The dawn of
Digital Transformation accelerated the adoption of cloud hosting and advanced
technologies like IoT, AI, ML, Blockchain, etc. across the Indian industries. These
technological inventions are transforming our hyper-connected world in a huge
information system where business value is no longer driven by traditional
assets. India is the second-largest online market across the world with over 560 million internet consumers. The digital disruption across
industries is driving new business models, ways of working, collaborating, and
communicating for business purposes. While the cloud service providers in India
are gaining popularity at a rapid pace, industries across the nation are
incorporating cloud solutions to ensure business continuity and mark the
beginning of their Digital Transformation Journey.
Challenges Faced by the Manufacturing
Sector in the Digital Era
The rising
customer demands, enhanced customer nature and dynamically changing market are
playing key role to transform the manufacturing industry. The next generation
customers are demanding products to be tailored depending on the specific needs
and are expecting the products to be delivered with highest quality and
competitive prices. This becomes quite difficult with traditional manufacturing
assets and processes.
In this
digital era, the manufacturing organizations with absence of digital core are
facing challenges like insufficient Planning and Out-of-Stock Issues, lack of
production updates and quality control, lack of proactive approach to eliminate
risks, no real-time information, lack of customer centric insights, etc. Also,
the possibility of human errors is high. So, it is the need of this era to go
digital and enhance business.
Why Do Manufacturing Organizations
Need SAP S/4 HANA
Over the
years SAP HANA has been the ERP system for manufacturing organizations. Designed
to ensure efficient and smooth business operations, SAP S/4 HANA has become the
driving force for digital transformation in the manufacturing companies. This
intelligent next-generation business suite delivers a simplified IT landscape
and an expandable platform for business innovations. SAP S/4 HANA offers
end-to-end digital enterprise architecture enabling you to take the lead in the
digital economy by digitalizing all manufacturing processes.
SAP S/4 HANA
is a one stop solution delivering automated and optimized manufacturing
outcome.
Let’s dive
in deep to know how SAP S/4 HANA is empowering manufacturers driving the
digital transformation journey:
1. Deriving Insights from Data:
SAP S/4 HANA
was designed to address the challenges of data proliferation, integration,
insight, and innovation ensuring the digital transformation for a manufacturing
organization. It delivers insights from the data collected by connected devices
to derive innovation and create business value. It combines all analytical capabilities
like planning, predictive analytics, and business intelligence (BI) delivering a
one-stop solution under the SaaS model to the manufacturers. It empowers the
manufacturing organizations with real-timecontextual information, analysis for
better planning and decision making.
2. Quality Management:
SAP Quality
Management module being the key element of SAP ERP offers a fully integrated
purchasing and inventory management process. It inspects the material received
against the purchase order and the inspection IoT module is automatically triggered
incase material is flagged for quality check. This intelligent module performs a
quality check of the product in the warehouse which can be a raw material or a
finished product.
SAP delivers
the reports to the quality management team depicting the material defects and the
number of times the defects have been detected. It ensures simplified spotting
of vendors who frequently fail the quality check or inspection process of the
goods delivered. Also, the customer defect report gives detailed information on
defects in outbound deliveries. Thus, SAP ensures customer satisfaction and
exuberant customer service with improved quality of products.
3. Ensure Healthy and Safe
Environment:
SAP S/4 HANA
reduces risks with its proactive approach to analyze and plan a healthy and
safe environment. The intelligent business suit monitors industrial hygiene preventing
exposure to chemicals and workplace hazards. It has an inbuilt learning module
that learns from incidents and identifies issues and resolves them. It gains
insight into the safety issues ensuring better preventive measures and reducing
the severity of the incident.
4. Manufacturing Execution:
SAP HANA Manufacturing
Execution module was designed to manage operations of a shop floor in a
manufacturing organization. Leveraging the SAP technology and deriving insights
from real-time information, the module monitors and configures the ongoing
activities. The module integrates the SAP components with the equipment of a
manufacturing environment. It delivers transparency of operational tasks
ensuring effective decisions and appropriate workflow sequence. It is a
scalable manufacturing business solution delivering optimized plant performance
and profitability.
5. Constraint-Based Production Planning:
The SAP S/4HANA enables improved speed and responsiveness of production planning,
connecting the advanced planning process to manufacturing execution. It is
capable of delivering exuberant customer service by enhancing real-time
visibility into capacity and responding at a lightning speed to the new
demand. It uses predictive requirement
planning to manage mid and long term demand scenarios.
Wrap UP
Digital Transformation
has become the key to success in the business world and cloud solutions are
playing a vital role to automate business processes and ensure business
continuity. SAP S/4 HANA is no longer just an ERP system for manufacturing
organizations but, has turned out to be the driving force for digital
transformation. SAP S/4 HANA has digitized the manufacturing processes
transforming the sector to be more collaborative, localized, automated,
integrated, and highly adaptive.
There is a
wide range of cloud hosting companies in India like ESDS – The Digital
Transformation Catalyst offering SAP S/4 HANA to automate your business
processes.
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