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Industrial Machinery and Components

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See how industry cloud solutions from SAP can help you run as an intelligent enterprise to deliver value.

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Industrial manufacturing software supports digitalization and new business models

SAP software can help you become a market leader by providing customized, smart products and solutions; memorable customer experiences; and aftermarket and outcome-based services. 

R&D/Engineering

  • Collaborative Product and Configuration Design
  • Portfolio and Project Management
  • Product Compliance

Sales and Marketing

  • E-Commerce for Customers and Partners
  • Industrial Marketing
  • Quote to Cash for Configurable Products and Solutions
  • Sales Force Automation
  • Sales Performance Management
  • Usage-Based Billing and Revenue Management

Supply Chain

  • Demand Management and Insights
  • Response and Supply Management
  • Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning
  • Track and Trace and Logistics Networks
  • Transportation Management
  • Warehouse Management

Manufacturing

  • Asset Management
  • Environment, Health, and Safety
  • Industrial Insights
  • Manufacturing Execution for Industry 4.0
  • Manufacturing Networks
  • Manufacturing Operations
  • Manufacturing Process Planning

Installation and Service

  • Complaints, Returns, and In-House Repair
  • Field Service Management
  • Intelligent Asset Management for Customers
  • Omnichannel Customer Service
  • Service Monetization
  • Service Parts Management
  • Installation Services

Finance

  • Invoice-to-Pay
  • Invoice-to-Cash
  • Financial Planning and Analysis
  • Record-to-Report
  • Travel-to-Reimburse
  • Treasury Management
  • Governance, Risk and Compliance
  • Real Estate

See how customers succeed with SAP

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Unlock new business value

Attain operational excellence

Discover how Intelligent ERP can help you compete in the new digital economy by streamlining core customer engagement, asset management, and financial processes.

Embrace the Intelligent Enterprise

Offer your customers tailor-made solutions delivered at scale and as a service by weaving together siloed processes, intelligent technologies, and real-world data threads.

Create a winning strategy for Industry 4.0

Explore SAP’s strategy for Industry 4.0 and how you can leverage Industry 4.0 to turn challenges into opportunities, connect with customers, and integrate partners.

SAP Road Map for Industrial Manufacturing

See how our intelligent solutions support the end-to-end value chain of industrial manufacturing companies, delivering a superior customer experience with integrated, automated processes connected to the real world.

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Current release highlights

  • Intelligent product design with 3D visual enterprise and variant configuration functionality
  • Machine learning to improve lead propensity assessment and identify customers at risk
  • Improved demand forecast collaboration with partners 
  • Embedded machine learning and conversational AI (bots) within service and support processes 
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Upcoming innovations

  • Machine learning for intelligent product configuration and context-driven services
  • Enhanced forecasting, inventory planning, and multistage inventory optimization
  • Predictive material requirements planning with interactive capabilities
  • Integrated asset networks and predictive services, including analytics and KPIs
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Future plans

  • Personalize customer experiences with intelligent orchestration across stages and channels
  • Extend decision support in sales and operations processes, such as profitability analysis
  • Develop machine learning across manufacturing execution and operations processes 
  • Deploy digital twin platforms for asset lifecycle collaboration with customers and partners

Industry cloud solutions tailored for you

Drive profitability by embracing digitalization and new business models with industry cloud solutions from SAP that can help you innovate and automate your business to become more intelligent and resilient. 

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Accelerate product development, speed time to value, and reduce costs with the SAP Enterprise Product Development solution, which includes cloud services for collaboration, connected products, engineering, formulation, and visualization.

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SAP Asset Strategy and Performance Management

Enable asset owners, managers, plant managers, and reliability engineers to improve control, while making maintenance planning easier and more accurate, with the SAP Asset Strategy and Performance Management application.

SAP Entitlement Management

Manage usage rights, authorizations, privileges, access, and permissions given to a customer for software, services, or products with the SAP Entitlement Management solution.

SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud

Execute manufacturing processes, analyze manufacturing and business data, and integrate systems with a cost-effective, high-quality, and resource-efficient method based on Industry 4.0.

Transform your business with SAP Services and Support

Evolve your business with services and support from SAP – your trusted adviser for digital transformation strategy and execution.

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Simplify and accelerate your digital transformation

Support critical business processes on your path to innovation and digital transformation with holistic, end-to-end services that reflect over 40 years of knowledge, experience, and innovation.

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Transform your business with unparalleled service support

Close the gap between your digital transformation strategy and execution with innovation discovery, digital strategy, and business transformation services from a trusted adviser that knows SAP software best.

What are analysts saying?

Building resilience in the face of disruption

Find out why IDC reports that adding predictive capabilities and intelligence to asset management is the industrial manufacturing industry’s biggest opportunity for transforming business and staying resilient in uncertain times.

Uncover keys to success from industry experts

Learn how you can overcome some of your greatest challenges today and in the future by becoming an interconnected company that can deploy technology across the industry value chain to create transparency.

Get the facts

10 %

reduction in total manufacturing costs.

SAP Performance Benchmarking

-69 %

lost orders in which management reviews orders, pipeline, and delivery performance.

SAP Performance Benchmarking

82 %

lower FTEs per billion of spend in organizations where suppliers self-register and maintain their profile information.

SAP Performance Benchmarking

Communities and Events

SAP Industrial Manufacturing Community

Find out how our community can help you run your machinery and components manufacturing processes better through topics that include digitalization, trends, and customer news.

Manage your business enterprise-wide

Explore our comprehensive solutions for all business processes across all industries to find the solutions you need to build a connected business.

Human Resources

Simplify HR processes and engage your workforce to drive better business results, empower your workforce, and develop your talent.

Finance

Bring together financial processes with automated, real-time analytics, and translate them into forward-looking business insight across the entire organization.

Procurement and Networks

Streamline procurement processes across your organization, driving compliance and control while cutting costs and risks.

Analytics

Take advantage of in-depth data analysis, predictions, and processing of complex events, and combine data from a variety of sources into one, integrated platform.

Database and Data Management

Leverage business applications that use the latest technology advancements – including the SAP HANA platform, cloud, mobile, and more.

Application Development and Integration

Deploy high-velocity, intelligent edge applications using business and technology services.

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