“Sustainability is an overlay to that , sustainability is a byproduct of efficiency ”
SAM CASTRO SENIOR DIRECTOR , SOLUTION MANAGEMENT , LOB DIGITAL MANUFACTURING , SAP
and analysis of the data that is generated , from the very edges of the manufacturing and supply chain processes to the shop floor .
“ If you don ' t have a way for that information to work its way up to the top , organisations really struggle to understand where the priority needs to be ,” says Castro .
For manufacturers to focus on business value versus technology , Castro believes that they need to intelligently manage profitability and investments . As a result of that additional profitability , they also need to protect that inflow of money and profitable behaviour for the company .
“ Is that a CapEx investment ? Is it an OPEX investment ? Is it better granularity on product quality and an emphasis on quality for certain products or certain areas within a process that are very tricky and cumbersome ?” asks Castro . “ Maybe it ' s a new product that you ' re introducing and as a result , that process isn ' t fully stable yet . What is the emphasis in how
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