Industrial manufacturing
Run profitably now, while innovating for the future
Scale business operations and respond quickly to disruptions with SAP Business Suite’s connected processes, real-time data, and built-in AI.
Our Industrial manufacturing software can help you:
Reduce time to market with collaborative and integrated design processes.
Meet customer expectations by personalizing solutions and services.
Improve customer experience by collaborating more effectively across your ecosystem.
Respond faster and mitigate risk with agile supply networks and factories.
Make and act on decisions faster using real-time, AI-ready data.
Offer customer-centric solutions and services
Increase customer lifetime value and create new predictable revenue streams by offering tailored solutions, including products, services, software, and after-market offerings.
Develop sustainable industrial solutions
Launch the right solutions faster by digitalizing processes, improving collaboration across silos, and designing for manufacturability and sustainability.
Simplify operations across the value network
Respond quickly to changing supply, demand, and disruptions with connected processes and collaboration, automation, and visibility across the supply network.
Explore industrial manufacturing software from SAP and partners that can help your business run better
Optimize operations and achieve sustainable growth with connected processes across finance, supply chain, manufacturing, HR, sales, and service.
Integrated product development
Accelerate innovation by digitalizing and streamlining product development to:
Speed up product and equipment design with AI-powered collaboration.
Make decisions faster using AI-driven summaries and insights.
Provide fast access to product information using a single source of truth.
Improve equipment visibility and monitoring with a synchronized digital thread.
Reduce waste and emissions with embedded circularity design principles.
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Cross-discipline product engineering
Improve collaboration with complete definitions for complex products and combined mechanical, electrical, and electronic design.
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Product data and business process integration
Boost efficiency with integrated PLM systems that enable bidirectional product data exchange across your supply chain and MES.
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Profitable portfolio development
Optimize resources and bring new products, solutions, and services to market faster with centralized processes and information.
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Product lifecycle cost calculation
Maintain profit margins by managing costs early and simulating impacts of changes throughout the product lifecycle.
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Cideon Cloud CAD Integration
Reduce manual work and cut errors by connecting mechanical engineering data and the structures of modern cloud CAD systems with SAP applications.
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Soley Product Mining Platform
Increase manufacturing profitability and resilience by uncovering value, reducing portfolio complexity, and strengthening supplier decisions with digital insights.
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Cideon SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional Integration
Improve support for downstream logistics by connecting SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional data with your SAP ERP data.
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Resources
Applying AI in industrial manufacturing
Discover how industrial manufacturers leverage digital transformation and Industry 4.0 lessons to maximize AI impact and project success.
The value of business AI for industrial manufacturing
Learn how industrial manufacturing companies can use SAP Business AI to increase defect detection rates while reducing inspection costs.
How digitalization can help midsize manufacturers
Explore research from Oxford Economics to gain insights into manufacturers’ ability to scale and gain a competitive edge with AI.
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