Impacts on Efficiency and Profitability in Manufacturing Operations

There are several factors that can impact efficiency and profitability in manufacturing operations.

Common characteristics of manufacturers struggling to address profitability and efficiency are that they lack an automated and integrated ERP, MES and shopfloor equipment. Without this it is difficult to access data, make informed decisions which will provide real business benefits and profit.

You’ve probably heard the quote "what you cannot measure you cannot improve", think about the following questions and if you answer YES to any then moving to Digital Manufacturing could steer you forward to increased profits and efficiencies.

• Relying on manual, time-consuming and paper-based data collection, entry and sharing?
• Lacking real-time visibility into operations?
• Having a higher manufacturing cost per product than your competitors?
• Lacking confidence to make commercial knowledge-based decisions?
• Having numerous information silos where key data gets stranded?
• Having data that is often inaccurate which makes it difficult to identify where problems might be occurring?
• Experiencing low technician productivity and poor equipment reliability?
• Paying more overtime than necessary to get work done?

Smart use of your data as well as seamless integration can unlock profits in your operations and address your business pain points. Seamless integration from ERP to shopfloor is key to success, capturing and using your data for business benefit.

SAP is more than solely an industry leading ERP solution, SAP supports manufacturing with its Digital Manufacture solution solving the difficulties of shop floor and ERP integration and providing opportunity to access data, improve processes realising efficiencies and profitability. SAP Digital Manufacturing has out-of-the-box integration to SAP ERP, saving additional integration costs. It can also integrate with other ERPs and shopfloor systems, has a user-friendly interface and as it is cloud based is less costly to maintain.

Watch this short video on SAP Digital Manufacturing.