Rainer Köhler
Marcel Rooch
Introduction
As part of SAP’s cloud strategy, the new cloud solution SAP Order and Delivery Scheduling (ODS) has been launched on the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). SAP ODS is designed to help companies manage order and delivery schedules within the procurement process – thereby closing a critical gap that many SAP customers had previously filled with custom solutions.
Integrating SAP ODS into SAP BTP has enabled customers to centrally manage their order and delivery schedules and share them with other systems, including SAP S/4HANA, SAP Predictive Replenishment (PRP), SAP Customer Activity Repository (CAR), and third-party applications.
How SAP ODS supports your business
With SAP Order and Delivery Scheduling, you can:
- Create and manage scheduling groups
- Define order and delivery schedules
- Map multiple orders/deliveries on the same day
- Create delivery templates and assign them to scheduling groups
- Manage events and define event rules
- Generate, review, and update order and delivery schedules
What business needs does SAP ODS address?
SAP Order and Delivery Scheduling is designed to help you flexibly and automatically generate order and delivery schedules.
In detail, SAP offers:
- Standard delivery scheduling
- Recognition of supplier holidays
- Special scheduling for holiday weeks (e.g. Christmas, Easter)
- Special scheduling for one-off events (e.g. store closures due to renovation)
- Special scheduling with varying dates across multiple weeks
What integration capabilities does SAP ODS offer?
SAP S/4HANA:
- Transfer of master data, such as that concerning suppliers, location, products, supply networks, and calendars
- Provision of order and delivery schedules to SAP S/4HANA
- Reflection of ODS order and delivery schedules in orders
SAP Customer Activity Repository (CAR): Provision of order and delivery schedules.
SAP Predictive Replenishment (PRP): Provision of order and delivery schedules.
Third-party systems: Provision of order and delivery schedules via APIs.
What advantages does SAP ODS offer?
- A central point of maintenance
- Automated creation of scheduling groups
- Automated calculation of order and delivery dates based on predefined templates
- Both standard and customised maintenance of schedules and dates
- Flexible date adjustments
- A clear calendar view with visual highlights and the ability to edit dates/schedules directly
Looking ahead
In the coming articles in this series, we’ll explore the features, use cases, and benefits of SAP Order and Delivery Scheduling in more depth. Using practical examples, we’ll also show how SAP ODS can be embedded within an existing IT landscape.
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