1. 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
Partner
Intrigo Systems
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)