What is supply chain event management (SCEM) and what is SAP Event Management (SAP EM)?
As defined by AMR Research, SCEM “is an application that supports control processes for managing companies.” It allows you to monitor your supply chain processes, providing visibility within the process and alerting appropriate parties to potential critical situations. SCEM is a key capability within SAP Supply Chain Management (mySAP SCM) Visibility. The back-bone of SAP’s SCEM solution is SAP Event Management (SAP EM). The SAP EM application provides or improves visibility within your logistics processes for both planning and execution. Due to the flexibility of the solution, you can map, control, and check all required business processes. A role-based approach makes it possible to view the same business process from various points of view. You can use SAP EM to process messages about the events in business processes and thereby notify in various ways those involved in the supply chain network about business events that have occurred. By actively notifying the responsible persons and
