Mill products

Automate operations for resilience and growth using best practices for building materials, metals, and paper and packaging.
Mill products worker driving a forklift with roll of paper

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.

placeholder

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.

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.

placeholder

Order promising

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.

 

SAP APPLICATION

Demand forecasting and management

Predict customer demand and drive production to meet it efficiently.

SAP APPLICATION

Transportation and warehouse management

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

SAP APPLICATION

Real-time shipment tracking

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

PARTNER APPLICATION

Consignment stock application

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

placeholder

Make to stock, make to order, and configure to order

Use embedded AI, simulations, and real-time insights to:

  • Define flexible setups for production.

  • Plan production holistically, from forecasting to scheduling.

  • Run the most suitable production operations on demand.

  • Incorporate quality management into production processes.

 

SAP APPLICATION

Quality management

Ensure regulatory compliance, improve product quality, and drive plant-wide improvement.

SAP application

Enterprise asset management

Empower asset owners and mill managers to optimize maintenance, asset performance, and sustainability outcomes.

SAP APPLICATION

AI-enabled visual inspection of asset health

Use AI-based image recognition to improve quality and agility and increase mill products yield across manufacturing and logistics.

PARTNER APPLICATION

DM4MILL

Extends the  the manufacturing execution capabilities of SAP Digital Manufacturing with specialized features for the mill products industry.

placeholder

Customer order management

Automat customer quotations, contracts, and orders to:

  • Cover the complete order lifecycle.

  • Support revenue streams, including goods, services, and subscriptions.

  • Extract and correct orders through AI-based recommendations.

  • Align order promising with real-time inventory, credit, and compliance data.

  • Provide a streamlined customer experience supportive of e-commerce.

SAP APPLICATION

Omnichannel commerce

Deliver unified commerce experiences that drive profitable growth across channels.

SAP APPLICATION

Product configuration and pricing

Manage complex mill product configurations accurately and efficiently with custom applications.

SAP APPLICATION

AI-based intelligent product recommendations

Streamline the configurable mill products quoting and e-commerce customer experience using AI-based recommendations.

PARTNER APPLICATION

Variant Configuration Planner

Enable your manufacturing organization to operate its own online marketplace and build and expand online offerings through third-party channel partners.

PARTNER APPLICATION

OMS+ Cross-channel Order Management Solution

Support omnichannel sales, end-to-end order management and point of sale platform.

PARTNER APPLICATION

Optimized Dynamic Pricing by Pricefx

Drive rapid margin growth with AI powered pricing platform.

placeholder

Finance operations management

Use predictive analytics and real-time financial data to:

  • Accelerate reporting and boost productivity using AI-driven processes.

  • Reduce days sales outstanding, bad debt write-offs, and costs.

  • Protect the business through risk mitigation and streamlined compliance.

  • Improve cash insight, manage payments, and limit financial risks.

SAP APPLICATION

Compliance and tax management

Navigate regulations effectively through compliance, risk mitigation, traceability, and process controls.

SAP APPLICATION

Modern procurement

Increase purchasing power and drive sustainable savings using AI-driven processes and embedded intelligent insights.

SAP APPLICATION

AI-based invoice and payment matching

Accelerate incoming payment processing to reduce days sales outstanding and improve customer service.

PARTNER APPLICATION

Avalara AvaTax for SAP S/4 HANA Cloud, Public Edition

Automate sales tax determination and calculations.

PARTNER APPLICATION

SAP Intercompany Governance by BlackLine

Manage volatility, support mergers and acquisitions, and foster accounting compliance with complex regulations.

PARTNER APPLICATION

EcoVadis Business Sustainability Ratings for SAP Ariba

Map and assess ESG risk in your value chain, review trading partner performance and take action to reduce their carbon footprint.

placeholder

Core HR and payroll

A unified, global HR and payroll system enables you to:

  • Drive compliance by connecting people data, payroll, and skills in a single source of truth.

  • Empower employees with personalized profiles and AI-enabled self-service tools.

  • Offer end-to-end benefits that meet unique, country-specific requirements.

  • Pay employees accurately and on time in more than 50 countries with embedded localization.

SAP APPLICATION

Talent acquisition

Attract and hire the best talent with a single, AI-enabled recruiting solution.

SAP APPLICATION

Travel and expense management

Automate and streamline travel and expense management processes.

SAP APPLICATION

Business AI for human resources

Transform the way employees work, managers manage, and organizations adapt.

SOLUTION EXTENSION

Delight tenants, cut churn, reduce vacancy, lower costs, empower self-service, minimize agent contact, prevent costly repairs with early reporting.

Gain visibility into workforce costs, reduce administrative effort, comply with local laws, and improve employee engagement.

PARTNER APPLICATION

ATOSS Staff Efficiency Suite

Boost effectiveness and productivity, improve service levels and product quality and respond quickly  by forecasting and scheduling your workforce.

SOLUTION EXTENSION

Consignment stock application

Honor your employees’ leave entitlements while complying with increasingly complex absence and leave regulations.

placeholder

Carbon footprint management

With AI-powered, ERP-centric carbon footprint management, you can:

  • Calculate your corporate and product carbon footprint at scale.

  • Move toward more granular and accurate footprint results.

  • Create a transparent carbon footprint using smart hotspot analysis.

  • Embed footprint results into your business processes.

SAP APPLICATION

Worker safety and incident management

Assess and mitigate environment, health, and safety (EHS) risks, manage incidents, and oversee operational change processes.

SAP APPLICATION

Environment management

Help ensure environmental compliance while identifying opportunities to reduce emissions and waste.

SAP APPLICATION

Sustainability reporting and management

Automate AI-enabled ESG reports, reduce efforts on periodic reports, and embed sustainability strategy into program execution.

PARTNER APPLICATION

EcoVadis Business Sustainability Assessments, ESG Ratings and Carbon Scorecards

Make sustainable purchasing decisions using EcoVadis ratings.

PARTNER APPLICATION

Sodales for Enterprise Health, Safety and Employee Relations

Manage health, safety and employee relations  processes for incidents, disability claims, grievance management, disciplines, preventative safety, HR case management and job bidding.

PARTNER APPLICATION

Flexinergy

Monitor your energy consumption, production, transport and trading by collecting data automatically and in real-time.

Mill products companies thrive with SAP Cloud ERP

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

Read the infographic

See how customers are succeeding with SAP solutions for mill products

See what analysts are saying about SAP

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.*

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.

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.

OCTOBER 23, 2025
SAP Business Suite Webinar Series

See how Business Suite helps HR leaders address industry-specific requirements and evolving employee expectations.

Register now

Resources

placeholder

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.

placeholder

Boosting AI with data

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

placeholder

Modernizing steel production

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

Get started

Connect with SAP industry experts

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

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.

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.

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.

twitter pixeltwitter pixeltwitter pixeltwitter pixeltwitter pixeltwitter pixeltwitter pixeltwitter pixeltwitter pixeltwitter pixeltwitter pixeltwitter pixel