SAP's customer ifm built more than 100 factory functions itself. SAP says most could be standard.
The German company, with around 9,000 staff, had built its own links between factory systems and business software at each site, according to an SAP customer story published on 6 November.
When ifm evaluated manufacturing systems, it found that standard SAP Digital Manufacturing could cover most of those functions, including production order execution, scheduling and track-and-trace.
Martin Haury, head of Global IT Business Services at ifm: "Our OT colleagues were actually surprised that it's just parameterizing and the solution is there."
SAP partner cbs Corporate Business Solutions implemented the pilot. ifm is preparing a rollout across its global production network, but the story gives no rollout date, cost or savings figure. The standard-software fit is encouraging; the economics of replacing those local links are still missing.
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