Supply chain disruptions are becoming more commonplace, with 75% of supply chain leaders expecting an increase in high impact disruptions, according to Gartner. Is your operation set up to effectively deal with disruptions?
Issues such as staffing shortages, environmental commitments, natural disasters and military conflict, can all cause disruptions that cause businesses to shift priorities and make business process changes. Creating a robust, agile supply chain that can adapt through renewed disruption is critical to meet demand, maintain supply and succeed into the future.
As a result, businesses that wish to excel throughout this period, rather than just weather the storm, are embracing digital transformation and strategic technological innovations. PreBilt™, our mobile user experience for the SAP supply chain, is increasingly being adopted by global brands to streamline supply chain operations, driving efficiency and productivity and helping businesses to promote resilience across domestic and international supply chains.
Flexibility
When a crisis hits, it can come with little to no warning, forcing businesses to shift priorities and adapt business processes immediately to mitigate impact, with systems and technology needing to be adjusted quickly to meet new business needs. However, many mobile solutions take weeks or even months to reconfigure, especially when delivering new functionality, leading to inefficient processes, poor productivity and lost revenue.
Changes to PreBilt can be made in minutes by customers’ internal teams with simple configuration, without the need for any development or technical resource, offering customers the flexibility to be able to easily adapt to business changes.
Real-time Analytics
Having access to configurable, real-time analytics can help you to identify issues and take the right action to sustain operations. Whether you operate SAP IM, WM, StRM or EWM, PreBilt can be configured to display any data from SAP in a user-friendly screen, helping companies track the performance of key processes across multiple locations. This insight lets businesses easily identify which specific areas are oversupplied or require more resource. By giving supply chain managers the live information necessary to solve issues as they occur, companies are better equipped to navigate external disruption before it affects production, delivery or revenue.
Multi-Language Functionality
Global businesses often have operators at different locations, who may not speak the same language. Many mobile solutions do not have translation options, making it difficult to implement as standard without making tasks harder for some users, especially in a global network. This can lead to several solutions being used, so if personnel are moved to support a struggling location, they are unfamiliar with the technology and cannot work efficiently. PreBilt can accommodate any language in the SAP language packs, with users able to select a preferred translation as soon as they log in. While the solution is already user-friendly by design, this ensures any operator can work confidently, while also enabling the efficient standardisation of processes across all locations worldwide.
Offline Working
Intermittent Wi-Fi coverage can disrupt supply chain activities, with many mobile solutions dropping out if internet connection is lost, causing operators to lose their progress on a task and needing to log in again to repeat it. These so-called internet ‘black spots’ can disrupt and hinder the speed of operations, leading to costly downtime and frustrated workers. PreBilt’s blackspot recovery functionality pauses a process if the WiFi drops temporarily, once a connection is restored the user can continue the task without needed to log in again. This dramatically reduces the time lost to forced repetitions, while making daily activity easier and more efficient.
Supply chain disruption is an ever-present risk in any sector, whether your business trades locally or with customers across the world. PreBilt helps companies to establish resilience whilst improving user experience. By leveraging powerful insights from live analytics, preventing delays from inconsistent coverage and eliminating confusion from mistranslations, organisations can swiftly overcome disruption with a stronger, future-proof solution.
To see how PreBilt can revolutionise your supply chain, get in touch with our SAP supply chain experts today.