Supply Chain Management Based on SAP Systems: Order Management in Manufacturing Companies

by Peter Mertens, Alexander Zeier, Gerhard F. Knolmayer, et al.

Book Overview

In recent years, Supply Chain Management (SCM) has become one of the most widely discussed issues on top management s agenda. One essential precondition for the implementation of SCM concepts are powerful information systems. Many manufacturing companies deploy the logistics modules of the SAP R/3 system. In 1997 SAP enlarged its focus beyond Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and started an SCM initiative, which resulted in the Advanced Planner...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540669523
• ISBN13: 9783540669524
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

talks about mySAP.com as a portal and marketplace

The book seems best for a newcomer to SAP's software. It describes at a fairly high level the very complex set of packages that SAP offers. There is a topic that might be of especial interest to some readers. mySAP.com. This is an enterprise-wide portal plus a marketplace. In the computer press, it has received wide publicity. Partly because it gave employees a more role-based and more personalised view into their corporate resources. While the marketplace aspect was a reaction to the rise of the b2b startups during the dot com era. Though most of those startups failed, they did propagate the idea of a convenient marketplace on the Internet. The book shows how SAP implemented this.

Okay, for expaling SAP in Supply Chain

I have worked for SAP America some time ago in the module of CRM however when I changed careers and went into automotive supply chain, I needed to understand my work. Well, I purchased this book. It's OKAY for understand supply chain in SAP but find another book for learning the functinal processes, this book explains the business process. Too, the author does give a good overview of how supply chain management is used in the SAP environment. It would be a good reference point if your company is implementing SCM in SAP.

Absolutely Recommended !!

As leader of a customer dervice dept. in a company who just implemented SAP, I can only recommend this book. Not only because its relevance to SAP users, but also because it is a very easy to read and excellent written introduction to modern supply chain management and it's basic functions and challenges. No matter if you use SAP or not, you will like this book if you are beginning to deal with supply chain improvements from a basic level. Read this before any other supply chain book and then compare. I am sure you will come back to this publication over and over again.