Everyone says it, and almost every Supply Chain related blog states it as its raison d’etre – our supply chains are complex, covering the globe and existing at multiple levels of finished goods, raw materials, work in progress etc. Being able to see this complexity is notoriously difficult, and many specialist tools exist to provide better insight to your Supply Chain network – but they are often standalone software packages, not linked to the day to day operations and so only provide a static snapshot view.

SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) version 1708 added the next generation tool for visualising your Supply Chain network – a Fiori app which replaced the old analytics Network Visualisation chart. The old told tool was very basic and provided only a simple view of your network. Great for validating models, but added very little value add and wasn't user friendly or flexible.

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Warehouse space is one of those things that nearly all supply chains can’t live without. We talk a lot about getting our inventory targets correct, but how often are our targets driven by other constraints such as warehouse space at certain nodes in our network? 

Should such a commodity such as warehouse space drive our inventory decisions, and potentially put customer service at risk? These are big, philosophical supply chains questions which S&OP processes are in place to address – but we can help this process by providing the best information we can. 

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