The fabricated metals industry today operates in a challenging ecosystem characterized by globalization, volatile raw material prices, new competition, and changing customer expectations. To compete in such an environment, companies need to rapidly adopt new 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.
- Enterprise 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.
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- Enterprise services for fabricated metals – Visit the Enterprise Services Workplace (ES Workplace) for SAP for Fabricated Metals and explore the enterprise services available for fabricated metals 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 enterprise 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.