Digital Supply Chain

Transition to a cloud-based, resilient supply chain

Supply chains are no longer linear but part of a complex, networked ecosystem. Every point along the supply chain is at risk due to continuous business disruption threats such as natural events, pandemics, cyber-attacks, terrorism and civil unrest. Current global supply chain structures are not equipped to effectively cope with these increasing numbers of unplanned disruptions such as lack of vendor and geographical diversity, low safety stock, poor data quality, integrity and security, and increased focus on tier 1 suppliers. Companies need to focus on building supply chain resiliency across the organization with a primary focus on end-to-end visibility, supply chain cost reduction, and increased resilience and sustainability.

EY transformative offerings for supply chain and operations help our clients reinvent their end-to-end supply chain, business processes, and business services outcomes to help deliver cost savings with increased resilience across complex ecosystems of suppliers and customers. As business leaders seek ways to solve complex supply chain issues, EY teams provide AI-powered tools, pre-configured offerings, and streamlined processes to improve decision-making and transform your business. EY Digital Supply Chain for SAP^® offerings can help you transition to a cloud-based, transparent, and resilient supply chain that aligns with new technologies and is seamlessly connected with customers, helping enable you to drive value faster.

How can you integrate SAP offerings to drive supply chain transformation?

Supply Chain Transformation

Supply Chain Transformation helps clients balance business needs with technology imperatives, helping enable companies to move from linear to connected ecosystems of partners, suppliers, alliances, and more. It includes improving costs, creating insights from data, growing revenues through innovation, and improving resilience through automation.

• Planning as a service supported by SAP Integrated Business Planning^® (IBP) 
• AI-powered planning for demand, supply and SAP IBP
• Warehouse operational improvement program
• EY's SAP Advance Planning and Optimization (APO) to SAP IBP migration
• Intelligent Consumer Products (CP) — SAP IBP (sales and operations planning (S&OP), demand and supply Planning), order to cash
• Intelligent Life Sciences — IBP (S&OP, demand and supply planning)
• Simplified and faster product development through the use of state-of-the-art product lifecycle management methods and SAP technologies

Manufacturing Transformation

Manufacturing Transformation helps enable a step-change in operational performance to improve productivity and decrease waste and cost within the four walls of the factory by digitizing current factories and revolutionizing business models with fully autonomous factories-of-the-future.

• Continuous manufacturing suite
• Intelligent CP — manufacturing scheduling (PPDS)
• Discrete manufacturing and computer systems validation 
• Smart deployment client authoring
• Smart problem solving and competency management
• SAP Ariba^®/IBP-led cost reduction/working capital reduction play
• Transportation as a service powered by Transportation Management (TM)^®
• Distribution as a service powered by enterprise warehouse management (EWM)
• Digital manufacturing, automation, IT/OT  
• Manufacturing asset management and maintenance services   

Supply Chain, Global Trade and Tax

Supply Chain, Global Trade and Tax helps optimize supply chain and operating models by identifying tax-effective jurisdictions and improving the network’s footprint in light of trade flows, risks and sustainability, to grow revenues, reduce costs, and improve visibility and resilience.

• Supply chain intelligence assessment
• EY assess
• Trade compliance
• Global trade platform
• Logistics analyzer
• EY trade connect
• Real-time port monitoring
• Port and terminal optimization
• eCustoms
• Tax and trade agreements
• Network optimization
• Capital edge M&A

Operations and Enterprise Asset Management

Operations and Enterprise Asset Management generates a step-change in productivity and service levels to achieve operational efficiency. Through strategic, tactical, and operational decision-making and implementation support, it ensures that assets help maximize value to all stakeholders in the value chain throughout the asset’s lifecycle. 

• EY Digital Field Worker: SAP Fiori^® applications to help enable the production planning digital transformation of Asset Management — Applications cover the broad maintenance process and are designed to generate user enthusiasm and increase workforce capability
• Asset Lifecycle Management — Synchronizes master records through an integration layer with inbuilt processes and data sync
• Asset Performance Management — A detailed suite designed to enhance asset reliability and availability while reducing cost and risk

Integrate SAP offerings for supply chain to reap the benefits of cloud and a modern digital core.

How EY can help

The rewards of a resilient supply chain are both economic and social. When supplier status and the flow of goods can be monitored in real-time, businesses can better control costs, reduce risks and maximize throughput more effectively — all while meeting sustainability targets.

• Providing broad visibility and supply chain cost takeout: We identify levers through our EY Supply Chain Intelligence Platform, IBP/Control Tower, and SAP Ariba^®
• Reducing maintenance costs and unplanned downtime: Intelligent enterprise systems that automatically place orders to refill warehouses and sensors to predict maintenance are all radically improving inventory management processes. Sensorization of the supply chain is driving business value
• Leveraging SAP Design to Operate^® (D2O) platform to build a resilient supply chain — clients are rethinking supply chain and pivoting towards smaller asset base with increased flexibility to respond to significant changes in demand and supply
• Deepening SAP and Supply Chain and Operations capabilities across planning through execution to deliver outcome-based end-to-end supply chain transformation and innovation 
• Driving value and help in accelerating SAP S/4HANA^® business cases through supply chain-focused levers of cost reduction, increased end-to-end visibility, demand and supply planning variability for increased resiliency
• Introducing vehicle logistics — Focused value and offering
• Managing costs and working capital with EY’s SAP Ariba/IBP play
• Delivering transportation as a service powered by SAP Transportation Management^® (TM)
• Providing distribution as a service powered by Extended Warehouse Management^® (EWM)
• Integrating “sentiment pulse check” through Qualtrics^®/CX across supply chain offerings

Key value drivers

• Increasing visibility across the supply chain (inventory, capacity, employee performance, supplier risk, etc.)
• Improving forecast accuracy to drive improved customer service, revenue growth, and lower inventory positions and carrying costs
• Aligning sales and operations planning processes with strategic objectives to drive collaborative demand and supply planning across the supply chain 
• Automating processes, manual effort, and simplifying complex transactions 
• Advancing resource management (labor, physical products, material handling equipment, raw materials)