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Showing 1-10 of 16 Page: 10 assets per page 20 assets per page 50 assets per page 100 assets per page   1 2  Industry:  All Industries Aerospace and Defense Automotive Chemicals Consumer Products High Tech Industrial Machinery and Components Life Sciences Mill Products Mining Oil and Gas Retail Wholesale Distribution   Asset Type:  All Asset Types Overview Brochures Solution Briefs White Papers Solution in Detail Function in Detail Thought Leadership Aberdeen Reports Product Brief SAP InSight    Title   Asset Type  "Adaptive Manufacturing: Enabling the Lean Six Sigma Enterprise" Learn how you can use SAP software to identify the causes of variability and manage exceptions while leveraging lean manufacturing and Six Sigma best practices. In doing so, you can process large amounts of data, execute complex workflows, and communicate any exceptions electronically to multiple locations.       "Adaptive Manufacturing: Enabling the Lean Six Sigma Enterprise" (416 KB) White Papers "Business Network Transformation: Product and Service Leadership" All product and service companies face an increasingly complex world. Demanding customers, intense competition, and complex technologies require perfect execution and outstanding ability to recognize when a threat or an opportunity arises and respond to it swiftly and efficiently, in a very complex operational environment. Products and services are developed, created, and delivered as a collaborative effort of business networks consisting of brand owners, suppliers, and partners, constantly transforming in response to customer needs and market demands. Read how these companies are striving to achieve Product and Service Leadership in their markets.  Log-in required.      "Business Network Transformation: Product and Service Leadership"  (224 KB) Thought Leadership "Ensuring Successful Manufacturing Execution in the Fabless Semiconductor Model" Find out how semiconductor companies are adopting a fabless manufacturing model by operating with a variety of partners through an outsourced supply chain -- to become more competitive. Success requires a shift in business strategies, and SAP solutions can support this model to help overcome the inherent challenges.       "Ensuring Successful Manufacturing Execution in the Fabless Semiconductor Model"  (2 MB) SAP InSight "Integrated Product Development" Consider why an integrated product development approach can help you recognize and reconcile incompatible business goals, conflicting designs and constraints, and competing solutions – before design features are locked in. Otherwise, these incompatibilities can exponentially increase design costs over time. (IDC, 2008)   Log-in required.      "Integrated Product Development"  (277 KB) Thought Leadership "Life-Cycle Data Management with mySAP Product Lifecycle Mahagement" Examine how the SAP Product Lifecycle Management application supports life-cycle data management by providing an integrated environment for handling product-related information. Discrete process and consumer product industries can use the application to minimize risk, improve product quality, and cut development time and costs.       "Life-Cycle Data Management with mySAP PLM"  (157 KB) Solution Briefs "New Product Development and Introduction with SAP for High Tech" Consider why improving the new product development and introduction (NPDI) process helps achieve competitive advantage for high-tech companies. The SAP for High Tech solution portfolio can help you increase speed and efficiency, cut time and expense from product development, and capitalize on innovation for improved profitability.        "New Product Development and Introduction with SAP for High Tech"  (180 KB) Solution Briefs "Portfolio, Resource, and Project Management" Explore how SAP solutions can help you gear your project portfolio toward corporate strategy, prioritize projects, adhere to time schedules and budgets, make optimal use of resources, and identify project progress and risks early – providing you with a comprehensive view of your entire project portfolio.       "Portfolio, Resource, and Project Management"  (784 KB) Solution in Detail "Quality Management with SAP ERP" Learn why product and process quality is more important than ever. With the quality management functionality of the SAP ERP application, discrete and process manufacturers can take an integrated, comprehensive approach to managing quality – one that cuts costs, streamlines production cycles, and enhances competitiveness.       "Quality Management with SAP ERP" (85 KB) Solution Briefs "Quality Management with SAP ERP" Discover how the SAP ERP application provides a single, powerful solution that lets you take a comprehensive approach to total quality management. The quality management functionality integrated in the SAP ERP application enables you to integrate information and processes across departments and corporate boundaries – empowering your employees and supply chain partners to maintain and improve quality levels.       "Quality Management with SAP ERP" (1 MB) Function in Detail "SAP Environmental Compliance" Review how the SAP Environmental Compliance application helps you turn regulatory complexities to competitive advantage by reducing time, effort, and nonconformance risks at plant and corporate levels. As these issues become more prominent, compliance helps you meet requirements – and maintain and enhance your corporate image.       "SAP Environmental Compliance"  (163 KB) Solution Briefs Showing 1-10 of 16 Page: 10 assets per page 20 assets per page 50 assets per page 100 assets per page   1 2