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SAP introduced three new Joule Agents for supply chain management, designed to automate critical, time-consuming tasks and empower teams to focus on strategic decision-making.
These agents will embed AI-native automation into production planning, change management, and supplier onboarding workflows, reducing manual effort, minimizing errors, and boosting operational efficiency.
Key takeaways:
- Production Planning and Operations Agent: Available in SAP Cloud ERP solutions, this agent will support production planners and production supervisors by automating prerequisite checks for releasing production orders (including material, capacity, and scheduling availability), recommending workarounds, and releasing production orders when ready. The agent validates and releases orders when conditions are met, accelerating production start times and shorting order-to-delivery cycles. It will also help reduce operational costs by eliminating manual validations and preventing costly rework, while improving planners’ productivity and satisfaction with streamlined workflows.
- Change Record Management Agent: Available in the SAP Cloud ERP solutions, this agent will support product managers and product engineers by reasoning over problem reports, change requests, and change notices, and acting to recommend next steps and initiate the change process. This will enable faster and more confident decision-making across engineering and manufacturing teams, improve governance and traceability, and reduce delays caused by fragmented change data.
- Supplier Onboarding Agent: Offered as part of SAP Business Network, this agent will help streamline how buyers bring suppliers onto the network by reasoning over supplier details and acting to orchestrate invitations, monitor supplier progress, and handle escalations. It will make supplier onboarding faster, simpler, and more scalable by automating data validation and compliance checks and other routine administrative tasks. This will enable procurement teams to focus on strategic sourcing and supplier development.
