporate spend, Get tips to extract the right data to expedite deci-sion-making capabilities. Review the new generation analytic capabilities of SAP NetWeaver BW, and Business Objects, such as Visual Intelligence for spend, in order to gauge the optimal solution for your business landscape.

A look at the missing link to Services spend Cathal O’Sullivan, Ariba, an SAP company How does your organization manage Services spend, such as temporary labor, professional consulting, statements of work? Is your orga-nization among those whose Services spend comprises 30-70% of the company’s indi-rect spend? This session will reveal one of the most commonly under-managed (yet opportunistic) aspects of spend categories – Services. Look at the Ariba Network Ser-vices Procurement solution, and evaluate if this functionality can help you overcome the challenges of complex Services management, including the requisition-to-invoice process. View a demo that shows how to set up requi-sitions leveraging the Ariba Network, and see how this links through to contract approval and compliance. Understand how time sheets are managed, and look at the related reporting functionality across various ser-vice drivers. See how to manage supplier and commodity level contracts, including invoic-ing, and integration touch points.

A five-step path to ensure your master data strategy supports supply chain excellence Sharon Nelson, Plan4Demand SolutionsWhether you have a sound master data strategy or are refining your existing proto-cols, this session will provide a framework toward achieving continuous supply chain excellence. See how to engage in an assess-ment process that is based upon measuring characteristics along five levels of maturity, including defining the Key Performance Indi-cators (KPIs) that serve as a baseline for three core areas: People, Process, and Technol-ogy. Walk through this matrix to assess your organization, including People readiness, by knowledge level, skill set, governance struc-ture, ownership, and more. Examine your Processes to ascertain how your organization maintains and monitors data characteristics, such as quality, accuracy, security controls, and project management. Understand how to establish improvement measurements and milestones to support compliance, and ensure executive-to-user buy-in that is designed to support a sustainable model. Examine Technology, an enabler that sup-ports your people and process readiness with the right tools at the right time. Take home a pragmatic approach of how to measure your baseline, develop a scorecard that tracks results along the different attributes that are being measured, and get moving toward improved supply chain performance and the right level of maturity.

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Case study

How EMD Millipore streamlined customer onboarding from eCatalogue to eInvoice leveraging the “Ariba Network”Petra Burssens, EMD MilliporeEMD Millipore needed a sophisticated pro-cure-to-pay solution to increase transaction efficiency, while ensuring an optimal cus-tomer experience and high retention rate. Examine EMD Millipore’s global, collabora-tive eProcurement environment, and see how it leverages the Ariba platform, as a way to automate receiving of orders and sending invoices. Look at the company’s eCatalogue solution, and grasp how this standardized approach enables a close-loop purchase order-to-invoice process resulting in improved settlement time. See the Ariba architecture and understand how EMD Mil-lipore onboards and manages customers on its eProcurement platform. Understand its supplier adoption rate and get tips on how to streamline this process to ensure growth in invoice order volume and buyer compli-ance. Get tips to leverage Ariba as a way to not only increase the breadth and depth of your product/service portfolios but to drive enhancements and personalization in response to customer requirements.

A look under the hood at the Ariba Network architectureChris Haydon, Ariba, an SAP company Understand “the Ariba Network” architecture, and see how 750,000 buyers and suppliers in more than 40 countries engage in collab-orative commerce. Grasp how procurement policy compliance is enabled between cus-tomers and suppliers from purchase orders transactions through to shipping and invoice processing. See how Ariba Network is chang-ing the game of supplier enablement to include small and medium size suppliers, as an enterprise agnostic solution, designed to automate the process to invite, register, and enable instant collaboration. Examine Ariba’s rapid onboarding program enabling suppli-ers to connect to the Ariba Network once, to engage with multiple buyers. Look at the Ariba self-service capability which allows suppliers to create, validate, update, and submit catalogs directly to SAP solutions. View a buyer and supplier demo that shows examples of: 1) A buyer configuring procure-ment policies; and 2) A supplier managing their profile view, and responding to orders through the creation of an invoice.

A comprehensive solution overview of the “Ariba Network” cloud solutions for procurement catalog managementVikram Pathak, Ariba, an SAP companyEvaluate the Ariba Network Procurement Content solution as a way to prevent maver-ick purchasing, enable employee adoption, and ensure procurement policy compliance. Look under the hood at this on-demand solution, and see how it integrates with SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SAP SRM) and SAP ERP via SAP certified Open Cat-alog Interface (OCI) for users as they begin their catalog shopping process in SAP. Find out how to connect to Ariba Network Pro-curement Content to conduct a catalog search and cart building, and then return to SAP through to mobile manager approvals. See a demo illustrating search options across multiple supplier catalogs, including drill-down items details, images, and selection comparisons. See features to help you search and collaborate with suppliers for time and materials, or milestone-based service needs. Understand how to configure specific busi-ness rules, such as tolerance levels, that can be applied by supplier, commodity group, and country, to ensure touchless order pro-cessing, confirmations and shipping notices.


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How BNSF Railway leverages SAP CLM to mitigate supplier and customer risk, ensure contract compliance and streamline project management Valla Govindan, BNSF RailwayExamine BNSF Railway’s recent SAP Contract Lifecyle Management (CLM) upgrade project. See how to not only control the authoring of purchase order contracts– but ensure sell-side contracts are in adherence. Understand how BNSF, one of largest freight rail transpor-tation networks in America, uses SAP CLM as a repository to ensure contract terms; set-ting project milestones and check points to automatically alert stakeholders as a central-ized project management tool. Walk through a demo that shows the creation and approval workflow for legal agreements, and see how SAP CLM enables contract visibility to drive compliance. See how SAP CLM enables data integration from external systems to miti-gate risk by automatically ensuring proper supplier certification. Look at the master data interface that ensures vendor and cus-tomer data integration with BNSF Railway’s SAP ECC system. Get lessons learned as to how BNSF Railway overcomes performance issues as their contract repository continues to expand.


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Special 2-part session on variant configuration: Part 1

A comprehensive guide to leveraging standard variant configuration functionality for make-to-order scenarios: Modeling and master data best practicesRoopesh Sharma, PwCBusinesses all over the world customize their offerings by providing multiple product and service choices to customers; however, the costs and margins behind those choices are often unclear. This two-part session first offers a foundational overview to show you how manufacturers of complex make-to-order and engineer-to-order products can optimize standard SAP ERP functionality for variant configuration as a way to improve business practices while simplifying the order-to-production process. Learn how mas-ter data is set up for variant configuration to enable integration of supply chain and ana-lytic processes. Walk through a scenario that shows an engineer-to-order-to-procurement process — from sales order entry and con-figuration to variant pricing, planning, and procurement. Explore the best practices for variant configuration modeling, includ-ing how to select the optimal data elements, such as constraints, variant tables, configura-tion profile, class, and characteristics, to guide selection of the right bill of materials, com-ponents and operations. Attend Part 2 for a deep-dive into analytics.

Special 2-part session on variant configuration: Part 2

A comprehensive guide to leveraging standard variant configuration functionality for make-to-order scenarios: Analytics for greater cost and margin visibilityNikhil Sharma, PwCThis session follows Part I, or stands on its own for more advanced users, and covers requirements for leveraging SAP ERP func-tionality for variant configuration analytics. Learn how to determine and weigh custom configuration scenarios against cost offsets. Learn how to advance the variant configura-tion modeling described in Part I to improve the selection of the right bill of materi-als components and operations. See how to leverage variant configuration analytics to translate associated product characteris-tics to cost and profitability. Understand how extended variant configuration functional-ity enables design, sales, and manufacturing customization, providing the requisite auto-mation and integration to define variant conditions and calculate related surcharges and discounts. Find out how to transfer pric-ing conditions to billing documents. Learn how to model variant configuration charac-teristics correctly in SAP NetWeaver BW to generate analytics, such as the comparative margin for last month of sales. A discussion will close the second half of this session.

