Name: Identifying Key SAP Solutions for the Building Materials Industry
Uploaded: 2024-12-2
Duration: 687 s
Description: Watch this video to identify the business capabilities of SAP for the Mill Products industry in more detail.

<p>about your learning experience to help us improve.</p>

You've completed

cleanFiles/bookmap_Paper_and_Packaging_en-US_learning-sap-com_lsc-prod.zip (MMCP-DROPZONE) - 2024-12-20T13:00:54.000Z

Identifying Key Capabilities of SAP Solutions for the Mill Products Industry

<div id="content"><p tabindex="0">In this video, you will look at the business capabilities of SAP for the Mill Products industry in more detail.</p><div class="note"><div class="noteTitle"><span class="noteIcon"><img title="Note" src="/icons/note.svg"></span><span class="noteTitleText">Note</span></div><div class="noteBody"><p tabindex="0">SAP employees and official SAP Partners can download <a target="_blank" href="https://dam.sap.com/mac/u/a/t8vu8aS?rc=10&amp;doi=SAP1115384">the slide deck</a></p></div></div><div class="kalturaVideoLessonWrapper"><div aria-label="" class="kalturaVideoLessonContainer" data-testid="video" id="1_yrkuwqsm"></div></div><div class="parentsection"><div class="section"><div tabindex="0"><h3>Summary</h3></div><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li tabindex="0"><strong>Business Planning Capabilities</strong>: SAP for Mill Products enables strategic management of inventory and supply through real-time analytics, cross-functional collaboration, and innovative technologies like AI and Machine Learning to predict demand and reduce supplier risks.</li><li tabindex="0"><strong>Manufacturing and Asset Operations</strong>: Companies can optimize manufacturing processes and reduce asset downtime through integrated sales, planning, production, and logistics, with support for industry-specific planning tools and proactive maintenance.</li><li tabindex="0"><strong>Digital Logistics and Customer Relationships</strong>: SAP solutions optimize freight, shipping, and warehouse operations, improving customer satisfaction through accurate order fulfillment and real-time product availability checks, while enhancing customer relationships with insights and scalable platforms.</li><li tabindex="0"><strong>Sustainability and Growth</strong>: SAP supports Mill Products companies in reducing environmental impact and integrating sustainability into strategic decisions while enabling growth through cloud solutions, real-time insights, and preconfigured industry best practices to support new business models.</li></ul></div></div></div>

Core Capabilities of SAP Solutions

<div id="content"><p tabindex="0">You can find more learning assets on the <a target="_blank" href="https://learning.sap.com/browse/industries">Industry Learning Pages on learning.sap.com</a>.</p><p tabindex="0">SAP employees and official SAP Partners can access the following additional resources:</p><ul style="list-style-type:disc"><li tabindex="0"><a target="_blank" href="https://dam.sap.com/mac/app/p/pdf/asset/preview/eq88CPg?ltr=a&amp;rc=68&amp;doi=SAP946007">SAP for Mill Products – Midmarket Positioning</a></li><li tabindex="0"><a target="_blank" href="https://dam.sap.com/mac/app/p/pdf/asset/preview/ZBJVESu?ltr=a&amp;rc=68&amp;doi=SAP1037158">RISE with SAP for Mill Products – Accelerating digitalization</a></li><li tabindex="0"><a target="_blank" href="https://dam.sap.com/mac/app/p/pdf/asset/preview/LLk1syu?ltr=a&amp;rc=68&amp;doi=SAP1041062">L1 SAP Business AI in Industries Edition Mill Products</a></li><li tabindex="0"><a target="_blank" href="https://content-discovery.int.sap/explore?mediaTypeIds=IVJ&amp;categoryItemIds=industry_31958591515119384139674">Industry value journeys on Content Discovery</a></li></ul></div>

Related Resources

Introducing the Building Materials Industry

<div><div>Watch this video to identify the business capabilities of SAP for the Mill Products industry in more detail.</div></div>

