ITML - Lösungen für SAP-Produkte

Increasing customer demands regarding quality and intense competition dominate the situation in made-to-order and project manufacture. And time constraints are getting ever tighter. The period from one product introduction to the next is getting increasingly shorter.

But the shorter the development cycles, the higher the demands on suppliers from the area of machine and plant engineering. Companies are not only asked to respond to the dynamic demand with speed but also very specifically. Whoever can adapt their products to the specific requirements of regional markets will generate sales advantages for their company.

The high tempo of innovation and the required variant diversity require a considerable increase in research and development expenditure. One obvious measure to achieve cost savings in this situation is to form development collaborations, which will share the costs out between several partners. The use of extensive sales networks also offers valuable savings potential. In addition, companies are increasingly outsourcing parts of their operation, such as manufacture, to countries with lower labour costs.

But while cost reductions are achieved, the value creation chains become longer and more complex. These then need to be managed efficiently, especially in view of short innovation cycles, and individual processes must be interlinked as efficiently as possible.