Fearing about running smart industry? Here comes SAP to pat on the back. I’m writing this blog to showcase the various solutions offered by SAP to industries. SAP Solutions for Industrial Manufacturing provides technological solutions aligning with Industry 4.0. Smart manufacturing pioneers the next industrial era.
The following are the solutions by SAP to digitalize your industry.
SAP Sustainability Control Tower
The shift in customers’ preferences towards sustainable products pushes businesses to fall in green line.
Does practicing sustainability always entail sacrificing organizational profit? It’s not necessarily if you keep the right sustainable tools and strategies as your business allies. Here, I meant the Sustainability Control Tower as right ally to ace your sustainable goals.
What does this tower do? It gathers all the needful data scattered across the supply chain into a unified dash board. It unleashes the power of data to record, report and act on sustainability agenda—ESG transparency.
Record
With S/4HANA Cloud, you can make the real time data a centralized one —unified dashboard. By moving from Averages to Actuals, the granularity and integrity of data could be achieved. You can expect a fidelity insight in hand.
Report
With this audit-ready data, you can now report ESG performance confidently by compliant with regulatory metrics—Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) (IFRS S2), Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS, EU Taxonomy) and U.S Security and Exchange Commission (SEC). This gives visibility and transparency across the business operations.
Act
By gaining insights into the core business process and area of improvement, you can set actionable targets and track their progress.
SAP S/4HANA for Product Compliance
This automated product compliance software ensures the commitment towards stipulated compliance throughout the product lifecycle.
With S/4HANA for product compliance, the following items could be realized.
- Product classification
- Regulatory and sustainability requirement management
- Registration and substance volume tracking
- Compliance document creation
- Package, transport and storage of dangerous goods
- Labelling requirements of hazardous substances
This product is available in On–premise and Cloud platform. Adhering to product compliance is imperative in this competitive business world, since it gives edge over other market products in a long run.
Some of the benefits are:
- It enhances product reliability and business profit
- It offers good marketability to the product
- Decreases cost of compliance due to process automation
- Helps to mitigate risk using up-to-date information and extend the product brand.
SAP Sustainability Footprint Management
Let’s revolutionize carbon accounting with SAP Sustainability Footprint Management. A future-proof approach to manage the carbon footprint aligned with financials based on actuals rather than averages. In this fourth industrial revolution and with increasing climate regulations, it’s imperative for enterprise to manage their carbon footprint.
SAP Sustainability Footprint Management, integrates with S/4HANA enables the business to calculate carbon footprint at each step of the product production. It covers all scope of emissions-scope 1,2 and 3.
This carbon accounting software decarbonizes the entire value chain across the business. It records, reports the data and act on the actionable targets.
Record
It extracts data from S/4HANA Cloud, third-party sources, suppliers, facility energy flows.
Report
With all these data in hand, it calculates the cradle to gate -material, production and transportation – carbon footprint with high granularity.
Act
Having insights into carbon footprint, you can now set sustainable targets to tackle scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.
SAP Business Network For Industrial Manufacturing
“Troubled by inefficient supplier or supply chain disruption? No sweat”. SAP Business Network took everything under control. This solution makes the industry resilient, intelligent enterprise. It creates a web of business network which helps companies to strengthen trading partners, to anticipate and respond to disruptions.
SAP Business Network digitalize B2B connections to help companies
- Gain speed and efficiency
- Increase visibility and transparency
- Increase security and compliance
It also establishes B2B marketplace, where you can search and discover for supply and demand along with trading partners profile.
SAP’s key focus areas/industries are,
- High tech
- Consumer Products
- Life Sciences
- Industrial Manufacturing
SAP Intelligent Asset Management
With the groundbreaking technologies like IoT, Machine Learning (ML), advanced and predictive analytics you can improve the health and performance of physical asset and equipment. SAP Intelligent Asset Management exactly does the same thing. It is a suite of business application and tool that manages the performance of entire lifecycle of the enterprise asset. It encompasses the following applications.
- SAP Asset Management Performance
- SAP Business Network Collaboration
- SAP Field Service Management
- SAP Service and Asset Manager
- SAP S/4HANA Asset Management
- SAP Geographical Enablement Framework
- SAP Crowd Service
SAP Intelligent Asset Management solution emerges as a driving force behind choosing right and reliable methodologies to improve overall productivity. It develops sustainable asset strategies based on tested and failed models.
SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud
Industry 4.0 technology integrates intelligent digital technologies with manufacturing process. Thus, SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud enables process automation and visibility into core process. It makes the business risk-resilient and sustainable. Some of the benefits has been listed below.
- It delivers precision execution in production process
- Insights into top floor and shop floor
- With automation, operators’ productivity could be increased
- It identifies powerful KPI’s by analysing the process deeply
- Increased customer satisfaction by adapting to individual requirements
Teamviewer Frontline Augmented Reality
This solution comes with AR-based software, tools and gadgets assisting deskless workforce.
It offers SAP customers the following benefits,
- Decreases machine downtime by solving complex problems on-site by connecting with experts at anytime and anywhere which increase shop floor productivity.
- Technicians now with just one click could get access to manuals, diagrams from experts when they need.
- Keep your system fully updated and automate the documentation process.
With the changing industrial world, businesses need to keep in pace. Digitalizing the production process gives competitive edge. It offers enhanced scalability and flexibility which gives customer satisfaction. Thus, SAP solutions for industrial manufacturing allows the industry to transform to align with customer requirements. This blog highlights few of the SAP solution in this direction. Keep in touch for more interesting blogs.