Case study

HD Supply streamlines order-to-cash using SAP Event ManagementMeenal Naik, HD SupplyThis session walks you through the ins and outs of HD Supply’s (HDS) SAP Event Man-agement implementation. Find out why HDS incorporated SAP Event Management into its broader SAP SCM deployment as a way to increase visibility and reduce order entry transaction time by identifying exceptions. Find out how HDS overcame system perfor-mance issues with “Z” reports used for order review. View a demo that compares a “before” SAP Event Management deployment, and an “after” order entry scenario using the SAP-GUIxt. Find out how HDS tracks and monitors the critical events for relevant purchase order line items and then automatically triggers the accounts payable process to proceed when all the scheduled events are confirmed. Learn what happens when exceptions are detected, such as an overdue shipment. Look at the way SAP Event Management notifies the appropriate stakeholder or initiates a resolu-tion workflow to approval process. Grasp how HDS captures critical analysis through SAP Event Management integration with SAP ERP to identify bottlenecks, key durations, and trends to further optimize the process.

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H.J. Heinz transforms demand planning across diverse geographies, business units, and IT landscapesMichael Corr, H.J. HeinzGet an overview of the design and rollout of H.J. Heinz’s demand planning template, one of the strategic pillars and influencers behind the company’s broader, custom-er-centric, business transformation initiative. Grasp the drivers behind H.J. Heinz’s move towards process consolidation across geog-raphies, business units, and heterogeneous system landscapes. See how the company is leveraging SAP APO demand planning func-tionality to support this move. Examine the challenges and trade-offs H.J. Heinz faced when determining optimal planning levels that capture stakeholder inputs from diverse business units. Understand the company’s key considerations and decision criteria when determining whether to use centralized versus decentralized planning. Get an under-standing of how H.J. Heinz manages the delicate balance of data granularity through careful definition of its planning structures. Look at the way H.J. Heinz chooses planning levels from product hierarchy to end SKU and from customer hierarchy to end customer. Understand the influence of the order-to-cash process on planning at H.J. Heinz, including financial impacts, trade promo-tions, and seasonal conditions.

An overview of SAP’s new strategies and solutions — and how they all fit together — to drive excellence in planningMark David, SAPThis session sets the stage and provides a combined preview of SAP’s newly defined solution strategy and integrated tool-kit designed for the business planner. See how to enable real-time decision support to improve lead times, better manage inventory, increase response time, and ensure optimal inventory levels. Examine the new advanced forecast and demand sensing methodol-ogy as a way to generate a more accurate and focused forecast. Look at SAP’s solu-tion extension, designed to help businesses nimbly adapt demand and supply plans to dynamic market and business conditions. Examine a new tool that helps you analyze downstream demand signals and adapt to changing customer and market variability. See the new SAP HANA-based analytics dash-board and view a demo that shows you how they all fit together.

An update on how to manage (and adapt) your demand and supply plan, quickly and responsively Michael Lipton, SAPExamine how customers are leveraging SAP’s solution extension, SAP Supply Chain Response Management, to synchronize supply planning and order rescheduling. Understand how the solution is designed to ensure customer commitments (and seize new revenue opportunities) in a constantly changing demand environment, often rife with supply chain disruptions. Examine functionality that enables the creation and comparison of what-if scenarios and pro-vides extended integration with SAP ERP, as well as with advanced planning engines, to enable supply network collaboration. Find out how to conduct responsive planning across the supply network, where the need to coordinate capacities and materials with suppliers and contract manufacturers is crit-ical to success. View a demo that shows how a rules-based approach to planning can drive near-optimal results in minutes.

Case study

How Caterpillar is crafting a global, collaborative, and real-time parts planning and distribution solution in a heterogeneous environmentJonas Hartzler, Caterpillar Logistics ServicesCaterpillar Logistics Services has a commit-ment to promise and ensure delivery of 1.25 million service parts (25+ million SKUs) glob-ally — on time and on budget, the first time. Examine Caterpillar Logistic Service’s world-wide, phased deployment strategy designed to support its order-to-cash and plan-to- deploy processes. See how it captures sales order, demand, and inventory data from a heterogeneous landscape to model its plan-ning forecast using SAP APO service parts planning functionality. Look at the chal-lenges Caterpillar Logistic Services faced to cut over more than 200 million master data and transactional records, such as schedul-ing agreements, supplier contracts, stock transport orders, and sales orders. See how it communicates release data with internal stakeholders who have yet to go live as part of their global rollout, and suppliers, manag-ing exceptions in real time, expediting and resolving shortage situations by leverag-ing SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC). Gain insight into how Caterpillar Logis-tics Services mitigates system performance problems to help enable real-time decision support and data analysis.


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A holistic guide for sensing and quickly responding to demand signals leveraging SAP demand-driven supply network solutionsMichael Lipton, SAPDemand-Driven Supply Network (DDSN) is a supply chain philosophy that has been dis-cussed for many years, but few companies have actually achieved it in practice. Using real-world customer examples, the session breaks down the DDSN solution building blocks by industry. Review each component — including S&OP powered by SAP HANA (and delivered in the cloud), SAP Demand Signal Management, and SAP Supply Chain Response Management (formerly known as ICON) — and see how these work in concert with SAP’s traditional planning tools. View a demo that shows how your counterparts leverage these tools to first sense and then quickly respond to demand signals. Understand how this results in shortened lead times, reduced inventories, and improved customer service.

An expert guide to leveraging SAP SCM advanced planning engines to optimize subcontracting scenarios Claudio Gonzalez, SCM Connections Gain expert advice to best leverage SAP SCM for your subcontracting planning needs. Get tips to discern what master data is required and how to enhance planning parameters that are not aligned between your SAP ERP system and SAP SCM. See which integration models need to be activated for a smooth subcontracting experience via the SAP APO core interface (CIF). Compare SAP supply network planning books to SAP produc-tion planning and detailed scheduling view, and determine which is the optimal engine to resolve common subcontracting system issues. Walk through typical subcontracting scenarios to see how each solution stacks up and is supported by the system. Compare PP/DS versus supply network planning engines for managing lead time offsets and know the trade-offs. Walk through examples based on real-world usage of advanced planning engines.

Case study

How and why Leprino Foods reimplemented its demand planning solution to improve forecast accuracy Jeffrey Yamasaki and Brian Zeigler, Leprino FoodsExamine Leprino Foods’ reimplementation of demand planning (DP) functionality. Find out how the company got it right — the second time — by aligning and mapping business process design with configuration require-ments to deliver an improved consensus forecast. Learn why design decisions such as determining DP characteristic definitions are critical to ensure reporting consis-tency between SAP ERP, SAP APO, and SAP NetWeaver BW. Examine the company’s proj-ect blueprinting phase — where application of critical lessons learned produced results including faster time-to-realization. Look at the critical technical innovations Leprino deployed, such as customizing the desegre-gation of forecasts from the product line to SKU level. See how this enabled the company to precisely control the integration of DP forecasts with supply network planning with minimal code.

Case study

Global supply network planning gets a makeover at Estée LauderManish Bhatnagar, Estée Lauder See how Estée Lauder successfully plans for distribution across its supply network by inte-grating non-SAP system data with SAP APO supply network planning (SNP) heuristics. Gain insight from Estée Lauder’s global roll-out of SAP SNP functionality and see how it enables inventory deployment at distribution centers not running SAP with a standard SAP interface. Find out how the company is retir-ing its legacy systems and rolling distribution data into the SAP system as each distribution center goes live during the global rollout. Learn how the company integrates SAP-sup-ported locations with non-SAP locations. Understand how the requirements come to SAP as sales orders and are then converted by TLB (Transportation Load Builder) into stock transfers, and see how allocation and replenishment are carried out through this process. View the technical details that show transactional data integration using standard BAPIs. Learn how Estée Lauder utilizes Fair Share rules to link supply to demand in sup-port of its deployment strategy.

