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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:
- Intelligent products and projects. Includes portfolio and product management, product development and configuration, and commercial project management and collaboration.
- 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.
- 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.
- Digital logistics. Yard and warehouse management, transportation management, track trace and logistics networks, order promising.
- 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.
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Pacific Coast Supply Customer StoryJul 25, 2024 — Pacific Coast Supply, Headquartered in North Highlands, CA is a building material distributor that services professional contractors and subcontractors. Through streamlined design and ongoing configuration controls, which allow you to adjust to changing needs, OMS+ allowed Pacific Coast Supply to start their moderation journey and increase total experience.
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Hilti Group’s Circularity Mission with SAP BTPApr 12, 2024 — Hilti Group chose SAP BTP as the organization embarked on a mission to automate and track materials across its value chain. Whether driven by ever-expanding sustainability regulations or by initiatives at self-motivated companies, sustainability is quickly becoming a sign of purpose-driven and purpose-oriented organizations that doesn’t go unnoticed by forward-looking customers and boards.
It also seems that, among SAP partners, consumers are voting with their wallets around sustainability, especially when kept separate from the rest of organizational functions and strategically infused into the business.
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View from the Top – Building a Transport Capability to Drive Growth & Scale at CSRMay 26, 2023 — Cameron Webb, Executive General Manager, Transformation, Technology and Digital at CSR Limited, shares a little about the structural changes made to streamline business units towards a “One CSR Way” which includes equipping the organisation with enabling technology to support this new operating model.
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Mobile Mini: Streamlining SAP Inventory Management ApplicationDec 22, 2022 — Tracking storage assets across finance, logistics, and operations is critical to the bottom and top lines at Mobile Mini - the world’s leading provider of portable storage solutions - to their investment in SAP ECC as their core system. Over the last 35+ years, however, Mobile Mini has grown largely through acquisition - creating many disparate systems across inventory management.
Read this case study to learn how a custom online/offline app with a user-centric experience that tightly integrates into SAP modernized Mobile Mini's business.
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How Eczacıbaşı Group Embraced Digital TransformationJul 29, 2021 — Whenever a company undergoes a large-scale digital transformation initiative, an extensive list of possible scenarios can come out of seemingly nowhere to hamper the success of a project. The challenges can range from determining the technical architecture to building a roadmap that connects IT and business process owners across various time zones.
For the Eczacıbası Group – Europe's leading bathroom and tile manufacturer with a global footprint and active in 124 countries – one of the keys to their digital transformation journey was building a program with SAP S/4HANA as its technical core. But for the project to be successful, it needed to be broken down into digestible components.
The in-depth evaluation provided by Deloitte, including architecture and feature roadmap development, was the key to completing the program quickly and efficiently.
The company is realizing the benefits of its technology investments, including an SAP S/4HANA implementation that consisted of 19 different modules. The company also uses other SAP solutions, including SAP HANA, SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP Sales Cloud, SAP Marketing Cloud, SAP Service Cloud, SAP Field Service Management, SAP BW/4HANA, to tie all areas of the business together.
Users have real-time insight and a harmonized view of data for a clearer picture of operations. For example, users can see detailed transportation costs for each country and analyze how much it would cost to send products by land or sea.
Among the benefits the company gained, it improved the production and shipment of its offerings. For example, before the digital transformation project, the company could ship 300,000 pieces in a month. Shortly after, they were able to deliver 430,000 pieces without adding a single headcount in the warehouse.
With SAP S/4HANA at the center of its digital transformation journey, the Eczacıbası Group delivers enhanced value to the business, its partners, and customers.
Read this customer story and learn:
- Why digital transformation is primarily a business-driven effort. Technology is a vital component for digitally transforming businesses. But program outcomes should not fall solely on IT. The business must take a proactive leadership role in setting the agenda and expectations.
- How business and technology leaders need guidance from knowledgeable service partners to lay the groundwork for effective digital transformation strategies and requirements.
- About the benefits of SAP S/4 HANA and other SAP technologies to help organizations become more agile and connect all areas of the business.
- The importance of high-value collaboration across business and IT, and the ability to simplify complexity through change management and risk management mechanisms.
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Video: Learn How SAP S/4HANA Enables the Eczacıbası Group to Digitally Connect All Areas of Its BusinessJul 29, 2021 — Whenever a company undergoes a large-scale digital transformation initiative, an extensive list of possible scenarios can come out of seemingly nowhere to hamper the success of a project. The challenges can range from determining the technical architecture to building a roadmap that connects IT and business process owners across various time zones.
For the Eczacıbası Group – Europe's leading bathroom and tile manufacturer with a global footprint and active in 124 countries – one of the keys to their digital transformation journey was building a program with SAP S/4HANA as its technical core. But for the project to be successful, it needed to be broken down into digestible components.
The in-depth evaluation provided by Deloitte, including architecture and feature roadmap development, was the key to completing the program quickly and efficiently.
