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Explore critical topics shaping today’s SAP landscape—from digital transformation and cloud migration to cybersecurity and business intelligence. Each topic is curated to provide in-depth insights, best practices, and the latest trends that help SAP professionals lead with confidence.

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Discover how SAP strategies and implementations vary across global markets. Our regional content brings localized insights, regulations, and case studies to help you navigate the unique demands of your geography.

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Building and Construction

SAP Building Products help businesses to reimagine business models, processes, and products by driving digitalization.

Providing greater flexibility for today, while paving the way for business model innovation in the future. It helps companies gain competitive insights into operations to help increase efficiency, and drive data driven decisions.

Building construction is the furnishing of labor, equipment, material, or supplies in the design, building or construction of projects. Global changes are impacting building materials companies and the population is growing resulting in increased demand. Customer expectations have risen, they want to be in the loop with real-time tracking and expect to get notification updates. Companies are pressed to reimagine their processes, accelerating a digital transformation. Industry 4.0 technology is a gamechanger to impact productivity, help to turn challenges into opportunities, connect with customers, and integrate partners.

SAP offers advanced customer service capabilities to enable a self-service environment. This allows companies to engage customers with building product innovations.

SAP Building Products include:

SAP Building Products help businesses to reimagine business models, processes, and products by driving digitalization.

Providing greater flexibility for today, while paving the way for business model innovation in the future. It helps companies gain competitive insights into operations to help increase efficiency, and drive data driven decisions.

Building construction is the furnishing of labor, equipment, material, or supplies in the design, building or construction of projects. Global changes are impacting building materials companies and the population is growing resulting in increased demand. Customer expectations have risen, they want to be in the loop with real-time tracking and expect to get notification updates. Companies are pressed to reimagine their processes, accelerating a digital transformation. Industry 4.0 technology is a gamechanger to impact productivity, help to turn challenges into opportunities, connect with customers, and integrate partners.

SAP offers advanced customer service capabilities to enable a self-service environment. This allows companies to engage customers with building product innovations.

SAP Building Products include:

  1. Intelligent products and projects. Includes portfolio and product management, product development and configuration, and commercial project management and collaboration.
  2. Customer relationship and experience. Omnichannel commerce, omnichannel customer experience, retail store management, trade promotion management, configure price and quote to cash, sales force automation, sales force automation, sales performance management, customer experience management, business marketing and optimized marketing.
  3. Manufacturing and asset operations excellence. Industrial insights, manufacturing networks, manufacturing operations and execution, environment health and safely, asset performance management, asset operations and maintenance, and asset collaboration.
  4. Digital logistics. Yard and warehouse management, transportation management, track trace and logistics networks, order promising.
  5. Business planning. Demand management and insights, sales inventory and operations planning, and response and supply planning.

SAP software solutions for building products include:

  • SAP S/4HANA. For operational excellence across financial, sales, procurement, and manufacturing with a personalized user experience.
  • SAP Customer Experience. Ability to engage and connect with your customers anywhere on any device with a state-of-the-art customer experience.

Key considerations for SAPinsiders:

  • The Intelligent Enterprise for Building Products Companies. Read the white paper from SAP, to learn how they are helping companies create great customer experiences through tailor-made solutions.
  • Case study: How Hunter Douglas Got Illumination from SAP S/4HANA Consolidation. Review the case study on how Hunter Douglas went through a series of acquisitions and faced challenges stemming from a decentralized model. They consolidated into one SAP S/4HANA solution and incorporated a digital transformation for optimal operational efficiency.
  • Video: Learn how SAP S/4HANA Enables the Eczacibasi Group to Digitally Connect All of its Business. Eczacibasi Group, Europe’s leading bathroom and tile manufacturer went through a digital transformation with SAP S/4HANA. Listen to this video to learn how they broke down the project into digestible components.

Case Study: Dynapac automates invoice processing with Medius AP AutomationDynapac, a prominent road construction machine manufacturer, successfully automated its inefficient invoice processing system, significantly enhancing operational efficiency.
Financial Services – Blocks SolutionsNew clients cleared through KYC before the first call. The bank feed reconciled before finance sits down. The client brief ready before the meeting.
Field Service – Blocks SolutionsService requests answered at any hour, by phone, text message, email or web form. Work orders billed in full at closeout. Estimates priced and chased.
Manufacturing – Blocks SolutionsCustomer RFQs priced and answered the day they arrive. Purchase orders chased to the door. Supplier invoices matched three ways before AP does.
Wholesale & Distribution – Blocks SolutionsCustomer orders confirmed and entered. Supplier invoices matched and cleared. Payments applied before your AR team starts their day.
Blocks | Your Business, Running on AIBlocks transforms your operations into a team of AI agents connected across your workflows and data.
Aerial view of a large industrial construction site surrounded by farmland, illustrating data center expansion and capital project planning.
How to Build a Portfolio View for Data Center Capital PlanningPlatinum DB Consulting is combining SAP EPPM with FP&A to give data center leaders a portfolio view of capital planning. CII Best Practices connect project execution with investment reviews, while SAP Analytics Cloud planning extends project forecasts into the wider financial plan.
From Chaos to Confidence: How Strategic Pricing Transformed Volatility into a Competitive AdvantageFacing steel-cost volatility, a building products manufacturer combined Zilliant Price Manager and Price IQ to cut pricing cycles from weeks to days and bring greater control consistency across brands and channels.
Modern glass office building facade with stacked cubic sections against a pale sky, representing the real estate and housing industry served by Aareon's SAP S/4HANA-based property management ERP
AI Moves into the Property ERP: What the Aareon Summit 2026 Signals for SAP in Real EstateAt the Aareon Summit 2026, AI moved from pilot to product inside the property ERP, with an AI-optimized operating cost settlement built on an SAP S/4HANA foundation. The announcements mirror SAPinsider's 2026 finding that AI now outranks the 2027 deadline in shaping ERP strategy.
Modern multi-story building interior with glass staircase and open workspace floors representing Planon smart sustainable building management integrated with SAP S/4HANA real estate and facilities
Planon’s SAP Solution Extension Brings Real Estate and Facilities Management Into the ERP CorePlanon's progression to SAP Solution Extension integrates real estate and facilities management processes directly into SAP S/4HANA's financial backbone, while new Microsoft Places and data center capabilities expand the platform's reach into workplace experience and sustainability reporting.

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