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SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Industrial Products

SAP S/4HANA Cloud for the Industrial Products Industry 

Today’s rapidly evolving business landscape for industrial products requires a delicate balance between meeting customer demands and navigating intricate supply chains.  The pressure the market places on industrial products companies often cause legacy systems and loosely coupled applications fail to meet those demands.

In today's rapidly evolving industrial products landscape, maintaining competitiveness requires a delicate balance between meeting customer demands and navigating intricate supply chains. Legacy systems and loosely integrated solutions can create bottlenecks, hindering efficiency and limiting visibility across your operations.

Symptoms may look like:

  • Inability to gain clear visibility into departmental data, relying our outdated reports
  • Lack of support for operational transparency and efficiency between the front and back office
  • Lack of real-time visibility into the Supply Chain, Inventory and/or manufacturing operations
  • Legacy IT landscape needs to be rationalized
  • High cost of maintaining legacy systems

 

Manufacturing, profitiability

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition offers a powerful solution specifically designed to address these challenges. SAP S/4HANA Cloud, comes pre-configured with industry best practices for Industrial Products companies, allowing for a "fit-to-standard" implementation. This approach gets you up and running faster, reducing costs and ensuring core Industrial Products functionalities are in place from the start.


 

The industrial products industry encompasses a vast array of businesses that produce goods used in manufacturing, construction, and other industrial processes. 

The industrial products industry can be broadly divided into several key segments including:

Machinery & Equipment

  • Heavy machinery: Construction equipment, mining machinery, agricultural equipment
  • Industrial machinery: Manufacturing equipment, processing machinery, packaging machinery
  • Power generation equipment: Turbines, generators, boilers
  • Material handling equipment: Forklifts, cranes, conveyor systems
Machinery & Equipment

Components & Parts

  • Industrial components: Bearings, gears, valves, pumps
  • Electrical components: Motors, transformers, switches
  • Electronic components: Integrated circuits, semiconductors
  • Automotive components: Engines, transmissions, brakes
Components & Parts

Raw Materials

  • Metals: Steel, aluminum, copper, iron
  • Chemicals: Plastics, solvents, fertilizers
  • Minerals: Coal, oil, natural gas, precious metals
  • Timber and wood products
Raw materials

Industrial Products:

  • Industrial gases: Oxygen, nitrogen, argon
  • Industrial cleaning products: Solvents, detergents
  • Industrial lubricants: Oils, greases
  • Industrial safety equipment: Personal protective equipment (PPE)
Industrial Products

 

Anchoring a Digital Transformation program with a future-proof ERP

An EPR system like SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition for industrial products companies can position themselves for long-term success by leveraging the latest technologies, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing customer satisfaction.

The advantages of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition for industrial product companies are undeniable. Gain real-time visibility into your entire supply chain, from sourcing raw materials to delivering finished goods. Automated workflows streamline processes, freeing your team to focus on strategic initiatives. The solution's integrated capabilities empower you to manage supply chain projects and financials effectively.

  • Accelerated time to value with pre-configured industry-best-practice scenarios
  • Insight to action on real-time data to manage business across the organization
  • Automation delivered in the cloud as the foundation for your growth ambitions
  • A business platform ready to meet future needs - expansion, new business models, and more

 

Outcomes/Value:

  • Reduction in finance costs
  • Improvement in customer satisfaction
  • Increase in revenue from new products/ services
  • Improvement in on-time delivery performance

 

By leveraging accurate forecasting, you can optimize inventory levels, preventing stockouts and overstocking. Real-time collaboration with suppliers ensures smooth coordination and timely deliveries. Enhanced traceability safeguards product safety and regulatory compliance.

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Beyond Core Functionalities

Leveraging the power and flexibility if the SAP Solution Stack implemented through the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) companies have a straightforward path to extend their business systems.

 

Supplier Portal, Dashbaord SAP Supplier Portal: Self-service, streamlined supplier collaboration and procurement process automation

SAP Field Service Management SAP Field Service Management: AI-Based Schedule Optimization, Mobile Workforce Enablement, Self-Service Tools and Chatbots

Even supporting Commerce Anywhere for those companies that are expanding beyond the traditional industrial product sales channels. Simplify the addition/integration of a Website store, like Shopify, an online marketplace, like Amazon, or automate large client purchasing through Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

In addition to the future-proof nature of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition the system offers significant cost savings as a cloud-based solution. Eliminate the need for expensive hardware, IT infrastructure, and staff, while robust SAP Data Center security measures protect your data. Advanced analytics provide valuable insights to drive continuous improvement and optimize your operations.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition with its "fit-to-standard" approach is designed to deliver the agility and scalability you need to thrive in today's competitive landscape. It's a powerful tool to streamline your operations, gain a competitive edge, and unlock new possibilities for growth.