The company is realizing the benefits of its technology investments, including an SAP S/4HANA implementation that consisted of 19 different modules. The company also uses other SAP solutions, including SAP HANA, SAP Commerce Cloud, SAP Sales Cloud, SAP Marketing Cloud, SAP Service Cloud, SAP Field Service Management, SAP BW/4HANA, to tie all areas of the business together.
Users have real-time insight and a harmonized view of data for a clearer picture of operations. For example, users can see detailed transportation costs for each country and analyze how much it would cost to send products by land or sea.
Among the benefits the company gained, it improved the production and shipment of its offerings. For example, before the digital transformation project, the company could ship 300,000 pieces in a month. Shortly after, they were able to deliver 430,000 pieces without adding a single headcount in the warehouse.
With SAP S/4HANA at the center of its digital transformation journey, the Eczacıbası Group delivers enhanced value to the business, its partners, and customers.
Read this customer story and learn:
- Why digital transformation is primarily a business-driven effort. Technology is a vital component for digitally transforming businesses. But program outcomes should not fall solely on IT. The business must take a proactive leadership role in setting the agenda and expectations.
- How business and technology leaders need guidance from knowledgeable service partners to lay the groundwork for effective digital transformation strategies and requirements.
- About the benefits of SAP S/4 HANA and other SAP technologies to help organizations become more agile and connect all areas of the business.
- The importance of high-value collaboration across business and IT, and the ability to simplify complexity through change management and risk management mechanisms.
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Automating Closing Processes at The Comfort GroupApr 30, 2021 — The financial closing process at many companies can be manual, inconsistent, and inefficient, which leads to lagging financial data and the inability to be a forward-thinking business. There are ways through technology and process improvements to create more effective financial closing. A leader in the Australasian bedding market, The Comfort Group, proved that possibility with its recent implementation of SAP S/4HANA for advanced financial closing. Utilizing an agile methodology based on two-week development sprints, The Comfort Group improved its financial closing cycle and created a potential cloud closing hub for the whole company across multiple ERP systems. How was The Comfort Group able to accomplish this in a challenging technical environment?
In this SAP S/4HANA implementation case study, The Comfort Group shares key challenges, learnings, and benefits from its agile-driven project intended to update and optimize financial closing.
Read this customer story and learn:
- How The Comfort Group, along with project partner Deloitte, implemented SAP S/4HANA Cloud for advanced financial closing based on two-week sprints;
- Agile methodology’s influence on other aspects of the implementation, including demonstration and testing processes;
- How SAP Best Practices templates proved to be valuable while still allowing for adaptation to The Comfort Group’s unique needs; and
- About The Comfort Group’s method for keeping stakeholders involved and how this approach promotes technology adoption and supports the new financial closing processes.
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Lessons Learned from Irvine Company’s Successful Automation of Supplier PaymentsMar 30, 2021 — Go inside Irvine Company’s automation journey and learn how they went beyond simple automation of AP invoices to build a solution that enabled them to streamline approvals and handle exceptions in an intelligent and efficient manner. For a company like Irvine this approach is necessary when you see 50% of invoices that need some form approval and up to 15% require exception handling.
In this session you will understand the challenges many companies face with expanding the value of their automation solutions and learn how build a long-term solution that can keep pace with the complexity and nuances of typical supplier payment processes.
You will:
· Learn how Irvine Company was able to scale their original AP automation project to process hundreds of thousands of invoices per year.
· Understand how they used a balance of cloud-based automation with tight integration with their core SAP system of record.
· Discover how Irvine Company was able to build “millennial-friendly” web and mobile experiences for their end-users that enabled them to accelerate processing and gain buy-in for their project.
· Identify new ways and opportunities for your organization to intelligently automate AP invoice processing based on your unique business and technology landscape.
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Case Study: How Hunter Douglas Got Illumination from SAP S/4HANA ConsolidationJan 18, 2021 — True business transformation extends beyond simply implementing an ERP solution, whether SAP or otherwise. It can entail establishing enterprise-wide and integrated processes, re-defining or clarifying roles and responsibilities, employing new technologies, and shifting the mindset of the organization. Most importantly, it requires executive buy-in and support and a universally shared vision. But how can an organization align its various constituencies to define a shared vision for success? Hunter Douglas, the world’s leading maker of customer window treatments, has grown through a series of acquisitions. Upon facing challenges from a decentralized model, the company consolidated Hunter Douglas business processes and three instances of SAP ERP into one cloud-based SAP S/4HANA solution. Their digital transformation has allowed employees across all functions to see operations more clearly, work more efficiently, and serve customers better and faster. Attend this session to learn from Hunter Douglas how to:
- Understand the breadth of your business transformation in order to create a sense of urgency and form a strategic vision
- Examine potential challenges with your company’s culture and DNA, understanding how you can enable action by removing barriers to universal support while mobilizing volunteers
- Determine a path for your change journey by defining a robust change management plan, including stakeholder management, communications, and training
- Establish a solid post-implementation support and training plan to sustain acceleration and increase adoption
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