Interactive discussion forum

SAP Forecasting and Replenishment: Recommendations for retail, CPG, and food and beverage industriesVinay Sumant, PwCJoin industry experts for a lively discussion on SAP Forecasting and Replenishment, designed for the high-volume retail indus-try as a way to effectively manage inventory. Share insights on how to leverage this solution to better respond to the buying behaviors of customers beyond retail, including consumer products industries and the food and beverage industries. Look at best-practice approaches for data mod-eling and see how others ensure that all products — low or high volume, perishables, and others — are appropriately planned. Get project management tips to help you with your project timeline, volume and stress test-ing, and data conversion.

Increase forecast accuracy using advanced forecasting and demand sensing methods Tod Stenger, SAPThis session introduces new tools available as part of the newly released enhance-ment packages for SAP SCM that allow you to generate a more accurate forecast using advanced planning and optimization (APO) functionality. Explore new methods for imple-menting statistical forecasts using composite forecasting profiles. Find out how to use enhanced outlier detection and event mod-eling to cleanse demand data. View a demo that offers examples of how to leverage new features, such as ABC/XYZ analysis, for classi-fying products based on demand variability and for selecting the best forecast model for each class. Come away understanding how to consolidate the time it takes to select sta-tistical models, better understand the nature of special events in history, identify historical demand outliers to reduce forecast error, and generate a forecast that is better explained and more accurate than the one that you are generating now.




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Quicken your response to customer demand using SAP Demand Signal Management (built on SAP HANA)Tod Stenger, SAPSee how SAP Demand Signal Manage-ment, one of SAP’s two new SAP HANA SCM solutions and built with an enterprise architecture that leverages both struc-tured and unstructured data, is designed to analyze downstream demand signals and allow businesses to adapt to changing cus-tomer and market variability. See how SAP HANA’s in-memory technology streamlines the process of acquiring, synchronizing, har-monizing, and reporting on demand signals from multiple channels into a collective, role-based format. See a demo that illustrates a number of different scenarios that cap-ture and aggregate critical decision-support data, such as product launch tracking (for measuring launch versus plan) and retailer out-of-stock analysis (for improving replen-ishment plans). Find out how to project order patterns by harnessing unstructured data, such as user sentiments within blogs, rat-ings, and reviews. Learn the best ways to use this information to positively influence prod-uct design decisions going forward. Come away with a basic understanding of what is required to deploy SAP HANA in a demand planning environment.

Aligning inventory planning with demand forecasts just got easier: A guide to SAP APO analytics built on SAP HANAEric Simonson, SAP LabsThis session sheds light on how to improve forecast accuracy and ensure inventory avail-ability using the analytic capabilities of SAP APO in conjunction with SAP HANA. Under-stand the solution release timeframe and technical architecture. See how new forecast accuracy dashboards can be used out of the box to generate on the fly forecast calculations and updates. See which characteristic value combinations are the best performers when it comes to forecast accuracy. Explore the supply projection view that shows product location aggregates, product shortages and surpluses, and which location is in the greatest danger of falling below safety stock or target stock lev-els. Get data on inventory availability versus your supply plan. View a prototype demo that shows analysis for demand planning and see the download capabilities designed to support data filtering activities offline.

Are you ready to get started with the SAP rapid deployment solution for service parts planning? Jeff Majestic, SAPExamine the concept, benefits, and func-tional processes of the SAP Service Parts Planning rapid deployment solution. Look at the four scenarios that are delivered as a part of the rapid deployment solution to support: demand management and fore-casting, inventory planning, procurement, and network replenishment processes. See a “day in the life” demo that shows an end user’s response, via the new user interface, to the planning results, and walk through how they visualize and follow typical system rec-ommendations of what to stock, purchase, replenish, and how to process any relevant alerts and exceptions. Understand the scope of the rapid deployment solution as a service package to support your service parts plan-ning requirements as a mitigated risk-based offer, providing a fixed deliverable for a fixed price. Get tips to help you assess your orga-nization’s readiness for the SAP Service Parts Planning rapid deployment solution.

Everything you need to know about improving forecast accuracy for fast-changing product line-ups with SAP APO functionality for demand planning Alan Hendry, SCMO2Gain a best practice perspective based upon proven, real-life deployments of demand planning functionality all tied together with one common objective: to improve forecast accuracy. See how leading edge compa-nies leverage demand planning, starting with a critical analysis of sales history, along with critical point-of-sale data for a more responsive demand signal. Compare forecast model options, including the pros and cons of using the auto-model, the tracking sig-nal functionality designed especially for large product ranges or when working with multi-ple customers. Know your options to plan by product families or groups using disaggrega-tion factors. Learn what data to leave behind when planning your data cutover strategy. Hear how successful planners link products together using the “like” modeling function in demand planning and get an alternative strategy if your product environment is more variable.



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Streamline the data transfer between SAP ERP and SAP APO using the core interface (CIF)Claudio Gonzalez, SCM ConnectionsBack by popular demand, this session pro-vides expert lessons to help you identify, optimize, and troubleshoot key integration points between SAP ERP and SAP APO via SAP APO core interface (CIF). Understand the differences between transferring mas-ter and transactional data between systems. Learn how to optimize the creation of inte-gration models based upon the number of records affected and see how to activate the connection between systems. Learn how to effectively apply CIF user exits. Get expert dos and don’ts for applying sequencing rules to avoid error messages that can grind your data transfer to a halt. Learn how to use the CIF cockpit to centrally monitor data trans-fer in real time. Take home a previously undocumented collection of error messages common to data transfers with CIF, along with hard-learned fix-it techniques that will save you time and effort.Case study



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Sales and operations planning (S&OP) in Cameron International’s complex manufacturing environmentRamesh Rajagopalan, Cameron InternationalWhile sales and operations planning (S&OP) is relatively mature in repetitive and make-to-stock environments, it is still gaining ground for those industries with complex manu-facturing processes. This session walks you through the business model and process steps Cameron International implemented as a way to improve forecast accuracy and capacity planning. See how Cameron Inter-national leveraged SAP APO functionality for demand planning (DP) and SAP supply network planning (SNP) capable-to-match (CTM) to design and build a process flow that offered capacity validation and simula-tion from an established consensus forecast. Understand how demand streams feed into Cameron International’s planning book, and see how these inputs work in tandem with opportunity forecast, booking history, ship-ment history, and backlog. See how these inputs are communicated, validated, and consolidated to create a capacity constrained feasible plan. Understand the challenges Cameron faced during this implementation, such as managing a multilevel planning strat-egy and optimizing cross plant capacity.

Case study

How supply chain improvement projects at Pharmascience (Six Sigma and beyond) drive and sustain world class sales and operations Terry Vermeylen, PharmascienceIf you are embarking upon, leading, or sup-porting a supply chain improvement strategy, this session will serve to inspire, motivate, and sustain stakeholders in the outcome as well as the journey. See how Pharmascience, a generic, privately held pharmaceutical com-pany, cherry-picked elements from proven process models to construct an optimal solu-tion to achieve ongoing manufacturing excellence. Compare the effectiveness of the Oliver Wright model with the ASAP meth-odology as techniques to measure, monitor, and sustain continuous sales and operational improvement from innovation through plan-ning, procurement, and production. See how Pharmascience incorporates Six Sigma in combination with SAP’s value management discipline as a means to understand decision trade-offs, alongside Gartner’s recommended approach for optimal collaboration. Find out why and in what way Pharmascience scales improvement initiatives between compa-ny-wide business transformation projects and smaller project-based activities. Extract the common threads from these approaches, such as critical key performance indicators and reporting techniques that you can use to inform your strategy.

