SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Effective supply chain management begins with effective planning – a forward-looking process of determining how to best identify and fulfil requirements for goods and services. This intricate cross-functional process is comprised of demand, source, acquisition and transportation planning and entails collaboration between the local, regional and global levels of the Organization.

The Office of Supply Chain Management is leading a significant change in supply chain planning process across the organization and working closely with Umoja and client entities in designing the Demand Planning/ Supply Network Planning (DP/SNP) solution.

The DP/SNP solution and the accompanying changes in the planning process, streamline and improve supply chain planning data and processes within the different levels of the Organization. The solution will be both developed and deployed gradually, with the first roll out mid 2020.  It will be the Organization’s first SAP cloud solution and the first major public sector implementation of its kind.

The solution will allow the planning process to be conducted within a single system that applies historical data and forecasting models and provides planners with instant visibility on available stocks and inventory in the pipeline. The supply network planning processes will be enriched with the ability to automatically link demand to existing stocks, contracts and facilitate global source and acquisition plans.

The solution is being developed by the Umoja team and the Umoja Coordination Service (OSCM/DOS) in collaboration with selected entities that make up the Solution Validation Group.

Here are some of the benefits and improvements that this solution will generate:

VISIBILITY: move supply chain data out of silos and make it available across the organization
INTEGRATION:  visibility across the same set of data and plans across extended supply chain
AGGREGATION & DISAGGREGATION: within category, mission and at global level
INTELLIGENCE: enhanced advance planning with the input and intelligence of data availability
ACCESSIBILITY: involve multiple entities/ sections in discussions on optimizing the plan
EFFICIENCY: right product at the right time and at optimal cost
OPTIMIZING: availability of material whilst optimizing inventory levels
AGILITY: create and manage an agile supply network to achieve service levels

Learn more about DP/SNP!

• Gross Demand Explained - In this video you will learn how Gross Demand is defined and calculated in the DPSNP Solution through an example.
• Historical Data Adjustment - In this video you will learn the importance of Historical data adjustments, why it is important to adjust historic data, and the steps to do it in the DPSNP Solution.
• Automatic Cleansing - In this video you will learn what is Automatic Cleansing, the concepts and process behind Automatic Cleansing in the DPSNP Solution.
• Segmentation in Planning - In this video you will learn what is Segmentation (ABC\XYZ), its  importance for Demand Planning and the steps to carry out Segmentation in the DPSNP Solution.
• Statistical Forecasting - In this video you will learn the definition of Statistical Forecasting and the process to carry out Forecasting in the DPSNP Solution.
• Entity Priority Projects (EPPs)  - In this video you will learn whatEntity Priority Projects are , their importance and how it is captured in the DPSNP Solution.

Additional Resources:

DP/SNP Ket Benefits Inforgraphic

PD/SNP Announcement Poster