Planning More Effectively with SAP® Sales and Operations Planning powered by SAP HANA® Company SMART Modular Technologies Inc. Headquarters Newark, California Industry High tech Products and Services Design, development, and deployment of current and next-generation memory products Employees 1,400 Web Site www.smartm.com Partner Intrigo Systems www.intrigosys.com Business challenges Planning processes that could not be scaled to keep up with fast company growth Lack of capabilities to support a value-driven and profitability- oriented sales and operations planning process that is linked to business strategy Technical implementation Implemented the SAP® Sales and Operations Planning application powered by the SAP HANA® platform Key benefits Standardized, optimized, and automated the sales and operations planning process, substantially reducing planning cycle times and workload Increased efficiency and accuracy of the forecasting process, and enabled the identification of critical component shortages Enabled integrated business planning Unified Picture of sales, profits, and share targets, all in one system Fast Cycle times with fewer manual and labor-intensive sales and operations planning processes Intuitive User interfaces and embedded collaboration tools that help boost user productivity “SAP Sales and Operations Planning powered by SAP HANA helps SMART Modular manage our sales and operations planning in a collaborative and efficient manner. We see a single version of the plan from sales to planning to materials to the factory, all of which can be correlated to financial performance. The result is true integrated business planning.” Srini Tanikella, Director IT Solutions, SMART Modular Technologies Inc. CMP29938 (14/02)