With the SAP for Industrial Machinery & Components (SAP for IM&C) solution set, you can effectively coordinate the entire scope of your business activities. The solution supports the following key business processes:

• Product Lifecycle Management: Comprehensive product lifecycle management capabilities, including engineering, manufacturing, technical support, maintenance, and full utilization in some cases.
• Logistics Management: Optimizes sales and supply planning, direct procurement, order processing, and manages supplier efficiency.
• Production Planning: Manages product configuration, customizes product configurations on demand, creates production flow charts, and monitors actual expenses and production schedules.
• Production Management: Manages raw materials procurement, monitors production plans, equipment utilization, sequence and batch planning, ensures on-time product delivery, and adapts quickly to changing customer demands.
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM): Plans, creates, supports, and expands client relationships while gathering essential information through all available communication channels.
• Client Support: Identifies client needs for spare parts and ensures their timely delivery.
• Business Intelligence (BI): Collects and utilizes real-time data for assessing production plans and generating consolidated financial statements.
• Collaboration: Provides employees, partners, and clients with access to essential information and services.
• Finances: Monitors capital investments, projects, contracts, and current expenses.
• Electronic Procurement: Optimizes materials and services procurement, manages procurement cycles, and handles both operative and strategic direct and indirect procurement, including tenders.

The SAP for Industrial Machinery & Components solution streamlines processes, making your company highly competitive. The business advantages of the SAP IM&C solution include:

• Minimizing Time-to-Market: The SAP solution enhances communication and collaboration during product development, reducing the time-to-market by integrating development and logistics processes.
• Boosting Sales: Extensive functionality, from CRM to electronic sales, helps improve sales forecasts, uncover new business opportunities, and optimize sales and marketing campaigns.
• Reducing Costs: Analytical tools increase efficiency by identifying cost structures in new product development and promotion processes.
• Lowering Risks: SAP solutions enable quick responses to changes by providing integrated demand forecasting, sales and operations planning, and real-time market information.
• Optimizing Structure and Working Capital: The SAP solution reduces the need for additional investments by cutting raw materials, components, and spare parts inventory.
• Ensuring Optimal Logistics Network Efficiency: Advanced SAP logistics and order management technologies provide real-time demand information, helping you respond to changes through demand forecasting, sales and operations planning, and supply network collaboration.
• Increasing Service Revenues: SAP solutions enhance the understanding of client needs, improve service efficiency by prioritizing workloads, and optimize asset utilization.
• Improved Coverage: Efficient global supply, partner, and client relationship management, supported by logistics network management, internet sales tools, and corporate portals.

All SAP solutions adhere to the highest quality standards, keeping your company at the forefront of the industry and highly competitive.