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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:

  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.

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Keynote | Key Learnings from Hilti’s Move to SAP S/4HANAJan 18, 2021  —  Hilti, the leading supplier of tools, consumables, services and solutions for the construction industry, based in Liechtenstein, proved its early adopter strategy with SAP when the company kicked off the move to SAP S/4HANA back in 2017 and successfully finished the transition in November 2018. Two years later, Hilti has nearly unrivaled experience and expertise with SAP S/4HANA. Hilti’s Head of IT Infrastructure, Christoph Baeck, will speak in this keynote about the learnings the Hilti team made on this journey with his team and technology partners. You’ll learn about the impact of good partnerships and detailed test planning and execution as key factors for success. In addition, he will share some thoughts on why Hilti is running SAP S/4HANA on premise today – and where he wants to go tomorrow.
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Mohawk’s Successful Migration to SAP S/4HANA with SAP & Red HatOct 22, 2020  —  Carpeting and flooring company Mohawk Industries sought to expand its SAP HANA environment to deliver greater business value and support critical operations. To achieve this expansion, Mohawk sought a scalable, cost-effective, and supported platform to move all their systems from Oracle and Windows to SAP HANA and Red Hat. By deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Ansible Automation during their migration to SAP S/4HANA, Mohawk has improved its infrastructure performance, management, and costs. Join this session to hear from Mohawk, SAP, and Red Hat as they talk about: - Business advantages for customers during migration to SAP S/4HANA - How a customer’s migration to SAP S/4HANA can be faster and more automated with Red Hat - How Mohawk is working with SAP and Red Hat to create an effective foundation for current and future migrations of all its SAP ECC and SAP HANA environments to SAP S/4HANA
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SAP S/4HANA Migration Lessons LearnedFeb 18, 2019  —  With all the SAP ERP customers out there under the looming deadline of upgrading to SAP S/4HANA by the end of 2025, it’s not surprising that more and more of the customers that we speak with are currently planning or already undergoing migrations to SAP S/4HANA. During these conversations, we have heard many commonly recurring […]
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Grupo TDM Moves to the Cloud with SAP HANA and Delivers Faster and More Efficient Service to CustomersDec 27, 2017  —  

Grupo TDM wanted to replace its home-grown IT infrastructure with scalable, flexible software hosted on a cloud platform and deliver faster and more efficient service to its customers. Learn how the company implemented SAP HANA running on IBM Cloud for SAP applications to achieve fewer manual, error-prone, paper-based processes; 50% faster information access, providing more time to perform core activities and analysis; a 42% reduction in response times, enabling faster and more effective customer service; a single, unified way to manage inventory and financial data; and 15% savings achieved from not managing hardware internally.

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Hillarys Blinds Opens Window into Real TimeJun 23, 2017  —  

Hillarys ― a manufacturer and retailer of made-to-order window coverings based in Nottingham, England ― has been well ahead of the customization curve, providing its customers with personalized products and service for nearly 50 years. Business and customer needs have changed significantly, however, and Hillarys recognized it needed to adapt in order to innovate, capture opportunities for growth, and satisfy changing customer expectations. Learn how Hillarys modernized its infrastructure and improved performance, enhanced the customer experience, and enabled access to innovative technologies by upgrading to SAP Business Suite and moving to an SAP HANA database.

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The IoT and AI Are Breaking Down Old Application CategoriesJun 19, 2017  —  

Emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing the emphasis to consumers.

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