With ever-shorter product lifecycles and a rapidly growing number of product variants, discrete manufacturing companies are facing growing challenges. They need to reduce time to market, shorten lead times, and manufacture products in smaller lot sizes. While these demands are nothing new, digitization has upped the pace.
This calls for streamlined manufacturing operations, optimized value chains that extend across companies, and cutting-edge sensor technology. You can offer your customers individualized smart products with new features and services, and shift to consumption models based on the Internet of Things (IoT). By connecting machines, devices, IT, and products, the IoT enables you to enhance internal manufacturing processes and create a smart factory.
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Today’s customers increasingly demand individualized products. This means manufacturers need highly flexible production processes and responsive material requirements planning. By utilizing tailored manufacturing solutions, you can accelerate product development and bring innovations to market faster and more cost-effectively than the competition.
Consistent product lifecycle management (PLM) from research and development to aftersales service is crucial in manufacturing operations. By taking an approach that integrates people, data, processes, systems, and tools such as CAD, you can accelerate manufacturing cycle times and reduce waste. Solutions such as SAP Product Lifecycle Management increase engineering efficiency and reduce time to market.
The Internet of Things enables businesses in discrete manufacturing to make precise predictions based on real-time sensor data from machines and give their customers recommendations for future actions. It also paves the way to new business models, such as consumption-based contracts, allowing you to offer your customers more added value.
Manufacturers are in the midst of digital transformation. With sensor technology and advanced manufacturing execution systems, companies can unleash the potential of their data. What’s more, flexible platforms help you realize the connected smart factory and facilitate better collaboration with other companies.
As a basis for strategic decisions, greater transparency into all manufacturing operations is required: from production planning to aftersales service. With technology for real-time monitoring and data analytics, you can leverage sensor data to create new, service-based business models and gain additional capabilities, such as predictive maintenance. And by using artificial intelligence, you can increase productivity and accuracy through automation.
Over the past decade, the pressure to innovate has increased significantly among companies in the discrete industry. Digitization is moving fast and has become ubiquitous! Companies are looking for new ways to offer their customers digital value and create personalized, digitally accessible products. Discover how we meet this growing demand.
The overwhelming volumes of data in discrete industries are having an impact on business; manufacturers now have to simplify their IT landscape in order to handle the data and quickly turn it into actionable insights. With a next-generation ERP solution like SAP S/4HANA, you can connect machines and processes to a digital core. SAP & itelligence can help enable them by providing the following architecture.
As companies are reimagining their entire business, they need an IT architecture that provides both stability and long-term reliability for the core enterprise processes, and at the same time allows flexibility in areas where change is happening on a constant basis. This concept, which is often referred to as “bimodal IT,” is brought to life through the SAP Digital Business Framework, pictured here.
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Since we were the first SAP partner worldwide who has created an innovative industry solution based on SAP S/4HANA, we know all necessary ingredients to speed up your industry processes.
In discrete manufacturing, IT and business processes are extremely diverse and complex; itelligence can help you master them. We work closely with you to find the right SAP solutions for your needs, support implementation, and adapt your business model to capitalize on the opportunities of the Internet of Things. What’s more, we also offer our own solutions and add-ons, such as it.manufacturing and it.automotive, tailored to the specific demands of the discrete industries.
For more than 20 years, we have specialized in discrete manufacturing solutions. In fact, a third of our total business is dedicated to supporting companies in this sector. To ensure we always deliver outstanding results, we have a team of 1,500 employees devoted to discrete industries, including 150 experts in IoT solutions. So whether you operate in the automotive industry or the high-tech sector, we can help you find the right solutions to successfully realize your digital transformation.
The Internet of Things is taking the manufacturing world by storm. If you haven’t heard of it by that name, then surely under one of these: Advanced Manufacturing, the Industrial Internet, Industry 4.0 or Smart Factories. No matter what it’s called, the fourth industrial revolution is pushing the boundaries of high tech in manufacturing.
The user experience is all-important in discrete industries to help employees clearly visualize data and make informed decisions. There is also huge potential for UX innovations in the smart factory, with technologies such as voice control and augmented reality changing the game.
With an intuitive online store, manufacturers and suppliers can boost revenue by making it easier for customers to compare products, configure variants, manage machinery, and order spare parts. Full integration with the ERP system streamlines the sales process.
Thanks to connected sensors, machines can automatically alert technicians before they break down. Platforms such as SAP Leonardo and the SAP Asset Intelligence Network connect manufacturers and operators, enabling them to profit from the Industrial Internet of Things.
The IoT, IT consumerization, and new technologies are creating many challenges. Take a closer look at six of them and how we can help.
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We at itelligence opened our doors in 1989 and have worked closely with SAP ever since. With our 30th anniversary taking place next year, we look back over our partnership with SAP. Our close collaboration enables us to give our customers tailored solutions, services, and strategies for the digital age. So what has the partnership accomplished over nearly three decades?
itelligence expanded the supply chain portfolio with additional SAP® certified offerings. Part of the expansion includes a strategic partnership with company, Gesellschaft fur Information und Bildung mbH (G.I.B). The G.I.B Dispo-Cockpit solution solves supply chain and/or production planning challenges in the area of predicting demand, optimizing inventory levels and managing MRP processes and/or production planning. The offering can be leveraged whether your company is running an SAP® Standard ECC environment on a traditional database or SAP HANA®.
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