Re-imagine your supply chain for resilience in the new economy
Solve Supply Chain Planning Challenges with DXC Oxygen Services for SAP IBP
Harness SAP IBP (Integrated Business Planning) for integrated, real-time planning with end-to-end supply chain visibility, available to any business that lacks sophisticated business planning capabilities.
Implemented by DXC Oxygen, customers can get up and running with SAP’s IBP cloud offering within a short timeframe. This rapid deployment to SAP IBP enables customers to quickly identify requirements, supply bottlenecks, match demand with supply and better serve customers.
With a focus on solving key planning challenges in the supply chain, SAP IBP provides the latest tools for managing sales and operations planning and cross-business collaboration. The solution offers inventory planning optimisation and control tower analytics for complete business visibility across rapidly changing supply and demand conditions.
Ideal for organisations who wish to move away from poorly integrated third party planning software and/or error-prone spreadsheets, SAP IBP offers:
- Powerful scenario and ‘what if’ planning capabilities to better manage volatile trading conditions
- A means to accurately simulate and predict short-term supply and demand impacts
- The capability to devise powerful strategies to enable post COVID-19 success.
This solution gives customers a foundation, business-wide planning solution, which can be expanded incrementally to further improve business resilience.
Alternative Procurement solutions
DXC Oxygen can help you establish new or alternative procurement strategies for supply chains impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. This FREE solution gives organisations — whether or not they are SAP Ariba customers — access to SAP’s Ariba Network to find new buyers and sellers.
The onset of the COVID-19 crisis has put extreme pressure on traditional supply chains. Many organisations are experiencing unprecedented disruption in the form of border closures, stock supply interruptions and urgent changes to manufacturing directives.
Available free-of-charge until 30 June 2020, SAP Ariba Discovery mitigates upsets in the supply chain by allowing buyers to search for and create postings for goods and services to reach existing and, more importantly, new potential suppliers. The process is easy, requiring entering only the product description, service location and deadline. It allows:
- Buyers to invite matched suppliers to participate. Suppliers can review the published postings and bid for the buyer’s business. It opens the door to finding alternative sources of supply with 4 million suppliers in more than 190 countries.
- Suppliers to list their products to find new buyers. This is a powerful capability for organisations that have redirected their efforts into creating new products for which they do not have pre-existing customer relationships.
SAP Ariba Discovery helps bring the right partners to the table to provide both with more options as they face today’s challenges. It creates opportunities to increase and diversify business connections and opens pathways for sustainable growth in uncertain times.
Assure supplier continuity during the COVID-19 crisis
DXC Oxygen can help you discover vital information from suppliers to plan, prepare and take urgent action to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
DXC Oxygen’s Supplier Continuity offering, powered by SAP Qualtrics Experience Management software, gives organisations a deeper understanding of their suppliers’ current business challenges.
This templated solution consists of an online survey that businesses send to their suppliers. The solution’s pre-built reporting summarises survey responses and provides the business with the insights it needs to mitigate supply chain risk and support business continuity.
The short supplier survey gathers feedback that allows organisations to understand their current and future supply chain risk exposure. They can:
- Gauge supplier confidence in meeting demand
- Identify risk factors affecting fulfillment, such as personnel availability, business continuity plan (BCP) evaluation, supply chain disruptions and timelines
- Identify measures to reduce supplier risk, such as adjusting terms to better support supplier continuity
- Adjust disaster recovery plans to maintain business continuity
- Pivot to new suppliers to minimise impacts on the customer experience
- Explore the manufacture of alternative products if existing supply chains cannot be maintained
To help expedite the changes needed to survive, SAP Qualtrics, an Experience Management platform solution, has made a number of survey and reporting solutions available for FREE. DXC Oxygen is available now to implement these solutions for customers and will facilitate the creation of their SAP Qualtrics account.
