Mill products

Automate operations for resilience and growth using best practices for building materials, metals, and paper and packaging.
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Support an agile and growing business in mill product manufacturing

Apply integrated data within SAP Business Suite to optimize operations and improve decision-making across your metals, building materials, textiles, or paper and packaging business.

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Our mill products solutions can help you:

  • Increase sales by equipping salespeople with real-time product availability.

  • Produce and deliver profitable orders on time, as expected.

  • Drive efficiency with real-time data integration from mill to boardroom.

  • Monitor, analyze, and optimize the performance of critical assets.

  • Adapt confidently to shifting regulations, disruptions, and opportunities.

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Build supply chain resilience

Respond instantly to changing supply, demand, or disruptions.  Ensure on-time deliveries through visibility into supplier capabilities and material availability.

Drive customer centricity

Be more responsive to customers across all channels, from individualized order promising through manufacturing and delivery—all while considering costs and margins.

 

Optimize and collaborate on assets and operations

Fulfill customer orders on time and meet quality expectations by optimizing production and equipment, maximizing the return on assets, and reducing costs.

 

Embed sustainability across your business

Adapt confidently to shifting regulations with built-in compliance for over 100 countries. Prepare for and react quickly to tariffs, carbon taxes, or the newest plastic regulations.

Explore how mill products solutions from SAP can help your business run better

Connect your entire mill products business—from planning to operations, sourcing to buying, supply to delivery, marketing to service, and sales to delivery.

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Analyze customer demand and strategically allocate stocks in order to:

  • Provide customers with transparency into available products and alternatives.

  • Drive supply chain optimization through AI-based inventory analysis.

  • Guide planning and logistics schedules with material availability data.

  • Define and implement AI-assisted, customer-focused order fulfillment strategies.

  • Improve order outcomes with substitutions and supply protection.

 

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Demand forecasting and management

Predict customer demand and drive production to meet it efficiently.

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Transportation and warehouse management

Integrate fleet and logistics management throughout your mill products network to increase efficiency and agility.

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Real-time shipment tracking

Gain supply and delivery assurance by tracking orders and shipments in real time.

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Consignment stock application

Simple and easy handling of consignment stock from anywhere and any device.

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Mill products companies thrive with SAP Cloud ERP

See how companies are growing profits and driving efficiency in mill products.

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SAP (Cloud ERP) is a Leader

Explore why Gartner named SAP (Cloud ERP) a Leader in its Magic Quadrant™ report for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises.*

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SAP is leading in manufacturing execution systems

Learn why IDC MarketScape named SAP a Leader in its Worldwide Manufacturing Execution Systems 2024–2025 Vendor Assessment.

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SAP S/4HANA Cloud recognized as top rated and buyer’s choice by TrustRadius

Verified user reviews, ratings, and insights reveal how SAP S/4HANA Cloud is widely recognized for its proven dedication to customer satisfaction, best-in-class product capabilities, and value.

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The drive for green steel

See how SAP and Salzgitter AG are driving the shift to low-carbon steel production through partnerships and enhanced data.

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Boosting AI with data

Learn how SAP Business AI for mill products uses data to improve the customer experience, reduce risks, and drive sustainability.

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Modernizing steel production

Integrated steel mill AM/NS India increased efficiency, productivity, and customer satisfaction through implementing SAP solutions.

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Get advice on how to drive cost-effective transformation and sustainable growth with our innovative industry solutions.

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Explore packages and pricing

Choose modular, AI-enabled solutions tailored to your business priorities—finance, supply chain, HR, procurement, or sales—and grow at your pace.

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See what’s ahead with SAP road maps

Browse upcoming strategies and advancements across SAP products and industries—and get the insight you need to plan your strategy with confidence.

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Frequently asked questions

Mill products industries can include building materials, cable and wire, metals, paper and packaging, furniture, and textiles.

ERP integrates supply chain, production, financials, sales, human resources, and other data to streamline operations, enhance data visibility, improve supply chain efficiency, and support compliance and innovation.

SAP Business AI can enhance your customers' buying experience by intelligently guiding them, in clear conversational language, to the best and most profitable product variations. It can dramatically reduce risks from supply chain challenges like natural disasters, volatility in pricing and demand, or disrupted transportation using predictions and real-time insights from external data. In sustainability, AI can you help you eliminate waste in manufacturing and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by adjusting your energy use and recommend the most efficient mix of materials.

SAP Business Suite for mill products is a fully integrated, modular set of solutions that helps companies in mill products industries—such as metals, paper, packaging, and building materials—connect and optimize every function across their business. Key business areas include sales and marketing to planning, operations, manufacturing, finance, and logistics. It integrates AI, data, and applications into one unified system, creating a continuous cycle of value that drives business transformation.

*Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Product-Centric Enterprises, 13 October 2025, Greg Leiter.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally, and MAGIC QUADRANT is a registered trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates and are used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

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