The last cycle (last orders!) of the SAP Customer Engagement Initiative (CEI) in 2025 started today with 49 new fascinating projects. Too long to read?Raise your voice for these top 3 projects. Why? The CX AI toolkit has seen rapid update in our indu...
With SAP S/4HANA 2023 FPS01 release, Extended Warehouse Management (EWM) embedded in SAP S/4HANA, you can use batch-specific units of measure to better handle configurable products throughout the entire logistics chain.
The current economic crisis and inflation are together having a major impact on asset-intensive industries, particularly in Europe. Prices are rising across the board, energy supplies can no longer be taken for granted, and suppliers are sometimes th...
Less than four weeks to go until the International Conferences for Metals & Mining, Forest Products, Paper & Packaging, Building Materials, and Chemicals. Here's the conference brochure with the latest agenda. What makes this conference s...
SAP offers solutions that can help our customers' business run better with best practice business processes and intelligent technologies. With the projects of the second cycle for SAP’s Energy & Natural Resources solutions such as – Chemicals, Mill...
Five focus areas to help mill products companies turn regulatory readiness into a competitive edge A war in Ukraine may have diverted focus from the war on climate change for the moment. But the global regulatory push to curb carbon emissions contin...
As innocuous as a “proposed carbon border adjustment mechanism regulation” from the European Union (EU) might sound, U.S construction companies and their building materials suppliers would be wise to keep a close eye on the new policy, whether the...
Remember your college days when you just spent 3 hours in an Advanced Lab and arrived back to your apartment with a headache and your energy spent. With hunger calling, you go to the fridge and pull together a meal based on whatever is there – bea...
Glimpses of the metals industry’s future, including the many promising circular pathways for meeting the world’s growing appetite for sustainably sourced products, are all around us. Last fall, for example, BMW announced that starting in 2025, it...
My contractor Monte had good reason to be stressed, having spent much of the current lumber crisis wondering if he could scrape together the right materials to keep his projects moving and his construction business viable without frustrating too man...
From digital twin to building information modeling (BIM), the blending of the physical with the digital is nothing new in the manufacturing world. What is new, however, is a growing expectation among customers across the industrial landscape that th...
Innovation grows from the social, economic, and environmental issues that drive technological incentives, introducing a force from a dream or a vision, to create change. The SAP Innovation Awards honors and celebrates the achievements of forward-th...
SAP's marquee customer event - SAPPHIRE - is back in person! In Orlando - May 10-12. If you are thinking about how digital technology can help you be: More profitable More sustainable More agile and resilient in these turbulent times Then y...
An important topic focused on sustainability along the value chain was discussed in a recent cross-industry panel at the SAP Conference for Building Materials, Forest Products, Chemicals and Metals and Mining 2021. The conversation included thought ...
Last week has been intense. Never before, did we have one event with such an impressive collection of customer case studies. In the closing panel, with Aurelian Popa from Arcelor Mittal, Helio Mosquim from Vale, John Shellenberger from Johns Manvill...
There's a lot written about transformation and unprecedented times. Some of the changes we experienced in the last year were common across all industries. Some advances were unique and a true breakthrough. Much more was achieved through the realizat...
If you are a pooper or if you are open to be convinced that an online event can be as engaging and exciting as an live event, I can recommend to register for the upcoming International SAP Conferences for Building Materials; Chemicals; Forest...
The world needs to change. Even before the Paris agreement, signed in 2016, it has been clear that we cannot go on like this if we want to avoid climate change causing general, long-term trends like the rising sea levels and rising temperatures and m...
Every season we offer a new wave of innovation opportunities, and often I recommend my personal shortlist of the top 10 influencing opportunities for our industry. Not this time. Like every fall, we are offering a nice bouquet of interesting opport...
Steve Jobs once said, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” This comment rings especially true today as businesses across all industries are putting their heads down – and together - to figure out how to survive and thrive gi...
A story of two materials Most people would think of switching to an electric car or reducing air travel as a means to tackle climate change. Few think about the heavy industry: Close to 30% of global greenhouse-gas emissions come from industry, and...
You may not be able to predict the future, but you definitely can influence and shape it. With the second cycle of the 2020 SAP Customer Engagement Initiative (CEI) you will have once again the chance to influence our roadmap (and our understanding...
Josie: (00:30) Hey all listeners and welcome to this special edition of our podcast of our industry insights podcast by SAP. We are zooming in on the building products industry. So in order to do that, I am so lucky that I have with me in our studio...
Let’s start this blog with: Why the heck small lot sizes? We as consumers want products and solutions that are built exactly to meet our requirements. It means ordering the exact car we want with the right color, right engine, and so on. That will l...
Come and join 4 Industry events all in one at the same location February 23-25, 2021 in Madrid, Spain! Register once and go to all four: the International SAP Conferences for Mining and Metals, Forest Products, Paper and Packaging, Building Materia...
An exciting opportunity to influence SAP has started with the cycle of the 2019 SAP Customer Engagement Initiative (CEI). The SAP Customer Engagement Initiative provides you with early insights into new SAP product developments. Make sure that your...