A look at the newest, powered by SAP HANA functionality to support integrated S&OP Sandy Markin, SAP LabsExamine a next generation solution, SAP Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), pow-ered by SAP HANA and delivered in the cloud, designed to provide financial, sales, and supply chain stakeholders with an effi-cient, integrated planning process that profitably aligns demand and supply. Under-stand how it supports real-time analysis and simulation using a unified model that inte-grates demand, supply, and financial data to provide rapid decision making and enabling quick responses to unexpected events. See how this solution helps you unlock the potential of your S&OP process, offering com-parative planning scenarios on an embedded social collaboration platform. Understand the architecture and technology and see how this new offering works in concert with other SAP advanced planning engines. View a demo that illustrates “what-if” simulations from different demand and supply streams, and see for yourself how to achieve an opti-mal, informed balance between supply and demand. Come away with an understand-ing of how to evaluate and determine the requirements for using this new solution.

Best practices for achieving integrated S&OP using standard system functionalityJoseph Grobler, Reveal USASee how to use the SAP ERP system you already own to effectively manage your capacity constraints through your sales and operations planning process. Get tips for implementing a best practice governance process to protect supply chain perfor-mance, enable data maturity and integrity, and ensure key planning rules are followed. Get undocumented techniques — such as establishing manufacturing, product, or dis-tribution hierarchies supported by product allocation and available to promise (ATP) to control and guide customer demand. Take away critical tips to address ongoing com-petitive priorities, increase upper-quartile performance, and consistently ensure that management stays committed to S&OP.


Case study

How Jabil Circuit creates schedule agreement reports by leveraging SAP SNC and SAP NetWeaver BW Charles Nichols and Rocio Timko, Jabil CircuitIn this session, Jabil Circuit discusses how it reached a test milestone in its SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) initiative, including purchase order (PO) collaboration and schedule agreement reports for suppli-er-facing transactions. Learn how Jabil Circuit is utilizing SAP NetWeaver BW in conjunc-tion with SAP SNC to present critical decision support data, long-term customer fore-cast horizons, and consignment inventory updates. Hear how Jabil Circuit combines standard SAP SNC functionality and busi-ness process-driven enhancements to extract and convert demand data from MRP. Exam-ine the tradeoffs Jabil Circuit made to avoid extensive customization of SAP SNC in order to ease the user transition as the company migrated away from its legacy system.

SAP Supply Network Collaboration: The 2013 roadmap and new implementation scenariosGanesh Vellore, SAPThis session provides an overview of SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC), a solution designed to support the end-to-end replenishment process. Step through examples that illustrate how organizations can use SAP SNC to share and exchange crit-ical-to-business information effectively with their customers. Look at commonly used business scenarios that illustrate how to prevent stock-outs (especially during promo-tions), improve demand response time and asset utilization, reduce inventory, and enable faster order cycle times while increasing service levels. Examine the latest enhance-ments to the rapid deployment solution for SAP SNC, a ready-to-run fixed scope solution offering pre-configured business processes designed to help implement customer col-laboration scenarios, such as consignment and supplier management models. See a demo that features responsive replenishment — the next generation Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) solution.

Achieving “quick wins” using standard SAP analysis tools like LISKeith Searls, Reveal USAYou know the data is there … but how do you get at it? You need a report immedi-ately — but depend upon your IT support team to escalate the functional specifica-tions (that you’ve taken the time to write) so they can build a “Z” report. If either of these scenarios sounds familiar, this session can provide a way to free up resources and help get what you need — using the system that you already have at your fingertips. Get techniques to capture the low-hanging fruit readily available from your SAP ERP logistics information system (LIS) — standard analytic tools that enable ABC analysis, correlation, dual classification, and comparisons, all of which are supported by graphics in 2D and 3D format. See how LIS is integrated with the stock requirements list and historic Inventory graphs, designed to help buyers and planners make better decisions around production and stocking strategies. Look at the exception monitor functionality as a way to proactively manage events before they impact your customer commitments. Take away proven techniques that promise a reduced depen-dency on customized reports for inventory management.

Strategies to improve service targets across your supply chain with inventory optimization technologySandy Markin, SAP LabsEvaluate SAP Enterprise Inventory Optimi-zation by SmartOps as a tool to help you successfully drive inventory planning and replenishment to ensure that the right level of products, parts, components, and intermedi-ates are at the right locations at the right time. See a demo that illustrates how SAP Enterprise Inventory Optimization simulates different inventory scenarios to understand how stock levels are impacted by reduced lead-time vari-ability and increased or decreased service levels. Review customer stories and see how your peers have improved service levels while keeping inventory in check in this time of increased product and supply chain complex-ity. Find out how customers are leveraging the solution to attain more accurate and timely inventory control costs.

Lessons for configuring SAP ERP to support the bundling of POs and STOs for faster fulfillment and lower transportation costsPrashant Kulkarni, PwCThis session provides guidance for configur-ing core SAP ERP functionality to support an in-and-out strategy for logistics and inventory management. Learn how to set up low-touch or no-touch order scenarios for fulfilling POs and STOs from inventory that may reside in an internal distribution center, warehouse or manufacturing facility. See how to bypass the typical materials requirement planning (MRP) run and improve “just in time” procurement to meet service targets. See how the right sys-tem configuration and the right master data settings can automate the bundling of pur-chase orders and stock transfer orders to take advantage of economies of scale and lower transportation costs. Understand the spe-cial considerations that come into play when financial postings need to be reconciled at sales order or contract level. Get tips on how to track and speed up deliveries for bundled components or value-added services, while reducing overall inventory and logistics costs.


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How to enable business networks beyond your four walls: Leveraging SAP SNC for B2B collaboration Ganesh Vellore, SAPGo under the hood of SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) and examine the enabling technology that allows organiza-tions to share information and exchange critical-to-business data effectively with their direct suppliers and contract manufac-turers. Learn how to apply SAP Information Interchange to free your organization from concerns about data standards (or your trad-ing partners’ electronic data interchange [EDI] capability) and see how to connect with any partner worldwide in a compliant man-ner. Examine one of SAP SNC’s replenishment scenarios, Supply Planning & Contract Man-ufacturing Collaboration, and see a demo that showcases an end-to-end purchase order (PO) collaboration process, leveraging the SAP ERP materials requirement planning (MRP) run. See the supplier point of view and automated response options, including the choice to create Advanced Shipping Notifica-tion (ASN) messaging, which in turn triggers the inventory commitment in the customer’s SAP ERP system.

Going mobile with supplier management: Lessons for leveraging new SAP SNC capabilitiesSharad Kerur, CognizantWhether you are currently using or con-sidering an implementation of SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC), this ses-sion offers tips to help you leverage the solution on mobile devices for real-time col-laboration and management by exception. Walk through proven cross-industry exam-ples from customers who have leveraged different SAP SNC scenarios, such as inven-tory replenishment, work order collaboration, supplier network inventory, and purchase order collaboration, in a mobile environment. Assess their time-to-value, roll-out strategy, user adoption success, supplier onboard-ing techniques, and technical enablement requirements. See how to configure criti-cal alert notifications and role-based display formats on mobile devices, both for your internal procurement team and external sup-pliers. Come away with new ideas to improve supplier management and outsourcing activities.

Stuck with too much inventory? How to leverage advanced planning solutions to streamline product transitionsMatthew Campbell, SCMO2How do planners successfully automate the process of planning inventory levels for products that are reaching the end of their lifecycles? Get an end-to-end approach to manage product transitions in a typical fast-changing product line-up, leveraging SAP APO. Learn how to ensure that forecasts are not generated after product discontinu-ation. Learn how demand planning, product status codes, and planned phase-out dates trigger automatic changes to planning parameters before phase-out. Learn some easy custom enhancements that enable seamless transition planning across SAP ERP and SAP APO. Capture the settings that help to drive SAP APO functionality for supply net-work planning and production planning and detailed scheduling for products that have been discontinued. Get tips to update lot size and safety stock settings automatically so that just enough product gets made and used to meet the forecasted demand.


