SAP Solution: MRP

SAP partner Camelot is committed to the supreme discipline for flexibility, transparency and customer orientation. Demand-driven is the logical and contemporary approach to supply chain management. As a pioneer for Demand-driven SCM, Camelot has decisively brought the concept as well as SAP-based solutions forward. How? Peter M.... discussed with Christian Kroschl, Frank Arnold and Patrick Wolf (from left).

Mr. Wetterauer, to what extent is demand-driven MRP worthwhile for companies?

At Sapphire, SAP unveiled its development strategy for Demand-Driven MRP. This supports a concept that finally adapts supply chain planning to business realities. For many SAP users, this is still uncharted territory.

Series manufacturers in machine, equipment and component construction are faced with the challenge of planning their production processes more efficiently in order to ensure adherence to schedules, make optimum use of capacities and reduce inventories. The remedy of choice is usually a conversion of production planning to new tools - this is easier with adapted templates and predefined functions.

The wealth of information continues to increase with the digital transformation. At the DSAG annual congress, FIS will show how data volumes can be managed and which tools can be used to extract added value for the business from the information.

27 minutes instead of 22 hours for a material requirements planning - that is the performance increase that an MRP solution with Hana technology achieves compared to a classic MRP.