Identifying Key SAP Solutions for the Building Materials Industry

Welcome to the second part of this session. Let's look at the business capabilities of SAP for Mill Products in more detail. For a Mill Products company, business planning involves strategically managing inventory and supply through cross-functional collaboration, analysis, demand signal supply constraints, and financial insights. To support this process, we offer some key capabilities. First, companies can benefit from real-time embedded analytics for better decision-making using data-driven insight. Departments can collaborate across lines of business to connect the dots and bridge inconsistencies. In the future, companies can scale and innovate with additional technologies such as AI and ML and gain visibility and even predict demand, as well as join a supply chain collaboration network to reduce risks of fragile supplier and vendor relationships. By leveraging these capabilities, companies can increase collaboration with data sharing, act on real-time insights, and connect and automate processes business-wide. The video linked on this slide shares an E2E overview of the S/4HANA Cloud highlights specific to the mill products and mining industries. You can access this video and the other assets in this session by viewing our mid-market deck. A link is provided at the end of the e-learning. These capabilities are helping our customer Rehau to create smoother customer experiences while meeting a wide range of customers across industries. Using SAP S/4HANA Cloud and SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation, Rehau was able to automate billing workflows, uploading days of work of thousands of financial accounting documents to a reduction of minutes, ultimately saving time, cutting down on human error and leaving human capital to the work of innovation. Manufacturing and asset operations is about optimizing manufacturing processes and collaborating in global networks while lowering total manufacturing costs. To support this process, we offer some key capabilities. These can support maintenance from order creation to the request of completion to reduce an asset's downtime. This increases total productivity while saving on maintenance costs across all maintenance operations. In the future, proactive maintenance can prevent failures and breakdowns of assets by implementing preventative or predictive maintenance. As mentioned earlier, customers expect individualized solutions that can lead to a specific product configuration being required. Product specifications may affect bill of material and routing and in consequence costs, pricing and profitability. Companies can benefit from fully integrated sales, planning, production and logistics with all areas building on the same materials data to allow a fully integrated process. Especially in the manufacturing and planning space, mill products companies rely on industry specific planning tools and optimizers for tasks like manufacturing sequencing, trim optimization or product design. There is no standard ERP to cover such industry specific requirements, hence third party solutions are commonly seen in this area. SAP solutions offer integration technology to help with integrating industry specific tools for a seamless planning and optimization process. By leveraging these capabilities, mill products companies can increase their resource utilization and maximize visibility across supply, production, inventory, and demand. The video link on this slide show a demo overview of the SAP S/4HANA plan to procure for discrete manufacturing process flow from user personas, the Fiori interface, capacity planning, planned and production orders, 3D assembly instructions, inspection, and packing the finished good. These capabilities are helping our customer, Ezentis, to deliver a robust, scalable, and stable infrastructure for ERP in the cloud. In six months, Ezentis was live with SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud and the SAP Business Technology Platform, eliminating hardware and on-site maintenance costs to create a foundation that can scale with ease in the future. Digital logistics and mill products is about optimizing freight, shipping, and warehouse operations. By aligning distribution and fulfillment processes, and by collaborating with logistics partners, companies gain visibility to make customer-centric decisions on logistics and order fulfillment. Businesses today can share accurate and reliable order promising dates, respond to inventory levels knowing in advance how and when to produce thanks to data, and they can maximize their supply chains from raw materials to finished goods with the use of networks. In the future, businesses will support, act on, and grow existing logistics resources with business networks, ensuring the best material availability across the entire supply chain. By leveraging these capabilities, mill products companies can optimize and automate processes, reduce costs, and streamline transportation management, leading to improved customer satisfaction. The video linked on this slide shares an E2E overview of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud highlights specific to the mill products and mining industries. Using these capabilities, SAP customer Hua Sheng, who chose SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, achieved effective digital support in supply chain planning and production in their factories, enabling controlled production schedules, as well as traceability and visualization of product quality. Sustainability in mill products is about reducing greenhouse gas emissions, reducing waste, increasing circularity, and the use of socially responsible business practices across product life cycles and value chains to make sustainability profitable and profitability sustainable. Companies can first disclose sustainability performance internally and externally to stakeholder confidently while integrating economic, environmental and social performance insights into their strategic decision making. In the future, companies will comply with country or region specific legal requirements in an automated, proactive manner, and create and incorporate a strategy to manage environmental data embedded into daily operation. By leveraging these capabilities, Mill Products companies can improve strategic decision-making, reduce environment, health, and safety risks, and calculate product footprints along the product lifecycle. The demo video on this slide shares a mill's innovation story using intelligent business application, using a drone throughout the shop floor to mitigate EHS risks to employees with the ability to respond quickly as soon as an incident is aware. Using these capabilities, customer Ascend Elements, an innovative battery materials manufacturer and recycler, is using SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud to focus on optimizing the battery supply chain and help electric vehicle OEMs and battery manufacturers accelerate their net zero goals. The company's growth skyrocketed and is now preparing for a billion dollar manufacturing plant to open in Kentucky with growth plans of international expansion. Customer relationships and experience is about maintaining customers' ever-evolving needs and order customizations by empowering sales with customer insights, sales order commitments, and fulfillments, supporting a customer's experience to maintain lasting relationships. First, companies can optimize stock levels and deliver on customer needs from sales order to invoicing and delivery. Companies can commit orders dates in real time with product availability checks, sharing the knowledge of product delivery dates and stock quantities. When companies understand their profitability matrix from the beginning at order capture, This enables them to achieve higher margins. In the future, companies will expand and grow into new markets, reaching new geographics, for example, through M&As or new factory construction. But industry boundaries are blurring, and new business opportunities may be found in neighboring industries, leading to totally new business requirements that will be fueled by an agile and scalable business platform. By leveraging these capabilities, Mill Products companies can improve margins and revenue and improve client satisfaction. The video on this slide shares the ability to leverage ML capabilities to automate sales order creations from purchase orders to the final sales order, reducing repetitive manual tasks. Slovarm needed to integrate sales, production, and logistics processes. With SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Slovarm has a faster MRP run, with the ability to reschedule planned ordered when needed, reducing 60% in work-in-progress and final stock inventories. Let's summarize what we've heard. Grow with SAP for Mill Products supports companies to build a solid foundation for their growth ambitions. Real-time insights make it possible to manage the business profitably and to quickly respond to customers with the right information. As firms adopt new business models and grow, they can rely on a business platform that supports their current and future needs. Cloud solutions help companies grow, but they also enhance current business practices and provide an interface with business partners. Pre-configured industry best practices quickly add value to the business, and it allows employees to focus on the core business. To help customers experience the benefits of SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, we offer a 14-day free trial. We have sales plays available to help you talk confidently with customers about their industry challenges and how SAP can support them. The sales plays are your one-stop shop for everything you need on this topic and include customer profile, business goals, competitive insights, key partner solutions for our industry, and much more. Sales Plays are accessible to all SAP employees and to SAP partners who are a member of SAP Partner Edge. Thank you for your interest and thank you for watching.