Cable powers AI data centers, EV charging networks, and renewable energy projects. See how SAP helps cable manufacturers plan smarter.
Join host Simon Shores with SAP experts Mark Roepers, Stefan Weisenberger, and Chris Glander, plus Sandeep Mondkar, Partner at My Supply Chain Group (MSCG), part of NTT DATA, for a practical Expert Talk on the operational realities of cable and long products manufacturing.
Cable manufacturers face planning and pricing challenges that standard ERP systems were not built to handle: length-based materials, scrap minimization, real-time order promising, metal price volatility, and commodity pricing tied to exchanges such as LME and COMEX. This episode explores how SAP S/4HANA supports cable-specific requirements with embedded planning, advanced available-to-promise, PP/DS, commodity pricing, and a roadmap toward more autonomous, agentic supply chain planning.
In this Expert Talk, you’ll:
✔️ Learn why length-based planning can challenge traditional ERP—and how SAP Long Products Planning helps address it.
✔️ See a live demo of length-based aATP and MRP in SAP S/4HANA, including scrap minimization and real-time order promising.
✔️ Understand how SAP supports commodity pricing tied to LME and COMEX, including hedging and mark-to-market scenarios.
✔️ Hear how Prysmian, an SAP Innovation Award 2026 winner, achieved 70–80%+ efficiency gains with SAP Cloud ERP.
✔️ Get a partner perspective from MSCG, part of NTT DATA, on moving from SAP APO to embedded PP/DS and aATP architecture.
✔️ Discover what’s next for autonomous commodity management and agentic AI in supply chain planning.
Whether you work in cable, metals, long products, manufacturing, supply chain planning, or commodity-based industries, this discussion shows how SAP helps connect planning, pricing, execution, and business data in one integrated ERP foundation.
Chapters:
00:12 – Welcome and the cable industry
01:10 – Key challenges: Price volatility and length-based planning
05:52 – How SAP addresses cable-specific requirements
06:35 – Live demo: Length-based aATP and MRP in SAP S/4HANA
15:12 – Commodity pricing and metal exchange integration
17:12 – Customer story: Prysmian and partner perspective with MSCG / NTT DATA
25:57 – What’s next: Autonomous and agentic supply chain planning
Resources:
SAP Conference for Manufacturing, Materials, and Mining — Rome, October 2026: https://sap.to/6056BGR98w
Cable & Long Products Roundtable: https://sap.to/6057BGR98b
Product and release updates:
• Length-based planning in advanced available-to-promise: https://sap.to/6058BGR98j
• What’s new in SAP S/4HANA 2025 advanced available-to-promise: https://sap.to/6050BGR98e
• PP/DS in SAP Cloud ERP Private 2025: https://sap.to/6051BGR985
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