Best Practices on Managing Plant Assets
for Higher Performance

Manufacturers and service industries that rely on assets with a long service life must perform a balancing act between meeting customer needs and satisfying investors with a healthy, consistent return on their investment. Many executives feel strong pressure to improve their company's returns on assets, as innovative companies are distancing themselves from the competition with better customer service, increased profitability, and maximized return on assets.

Companies of various industries are using asset management systems powered by SAP to achieve success. Learn how SAP provides effective processes covering the asset's entire life cycle — from initial design, building, commissioning, and running of the asset to optimizing, maintaining, and ensuring that it complies with environmental and safety regulations.

White Papers

The Transition of Environmental Risk Management

The Transition of Environmental Risk Management

There is a growing consensus that business should bear a greater responsibility towards the environment. This report shows the results and recommendations from a survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit of 320 executives from around the world about their attitudes to environmental risk management.

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Regulatory Risk Management

Regulatory Risk Management

Learn in this report resulting from a servey by the Economist Intelligence Unit, how you can make the most out of regulatory risk management, and the burden of growing compliance and complexity.

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Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence

Achieving Compliant Manufacturing Excellence

Many life sciences manufacturing companies recognize that improving corporate performance demands better synchronization with the plant floor. Learn why it is necessary to access the production data, and how real-time performance management solutions can help you gain visibility and make the data accessible for use throughout the enterprise.

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Accelerate Your Performance

Accelerate Your Performance

Manufacturing companies are under extreme pressure not only to maintain but to improve their business performance. Learn in this white paper, why the use of manufacturing execution systems can boost your business performance.

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More Than a Vision: SAP's Perfect Plant

More Than a Vision: SAP's Perfect Plant

Find out what ARC has to say about SAP's progress towards turning the "perfect plant vision" into reality by leveraging the chemical industry value network. SAP is also well-aligned with ARC's thought leadership models related to collaborative manufacturing Management.

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Asset Visibility: Seeing the Opportunity in Asset Management

Asset Visibility: Seeing the Opportunity in Asset Management

Based on the Manufacturing Insights Global Performance Index, no corporate performance measure correlates more closely to increases in market capitalization than return on assets (ROA). This tried-and-true measure evaluates executive management on making profitable use of the capital employed by the firm and rewards high performers with greater earnings multiples.

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Implementing a High Performing Assets Initiative

Implementing a High Performing Assets Initiative

Moving toward best-in-class performance requires a programmatic, deliberate approach that combines the necessary people, process, and technology elements to achieve. Read this analyst connection to understand how to best implement a high performing asset initiative in your company.

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