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Case study

How Leprino Foods enhanced shelf life planning, leveraging production planning, and detailed scheduling Ramesh Cooke, Leprino FoodsUnderstand how Leprino Foods overcame tough challenges associated short- and medium-term shelf life planning and excep-tions across multiple product lines. Find out how the company enhanced the existing lit-tle-known yet powerful cross-relationship management within production plan-ning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS) to enable a single view of the data (sequenc-ing, dates, and change quantities) instead of on a per transaction basis. See the reports that illustrate how shelf life exceptions are fixed interactively without going to a new screen. See how the company is able to align multiple levels of orders using top-down heu-ristics. Grasp how this simple coding exercise can be applied to any industry where adher-ence to promise dates is a critical KPI.

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Why IDEXX chose PP/DS to support batch managed production planningJustin Weyand and Sreekanth Ratakonda, IDEXX LaboratoriesSee why IDEXX Laboratories implemented SAP APO production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS) as a way to support sup-ply planning for its batch-managed products. See how IDEXX gathered critical business requirement criteria and mapped these needs against its previously deployed SAP APO functionality for supply network plan-ning. Understand why IDEXX’s specific batch management protocols and shelf life plan-ning needs tipped the scales to PP/DS as the optimal solution to enable batch specificity and reservation by customer and geographic hierarchy. Look at the unique challenges the company faced to address batch maturation differences by component and to comply with planning sales orders by reservation as they relate to promise dates for deliver-ing finished kits. Get tips on how and why IDEXX customized views in PP/DS to show a bottom-up pegging structure for batch allo-cation so that the planner can make requisite adjustments to finished goods.


All about production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS) functionality Thomas Brassøe, Implement Consulting GroupJoin this conversation led by PP/DS imple-mentation specialists to see how others are leveraging the latest PP/DS features, such as shelf-life planning, MRP-based scheduling, and optimizer order creation for getting bet-ter scheduling results. Get industry-specific insights into how PP/DS can support your unique environment planning needs. Take a sneak peek into the new scheduling features and see how they might help to maximize resource utilization and minimize production delays while meeting customer demands. Find out how others are optimizing the solu-tion to create both medium- and short-term production plans.

How to ensure quality to support the innovation-to-fulfillment chain Dr. Manfred Schulz, SAP AGExamine SAP’s comprehensive, closed-looped, quality management portfolio designed to ensure consistent product qual-ity and achieve compliance with industry standards, and legal regulations. Look at the latest improvements to SAP ERP quality management functionality and enhance-ment package advances, co-designed under SAP Customer Connect program, and learn about the latest mobile initiatives for quality management. See a new tool: SAP Qual-ity Issue Management (QIM), designed to enable swift recording, processing, analysis, and tracking of quality issues, and corrective and preventive actions (CAPA), in the inno-vation-to-fulfillment chain. Understand how it integrates with SAP and non-SAP applica-tions, and across multiple systems to resolve supplier, customer, and internal-related complaints. View a demo and see how this user-friendly, role-based application can be leveraged to support issue and activity man-agement from new product development, through planning, logistics and production.

SAP ERP versus SAP APO: Which production planning functionality do I use, and how can I be successful? Matthew Campbell, SCMO2Back by popular demand, this updated ses-sion helps you differentiate between SAP ERP functionality for production planning and SAP APO functionality for production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS). Understand the unique role each can play in your production planning process and find out how these solutions can be integrated. Get an understanding of the flexible and cus-tomizable heuristics in PP/DS that allow you configure your own planning runs to suit your planning situation. Learn how to get started with the detailed scheduling plan-ning board and grasp how this powerful feature boosts your plant’s efficiency. Get tips to minimize production changeovers by set-ting up the sequence optimizer to reduce idle time in your plants. See how to manage your production master data to boost your proj-ect success. Learn how to use configurable alerts and reports as guides to uncover the real problems in your planning environment. Find out how PP/DS integrates with SAP ERP for order execution. Walk away with proven, real-life project tips and tricks to get results quickly from SAP APO and SAP ERP without being drawn into a lengthy and expensive implementation.

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The future of mobile manufacturing 2013: SAP Innovation Challenge for manufacturing mobile apps Uwe Pfisterer, SAP AGBack by popular demand, and updated for 2013: This session showcases the winning mobile manufacturing solutions and pro-ductivity enhancements submitted by SAP partners for the 2013 SAP Innovation Chal-lenge. Follow the three best winners, chosen by a jury, comprised of analysts and industry experts, who selected the top three mobile manufacturing application concepts. Look at the winning criteria, including business value, user experience, and “wow” factor. View demos of each winning mobile manu-facturing app on a variety of devices, such as smartphones and tablets. See for yourself the new concepts and ideas being developed to increase productivity and usability to support core manufacturing processes. Get a first look at the future of mobile manufacturing solu-tions and come away from this session with ideas for how these solutions can be put into practice to improve your existing manufac-turing processes.

A detailed guide to SAP’s new tool for easy shop floor dispatch and event monitoringJutta Wesemann-Ruzicka, SAP AGThis session guides you through an assess-ment of SAP’s new shop floor dispatch and monitoring functionality. See how end users and production shift supervisors (who are on-the-line) can dispatch planned man-ufacturing tasks on a short-term basis to individual machines. See how this new tool integrates with production planning (PP) functionality in your SAP ERP system to display additional key information when dis-patching operations (by machine), such as working and non-working times, operation relationships, status of predecessor operation, and additional manufacturing or capacity overload data. Get a sneak preview during a demo that will show you the key capabilities and easy-to-use displays. Assess the value of the tool as a way to achieve effective capacity utilization, automate shop floor work instruc-tions, and to track and respond to unforeseen events.

Case study

How Endicott Interconnect leverages SAP MII and SAP Manufacturing Execution for their design-to-build (and re-build) projectsDavid Kennedy and Michael Jewson, Endicott InterconnectEndicott Interconnect, a world-class supplier of advanced electronic packaging solutions, had a goal to gather and present disparate shop floor data in a way that enabled rede-sign efficiencies and operational excellence for its uniquely challenging high-mix, low-vol-ume production environment. Find out how and why Endicott Interconnect implemented SAP Manufacturing Execution to collect and manage bill of materials, routings, and other critical information. See how this data integrates with SAP ERP via SAP Manufac-turing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII), including enabling operational checks and confirmation of production orders, delivery dates, and more. Understand how this pro-cess allows real-time visibility into the shop floor including non-conformances and pro-duction metrics. See how Endicott leverages a combination of dashboard functionality that shows the mapping of assembly steps to help ensure accuracy and enable efficien-cies when design parameters change. Look at how the versatility of SAP Manufacturing Exe-cution and SAP MII helped the company to create highly customer specialized data pack-ages and reports. Learn how the company ensured user adoption, buy-in, and executive backing for the project.

Benchmarking and monitoring manufacturing processes using manufacturing performance management functionality from SAPFrank Platt, SAPThis session walks you through SAP Manufac-turing Performance Management solutions, along with SAP Manufacturing Integra-tion and Intelligence (SAP MII). See how to support process transparency, optimize communication and productivity, manage product changes, and more. Learn how to uniformly benchmark performance across production shifts, lines, areas, and plants by using role-based Web dashboards. Under-stand how to apply KPIs to more effectively respond to unplanned events and cap-ture root cause of production problems. Look at the newest functionality to help you proactively detect events and respond to performance issues before they impact your business. Examine statistical process controls that enable manufacturing performance ana-lytics to identify issues, improve quality, and increase customer responsiveness. Look at the new functionality that helps you to man-age and catalog performance applications. See how SAP Manufacturing Performance Management supports safety and environ-mental process and data integration. View a demo that shows live dashboards, alert messaging, and analytic tools, as well as the modeling environment to manage your information.

