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What's New in Release 25.0
New tools and improvements to enhance your supply chain operations.
Supply Chain Excellence (SCX) 25.0 offers new features and performance upgrades designed to help you manage your supply chain with greater accuracy, efficiency, and control.
The new verison is available for download in the Customer Portal.
For support or questions, contact our team.
Key Innovations in Supply Chain Excellence 25.0
SCX Indicators & Process Enhancements
- Customer-specific SCX indicators to tailor performance metrics to your unique business needs.
- Integrate images, videos, and documents directly into your workflows
- Remove inactive users to to keep your system up to date
Demand Planning
- Value-based turnover planning for financially driven demand forecasting, ensuring your inventory aligns with revenue goals.
- Integration with SAP Predictive Analytics Library (PAL) for advanced seasonality testing and white noise analysis, improving forecast accuracy.
Procurement
- Predictive delivery delay management to anticipate supplier delays and automatically adjust procurement plans, minimizing disruptions.
- Vendor grouping and line buy functionality to reduce freight costs and improve procurement efficiency.
- Automated purchase order generation based on dynamic stock targets.
Production Planning
- Compactness levels in scheduling to minimize machine idle time and maximize production throughput.
- Graphical planning board enhancements and new Fiori apps for better visualization of production processes and resource usage.
- FOX Optimization overview for clear, real-time insights into production optimization results.
Inventory Management
- Automated detection of inactive materials for better inventory optimization and cost control.
- New Fiori apps for trend analysis, ABC/XYZ analysis at plant level, and slow-moving item identification.
- BOM explosion in TREE mode for clearer visualization of material requirements and replenishment lead times.
- New simplified mode for Rule Workbench for faster, more intuitive rule configuration without unnecessary complexity.
Shop Floor Integration
- Improved integration of production-level data into business processes for enhanced traceability and control.
- E-paper solutions for real-time digital communication on the shop floor.
Download and installation
Release 25.0 is available for download via our Customer Portal. Please log in to access the installation files and related documentation.
Technical requirements
The technical requirements for Release 25.0 can be viewed here. Ensure your system meets these requirements before installation.
Important information
With Release 25.0, we are introducing clean core functionalities within our own software components for Tier-1 and Tier-2 systems for the first time.
Please note:
- SAP S/4HANA 2023 FPS01 is a mandatory prerequisite for this release due to the technical requirements.
- To fully utilize the clean core components, specific SAP Notes must be implemented under SAP S/4HANA 2023 FPS01.
- Refer to the installation/upgrade guide for more details.
Supported systems
- GIB Suite / SFI: SAP ERP 6.0 EhP 7 & 8
- SCX / SFI: SAP S/4HANA 2023 FPS01
Language availability
- Languages delivered by default: German and English.
- Additional languages available from mid-March: Chinese (simplified), French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, and Turkish.
For the most up-to-date language availability, refer to the Product Availability Matrix (PAM). If you need information about the availability date of a specific language package, please contact our support team.
Assistance
If you need assistance with installing or upgrading to Release 25.0, please reach out to your ifm Account Manager, fill out the form below, or contact our support team. We are available to guide you through the release process and answer any technical questions you may have.