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Manufacturing isn't getting easier. You're under constant pressure to deliver innovative products, respond to customer demand quickly, and eliminate costs.

Enter SAP Manufacturing. This powerful solution integrates manufacturing with your other operations, so you can identify changes in demand and supply and rapidly respond to new customer requirements.

SAP Manufacturing is the only comprehensive solution for managing manufacturing operations with embedded Lean and Six Sigma -- empowering you to deliver superior responsiveness and performance. And since it's built on the SAP NetWeaver platform, SAP Manufacturing connects seamlessly with your entire enterprise, including your current plant floor infrastructure. So you can accelerate time-to-value and lower total cost of ownership.

SAP Manufacturing gives discrete and process manufacturers functionality to:

• Coordinate operations with partners and suppliers
• Detect and resolve exceptions and performance deviation in real time and at low cost
• Institutionalize Lean and Six Sigma processes and monitor production to drive continuous improvement
• Comply with environmental, health, and safety standards
• Improve employee productivity and create a high-quality work environment

With SAP Manufacturing, your management and production departments gain real-time visibility into key data -- enabling them to act quickly. Managers can document, track, and interpret quality and performance using rich analytics capabilities. Production teams can leverage role-based applications for plant managers, production supervisors, maintenance supervisors, and quality inspectors to detect and respond rapidly to exceptions and variances -- and deliver superior performance.

SAP Manufacturing helps you to plan, schedule, sequence, execute, and monitor all your manufacturing processes optimally. So you can achieve higher profits and marketplace wins.

SAP Manufacturing: Features & Functions
SAP Manufacturing provides capabilities for planning, execution, quality, maintenance, and environment, health, and safety. This integrated manufacturing solution gives you the features and functions necessary for you to handle:

• Manufacturing planning -- Optimally plan, schedule, and sequence factory-floor production to produce and deliver promised orders.
• Manufacturing execution -- Deliver on production plans by managing production processes, staff deployment, and other factory-floor resources. Document, monitor, and dispatch inventory during the entire production life cycle.
• Quality management -- Monitor and document compliance with quality standards.
• Maintenance management -- Plan, schedule, and sequence maintenance to optimize assets and minimize downtime.
• Environment, health, and safety management -- Handle product safety, dangerous goods and their disposal, waste and emissions, industrial hygiene, and occupational health and safety.