The consumer products industry today operates in a challenging environment and is characterized by globalization, restless consumers, often unpredictable demand patterns, fierce competition, and increasingly demanding customers. To compete in such a fast-paced environment, consumer products companies need to adopt new business strategies and respond to market changes in a timely and flexible fashion.
Discover how you can rapidly model and deploy innovative business processes using:
- Business process platform – Incorporates business applications, ready-to-use enterprise services, process components, and a technology platform with integration and composition capabilities.
- Service-oriented architecture – Is a blueprint for a flexible IT solution that leverages open standards and exposes business functionality as enterprise services (technically, Web services) that can be easily re-assembled to compose innovative business solutions.
Real-Life Business Innovation
- Customer success stories – Read real-life examples of how customers in the consumer products industry benefit from their business process platform today.
- Order management – Visit the enterprises services Wiki to learn how SAP enables innovative sales order management processes through a business process platform.
Building Business Innovation
- Enterprise services for consumer products – Visit the Enterprise Services Workplace (ES Workplace) for SAP for Consumer Products and explore the enterprise services available for CP-industry relevant processes. Hosted by SAP, the ES workplace lets you navigate from core industry processes down to details about related enterprise service definitions.
- Service-oriented architecture in community – Learn about, test drive, define, and develop enterprise services in SAP's community area dedicated to SOA. Whether you are just getting started with enterprise services or ready to start building, the community network provides information and the means to collaborate with others on the topic.