mySAP SCM Overview

November 17, 2009 by CRM
Filed under: SAP Overview

mySAP Supply Chain Management (mySAP SCM) within the mySAP Business Suite

The mySAP Business Suite is a family of solutions and services that empower customers, business partners, and employees to collaborate successfully – anywhere, anytime. With the mySAP Business Suite, SAP integrates its extensive business and industry expertise into a comprehensive platform of business solutions, services, and technology.

The mySAP Business Suite platform is based on an open, flexible architecture for collaboration across company boundaries. It supports databases, applications, operating systems, and hardware from almost every major vendor.

The following is goal of the mySAP SCM solution:

The main goal of the mySAP SCM solution is to support companies in planning, controlling, and optimizing their supply chains.
Supply chain management (SCM) helps you to reduce costs for procuring finished goods and raw materials, to improve customer service, to dramatically lower on-hand stocks, and to leverage all resources to bring substantial benefits to a company.

The following figure shows a typical supply chain with the associated flow of material, capital, and information.