Designed to extend and complete SAP’s portfolio of on-premise manufacturing solutions, the cloud suite is available in different packages to serve manufacturers of varying sizes in both discrete and process industries.

Customers can choose from the SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud solution for execution, which provides all solutions in the manufacturing cloud portfolio, and the SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud solution for insights, which focuses on performance management and predictive quality.

As a whole, the suite aims to help manufacturers optimise performance, elevate production quality and efficiency, and ensure worker safety, with features such as paperless production capability, component and material-level visibility for single and global installations, and a cloud-based collaborative platform integrated with SAP Ariba, to connect customers with manufacturing service providers.

“Manufacturers in the era of Industry 4.0 require solutions that are intelligent, networked and predictive,” said Bernd Leukert, member of the executive board, SAP SE, products and innovation. “Our manufacturing cloud solutions help customers take advantage of the Industrial Internet of Things by connecting equipment, people and operations across the extended digital supply chain and tightly integrating manufacturing with business operations.”

The solutions are expected to be available by the end of the second quarter of 2018.

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According to the vendor, this new option will help manufacturers embrace Industry 4.0 automation by integrating business and manufacturing processes. By running on the HEC, the solution can combine the analytical and transactional processing power of SAP HANA with the ability to connect manufacturing processes with Internet of Things (IoT) data for better visibility into shop floor operations and optimised assets utilisation and productivity.

“Companies of all sizes need to be more responsive to the variability in market demand and customer-specific product requirements,” said Hans Thalbauer, senior vice president of extended supply chain and IoT, SAP.

“The solution delivered through SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud give manufacturing companies the speed in production to meet these dynamic needs in a cost-effective manner.”

SAP Manufacturing Execution was originally launched in December 2014.

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The partners will combine two products from SAP’s supply chain solution suite – SAP Manufacturing Execution and SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence – with Fujitsu’s manufacturing expertise, to enable businesses in the sector to connect operations data across the entire length of the supply chain, to help to more quickly resolve incidents that can slow down production.

Under the terms of the collaboration, Fujitsu will receive technology training, sales and implementation support in relation to these SAP solutions, and the two companies plan to work together on sales promotion activities.

Though the partnership initially will target Japanese companies, SAP and Fujitsu are also considering future joint expansion of the offering to Asia and other regions.

Fujitsu is already offering SAP’s supply chain solutions in the US.

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As new products are now often a combination of mechanical parts, sophisticated electronics and software, information about these product elements can be maintained across multiple repositories, presenting difficulties for designers in accessing data.

The SAP Engineering Control Center interface to ECAD integration tool aims to overcome these issues by providing a consolidated view of ECAD data, such as printed circuit board assemblies (PCBA), associated project documents and PCBA parts with the mechanical CAD and ECAD product data stored in SAP software.

“Companies need to deliver increasingly complex products more efficiently as they look to leverage IoT to reimagine their business,” said Hans Thalbauer, senior vice president, extended supply chain and IoT, SAP. “The new interface to electronic design tools is a further step by SAP to provide customers with a complete, 360-degree view so that they can executive product development in an integrated environment for better business outcomes.”

The new tool was revealed at the International SAP Conferences on Extended Supply Chain and IoT, held this week in the Netherlands.

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UCT has operations spread across the United States, China, Singapore, the Philippines and Europe.

“With our adoption of a highly capable ERP system such as SAP S/4HANA, UCT will be able to boost efficiency and response times and provide our customers a performance advantage. We are confident that it will improve responsiveness, flexibility and agility needed as a global manufacturing solutions provider and enable us to continue our strong growth,” said Jim Scholhamer, CEO, UCT.

UCT will replace its existing legacy ERP system with S/4HANA to improve visibility across the supply chain. The project will incorporate a supplier portal that will simplify communication with its supply chain, enhance collaboration and help the company to optimise IT spend.

Mahindra Group subsidiary Bristlecone, a Silicon Valley-based supply chain advisory and analytics SaaS firm, will manage the implementation, which is expected to take several years.

“Manufacturers are in a global race to gain competitive advantage and optimise their supply chains by leveraging the latest digital technologies. To realise benefits from these technologies, one needs to partner with experienced teams with domain insights, global expertise in consulting, and deep knowledge of technology platforms like cloud,” said Irfan A. Khan, CEO and president, Bristlecone.

“Bristlecone was able to bring these together for UCT and help select SAP S/4HANA as a business platform. We proved these capabilities with our IP framework spanning diagnostic, design and development of specific solutions to enable the new business system. We are looking forward to building a long-term strategic partnership with UCT.”

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The collaboration between SAP and UPS to bring industrial 3D printing to the masses was originally announced at SAPPHIRE NOW this year.

It brings SAP solutions for the extended supply chain and Internet of Things with the UPS additive manufacturing and logistics network, to help streamline supply chains and get products to market faster and more cost-effectively. According to SAP, some of the benefits of distributed manufacturing are a reduction in parts inventories, cost-effective short production and prototype runs, quick delivery of parts and access to 3 printing capabilities.

Some customers which have already used the program is Airbus APWorks, Fast Radius, HP Inc, Krones, Linear AMS, Moog Inc, Sealed Air Corporation and Stratasys.

“SAP Distributed Manufacturing can enable unprecedented opportunities to revolutionise design, manufacturing, logistics processes and business models,” said Hans Thalbauer, senior vice president, extended supply chain, SAP.

“We are bringing together the innovative power of our customers and partners with SAP in this exciting next phase of our initiative to extend our reach and enable our vision for digital manufacturing.”

The UPS 3D printing network has been expanded to also now serve Asia and Greater China. Registration for the early adopters program is now open globally through to January 2017 – interested companies can find out more here.

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The agreement will see SAP combine its extended supply chain solutions with UPS’s additive industrial manufacturing and logistics network to get products to market more quickly and cost-effectively.

This will include the digitisation and implication of the production part approval process through SAP, which the companies believe will enable a significantly higher number of industrial 3D print-ready production parts to be approved and certified. These can then be ordered through UPS On-Demand Manufacturing will full integration with SAP manufacturing and procurement processes.

It will also enable companies to automatically quantify the financial viability of 3D printing vs traditional procurement and manufacturing options, and then order via UPS for production and delivery, with tracking from within SAP.

According to UPS, its new on-demand network will benefits customers such as:

• Manufacturers wanting to reduce inventory for slow-moving parts,
• Manufacturers with short production runs where the cost to create the mould or tooling could make these orders too expensive for traditional manufacturing,
• Manufacturers and retailers of custom/semi-custom goods as additive manufacturing allows cost-effective customisation of goods,
• Industrial designers and engineers who want high quality rapid prototypes, and
• Entrepreneurs, start-ups and manufacturers who don’t currently have access to 3D printers or have limited capital and time and will use 3D printing for rapid prototyping and manufacturing of initial production runs.“Technology innovations such as 3D printing are revolutionising traditional manufacturing and redefine our notion of the industrial supply chain,” said Bernd Leukert, member of the Executive Board, Products and Innovations, SAP SE.

“By bringing together the on-demand manufacturing and logistics expertise of UPS and the extended supply chain leadership of SAP, we can enable direct digital manufacturing and an on-demand industrial manufacturing network that connects from manufacturing floor to the customer door.”

The announcement was made at the 28th annual SAPPHIRE NOW conference.

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