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Are you under constant pressure to deliver innovative products, respond to customer demand quickly, and eliminate costs? If so, your next step is fully connecting manufacturing with the rest of your business.

Enter SAP Manufacturing: a powerful software that integrates manufacturing with your other operations – and the only comprehensive solution for managing manufacturing operations with embedded lean and Six Sigma. Our software enables discrete and process manufacturers to:

• Optimally plan, schedule, sequence, execute, and monitor all your manufacturing processes – to achieve higher profits and marketplace wins
• Coordinate operations with partners and suppliers
• Detect and resolve exceptions and performance deviation in real time and at low cost
• Institutionalize lean and Six Sigma processes and monitor production to drive continuous improvement
• Comply with environmental, health, and safety standards
• Improve employee productivity and create a high-quality work environment

With SAP Manufacturing, your management and production departments gain real-time visibility into key data – enabling them to act quickly. Managers can document, track, and interpret quality and performance using rich analytics capabilities.

Enhance Your Manufacturing Capability

Enhance your manufacturing capabilities with the complete set of solutions for manufacturing:

• SAP Lean Planning and Operations – Accelerate lean transformation, and sustain lean operations.
• SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence – Deliver actionable intelligence to production personnel.
• SAP ERP Operations – Gain control and insight, and create value.
• SAP Supply Chain Management – Connect and empower your organization.
• SAP solutions for RFID – Enable agile supply chain execution, efficient asset management, and adaptive manufacturing.

Powered by SAP NetWeaver

Since it's built on the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, SAP Manufacturing connects seamlessly with your entire enterprise, including your current plant floor infrastructure. So you can accelerate time-to-value and lower total cost of ownership.