How DataRobot and SAP are Optimising Supply Chains Using AI
Rising consumer demand for more personalised and faster services, globalisation and stricter regulatory environments – just some of the reasons why global supply chains are growing in their complexity.
Organisations are therefore looking to intelligent supply chain solutions powered by ML, AI advanced analytics and automation to enhance resilience, agility and sustainability.
As part of its partnership with SAP, DataRobot has revealed new AI application suites crafted for finance and supply chain operations, empowering AI teams to implement and catalyse the delivery of AI solutions for business users.
These customisable and pre-configured suites utilise existing business data across SAP platforms such as SAP Datasphere, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba and SAP IBP.
Venky Veeraraghavan, Chief Product Officer at DataRobot, explains: "We are excited to expand our partnership with SAP as an AI partner. Together, we are addressing the two biggest challenges we hear from AI teams: how to build the most meaningful AI use cases for specific business roles and how to quickly integrate these AI solutions into business processes.
“With our new AI application suites for SAP, we have all the business logic, AI logic, observability, governance and deployment blueprints built in, freeing up AI teams to focus on fine-tuning and customising applications to meet their business needs.”
DataRobot and SAP
DataRobot and SAP’s partnership strives to enhance several business operations by integrating advanced AI capabilities into SAP environments.
The pre-built, persona-based AI applications are crafted to seamlessly integrate with several SAP systems and are fully customisable to meet unique business needs.
The DataRobot Supply Chain and Operations AI App Suite for SAP aim to enhance lead time estimation, demand planning, inventory management and workforce planning by utilising data from SAP Ariba, SAP IBP and SAP S/4HANA. This means companies can align production with demand for operational efficiency and cost savings, optimise logistics and reduce stockouts.
AI apps in this suite help with lead time estimation and late shipments, demand planning, inventory management and workforce planning.
Meanwhile, the DataRobot Finance AI App Suite for SAP empowers finance teams to use advanced AI logic to improve profitability and forecasting and deliver real-time financial insights by utilising data from the SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP S/4HANA (Finance and Treasury) solutions.
DataRobot AI apps are being used to improve demand planning and cash flow forecasting by companies such as King’s Hawaiian.
“We used to run forecasting once a year with minor monthly changes," reveals Ray Fager, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at King’s Hawaiian. "Now, we are constantly re-forecasting and all those decisions come right out of DataRobot, with 96% accuracy. That feeds our production plan, our finance team and everything else.”
The DataRobot-SAP partnership ensures businesses can deploy, develop and manage custom AI applications that maintain enterprise-grade security and governance and are tailored to specific SAP use cases.
The new AI application suites will tackle key AI integration challenges by embedding observability, business logic, deployment and governance tools, minimising the need for additional manual processes and infrastructure.
Irfan Khan, President and Chief Product Officer for SAP Data and Analytics, states: "Our expanded partnership with DataRobot will bring AI-powered insight apps to SAP customers across industries and lines of business—enabling them to rapidly adopt AI, enhance decision-making, optimise operations and drive business transformation at scale.
“Together, we are empowering organisations across industries to accelerate AI adoption and achieve real business impact with enterprise-grade AI solutions.”
Shaping the future of supply chain
Supply chain teams stand to gain real-time insights across inventory, demand, workforce planning and logistics by integrating AI into SAP systems.
As AI-powered lead time estimation and forecasting support businesses in adapting quickly to changes in demand and anticipate disruptions, enhanced inventory and workforce planning helps to prevent overstocking, eliminate waste and optimise logistics.
The suite catalyses the future of autonomous supply chains by integrating intelligence into every stage of operations while paving the way for faster AI implementation across industries by integrating AI into familiar systems.
The DataRobot AI app suite will ensure supply chains can become adaptive and intelligent ecosystems that can effectively respond to today’s changing challenges and technological advancements.
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