Industrial Machinery and Components (IM&C)
Ensure superior customer experiences by delivering solutions at scale and as a service with IM&C solutions from SAP.
By 2025, IM&C companies will see most revenue come from services
Delivered worldwide, IM&C services, including data as a service, will be based on highly-customised, digitalized products that address the segment of one to improve customer experiences.
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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.
Unlock new business value with digital technology
Optimise, extend, and transform your industrial manufacturing business by connecting new technologies with integrated business solutions to create an intelligent enterprise.
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SAP Road Map for Industrial Machinery and Components
See how our intelligent solutions support the end-to-end value chain of IM&C companies, delivering a superior customer experience with integrated, automated processes connected to the real world.
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
Upcoming innovations
- Machine learning for intelligent product configuration and context-driven services
- Enhanced forecasting, inventory planning, and multistage inventory optimisation
- Predictive material requirements planning with interactive capabilities
- Integrated asset networks and predictive services, including analytics and KPIs
Future plans
- Personalise 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
Jump-start your transition to an intelligent enterprise
Accelerate implementation time, reduce risks, and get ready for your digital journey with the SAP Model Company service for industrial machinery and components.
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Communities and Events
SAP Industrial Machinery and Components 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.
Digital Industry USA
Join SAP at Digital Industry USA in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 11–12, 2019, to understand the opportunities of the industrial automation revolution.
International SAP Conference on IAM
Join us September 24-25, 2019, in Madrid, Spain, for the latest SAP insights to help you reimagine, perfect, and digitally transform asset management.