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.
Effective operational procurement
Increase purchasing power and savings with AI-driven procurement processes that:
Save cost, time, and effort by automating and centralizing invoice management.
Ensure compliance with all contractual terms through integrated procurement processes.
Improve efficiency using embedded automation and real-time analytics.
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Strategic sourcing
Reduce risk and costs while scaling easily with AI-driven automation and integration of sourcing information with procurement processes.
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Supplier collaboration
Improve planning, predictability, and quality of supply through closer collaboration with your direct material suppliers.
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Procurement analytics
Enhance performance and reduce costs with real-time insights into sourcing and procurement.
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AI for procurement
Reduce costs, mitigate risk, and accelerate every step of the procurement process using AI and automation.
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Icertis Contract Intelligence for SAP S/4HANA
Enhance operational reliability by unifying contract workflows to drive efficiency, compliance, and insight across procurement operations.
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EcoVadis Business Sustainability Ratings for SAP Ariba
Reduce your carbon footprint with insights on trading partner performance and ESG risk in your value chain.
Inventory, production, and logistics coordination
Increase automation across your supply chain and harness AI-driven insights to:
Improve customer experience with high transparency into order availability.
Maximize order value by aligning fulfilment strategies with business priorities.
Improve decision-making with complete visibility of materials within the logistics flow.
Optimize labor, storage, and fulfillment costs using real-time data.
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Integrated business planning
Respond to change, improve forecast accuracy, and balance supply and demand using AI-powered algorithms and automation.
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Transportation and warehouse management
Improve logistics responsiveness and efficiency by integrating fleet and logistics management across your supply chain network.
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Sustainability goal tracking
Improve compliance and build trust using centralized ESG data, automated reporting, and practical insights.
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AI for supply chain
Improve productivity by automating tasks, streamlining forecasting, and providing insights on complex information with embedded AI.
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KINEXON OS
Improve productivity with automated operations, tracking and tracing all moving assets, and orchestrating mobile robots (AMR/AGV) on your shop floor and warehouse.
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Variant Configuration Planner
Enable demand and capacity planning for variant configuration products using feature-level forecasting.
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AGIL Shipping Integration for SAP S/4HANA
Reduce errors and shipping costs with seamless integration of shipping service providers into logistics processes.
Manufacturing planning and scheduling
Improve manufacturing effectiveness with integrated planning, operations, and analytics to:
Reduce costs with easy management of product structures and routings.
Optimize production by simulating forecast and considering constraints.
Boost efficiency and reduce waste with process automation and real-time monitoring.
Ensure consistent product quality with embedded quality management.
Enable manufacturing flexibility supporting all manufacturing archetypes (MTS, MTO, CTO, and ETO).
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Manufacturing operations management
Reduce cycle time, control costs, and minimize waste by orchestrating machines, resources, and processes across your shop floor.
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Asset management
Minimize downtime and maximize asset utilization by establishing a streamlined corporate maintenance process.
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AI for manufacturing
Maintain production quality and accelerate results using AI-assisted visual inspection, error logs analysis, and case matching.
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Manufacturing insights
Optimize plant performance and quickly resolve issues with real-time insights.
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Cogniac Visual Operations Intelligence
Maximize the performance of automated visual tasks by integrating existing camera structures and workflows to track process performance.
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shyftplan
Increase efficiency with an intuitive, AI-supported shift scheduling tool that connects easily and securely with your SAP products.
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Visual Inspection for Manufacturing
Enhance product quality with AI-powered visual inspection with full integration to SAP Digital Manufacturing.
Quote-to-cash management
Optimize the entire contract order lifecycle with AI and automation to:
Support revenue streams by selling and managing products, services, and subscriptions.
Increase productivity by automating order confirmation and correction.
Improve sales team performance using built in insights and cross-team collaboration tools.
Ensure timely revenue recognition with accurate billing and invoicing processes.
Protect margins with real-time pricing updates and consistent price execution workflows.
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Best-fitting product configuration
Accelerate quoting for configurable products using AI-driven recommendations based on customer requirements and configuration history.
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Scalable digital commerce
Grow a more profitable B2B commerce business with streamlined product configuration and real-time stock visibility for the availability date.
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Revenue intelligence
Uncover new revenue opportunities with insights from connecting customer demand signals to business operational data.
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Icertis Contract Intelligence for SAP CPQ with SAP S/4HANA
Shorten sales contract cycle times with effective collaboration, consistent business rules, and integration to back-end systems.
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Vistex Extended Price Management
Increase margins and manage complex pricing and incentives with tools that give you clear pricing visibility and control.
Use seamless end-to-end service management to:
Drive growth and develop new revenue streams with bundled product and services delivery.
Boost customer satisfaction by providing outstanding service delivery and execution.
Ensure contract compliance by automating the creation and pricing of service orders.
Optimize resource utilization using AI-driven staffing proposals.
Deliver project profitability enabled by flexible pricing, project set up, and billing.
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Omnichannel customer service and case management
Increase service efficiency to enable growth, using automated insights and processes to better understand and resolve customer issues.
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Schedule, dispatch, and track field service operations
Minimize risks and reduce costs with AI-supported scheduling, dispatching, tracking, and billing field technician hours and parts.
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Collaborative asset definition and maintenance
Maximize uptime and equipment effectiveness with a central asset repository and collaboration platform for all trading partners.
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SAP Business AI for customer experience
Improve service quality with AI agents that automate case classification and proactively find answers to customer questions.
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ETM.next
Increase utilization and compliance through end-to-end processes for asset lifecycle management and resource planning.
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TeamViewer Tensor: Enterprise Remote Support
Resolve customer support issues faster and reduce support costs with enterprise remote access and support.
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cCalibration: Equipment Calibration
Improve reading accuracy, eliminate paperwork, and ensure real-time updates with mobile applications for calibrating equipment.
Finance operations management
Use predictive analytics and real-time financial data to:
Shorten reporting cycles through automated, AI-driven finance processes.
Improve finance performance with efficient accounts payables and receivables.
Decrease days sales outstanding using improved cash insight and management.
Mitigate risk and improve compliance globally with embedded standards and controls.
Simplify decision-making using real-time data and predictive analytics.
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Core HR, time tracking, and payroll
Improve efficiency with simplified and automated HR processes that integrate with the rest of the business.
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Talent management
Improve employee engagement and productivity, aligning to business goals with integrated and AI-driven talent management processes.
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Business AI for finance
Boost financial resilience and efficiency with embedded AI that automates processes, and provides real time insights and predictions.
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Finance intelligence
Accelerate business insights with intelligent data applications that harmonize mission-critical financial, operational, and third-party data in real time.
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SAP Intercompany Governance by BlackLine
Accelerate reporting close and intercompany reconciliation with centralized transactions and subledger details.
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SAP Time and Attendance Management by WorkForce Software
Gain visibility and reduce effort for compliance by combining time and attendance tracking, scheduling, and absence compliance tools.
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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
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How digitalization can help midsize manufacturers
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