 

Extended Warehouse Management (EWM)

SAP Extended Warehouse Management is a modern warehouse that must respond quickly to changing business conditions. With our modern, flexible warehouse management system (WMS), you can manage a high volume of goods and run sustainable, risk-resilient operations with digitalized warehouse processes in the cloud. 

 

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

With PLM software from SAP, you can build a risk-resilient and sustainable supply chain that provides actionable information, supports product innovation, and empowers people.

 

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

The SAP Service Cloud portfolio revolutionizes customer service management by creating meaningful connections throughout the customer journey.

 

eCommerce Integrations

Smoothly integrate with SAP ERP with pre-built or custom eCommerce integrations.

  • Amazon
  • Ebay
  • Hybris (via Data Workbench)
  • Magento, Magento 2.1
  • Shopify
  • Volusion
  • WooCommerce
  • ChannelAdvisor, and more. . . 

Digital Manufacturing Cloud

SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud is for manufacturers of all sizes, from small businesses to large enterprises. It is particularly well-suited for manufacturers who are looking to improve their production efficiency, reduce costs, and improve the quality of their products.

 

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)

Robust back-end EDI for SAP ERP provides an instant two-way connection between internal business systems and your trading partners without an expensive software setup.

 

SAP Sustainability Control Tower

Leverage the power of data to seamlessly record and transparently report on your sustainability initiatives, all while achieving them on a larger scale. Record. Report. Act.

 

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition built for industrial products manufacturers

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition is designed to support the growth ambitions of industrial products companies in several key ways:

  • Scalability: As your business expands, the solution can easily scale to accommodate increased demand, ensuring seamless operations and efficient resource allocation.
  • Flexibility: The cloud-based nature of SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition offers flexibility to adapt to changing market conditions and business requirements. You can quickly implement new processes, integrate with other systems, and leverage emerging technologies.
  • Innovation: SAP continuously invests in R&D to enhance SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition with innovative features and capabilities. This ensures that your business remains at the forefront of industry trends and can capitalize on new opportunities.
  • Global Reach: The solution is designed to support global operations, enabling you to manage complex supply chains, comply with international regulations, and expand into new markets.
  • Integration: SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition seamlessly integrates with other SAP solutions and third-party applications, providing a comprehensive and unified platform for your business.
  • Cost-Efficiency: As a cloud-based solution, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition eliminates the need for on-premises hardware and IT infrastructure, reducing upfront costs and ongoing maintenance expenses.
  • Data-Driven Decision Making: The solution provides advanced analytics and reporting capabilities, enabling you to make data-driven decisions and optimize your operations.

What is the SAP S/4HANA Public solution delivered by Navigator?

  • A ready-to-run, fit-to-standard cloud ERP solution that delivers the latest industry best practices and continuous innovation
  • An intelligent, cloud-based ERP that optimizes processes, increases agility, and improves product and service quality.
  • Key features of a future-proof solution:
    • Proven best practices
    • Fast time to value
    • Automatic and continual updates
    • Continuous innovation
    • Security, compliance, and scalability
    • Open and extensible


 

Extending your solution with SAP’s Business Technology Platform (BTP)

  • Integrate landscapes and connect processes and experiences to help business users make decisions with confidence.
    • Tap the power of the SAP Integration Suite, an integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS), for connecting and automating business processes with pre-built integrations, APIs, connectors, and best practices.
    • What does SAP’s BTP for integration offer?
      • Integration principles - predefined, open, holistic, ai-driven
      • 750+ pre-built integrations to S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
      • 700+ pre-built, open APIs
      • Consistent security and identity management
      • Accelerations - connectors, methodologies, standards, process maps, & AI assist


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Understanding the Grow with SAP Program

  • The Grow with SAP program connects clients with the right solution, implementation and support partner, and community so the solutions you implement meet your needs now and in the future, for your industry. The program is designed to help growth-focused firms adopt cloud ERP with speed, predictability, and continuous innovation - at a reasonable cost.

 

  • When you partner with Navigator Business Solutions, you’re not just getting an implementation partner. We provide on-going technology consulting and support services to all our clients.

 

  • When it comes to helping clients get the most out of their SAP Business software and meet their specific business needs. Navigator has a program that helps identify the ongoing services needed to allow our clients to operate efficiently and profitably by leveraging the power of technology.

 

Learn more about the Grow with SAP program.

Resources

Know Before You Grow, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Overview Demo
Get a high-level overview of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition solution.
GROW with SAP Industrial Operations
Transform industrial operations to grow with speed, simplicity, and less risk.
Reinventing Industrial Manufacturing
How digitization can help midsize manufacturers grow and compete.
Using New Service-Based Business Models for Growth and Profitability
Midsize manufacturers chart a technology path through market changes.

Watch an SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition Overview Demo On-demand

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