Aptelis SCM Practice
Empower your supply network by empowering you
With current market trends and increased competition, companies are forced to become more flexible and efficient while continuing to minimize costs. Traditional supply chain processes are no longer capable of meeting the increased expectations of your customers.
Fortunately, with Aptelis, companies can seamlessly integrate SAP ERP with SAP SCM and transform supply chain processes into an adaptive network aimed at reducing delays, costs, and missed opportunities that allow you to best serve even your most challenging customers. SCM enables collaboration, planning, execution and coordination of the entire supply network, to empower you to stay ahead in this ever-changing competitive environment.
Key benefits realized by SAP SCM are:
- Increase demand accuracy and order fulfillment satisfaction levels by integrating your forecasting and demand planning processes with your customer and vendors
- Maintain accurate and efficient levels of inventory across the network increasing your profitability and productivity
- Integrate sales and operations planning process to increase visibility over your supply chain network
Your needs are specific and unique which is why we believe your solution should be too. Aptelis offers a solution beginning with an assessment of your current supply chain and can deliver SCM solutions to fit your requirements. We deliver complete business consulting, technical integration and upgrades. Our expertise in industry-specific solutions coupled with knowledge of best practices offers a comprehensive and exclusive offering tailored to your business.
- Strategic Planning
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Aptelis provides a variety of strategic advisory services based on our deep understanding of business processes, supply chain solution capabilities, and technical environments. Our SCM customized assessments include the following:
- Roadmap development – Understand the complicated balance between short-term needs and long-term strategy, recognize the financial and technical implications, and handle the multiple vendor landscape. Includes workshops, strategic roadmaps, and upgrade or migration assessments.
- Solution effectiveness assessment – Aptelis can work with you to ensure that you make the most of your investment. Our assessments give you greater visibility into your SAP solution showing you how to better maximize and maintain utilization, end-user effectiveness, and total cost of ownership. Key items covered in our assessments include:
- SCM Health checks
- SCM tool selection
- Current supply chain environment
- Integration environment
- Maximize your SCM environment
- Sales and operations planning and forecasting
- Inventory management
- Distribution management
- Supply chain effectiveness
- Ship fill rates
- Solution Architecture – Aptelis can plan, create and oversee the integration points of other systems that you may use within your own supply chain to ensure the effectiveness of the overall solution. By taking a holistic view at the feasibility, timing, quality, etc of all the related systems, we can properly manage the complex and highly integrated requirements, systems and parties. Such potential systems include:
- Customer and vendor applications
- Manufacturing execution systems
- Third-party logistics systems (3PL)
- Program / Project Management
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Aptelis believes project and program management are a critical ingredient of success. With that in mind, we offer meticulously selected project managers to provide managerial support to projects, organizations, and C-level executives. We can assist you in the design and management of your implementation and service your extensions, upgrades and support.
Whether as a strategic advisor or as part of your team, Aptelis project management can help you achieve both your business and IT objectives. We provide expert leadership to help you make informed decisions and achieve targeted business improvements.
Aptelis project management offers the following deliverables:
- Project Assessment – to help you determine the project scope, timeline and budget planning
- Project Charter – to ensure consistent understanding of project scope, objectives, business risks, mitigation plans and implementation strategy
- Best Practices – to maximize the benefits of using SAP and minimize the time, effort and cost of the implementation
- Business Blueprint – to ensure the proper design of the SAP supported processes and the new system that will support your business plan
- Detailed Project Plan – to ensure all required activities for the project are captured, assigned, and managed properly.
- Roadmap – to provide a clear view of the current project and future phases to ensure continuous improvement of your SAP solution to meet your future needs
- Governance Structure – Our approach provides for a crucial balance of both the client and Aptelis resources. Information travels up from the project team with decisions traveling down keeping the project team focused on execution and the program sponsors focused on decision-making. This structure provides for risk mitigation, status updates, and project integrity through its detailed and contextual visibility of budget, scope and schedule.
- Assessment, Planning and Deployment – Our approach provides a detailed project plan to ensure all aspects of the project and program are tracked and managed with the focuson driving tasks to deliverables. Includes integration plan, quality assurance, testing, security, data migration, cutover and production support.
- Enablement Program – Our approach helps to ensure that after you enable your IT solution, your organization can fully support it. This includes an assessment of your organizations readiness, and the creation of a plan to make sure there is an effective and efficient adoption of the new technology. Additionally, we work to ensure that the support and operations teams are comfortable with the new systems and technology by providing training and knowledge transfer programs.
- Implementation / Upgrades
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Aptelis has been implementing SAP for more than 10 years. Our robust SCM practice supports a complete offering of end-to-end projects– from project preparation to post go-live support. We utilize proven ASAP methodologies, expert knowledge and integration of SAP-ERP and other systems to deliver a solution that is not only cost effective, but also easy to maintain thus reducing the total cost of ownership.
- SCM Implementations
- Demand Planning (DP) and Forecasting
- Supply Network Planning (SNP)
- Production Planning and Detail Scheduling (PP/DS)
- Global Available to Promise (GATP)
- Supply Network Collaboration (SNC) Transportation Planning/Vehicle Scheduling (TP/VS)
- Safety Stock Planning
- Inventory Optimization
- SCM upgrades (from 3.0 to the latest versions)
- Data migration templates, data conversion
- Testing
- SAP methodologies and tools
- Global templates rollouts
- Support
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Aptelis provides both onsite and offsite production support services for our clients. These services can be used to cover short-term needs after a recent “Go-Live” and long-term Application Management Services. With our experience and expertise, customers can leverage our services to provide effective onsite support as needed or to augment your IT staff for the long term.
SAP production support is becoming increasingly complex, with factors such as 24X7 support, global locations, multiple time zones, employee turnover, ongoing upgrades, etc, each factor poses a unique challenge. With our partnership network of dedicated consultants and support staff, we are able to provide off Application Management Services that greatly reduce the impact of these requirements. Aptelis’ support offerings include:- 24X7 support
- Incident Management
- Application Management Services
- Help desk support
- System monitoring and management
- Process support
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