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
Accelerate Business Performance Gains with Manufacturing Execution Systems
Learn how MES can foster success through Quality, Customer Service, Throughput, Asset Utilization, Compliance, Flexibility, Inventory, Lean and Six Sigma measurements.
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Catching Rays: Five Success Factors in an Explosive Solar Market
Read this whitepaper examining the potential for substantial growth of solar energy. Pike Research states political and economic factors may increasingly direct some of the new solar production capacity away from Asia to Canada and U.S., even in the absence of federal aid.
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Global Trends in Sustainability Performance Management
The paper is based on research and interviews with senior executives in companies who are leading the way in sustainability reporting, executives at professional services firms who are assisting companies with their approach to integrated reporting, and individuals who provide leadership at global organizations who currently set the standards for reporting.
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High Efficiency in Manufacturing Operations
Read the Aberdeen Analyst Insight and learn what is driving manufacturers to focus on creating more efficient manufacturing operations and which manufacturers are most successful in achieving these efficiency gains.
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Improving Asset Visibility
Understand how SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) and other SAP solutions can help you improve visibility into your operations and asset performance. You can increase uptime, narrow process variability, control maintenance costs, react faster to process upsets, and satisfy customers more consistently
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Manufacturing Operations Management: Capitalizing on the Economic Recovery
Manufactures are facing many challenges as demand continues to increase and supplier costs and lead times are rising, while overall manufacturing employment remains depressed. This new research examines how manufacturers are leveraging investments in a manufacturing operations management (MOM) solution.
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NOVA Chemicals
Learn how a Nova Chemicals uses SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management to simplify and improve emissions calculations and reporting. The company can now pull data into a single application for complex analysis and regulatory reporting, while achieving project payback in less than two years.
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SAP Insider SNC
Get the answer to three important questions on supply chain collaboration - and read three case studies: Colgate-Palmolive, Sauer-Danfoss, and Conair
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SAP Solutions for Asset Management: A Solid Foundation for Asset Performance Management
Reduce risk, costs, downtime, energy use, and your carbon footprint. Achieve these key objectives for asset-intensive organizations through improving asset-performance management (APM). Read this white paper to learn more about effective APM strategy.
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Sustainable Production: Good for the Plant, Good for the Planet
Read this report, which, for the first time, benchmarks the value best-in-class manufacturers derive from their approach to sustainable production. The report provides insight into the sustainability programs of the top performers in manufacturing.
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The EPA's Mandatory Reporting Rule 02 17 10
This whitepaper provides an 1) overview of the US EPA GHG regulation, 2) prescriptive, step-by-step guidelines for any company to help with successful compliance with the MRR 3) a detailed explanation of points to consider when planning for software and 4) a discussion of courses of action beyond compliance.
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Founded in 1972 as Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing, SAP has a rich history of innovation and growth that has made us the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries — in every major market. The company, headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, employs more than 51,200 people in more than 50 countries, and serves more than 47,800 customers worldwide.
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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 Klabin's 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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