E3 Category: Coverstory 18-07

SAP partner Camelot is committed to the supreme discipline for flexibility, transparency and customer orientation. Demand-driven is the logical and contemporary approach to supply chain management. As a pioneer for Demand-driven SCM, Camelot has decisively brought the concept as well as SAP-based solutions forward. How? Peter M.... discussed with Christian Kroschl, Frank Arnold and Patrick Wolf (from left).

Is demand-driven really an innovation or just old wine in new bottles? What is demand-driven MRP & Co. all about, and why should the SAP community be addressing this topic right now?

Mr. Wetterauer, to what extent is demand-driven MRP worthwhile for companies?

With SAP-based enhancement solutions from DDMRP to Demand-driven Supply Chain Management.

An extension solution co-developed by Camelot ITLab and SAP makes Demand-driven MRP implementable in SAP's latest planning technology.

For the implementation of demand-driven supply chain management concepts in the chemical, life science and consumer goods industries, Camelot Demand-driven Lean Planning Suite is an integrated software suite based on SAP.

In the following you can read two use cases (pharmaceutical industry and consumer goods industry) where the Camelot solution has been applied.

In this E-3 exclusive interview, Camelot's Christophe Hudelmaier and Ludmilla Kemling provide an outlook on where DDMRP is headed in the coming years and what steps companies can take to turn it into a competitive advantage.

In order to meet customer demands efficiently, demand-driven supply chain management must be designed to ensure that material gets to the right place at the right time and that relevant information is available for planning and implementation. This is where many conventional KPIs fail.