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Start Free TrialStart WatchingHi, I am Martin Rowan, and in today's dynamic business world, many organizations rely on SAP to manage rising customer demands, shifting market dynamics, and the complexity of global supply chains. Yet, despite SAP's comprehensive functionality, its full potential often remains untapped. For over 30 years, we've led the charge in maximizing SAP's capabilities, and this journey has revealed a startling fact. Most organizations use less than 35 percent of SAP's capabilities. While the reasons may vary, there is always a common hurdle, a lack of targeted SAP training for the business user. This is where we step in. Our mission is to bridge the training gap, unlock SAP's complete potential for you, your team, and your organization. Imagine boosting process efficiencies by 25%, increasing service levels by as much as 20%, and reducing [00:01:00] inventories by 15%. With the right SAP knowledge, these results are possible. Welcome to Reveal TV, SAP's supply chain training that unlocks the most powerful features through expert led, concise demonstrations. Our easy to understand video content ensures you fully grasp each SAP function and feature. Collaborating with leading customers, Reveal TV zeroes in on the most sought after aspects of SAP ECC and S/4HANA. Our library is constantly growing, reflecting endless possibilities to fully harness the power of SAP. Plus, our AI driven video recommendations mean you spend less time searching and more time learning. So, join the Reveal TV community, and as a member, collaborate and enhance your company's supply chain performance. Together, let's revolutionize how you get the most out of SAP.
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The best way to learn is by doing so, welcome to the video service that unlocks and reveals the hidden value in your system. Martin here, and today we've got a good one, in this video we're going to explore a material availability date, otherwise known as the MAD date. SAP has such a wide variety of dates which all have specific purposes and lead to a flow of information that drives our supply chain. The material availability date is no exception, as is what drives the required on hand date for MRP, traffic light, stock on hand, and exceptions. It's pretty important. We don't want to miss out on what exactly it is. So, Kristie, why don't you tell us exactly why the material availability date is called the MAD date? Because Martin, it's the date that the customers get mad if we don't have material available, and that might be our external customers, or our sister facilities, or even the manufacturing floor. Okay, before I jump into SAP for this demo, did you at least chuckle? That's it, folks. That's as funny as she gets. Yeah, okay. So what will we see in the demo today? We will explore how the MAD date gets determined. And some very important and often overlooked lead time considerations. How it shows up in the stock requirements list and what the impact is on the MRP run and exception monitoring. Off we go! All right, let's go in and see what this MAD date is all about. So, as we previously said, the MAD date is the date that the customer gets MAD if we don't have the product available. It's the date that the product is needed to be on the shelf so that all the other subsequent activities that are required in order to get it out the door to the customer on time based on when we made and are now trying to keep that promise. So, if you go into a sales order, and I'm going to show you an example of what I would call a flat schedule. I'll explain how this is actually working. You may see this a lot on your sales orders and what I want to do is explain what maybe should be happening instead. So let's just go in and we're going to grab the second item and I'm going to go in and I can see that there's a schedule line.
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Reveal TV has been a game-changer for us over the past year. It’s been an invaluable tool for training new employees on SAP tasks and optimizing our Supply Management processes. When challenges arise, Reveal TV is our go to for solutions. The platform’s videos have also helped us enhance our materials management, including safety stock, scaled pricing, scheduling agreements, and supplier delivery reporting.
Reveal TV has empowered our team to explore possibilities within SAP. We’ve executed improvements by uncovering and implementing standard features and functions previously unknown to us. Additionally, as a leader of our ECC to S/4 upgrade, I’ve found it invaluable to translate new concepts from our systems integrators into tangible examples. By having our workstream leaders and subject matter experts watch short, informative videos before meetings, we've accelerated our understanding of SAP's capabilities, which has helped keep our project on schedule.
Bryce realizes real value from Reveal TV because it provides bite-sized learnings about key SAP functionality. Business users are now empowered to explore useful capabilities before approaching IT to arrange further research and testing. It has also significantly reduced the workload on our lean SAP support team in terms of producing training materials, and I anticipate it will be crucial as we assess important features on the road to S/4HANA.
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