Manufacturing
Leveling up productivity and efficiency
SAP Cloud ERP provides the built-in capabilities necessary to automate processes and support informed decision-making through embedded AI, simulations, and real-time insights.
Define flexible setups for product innovation and production with the required degree of complexity
Plan production holistically – from high-level forecasting to production scheduling
Run production operations with the most suitable approach in real time
Embed quality management smoothly into production processes to help ensure the delivery of high-quality products
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Production engineering
Rapid design, setup, and adjustment of your production flow help create efficient and agile manufacturing operations.
Product and production definition
Establish essential structures – such as bills of materials (BOMs), routings, and work centres – to run production successfully.
BOMs management
Manage and compare BOMs to facilitate structured processes for product changes.
Product configuration
Simplify and integrate product configuration based on models with the complexity that customers expect.
Production planning
Intelligence based on real-time data and embedded AI paves the way to production optimisation.
Demand forecasting optimisation
Simulate demand forecasts while considering supplier and capacity constraints for flexible optimisation.
Supply and demand matching
Predict lead times to make sure materials are available and automatically ordered on time to manufacture products according to plan.
Optimal capacity utilisation
Monitor work-centre capacity to prioritise orders effectively and maximise the value of your resources and assets.
Manufacturing operations
Production control begins with comprehensive process transparency.
Order management
Easily create, edit, and manage production orders and release them to initiate production execution.
Real-time production updates
Maintain control over production progress and costs by receiving real-time updates from the shop floor.
Production monitoring
Use real-time insights and intelligent notifications to detect and address issues before they impact manufacturing operations.
Manufacturing options
Process automation can be supported across a broad range of manufacturing processes.
Discrete manufacturing management
Run discrete manufacturing processes across common setups, from make to stock and engineer to order.
Process manufacturing management
Coordinate process manufacturing processes based on process orders and master recipes.
Process enrichment
Apply additional processes, such as repetitive manufacturing, and Kanban, just-in-time, or just-in-supply replenishment.
Quality management
Leveraging a cloud ERP with embedded quality management capabilities helps ensure your business delivers high-quality products.
Development and implementation of quality measures
Define holistically where and how to implement quality measures along the value-creation process.
Inspections and capture of results
Inspect materials against defined criteria and document them before using the data to decide on usage.
Product and process improvement
Enable automated product quality controls with AI-based visual inspections from shop floor systems, and identify suitable follow-up actions, such as triggering an improvement process.