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INNOVATION DELIVERS
A portrayal of SAP Business All-in-One by a selection of our customers.
carl.adams@ciber.com
Carl Adams
CIBER UK Marketing
SAP Discrete Manufacturing Solutions
“I certainly would recommend CIBER again for their ability to advise you rather than just deliver what they think you want to do.”
— Darren Dowding, Planning & Scheduling Manager, Cosworth Limited
Discrete manufacturers are striving to cut costs and improve efficiencies whilst maintaining product quality, regulatory compliance and market differentiation.
Facing fierce competition, shrinking margins and ever-demanding customers, manufacturers are under enormous pressures, complicated further by the difficulties in managing overseas lower-cost engineering and manufacturing. Such challenges emphasise the need to achieve excellence in the following aspects of manufacturing operations:
- Support for efficient, continuous innovation. Manufacturers must develop systems and processes to collaborate internally and externally in identifying and managing innovation in all phases of the product life cycle
- Support for corporate sustainability. Manufacturers must provide the governance and transparency demanded from their own company, as well as from their suppliers
- Lean operations. As manufacturers continue their lean journey, they need to become more sophisticated in applying lean practices, ensuring that efficient processes and just-in-time inventories are able to support global and agile operations
- Establish new business models for revenue generation and product differentiation. To recover shrinking margins, companies must look for additional revenues from value added services that can also provide additional market differentiation
SAP Business All-in-One. Integrated Industry Specific Enterprise Solutions
The pressures that discrete manufacturers face, and the initiatives they must embark on, emphasise the need for enhanced end-to-end visibility and improved efficiency and accuracy of decision-making in all operational aspects and throughout the product life cycle.
CIBER’s SAP discrete manufacturing solutions address companies requiring fundamental integration between the Product Lifecycle (Design, Engineering, Production and Service), the Supply Chain (Sales, Procurement, Materials Management and Production) and Financial processes underpinning the business. Normally, this involves joining the dots between Engineering, Manufacturing and Service functions as well as linking the technical environments of CAD, PDM and ERP.
CIBER focus on specific industry sectors where our experience and knowledge helps us to add value and provide innovative solutions for our customers. Our core competencies, combined with SAP capability, result in a portfolio of SAP Business All-in-One Solutions pre-built by CIBER to address manufacturers with specific styles of core business processes:
- Aerospace & Defence
- High-Tech & Electronics Equipment
- Industrial Machinery & Components
- Project Manufacturing
- Sophisticated Engineering