Working at a tech company with a focus on extractive resource industries, and environment-heavy industries like metals, cement, textiles, or packaging, is a fascinating field. I discuss with my children the Friday demonstrations, and my role in tech....
Relevance: Wherein finished fabric is configurable but Super BoM is not applicable. Routing and operations will be selected based on characteristics of finished fabric. Note - There are multiple ways to select operations for configurabl...
Relevance: Fabric production with Super BoM and Super Routing. Finished fabric: Fully configurable. Scenario: Our client gets requirement from customer. Customers are stitchers, who order all the parts of a garment and then stitch them together to ...
Relevant Industry: Textile production Target audience: CO consultants, who are willing on work on VC based costing Scenario: Business process transformation and SAP implementation First of all, we need to understand the operating procedure and ter...
The words "Refinement" and "Split" can be used interchangeably. My client is a textile producer and I have defined the cost components, as follows. 1 Raw Material 2 Semi-Finished Comp 6 Production Overhead 8 Sub-Con Charges 9 Labor Charges 10 Utili...
Relevance: MTO production/Excess production and then transfer Interest: FI-MM integration and impact on CO Demonstration: Movement type to be used, relevant transactions and configuration required to allow the transactions to be posted to GL accoun...
Businesses in the Mill Products and Mining industries are heads down, working incredibly hard pursuing innovation in ways we haven’t seen before to help the world run better. That’s why SAP has grabbed a shovel and wants you to grab one too. Let’s d...
Beautiful news How do you read your news? Online at the PC? On your mobile phone? Through your twitter or facebook feed? Having a slow start into the day over a good cup of tea while my family was still in bed (Easter vacation in Germany), I browsed ...
Digitalization in metals, as in many other manufacturing industries, typically starts in the plant. The industrial internet of things provides huge opportunities for automation and efficiency gains, increase asset efficiency, and either enable higher...
IDC's Emilie Ditton recently spoke with Luis Canepari, VP Technology at Goldcorp on behalf of SAP. Below she outlines their digital transformation strategy and progress. Click here to download the document directly Leapfrogging the Mining Sector...
Customers for food packaging products rely on Illinois-based Pactiv LLC as a one-stop shop for all their cardboard, aluminum, plastic, foam, molded-fiber, and pressware packaging and catering materials. Having grown by acquisition over several decade...
See how a subsidiary of giant Sappi deployed SAP ActiveEmbedded offerings to update financial processes in its SAP ERP application and prepare for digital transformation to the SAPS/4HANA Finance solution. Enriched mobile reporting and autom...
You may have heard that paper business isn't doing well because people often use electronic devices for reading newspapers, or for browsing catalogues, instead of using paper-bound media. Well, at least I do at times.... But not all sections of p...
The paper book is not dead Throughout 2017 I read many articles on the return of the paper book, the return of the independent book stores, and the decline of ebooks. As a book addict in private life, and writing about the fate and impact of digital ...
The bearing eaters This goes back to my childhood days. SKF has always been a synonym for highest quality. Their excellence in making ball-bearings broke my wrist and gave me tremendous joy. I grow up in the city of Schweinfurt, a capital for ball b...
How to approach predictions and machine learning according to master Yoda “Size matters not. Look at me." Image by Ciro Duran from Caracas, Venezuela (Master Yoda) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons Let’s get one thing right from the start. The int...
Do you know how shoe shopping is going digital, driving an expected profit increase of 30%? Do you know how real-time customer insight and personalized interactions can lead to 5% revenue growth or how digital innovations can be used to predict ...
I’ve seen business cases that would knock your socks off. If you believe them, you will be able to reduce your financial cost by 80%. My view of this is that anyone who improves finance cost by 80% has a pretty poor financial process to begin with. S...
Mondi is an international packaging and paper group, employing around 25,400 people across more than 30 countries. Mondi implemented SAP® Hybris® Cloud for Customer. This intuitive solution enables sales people to quickly access customer data...
Continuation from Part 1: Trends/future of robot technology and end use; IoT, AI? Tany Anandan’s article in Robotics Online - ‘The Business of Automation, Betting on Robots’ outlines many of the drivers of robotics including production, rise of Chi...
Who can forget the first Terminator movie in 1984 that reflected the interest and speculation about robots: Recently I toured one of SAP’s steel packaging producing customers in Germany where we encountered a Rocla AGV or Automated Guided Vehicle ...
According to one study, there are 2.7 Zetabytes of data that exist in the digital universe today. That number is equal to about one trillion gigabytes. Not all of this data is being created by personal users - far from it. It's already proven to be a...
The Saudi Paper Manufacturing Company is one of the leading tissue paper manufacturers in the Middle East, with a capacity of more than 100,000 tons per year. The company manufactures high-quality tissue paper to meet the needs of local and internati...
What does the 19th floor of the Hotel Adriatika in Guatemala City, the AppHaus in Heidelberg, or RSC's "The Other Place" have in common? They are not my office, they are an "other place". Most specifically, Royal Shakespeare Company's "The O...
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