SAP for Telecommunications supports the full range of processes you need to improve collaboration among partners, reduce costs, and optimize your IT investment, including:

• Demand and supply planning – SAP solutions allow you to tailor the supply infrastructure to your needs, avoiding both overstock and understock situations. You can collaborate with internal sales organizations, dealers, sales partners, suppliers, and major customers to improve planning accuracy. The solutions also enable you to draw on historical data and market forecasts, giving you the power to quickly – and profitably – introduce new products and services.
• Investment management – With SAP for Telecommunications, you can capitalize on financial, logistic, and project management capabilities to make key strategic decisions about infrastructure projects, deploy network components effectively, and manage spend with comprehensive cost-control features.
• Network design and build – SAP solutions provide support throughout your infrastructure deployment, with project management capabilities that enable effective deployment of the appropriate network components. You can optimize your current infrastructure and plan for future needs to support the development and growth of new technologies and products. The solutions allow you to integrate materials management and asset accounting, so you can establish end-to-end processes over the full network life cycle.
• Operations and maintenance – SAP solutions support the management of fixed assets and resources, so you can improve physical inventory processes, inventory visibility, and procurement processes, leading to a better ROI. With SAP for Telecommunications, you can also leverage mobile workforce management capabilities to empower your field technicians, giving them access to consistent data from mobile devices anywhere and anytime. Plus, resource planners can optimize field personnel – resulting in better communication between the back office and the mobile workforce; reduced overhead associated with travel, communications, and idle time; and better levels of customer service.

Network life-cycle management is enabled with SAP applications such as SAP ERP, SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM), and SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM). To find out how these applications can help you improve your network life-cycle management, please complete the "Contact SAP" form and request information about enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, or product life-cycle management.