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Going mobile with manufacturing? How SAP solutions could support your strategyUwe Pfisterer, SAP AGWalk through different customer use-case scenarios that show how leading compa-nies are optimizing mobile technologies to achieve measurable results for a wide range of manufacturing activities. See how a pro-duction or plant manager can access critical key figures — anytime, anywhere — to sup-port better decision making from the shop floor to the top floor. View a demo that shows how 3D visualization is being used to improve quality, production processes, and asset maintenance activities. Examine the technical architectural, system depen-dency, and integration requirements for successfully deploying mobile manufactur-ing solutions with the least possible total cost of ownership. Learn more about how mobile applications interface with SAP manufactur-ing solutions, SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII), and SAP Man-ufacturing Execution as a way to capture real-time shop floor intelligence. See how events are escalated using mobile devices and gain an understanding of how to lever-age this technology in your environment.

Enable efficient manufacturing by integrating shop floor processes with enterprise goalsJulia Zinovyeva, SAP AGLearn how SAP’s integrated manufacturing solutions such as SAP Manufacturing Exe-cution, SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII), and plant connector (PCo) can be used to efficiently run global, sustainable manufacturing operations by synching enterprise-level goals with shop floor process execution. Evaluate SAP manufac-turing solutions as a way to more effectively utilize available capacity, which, in turn, improves on-time delivery and customer sat-isfaction. Learn how to capture reliable insight into work-in-process, and production capacity from contextualized production process data to establish better environmental, health, and safety measures for people and products. View role-based demos that show the production planning to execution and analysis process. See how to create production orders in SAP ERP that enable the transfer of work instruc-tion, bill of materials, and route inspection characteristics for integration with SAP Man-ufacturing Execution. Learn how shop order maintenance activities are supported.

What you see is what you get: Leveraging SAP Visual Enterprise to get a multi-dimensional view of your business-critical manufacturing dataRobert Merlo, SAPLearn how to leverage SAP Visual Enterprise mobile viewer to assess your critical busi-ness data in a more tangible, visual way. Learn how to search, view, analyze, and pub-lish 3D content to drive quality and improve productivity for your manufacturing and maintenance processes. Evaluate the solution as a way to capture step-by-step integrated procedures for Manufacturing Execution Sys-tems (MES) and simplify product assembly. Find out how SAP Visual Enterprise supports enterprise asset management (EAM) sys-tems to optimize maintenance and repair. See a demo that details assembly, mainte-nance, and repair procedures as a way to eliminate costly and out-of-date service man-uals. Find out how to generate and update technical publications and deliver simpli-fied training materials using visual content authoring applications. View how the col-laboration environment presents hyper-real product imagery for internal and supply chain review. Know how to leverage your 3D assets to enable better decision making via the presentation of data as a visual informa-tion framework.

Case study

How PepsiCo Worldwide Flavor leverages SAP ERP and SAP MII to derive actionable intelligence from the shop floor Saravan Chellamuthu, PepsiCo Worldwide FlavorTaka an in-depth look at PepsiCo Worldwide Flavor’s (PWF) global SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) deploy-ment, integrated with SAP ERP and designed to create a common approach to managing materials and processes by standardizing shop floor data and enabling effective reporting. Walk through the PWF journey from disparate legacy systems to a common enterprise solu-tion that leverages the SAP MII portal. Look at the key SAP MII transaction points from the raw materials warehouse to finished goods warehouse and the key benefits the company has achieved. Examine the SAP MII architec-ture at PWF (single and multi-site), including interface layers from the shop floor, to SAP ERP functionality for quality, materials, and produc-tion control. See how SAP MII is used at PWF to bridge the material staging process flow, from process order release to close. Understand the shop floor integration and how it uniquely provides a way to get a standard output that can be used by any labeling system. Learn how this enables effective reporting based upon critical KPIs, such as capturing variances, downtime, and more. See the graphical user interface that PWF used for both desktop and mobile.

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How to automate a complex assembly facility with SAP MII and SAP Manufacturing ExecutionMatthias Mueller, SYSTEMA USAThis session offers a unique view into why and how a semiconductor chip assembly facility optimized and transformed its man-ufacturing, IT, and business processes by implementing SAP Manufacturing Integra-tion and Intelligence (SAP MII), and SAP Manufacturing Execution (SAP ME). Gain an understanding of the manufacturing envi-ronment; common in the industry; which includes the assembly and aggregation of highly complex components that require intense process management and compli-ance with stringent quality controls and traceability requirements. Examine the strat-egy to synchronize and integrate data from a heterogeneous landscape with fragile inter-faces. Understand how to enable seamless vertical integration between multiple stove-pipe legacy systems and SAP ERP production planning components. Gain insights on how to create a standard reporting platform, a consistent Bill of Materials (BOM), and shop floor order synchronization. See a demo that shows the graphical user interface and prod-uct flow configuration editor.


Case study

How, why, and where Dana Holding Corporation created a world-class global distribution center with an SAP EWM deploymentBrad Knauf and Louise Strong, Dana Holding Corporation Examine how Dana Holding Corporation deployed SAP Extended Warehouse Man-agement (SAP EWM) in less than six months — from planning to go-live. See how the company scoped its business requirement against the myriad deployment options that SAP offers for warehouse management. Understand what tipped the scales of its decision. See how Dana plans to leverage SAP EWM to support multiple distribution centers globally. Hear about a new level of transparency that allows Dana to improve its order-to-delivery and distribution process. Understand Dana’s requirements for ongoing technical support and functionality to enable future global expansion, such as resource and labor management capabilities, data inte-gration with the supply base, and a logistics platform that ensures putaway, picking, and wave planning optimization. Look at Dana’s project management and roll-out strategy, and understand the unique challenges the company faced to implement SAP EWM as a single instance in a warehouse half-way around the globe. Learn how Dana overcame language barriers to facilitate user adoption.


What’s in your warehouse? How your peers are answering this questionKyle Sorensen, LogiStar SolutionsTalk about the latest trends and market driv-ers influencing warehouse and distribution processes today. See how others are manag-ing warehouse solution decisions when an upgrade is needed or when a new facility is added to the network. Trade ideas with other customers on how to quicken your return on investment for activating mobile data col-lection, RFID, and voice-enabled solutions. Take this opportunity to return home with valuable ideas to streamline your warehouse management activities and to generate greater value from processes that rely on SAP applications.

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Leading experts share their insights from real-world SAP EWM implementationsModerator: Richard Kirker, SAP Panelists: Brad Knauf, Dana Holding Corpora-tion Spencer Farr, LogiStar Solutions Steve Ivanovic and Scott Sablich, Kimber-ly-Clark Health CareThis unique panel offers a view into SAP Extended Warehouse Management imple-mentations from the point of view of leading experts and early adopters. Understand their key project drivers, deployment plans, expected return on investment, and the challenges they overcame. Join this inter-active discussion as the moderator guides warehouse specialists from Dana Holding Corporation and Kimberly-Clark Health Care, along with the SAP EWM solution expert, in providing a full circle view of SAP EWM as an enabler to achieve warehouse management excellence that is integrated and poised for future growth.

A step-by-step process to create a global template for your SAP EWM implementation Timothy Craigmyle, IBMGain an implementation expert’s view on how to design a global SAP Extended Ware-house Management (SAP EWM) template and standardize projects for multi-site, multi-coun-try projects. View a demo that shows how to use a pre-configured SAP EWM warehouse as a foundation to create a global blueprint. Walk through options to harmonize your crit-ical business requirements with the process of moving materials; from goods receipt on the dock to put away into the bin, to picking and shipping to the customers. See how to structure your project using a common archi-tecture. Learn how to match design elements by process and role to engender stakeholder buy in, from governance oversight to end-user training. Get tips to ensure your design can be leveraged for minimal changes and customi-zation as you roll out by geographic location. See how to build a template that is character-ized by localization, yet shares core processes across the enterprise, allowing deployments to reuse configuration, testing, training, and deployment plans and materials.

