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Supply Chain

What moves, where, and when.

Planners, buyers, and warehouse leads work in a constant exception loop. MRP throws thousands of messages a week and the same 20% of them matter. Joule agents read the planning run, the supplier signal, the warehouse exception, and the freight feed in one pass and rank the day's actual decisions.

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Last updated May 2026

Joule agents in Supply Chain

What we have shipped, and what we can build for you.

SAP validated our first 20 Joule agents in early 2026. The library keeps growing. Below are the agents that land in supply chain, plus concepts our agent factory can build next. See the full catalog

What each agent does on its own

  • Flags watches and tells your team, takes no action itself
  • Suggests drafts the work, a person approves it before anything happens
  • Acts handles routine steps itself, within limits your team sets
Shipped Suggests

MRP Exception Processor

Compares stock against safety and max levels and flags expedite, halt, or obsolescence with the action proposed.

SAP:
S/4HANA MM, PP, IBP
Outcome:
Stock-outs, planner hours
Shipped Suggests

Plant Maintenance Work Orders

Triages open maintenance notifications and drafts work orders with full history context.

SAP:
S/4HANA PM
Outcome:
PM compliance rate
Shipped Suggests

Plant Maintenance Service Technician

Helps techs plan their day with open work orders by priority and spare parts on the van.

SAP:
S/4HANA PM, MRS
Outcome:
Wrench time, first-time-fix rate
Shipped Suggests

Warehouse Receiving

Investigates inbound deliveries, traces discrepancies to the PO, and proposes accept, reject, partial, or hold.

SAP:
S/4HANA EWM, MM, QM
Outcome:
Receiving exception cycle time
Shipped Suggests

Warehouse Shipping

Investigates outbound deliveries and traces exceptions to the originating sales order.

SAP:
S/4HANA EWM, SD, TM
Outcome:
On-time ship rate
Shipped Suggests

Warehouse Order

The EWM execution layer for warehouse orders, tasks, handling units, and exception codes.

SAP:
S/4HANA EWM
Outcome:
Pick exception rate
Shipped Suggests

PR-to-PO Accelerator

Converts released PRs into POs grouped by supplier, with terms and Incoterms applied.

SAP:
S/4HANA MM, Ariba
Outcome:
PR-to-PO cycle, off-contract spend
Shipped Flags

Procurement Risk Analyzer

Detects overdue POs, groups by supplier, and surfaces reliability signals across categories.

SAP:
S/4HANA MM, Joule Skills
Outcome:
Supplier-driven downtime
Shipped Suggests

Supplier 360

Single entry point for supplier investigation across S/4HANA master, procurement, credit, and risk.

SAP:
S/4HANA, Ariba, GRC
Outcome:
Parts on single source
Concept Suggests

Outbound Wave Resequencer

Reads open deliveries, carrier cutoffs, dock capacity, and labor on the floor and reprioritizes the wave when an exception lands.

SAP:
S/4HANA EWM, TM, SD
Outcome:
Dock-to-truck cycle time
Concept Suggests

Slow-Mover and Obsolescence Watch

Scores every SKU on movement, age, demand signal, and expiry, then proposes a markdown, transfer, or write-off path.

SAP:
S/4HANA MM, FI, IBP
Outcome:
Inventory reserve accuracy
Concept Suggests

Freight and Mode Advisor

Reads the open shipment, required arrival, and current carrier health and proposes the mode and carrier with cost-to-serve shown.

SAP:
SAP TM, Business Network for Logistics
Outcome:
Cost per mile, on-time delivery
Concept Suggests

Demand Sensing Reconciler

Compares the IBP statistical forecast to actual POS or shipment signal weekly, names the SKUs and DCs where bias is breaking the threshold.

SAP:
SAP IBP, S/4HANA, BW/4HANA
Outcome:
Forecast bias at SKU-DC
Concept Suggests

Sustainability and Scope-3 Footprint Reporter

Pulls material movement, supplier emissions, freight modes, and energy use and drafts the disclosure section.

SAP:
SAP Sustainability Footprint Management, S/4HANA
Outcome:
Disclosure cycle time
Engagement shapes

A few ways a supply chain engagement usually starts.

01

Integration Suite migration off PI/PO

6-12 months

We are SAPs named Migration Factory Partner. The repeatable approach to retiring legacy middleware in favor of Integration Suite, at SAP-internal pace.

