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Supply Chain Analytics is a technique to interrogate key supply chain historical data includes stock levels, sales history, sale demand, order fulfilment, inventory turns and future demand forecasts. the output usually presents as follows:

  • Quantities, volume, values, costs, profit, margin, mark-up & percentage;
  • Over time periods range - by comparing this year with last year or any period against any period;
  • Against budgets or forecasts;
  • Matrix, charts or graphs of customer, product, time and business sector;
  • Indicator of identifying high or low performance;
  • Warnings based upon key business criteria.

Benefits of using supply chain analystic are:

  • To identify areas for improvement and drive further efficiencies in your business processes;
  • To improve customer satisfaction;
  • To identify areas of new opportunities, i.e. Value Added Services;
  • To capture and forecast further growth in business sectors.

References

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  • [www.sap.com/lines-of-business/scm/supply-chain-analytics]