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.

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  1. From Field to Forecast: How Platinum DB’s Mobile EPPM App Streamlines Construction Project Management

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    Platinum DB Consulting’s mobile EPPM solution, designed to enhance real-time communication between field teams and enterprise systems, empowers construction and capital project leaders to streamline project execution, improve compliance, and enable faster decision-making through direct integration with SAP’s modules.

  2. Future-Proof Your Construction Projects: How Platinum DB Consulting Unlocks the Power of SAP BTP Business Process Automation

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    Platinum DB Consulting is transforming the construction and capital projects industry by providing cloud-based SAP Business Process Automation solutions that streamline workflows, enhance project visibility, and accelerate approvals, ultimately helping companies build faster and smarter.

  3. Bavarian State Ministry of Housing, Construction and Transport: Test data that is also suitable for special cases

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    The Free State of Bavaria enhances housing for its citizens through the Bavarian State Ministry of Housing, leveraging Libelle DataMasking to provide anonymised data for development and testing, streamlining procedures while ensuring GDPR compliance.

  4. Live from SAPinsider Las Vegas 2025: An Interview with Marty Menard of Pacific Coast Companies

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    In this episode of the SAPinsider Las Vegas 2025 podcast, host Robert Holland speaks with Marty Menard, Chief Information Officer of Pacific Coast Companies, a multi-billion-dollar, family-run business in the construction industry. Menard shares insights from his 17-year journey with SAP, detailing Pacific Coast’s recent move to SAP S/4HANA and the company’s extensive SAP ecosystem.…

  5. Case Study: Solving the Supply Chain with SAP Systems

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    A recent SAPinsider report highlights that nearly half of supply chain professionals prioritize resilience while over a third focus on agility, facing challenges primarily due to fragmented data, as exemplified by Amey’s successful integration of a custom subcontractor management solution with Arch Consulting to enhance efficiency, data visibility, and cost control in their operations.

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    Automated SAP Fiori testing for Norwegian renewables firm Hydro

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    On a mission to “change the aluminum game”, Hydro has been on an ongoing journey to take its IT technologies to the cloud for greater sustainability wins. Testing its SAP Fiori instance, Hydro turned to ImpactQA for end-to-end validation of the implementation, along with its interfaces with other in-house applications. Membership Required You must be…

  7. SAP Build Apps

    Utilizing Mobility to Streamline Construction Project Management

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    To enhance efficiency and minimize risks in commercial construction, the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) Field App, recently implemented by Platinum DB Consulting, offers a cloud-based, low-cost mobile solution enabling project managers to monitor progress and maintain quality through features like a Project Navigator and Daily Diary, showcased at SAPPHIRE 2023.

  8. Pacific Coast Supply Customer Story

    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.

  9. Grupo Cementos Digitally Transforms with RFgen Mobility for SAP® S/4HANA

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    Global concrete manufacturer digitizes inventory control with RFgen and low-code to scale mobility across North America.

  10. HUECK Group Future-Proofs IT to Facilitate its Digital Transformation

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