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Deliver Asset Visibility.
In a recent AMR Research survey of 400 manufacturing and IT executives, 56% stated that their top strategic priorities were driven by the strategic goal of unifying front-office and manufacturing operations. It was also observed that lack of visibility into performance is a universally recognised performance gap. Furthermore, a recent SAP benchmarking survey found that 75% of respondents don't have real-time information to monitor achievement of key performance indicators, while more than 66% had not yet integrated core resource planning and shop-floor systems.
Whether your company operates 2, 25, or 100 plants, AMR Research concluded that "operations of any size can significantly benefit from increased visibility across their enterprise-wide plant operations."* The key to this goal is the ability to dynamically link plant-floor system with enterprise resource planning systems.
Software and services from SAP and our partners can help you confront these challenges head on. With visibility into plant-operating performance, quality results, order status, and safety metrics, you can maximise uptime, narrow process variability, increase on-time deliveries, and respond quicker to process upsets.
Solutions and Services for Enabling Asset Visibility
Companies worldwide are using SAP solutions and services to build a single, real-time view of plant and enterprise resource planning data, enabling managers to take action. With full visibility into asset operations, exceptions are managed quickly.
For example, an SAP benchmarking survey found that top-quartile performers experienced over a 30% improvement in first-pass quality, as well as significant improvement in uptime over average performers. Furthermore, some of our customers have:
- Improved supply chain processes and visibility
- Reduced product defects and rework, resulting in quality improvements and lower costs
- Boosted capacity and increased margins by improving utilisation and product mix
- Avoided unnecessary quality-related direct and indirect costs
By connecting operations and plant systems, you can achieve better visibility and access to real-time alerts via plant dashboards, operational comparison of plants, and up-to-the-minute operational data. By delivering a variety of integrated tools such as shop-floor manufacturing execution, asset maintenance systems, environmental compliance, visual information for assets, reliability centered maintenance, and spare parts planning, SAP can help you maximise asset uptime and ensure asset safety and compliance.
Plant uptime, quality, and safety can be improved by integrating plant control systems and business operations flexibly and dynamically through service-oriented architecture enabled by the SAP NetWeaver platform. SAP's services and consulting groups are committed to helping you every step of the way, enabling you to quickly and efficiently connect systems in multiple locations. With information-rich tools, dashboards, and resources, SAP can help you understand how to efficiently navigate your system environment and maximise asset optimisation practices.
* "The Manufacturing Operations Software Spending Report 2007-2008", AMR Research, July 27, 2007
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