Manufacturing
Meet demand in a challenging market with manufacturing automation and flexible operations.
Industry 4.0
Connect production with end-to-end process execution across the supply chain
Choose your SAP software for manufacturing companies
Track and enhance manufacturing performance
Empower key stakeholders to analyze global and plant-level manufacturing performance.
Improve visibility and reporting consistency
Acquire data from different manufacturing operations management (MOM) systems and automation systems by integrating multiple systems and standards-based interfaces.
Gain faster and more consistent insights
Accelerate root-cause analysis with advanced algorithms and machine learning to facilitate continuous business improvement.
Improve visibility into manufacturing processes
Assess and resolve quality and productivity issues quickly, while reducing warranty and liability risk.
Adapt to meet individualization requirements
Meet market-of-one demand and extreme product variability, while maintaining productivity, margin, and quality levels.
Utilize assets effectively
Improve asset and equipment effectiveness, facilitate predictive maintenance, minimize downtime, and keep manufacturing operations running smoothly.
Boost employee productivity
Deliver actionable information to the shop floor and enterprise simultaneously.
Increase business value
Improve synchronization between production and logistics teams and stabilize operations using IIoT and machine-to-machine (M2M) technology.
Gain new enterprise insights from analytics
Optimize overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and energy utilization with insights derived from real-time event processing and manufacturing Big Data.
Simplify functionality
Decrease days in inventory by integrating scheduling and execution for a consistent view of inventory and product data.
Optimize adaptability
Reduce manufacturing cycle time by quickly adapting production schedules to current plant conditions.
Enhance planning capabilities
Streamline manufacturing build package creation, planning, and shop floor operations for global production environments.
Make operations safer
Engage the workforce and identify and act on hazards before they impact safety.
Manage EHS more efficiently
Improve EHS performance by incorporating risk management into daily operations with integrated business processes and shared data and workflows.
Safeguard operational continuity
Protect asset integrity and optimize production by reducing unplanned downtime and outages.
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