SAP WHITE PAPER LIBRARY
Best Practices on Managing Plant Assets
for Higher Performance
This library of reports explores activities that can get more out of plant assets, trends in enterprise resource planning, better strategic direction, and the convergence of safety and environmental compliance. The collection addresses asset utilization, aligning operational capabilities, lean initiatives and eliminating waste, and why environmental and social stewardship yields measurable bottom-line improvements. Learn how to streamline core processes to help meet financial objectives and mitigate risk by integrating software with manufacturing execution systems, adapting business models to the economy, and how midsized companies are adopting an operational excellence strategy.
White Papers
Asset Visibility: Seeing the Opportunity in Asset Management
Examine the importance of improving visibility into asset performance - and review four activities that can form the basis for getting more out of the assets in your portfolio to drive better decisions in allocating scarce capital to new asset investments.
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Delivering Operational Excellence with Innovation
Examine the trends in enterprise resource planning (ERP) that are driving businesses to adopt an enterprise services-oriented architecture (SOA). And learn how enterprise SOA can help your organization deliver operational excellence and realize new levels of innovation by enabling more responsiveness and agility.
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Hitting the Moving Target of Operational 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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IDC Energy Insights - Enterprise Risk Management
Operational risk management is a rising priority for companies in asset-intensive industry segments. Disparate and disconnected efforts in safety, environmental compliance, and asset utilization at the individual facility are converging to provide better enterprise-wide control and management accountability. Companies that make substantial efforts today will not only improve risk mitigation but create an enduring competitive advantage.
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Operational Excellence: The New Lever for Profitability and Competitive Advantage
Read the study to learn how operational excellence is a critical and necessary component for successful strategy implementation. The survey of 101 enterprises reports that companies that build and align their operational capabilities for strategic advantage earn a distinct execution premium in their business performance. The paper provides valuable evidence about the benefits of achieving aligned operational excellence.
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Technology and the Lean Enterprise
Examine why manufacturers in the industrial machinery and components industry are looking for the right technology to mount lean initiatives by eliminating waste and non-value-added activities. Read case studies of six enterprises that use SAP software to achieve continuous improvement and eliminate waste from operations.
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The ROI of Sustainability: Making the Business Case
Find out what Aberdeen has to say about sustainability. This report serves as a roadmap for companies that are attempting to match environmental and social stewardship to clear, actionable, and measureable improvements to their bottom lines.
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Additional Resources
Enabling the Lean Enterprise Executive Insight
Learn how core corporate processes can help your company meet financial objectives and mitigate risk in troubled economic times. Discover how streamlining common processes can reduce costs, and how you can increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the processes that differentiate you from the competition.
DownloadHigh Efficiency in Manufacturing Operations
Learn what is driving manufacturers to focus on creating more efficient manufacturing operations and which manufacturers are most successful in achieving these efficiency gains. This Aberdeen paper also highlights specific and actionable recommendations to achieve more efficient manufacturing operations.(Aberdeen, 2009)
DownloadHow to Use Technology to Support the Lean Enterprise
This SAP Executive Insight addresses the following questions: What is the Lean enterprise? What impact do Lean initiatives have on profitability? What role does IT play in enabling Lean initiatives? How is technology connected to the success of Lean initiatives?
DownloadKablin (Pulp & Paper) Business Transformation Study - SAP Manufacturing, Integration, and Intelligence
Brazilian pulp and paper industry leader Klabin SA had isolated manufacturing monitoring and control applications throughout its 17 plants. To increase asset utilization, reduce waste, and improve quality, the firm implemented the SAP® Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence application. The integration of this software with manufacturing execution systems and Klabins core SAP business applications is allowing the firm to save millions of dollars annually.
DownloadManaging for the Downturn, Positioning for the Upturn
Check out this in-depth article to learn about SAP Business Suite 7, SAP's perfect plant framework, responsive supply networks, and product and service leadership all reasons why successful companies can rapidly adapt their business models to the economic times, so they can compete more effectively.
DownloadOperational Excellence Enabling Sustained Growth: Spotlight on The Americas
Are companies promoting growth through operational excellence? The results of a global EIU survey of over 900 executives at midsized companies show that most companies have adopted or are in the process of adopting an operational excellence strategy and that such a strategy is intimately tied to their ability to grow. (Economist Intelligence Unit, 2008)
DownloadOperational Excellence in the Process Industries
Read this Aberdeen review of how best-in-class companies provide visibility into manufacturing operations while using real-time interoperability between manufacturing systems and business systems.
DownloadPlant to Enterprise Integration: Foundation for MES/MOM Payback
Review how manufacturing execution systems (MES) or manufacturing operations management (MOM) systems provide the necessary interface between the factory and the enterprise with coherent, integrated information systems that span the whole plant. (Cambashi, 2009)
DownloadPlant to Enterprise Integration: Foundation for MES/MOM Payback
Find out why developing or enhancing a spend analysis program and closing process gaps to ensure tight linkage to the sourcing process are straightforward and practical ways to attain greater savings and deliver greater value in this period of uncertainty and strict budgets.
DownloadSpend Analytics: A Foundation for Procurement Performance Management
Explore why spend analytics software is emerging as a tool for operational decision making to not only manage costs but also optimize procurement processes. This IDC paper presents questions and answers about using spend analytics as a foundation for procurement performance management.
DownloadSucceeding with New Procurement Strategies
Get the results of a 2009 SAP survey in which over 200 procurement executives reveal what procurement strategies are working for their organizations in today's challenging economy and what they envision for the future of procurement. Results are analyzed by industry and company size.
DownloadSustained Growth Though Operational Excellence: Spotlight on Operations
Find out how operations is a key driver to operational excellence. Operations executives are closest to the processes along the value chain, and as a result are best positioned to drive operational excellence initiatives. However, collaboration with other functions is essential. Data from IT, metrics and measurements from Finance and changing customer and market demand from Sales and Marketing are all drivers for operational excellence. But ultimately, it is the operations function that needs to be responsible for implementation.
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