17 More Steps to SAP Supply Chain Performance Management Nirvana

How To Improve Your Supply Chain's Performance

In part one of this 2 part Supply Chain Performance Management guide, we provided you with 20 steps to take on your road to SCPM performance management perfection. To reach SCPM Nirvana, you will also need to implement these 17 steps as well, and continuously seek new opportunities to enhance your Supply Chain.

17 Critical SAP Supply Performance Management Improvement Tips

Manage performance with preconfigured KPIs based on actual business process data to improve supply chain performance.
Monitor end-to-end supply chain performance through integrated and automated processes & tools to ensure supply chain objectives are attained.
Proactively identify root-causes for break-downs, or potential bottlenecks to improve supply chain performance and reduce costs.
Provide 360 degree timely visibility into your supply chains, across end-to-end processes to minimize non-compliance and loss of trust.
Provide appropriate analysis and reporting tools to track and measure supply chain cost.
Provide complete Supply Chain Management KPI information, with contextual guidance to help improve operational efficiency.
Provide a meaningful and objective personal pipeline of information, based on strategy-aligned metrics that are cascaded down into operations, to improve supply chain decision-making and impact.
Provide relevant and timely Supply Chain information, derived from actual business processes, to optimize decision-making.
Provide the right tools to quickly diagnose bottlenecks and opportunities.
Provide timely insights, with tight operational application integration.
Provide visibility into the order process delivery mechanisms to improve shipment performance and customer satisfaction.
Quantify risk exposure, and develop mitigation strategy, and monitor for risk exposure.
Receive pro-active alerts about deviations from performance targets, and better balance Supply
Chain trade-off decisions to improve supply chain performance.
Reduce supply chain risk, by gaining transparency into operational dependencies.
Support corporate performance management strategy.
Support task prioritization and issue resolution with operational and aggregated real-time data.
Track process execution and identify supply chain risks early.

One of the most critical elements in Supply Chain Performance Management is actually loss of trust. In the on-going financial crisis, this became very apparent when shippers refused to load cargo unless they had been paid for the product in advance. This was due to the fact that you can not tie specific dollars to specific products-yet. This problem still exist, and you need a highly responsive lean supply chain to overcome the trust issue. Ask your SAP SCM Consultant how you can achieve SAP SCM Nirvana today!

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Lonnie D. Ayers, PMP

About the Author: Lonnie Ayers is a Hubspot Certified Inbound Marketing consultant, with additional certifications in Hubspot Content Optimization, Hubspot Contextual Marketing, and is a Hubspot Certified Partner. Specialized in demand generation and sales execution, especially in the SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Partner space, he has unique insight into the tough challenges Service Providers face with generating leads and closing sales using the latest digital tools. With 15 years of SAP Program Management experience, and dozens of complex sales engagements under his belt, he helps partners develop and communicate their unique sales proposition. Frequently sought as a public speaker in various events, he is available for both inhouse engagements and remote coaching.

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