2. Company Overview
• Headquarters Walldorf, Germany
• 55,000 employees at sales and development
locations in 50 Countries
• Global approach focuses on development in
the market
• Global network includes Bulgaria, Canada,
China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and
the United States

3. Company Overview
• Research explores IT trends through applied
research
• Research is based on 19 research locations
worldwide
• 800 industry partners from industry,
academic, and Governments
• SAP is a IT investor that has backed 100
companies in five continents over 15 years.

4. Benefit Manufacturing Organizations
• SAP solutions enable companies to create
finished products from raw materials
• Analyzes production planning, manufacturing
execution, production, and the integration of
all processes
• SAP enables discrete and process
manufactures to improve coordination
visibility and execution

5. Benefit Manufacturing Organizations
• Coordination – Coordinate operations with partners and suppliers to improve
production performance across the manufacturing network to address challenges
such as:
– High supply network inventories
– Poor asset utilization
– Delayed product introductions
• Visibility – Deliver real-time visibility into plant and enterprise operations to detect
and resolve exceptions and performance deviation in real time – and at low cost –
to improve areas like:
– High total cost of ownership for multiple systems
– Difficult, multi-plant deployments
– Data redundancy and latency
• Execution – Drive compliant, cost-effective execution in tune with demand and
compliance standards, while managing continuous improvement, to focus on
topics such as:
– Increasing defects and high WIP
– Poor compliance and product recalls
– Missed customer deadlines