Whether you manufacture industrial machinery or components, you operate in a competitive environment of cyclical demands and shrinking margins. In this environment, your customers hold the bargaining power – and demand faster product delivery, across the globe, at a lower cost. To succeed, you must integrate your global supply chain, including offshore and outsourced manufacturing, and offer new service models to promote growth.

The right business management software can help you manage operational complexities, integrate information and processes, and provide powerful decision-making tools that increase performance, reduce costs and facilitate collaboration and communication across your business.

As a best-run industrial machinery or component company you can benefit from business management software from SAP through a broad range of capabilities.

Visibility

• Lower costs – Use advanced analytics to identify precisely where product and production costs are being incurred, so you can increase efficiency and eliminate waste.
• Improve supply chain management – Use state-of-the-art supply chain and make-to-order capabilities to gain insight into demand, inventory, and capacity – so you can better respond to customer needs.

Efficiency

• Increase revenue – Anticipate market needs, identify new business opportunities and optimise sales and marketing campaigns.
• Reduce risk – Leverage real-time information about projects, markets and operational performance to anticipate shifts in demand, economic conditions and customer requirements.
• Optimise assets – Decrease required stocks of raw materials, components and spare parts to reduce cost and capital commitment.

Collaboration.

• Accelerate time to market – Enhance communication, collaborate on product development and integrate engineering and logistics to reduce design cycle times.
• Enhance aftermarket sales – Understand customer needs, enhance customer service and provide superior support to maximise revenues in the high-margin aftermarket business.
• Expand reach – Collaborate globally with suppliers, partners and customers through e-marketplaces and enterprise portals.

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