Understanding SAP offerings for warehouse managementChrishawn Spackman, SOS4SAPIf you are embarking on a new warehouse management implementation or have already begun, these real-world tips will help to ensure your project’s success. Get an expert’s perspective on SAP’s warehouse management solution offering and the role it plays within SAP ERP Logistics Execution System (LES). Gain clarity between different functional offerings by release and version, implementation options, architecture, and organizational structures, including: SAP ECC functionality for warehouse management, SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM), and EWM as an extension to your SAP ERP installation. Get tips to ensure which solution is optimal to help you drive new effi-ciencies in your business. Find out the best options to support stock placement strat-egies, cross-docking, yard management, kitting, and task interleaving. Understand how to enhance real-time monitoring of warehouse activities, fixed and random bin replenishment, and picking strategies. Exam-ine integration capabilities between SAP ERP functions such as sales and distribution planning, inventory management, and qual-ity management, and see the configuration tables that make it all work!

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Case study

How, why, and in what way Kimberly-Clark Health Care deployed SAP EWM and SAP Global Batch TraceabilitySteve Ivanovics and Scott Sablich, Kimber-ly-Clark Health Care Kimberly-Clark Health Care needed a solu-tion to manage its inventory, production, and distribution environment after a period of extensive growth, which created additional liability due to the acquisition of highly reg-ulated product lines. Examine this and other drivers behind its combined SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) 7.01 and SAP Global Batch Traceability global roll-out. Look at its proof of concept to launch at a combined warehouse distribution and production facility, creating a global holis-tic prototype for the inbound receipt of raw materials through their outbound shipment process, to later apply to other sites. Find out how SAP EWM integrates with SAP ERP func-tionality for materials management; enabling either the staging of materials for production, or direct putaway, or shipment to customer -- from the time the Advanced Shipment Notice (ASN) is received. Examine Kimberly-Clark Health Care’s batch strategy, which informed its roll-out as a phased deployment, timed in concert with SAP EWM to enable trans-parency into product genealogy. Get critical project management and implementation tips including how to ensure user adoption, and work around prior system customization obstacles.

Top of the game strategies for ensuring a successful partnership with your third-party logistics (3PL) providerChrishawn Spackman, SOS4SAPThis session is for SAP customers who are considering, preparing to engage in or look-ing to improve their partnership with a 3PL service provider for warehouse man-agement. Learn how to create an optimal collaborative environment leveraging elec-tronic data interchange (EDI) to support SAP process mapping for inbound, internal, and outbound warehouse movements. Take home a cheat sheet to apply to your project, designed to save you countless hours sort-ing through EDI messages. Get tips to ensure that you select and are managing your logis-tics partner relationship to create an ongoing, successful execution of your 3PL engage-ment. Learn how to sustain preemptive vigilance once this selection is determined — from the contract negotiation phase with your 3PL partner, through blueprint, reali-zation, testing, and go-live stages. Gather troubleshooting tips and techniques, includ-ing determining how to establish real-time receipt and shipment information so that transactions are processed sooner rather than later. Don’t miss out on this real-world insight.

A comprehensive guide to the integration between SAP EWM and SAP TM for improved logisticsRichard Kirker, SAP LabsGet a complete picture of the integration capa-bilities of the new SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM), part of SAP’s supply chain execution (SCE) solutions, with a focus on how SAP EWM interfaces with SAP Transporta-tion Management (SAP TM) as an end-to-end fulfillment tool. Examine the new enhancements to SAP EWM, including pre-delivered analytics for warehouse cost analysis and cross-ware-house reporting. See how the presentation layer is used for visualization for reporting and graphical route depiction and monitoring. Look at industry-specific features that can be used to track different package sizes through the warehouse without having to assign a license plate — stock-specific unit of measure! View a demo that illustrates the new dock appoint-ment scheduling. Get examples of how to use this collaborative, Web-based planning board to manage appointments with carriers for inbound and outbound deliveries, dock capacities, and equipment types (implemented as stand-alone or integrated with SAP EWM).

Leveraging SAP EWM as the backbone for integrating plan-to-delivery across the end-to-end supply chain: Lessons from two business transformation storiesAnkur Saxena, IBMThis session takes you through two unique SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) deployments as the engine behind broader supply chain integration initiatives. Gain a holistic view of how SAP EWM can serve as the execution backbone to integrate business processes for the plan-to-delivery process, including the integration of cus-tomer relationship management, advanced planning functionality, reporting and ana-lytics, environmental compliance, quality management, and more. Understand how to extend SAP EWM business rules to drive deeper integration across commonly siloed processes; for example, managing inventory holding costs as an integral material manage-ment and optimization strategy as opposed to a separate process. Review the companies’ project methodologies and timelines and see how business processes were mapped to SAP components. Gain insight into how the com-panies overcame some of the key challenges with integrating master data and connecting the dots between supply chain stops. Evalu-ate the benefits that customers have gained, such as reduced working capital and quality and service-level improvement.

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A detailed comparison of SAP ERP functionality for warehouse management with the latest release of SAP EWM Richard Kirker, SAP LabsIf you are considering migrating to SAP for your warehouse management activities and are not sure which offering to implement, this session is for you. Understand the evolution of SAP’s warehouse management solution to gain per-spective on how the application has advanced, against the backdrop of market drivers, includ-ing the latest global distribution models, and improved resources for radio-frequency (RF) enabled environments. View a functional matrix that shows you the difference between releases, examine the required dependencies and system landscape for each, and understand your deployment options. Examine the advan-tages, constraints, and scope of functionality by release for resource and labor management, cross-docking, yard management, wave pick-ing, and more. Look at the migration path, tools, and techniques to seamlessly transfer data from your core SAP system to SAP EWM or your leg-acy environment to SAP ERP functionality for warehouse management. See cross-industry examples of how other customers have fared in determining the optimal solution.

SAPexpertsLIVEPanel discussion: Avoid logistics disastersAli Sarraf, EnowaRavi Patwardhan and Kristin vonHoerde-Garijo, Westernacher & Partner ConsultingCome hear experienced professionals in all aspects of SAP logistics management share what to avoid in your extended supply chain.

SAPexpertsLIVEMake the most of your warehouse management with SAP SCM EWMAshish Saxena, IBMSAP introduced SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM) to allow users to go from a simple layout warehouse to a complex processes-based warehouse. In this update to his 2008 article, SAPexperts advisor Ash-ish Saxena will overview how SAP EWM will enable your business drivers. Ashish will also show how some customers are using SAP EWM as a supply chain tool and not just a warehouse management system.

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Canadian Pacific’s journey to increase revenue, decrease payment cycles, and improve productivity with SAP TM Pam Arpin and Jim Harris, Canadian PacificExamine the drivers behind Canadian Pacific’s (CP) multi-year lead-to-cash (L2C) implemen-tation, which combined SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) and SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM). Learn how the company’s L2C process was designed to improve productivity and adoption for merchandise-carrying stakeholders (bulk cus-tomers, intermodal, carload, and 3PL). See how CP’s request-for-quote through pay-ment process has now been automated and is trackable. Understand CP’s project gover-nance (structure and change management methodology). See how the business team is structured to lead the internal cross-team process hierarchy. Gain insight into CP’s deployment of SAP TM 8.0 as a stepping stone to SAP TM 9.0+. Understand how the compa-ny’s legacy-to-SAP system migration directly and positively improves the revenue stream and pricing engine integration. Learn how CP integrates data into a user-friendly portal interface for improved B2B collaboration.

Panel discussion

Leading experts offer advice for designing a transportation management solutionModerator: Richard Kirker, SAP Panelists: Pam Arpin and Jim Harris, Canadian PacificJohn Southard, C.H. Guenther & SonBernd Mosbrucker, GOPA ITThis unique panel offers a view into the SAP Transportation Management implementa-tions of leading experts and early adopters. Understand their key project drivers, deploy-ment plans, expected return on investment, and the challenges. Join this interactive discus-sion as the moderator guides transportation specialists from Canadian Pacific Railway, C.H. Guenther & Son, and Owens Corning, along with SAP’s TM solution expert, in providing a full circle view of SAP TM as an enabler to achieve logistics execution excellence that is integrated and poised for future growth.

