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mySAP Supply Chain Management (mySAP SCM) is a supply chain solution that can help organizations change from a linear supply chain into an adaptive supply chain network, in which communities of customer-centric, demand-driven companies share knowledge, intelligently adapt to changing market conditions, and proactively respond to shorter, less predictable life cycles (mySAP SCM).

Overview: Chupa Chups, the largest manufacturer of lollipops in the world, wanted to reorient its manufacturing processes - from make-to-order to make-to-stock. The company also needed a solution that would help it reduce inventories, anticipate customer demand, synchronize planning and execution, foresee bottlenecks, and integrate suppliers so it could avoid possible delays. mySAP Supply Chain Management (mySAP SCM) delivered the goods, and provided the company with the advanced demand-planning tools it was looking for.

After identifying that SCM software solutions were a suitable research topic, market research from Gartner identified mySAP SCM 4.1 as the SCM software solution with the highest market share (see figures 5.1 and 5.2 and section 5.4 for more information about the SCM software market). This was the reason why this dissertation focuses on mySAP SCM 4.1. However, it transpired that not much information was available which dealt with mySAP SCM 4.1 and other software solutions from an objective and academic point of view. Most information and analysis of mySAP SCM 4.1 was published through company white papers or white papers of SAP’s suppliers which means this source of information potentially was biased. Therefore further academic research in this area was of high importance.

As a first step for further academic research in the area of mySAP SCM 4.1, this dissertation provides information about SCM software solutions and focuses on the SCM software solution with the highest international market share in 2004 (mySAP SCM 4.1). To understand its functionalities, its architecture and its success, the most important SCM business concepts that lead to its development are illustrated together with information about the SCM software market.