See a case study

02

EWM + TM warehouse modernization

4-8 months

Receiving, shipping, and yard on S/4HANA EWM with TM, instrumented for the agents to plug into on day one.

03

MRP exception triage pilot

6-10 weeks

A Joule agent on one plant, scoped to clean up one weeks worth of MRP messages and prove the cycle-time win before scale.

The work, in Supply Chain

Real engagements, real outcomes.

Curated for Supply Chain work. The tags on each card show the SAP capabilities we used to deliver the outcome.

All case studies
Featured

Automotive

Cloud Foundry

Lucid Motors reached 50% faster integrations after Mindset moved 65 business-critical interfaces off SAP's deprecated CPI NEO, with zero downtime and zero defects at cut-over.

SAP BTP Integration Suite
Lucid Motors logo
Featured

Energy and Utilities

SAP BTP

Mindset rebuilt 30+ legacy integrations on SAP BTP Integration Suite at 40% lower cost and 3x faster, then became Border States' go-to partner for mobile and AI on BTP.

SAP Fiori SAP BTP Integration Suite Data & Analytics
Border States logo
Featured

Chemicals

SAP Fiori

Global Printing Ink Manufacturer

Mindset delivered a Design Thinking-led SAP Fiori production forecasting app for the ink manufacturer in 9 weeks. Within one year, the ink manufacturer measured a 350% ROI. Within 6 quarters, the app was running at 100+ locations for 120+ users.

SAP Fiori S/4HANA Design Thinking

Healthcare and Life Sciences

SAP ATP

A Specialty Pharmaceutical Manufacturer

A single Design Thinking day with cross-functional stakeholders surfaced why a pharmaceutical company's OTIF numbers were structurally unreliable, traced it to gaps in SAP order management, and pointed to concrete fixes.

SAP Fiori Design Thinking

Energy and Utilities

SAP BTP

A Global Industrial Filtration Manufacturer

Mindset automated the manual creation and modification of SAP part numbers, bills of material, and document info records for a global manufacturer, cutting the time and error rate that came with doing it by hand.

SAP BTP S/4HANA

Manufacturing

CDS

A Leading Lighting Controls Manufacturer

Mindset replaced a standalone warehouse reporting tool with a purpose-built SAP Fiori app, inventoried the company's full Fiori estate, and ran AI and BTP design-thinking workshops to map out the next phase of their SAP platform journey.

SAP Fiori SAP BTP Data & Analytics Business AI
What is new in SAP for supply chain

Worth bookmarking.

Last updated May 2026

Sapphire 2026

SAP Autonomous Suite for Supply Chain

50+ Joule Assistants spanning planning, procurement, warehousing, and logistics. Mindsets shipped fleet already covers nine of these surfaces in production.

2026

SAP Integration Suite Migration Factory

SAP has named partners (Mindset included) to retire PI/PO at scale. The end of legacy middleware is a 2027-2028 deadline for most enterprises.

GA 2026

BDC + Databricks for supply analytics

Demand sensing, inventory analytics, and supplier risk now run on one governed surface without data copies.

Live

SAP Road Map Explorer Business View

Public quarterly roadmap by LoB. Worth bookmarking for procurement and supply-chain leads.

The shared spine

Built on BTP, designed for the people running it.

The supply chain work doesn't run alone. It sits on BTP, on a clean data layer, and increasingly under Joule agents. Same architecture as the rest of the SAP work we do.

From our thinking

Practitioners writing about the work.

All insights
Common questions

Before you book.

Is PI/PO really sunsetting?
Yes. SAP gave PI/PO an end-of-mainstream-maintenance horizon and named a Migration Factory partner network to retire it. Most enterprises need a plan within 12 to 18 months. We are that partner.
How big is the MRP exception triage win usually?
Planner time saved is 30 to 50 percent on the cleanup loop in our pilots. Stock-out events drop by a similar amount. The real prize is the planner shifting to forward-looking work instead of message clearing.
What about TM?
SAP TM plus EWM is the spine for any modern logistics footprint. We deliver them together. The freight and yard agents land cleanly on top of that integrated stack.
Do you do Ariba?
Yes. Ariba sits next to S/4HANA Procurement and our Procurement Risk Analyzer and Supplier 360 agents read across both. We treat Ariba as a first-class part of the supply chain, not a separate project.
Can the agents handle multi-plant, multi-country?
Yes. Every shipped agent reads across company codes and plants by design. The hard part is the data quality and the master data alignment, which is where most of the engagement time lands.

Let's talk supply chain.

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