Case study

How C.H. Guenther & Son is poised for growth leveraging SAP TM 8.0: Tales from an early ramp-up customer John Southard, C.H. Guenther & SonGet an inside view of an early adopter’s SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) 8.0 deployment from blueprint to go-live. Grasp the business drivers behind C.H. Guenther’s decision. Examine the company’s project footprint, including a simultaneous imple-mentation of SAP functionality for warehouse management and the scope of its project, intended as a solution to improve the dis-tribution of inbound and outbound goods. Look at C.H. Guenther’s order entry pro-cess for routing up to 750 sales orders per week. Find out how the company leverages SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI) to exchange data for tender-ing activities with carriers. Hear why C.H. Guenther chose to turn on freight optimizer functionality right away to model, prioritize, and contract carrier requisitions. Understand how the company manages cost quotes from freight carriers.

How to leverage SAP TM as an execution platform for LSPsBill King, SAPEvaluate the latest SAP Transportation Man-agement (SAP TM) functionality as a core order execution platform for Logistics Service Providers (LSP), including freight forwarding companies, to holistically manage all domes-tic and international freight in the same SAP environment. See how SAP TM can be used to plan, consolidate, and optimize shipments while considering real-world constraints such as security, customs, and cost. Step through a demo that illustrates how the new planning cockpit tool displays shipment consolidation and equipment assignment for air and ocean transportation. See the automated freight rating and shipment profitability views. Understand how to leverage customer order (forwarding order) planning to select appro-priate carrier departure schedules by mode of transport, legal constraints, and internal busi-ness rules (preferred carrier status or contract types). Find out how to link SAP TM to green logistics initiatives to reduce your carbon foot-print. Get a sneak peek into future integration of SAP TM with warehousing functions.

A guide to SAP TM 9.0 for shippers Bill King, SAP Evaluate the latest SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) functionality and determine if it could serve as your full-service logistics and fulfillment platform. Designed for the shipper from a manufacturer, retailer, or wholesaler/distributor, the solution is intended to support the holistic manage-ment of all inbound and outbound domestic and international freight in the same SAP environment. See how to take advantage of end-to-end traceability and visibility of orders, shipments, items, and processes. Examine how to optimize shipments while consider-ing real-world constraints, costs, and penalties and execute those shipments from initial loading to final delivery. Step through a demo that illustrates how the new planning cock-pit tool is used to display robust optimization, equipment dispatching, distributed cost allo-cation, and spot tendering within a single view. Understand how to leverage sales order-driven planning that will increase customer service levels while improving carrier relation-ships. Look at new functionality that extends the ability to manage over-the-road fleets and enhances international multi-modal, multi-leg planning processes. Find out how to measure the impact your transportation plan is having on your carbon footprint and other sustain-ability efforts.

SAPexpertsLIVEPanel discussion: Avoid logistics disastersAli Sarraf, EnowaRavi Patwardhan and Kristin vonHoerde-Garijo, Westernacher & Partner ConsultingCome hear experienced professionals in all aspects of SAP logistics management share what to avoid in your extended supply chain.


Case study

How Varian Medical Systems tamed the export compliance beast in a configurable products environment using global trade services functionalityJason Jester, Varian Medical SystemsVarian Medical Systems has a highly config-urable product environment, organized by business units that require different variances to manage trade compliance. Grasp these challenges and other drivers behind the com-pany’s SAP Global Trade Services project, deployed to overcome service target delays due to shipment holds and delayed deliver-ies by enabling one central, scaleable, global solution. Look at the scope of Varian’s proj-ect, which impacted both the sales order and stock transfer order process through to global returns, including delivery to pick, pack, and post goods issue. View a demo that shows how the SAP Global Trade Services imple-mentation enabled a global classification process and controls that can now be applied to other countries for export approval, includ-ing Performa documentation for invoicing, as one central output. Learn why and when Varian leverages SAP ERP versus SAP Global Trade Services to determine the license needed for export compliance based upon line item pricing rules.

An up-to-date guide to comprehensive global trade services functionality from SAP to ensure trade compliance Gregory Ertel, SAPThis session explores the latest updates to SAP Global Trade Services, including improved data integration, transparency, and product tracking for the order-to-ful-fillment process. Obtain advice on the best ways to leverage import compliance and con-trol, trade preferences and rules of origin calculation, and the latest commodity classifi-cation for both exports and imports. Examine the capabilities to support the creation of a bonded warehouses designed to minimize or defer duties proactively. See how the solution integrates with transportation management to streamline the delivery process. View a demo that illustrates high-volume screening functionality and new mobile capabilities.

An update on SAP Event Management — Lessons for managing by exception, minimizing risk, reducing costs, and improving visibility across your extended supply chainPetra Diessner, SAP AGAs shown in a recent study, visibility remains the number one challenge reported by exec-utives as a key obstacle to achieving supply chain excellence. Find out how to manage your supply chain by exception using SAP Event Management; specifically, to identify issues in core processes, like order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and transportation oper-ations. Learn how an event is recognized within your business back-end and enriched by sensor data or geo coordinates. See how the results trigger alerts and notifications that prompt stakeholders to take action. Understand how information is collected and transferred to the stakeholders via email, handheld mobile devices, collaboration tools, and other external systems. View a demo that shows you how the latest SAP Event Manage-ment 9.0 solution goes beyond the previous release to help you gain instant insight-in-to-action to enable a view into your supply chain execution with new pre-configured content for shipment tracking and a state-of-the-art Web UI, supporting geo tracking.

Panel discussion

How SAP Event Management tracks and monitors the status of processes and tasks in actionModerator: Kevin Wilson, Q Data USA Panelists: Terri Cohen, SAP Meenal Naik, HD SupplyThis panel offers a 360-degree view into SAP Event Management (EM) implemen-tations from the point of view of leading experts and customers. Understand key proj-ect drivers for supply chain specialists from HD Supply, along with solution experts from the field and from SAP. Examine customer expected return on investment, and gain unique insights on how events are recog-nized as a pre-emptive alert for activities such as purchase orders, shipment status, and pro-duction. Join this interactive discussion for a full circle view of SAP EM as an enabler to achieve integrated supply chain manage-ment excellence.

Tracing your product’s “family tree” just got easier: A look at SAP Global Batch Traceability and its support for corporate product genealogyStephen Cloughley, SAP Labs “Who are the other customers this off-spec product shipped to on Tuesday?” “How many other products were made from this ingre-dient?” “Which batches were produced on Monday when the machine malfunction was reported?” Whether you are partnering with global sub-contractors, or manage pro-duction and distribution internally — batch traceability in the supply chain is a critical issue. Examine a new solution from SAP for batch-managed manufacturing, SAP Global Batch Traceability. See how batch genealogy data is extracted from batch “where used” sources across multiple SAP ERP and non-SAP environments. Look at a batch “tree” pre-sented as a dynamic and interactive Web UI. See a demo showing the graphical presenta-tion enabling streamlined escalation efforts when traceability questions arise. Come away with insights to help you decide if this solu-tion is right for you and where to start.

Leveraging track-and-trace principles and technology to ensure authentic, high-quality productsPetra Diessner, SAP AG Remember the well-published scandals of tainted food, pathogen-bearing fresh vege-tables, and adulterated medicines? Supply chain traceability is an essential process to provide transparency into possible process roadblocks, as well as to support product recall escalation, and to help eliminate coun-terfeit products. Evaluate SAP functionality that supports track-and-trace by closing the loop between order processing, production, and distribution to ensure that authentic products reach your customers. Examine the solution architecture to see how data can be accessed from SAP and non-SAP systems and loaded into a unified data model to gen-erate product genealogies. See a demo that illustrates how to bridge the gap between manufacturing genealogy and supply chain traceability.


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