MANUFACTURING

The clear trend towards internationalization of the manufacturing companies, both as to searching for new markets and looking for production sites with lower costs, creates a new framework for these companies, which are facing up to more and more competition and to a higher complexity in management due to the different international environments they are moving in. The industries of the manufacturing sector are confronting a growing cost pressure, mainly derived from the new global competition they have to deal with; so they need to permanently improve their business processes in order to become ever more efficient, agile, and competitive organizations.

The added complexity of delocalisation, the new processes and global competitors mean that the main challenge for the manufacturing companies consists in managing these new dynamics correctly by using more powerful, simple and efficient strategies and tools, thus to achieve higher productivity levels and to be able to bring to the market better products at an appropriate cost in less time.

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In this sense, through the integrated approach to the business processes offered to the market by SINERIA, based upon the necessary alignment of business and technology together with the experience and know-how of the sector, a specific solution has been defined for the manufacturing sector, which will help the companies of this sector to compare their business processes with the best practices of the market and align them with the related technology.

SINERIA makes the 4MAN-FOCUS solution available to the companies of the sector, a solution based upon reference models of business processes mapped into ARIS solutions and integrated in the vertical SAP FOCUS MANUFACTURING solution (ERP and BI) through the SAP Solution Manager, together with the consulting services for defining and implementing the solution and the interfaces to other systems, such as the Logistic Engineering System (LES) and the Manufacturing Execution System (MES).