Manufacturing Magazine April 2023 | Page 40

SAP

“ You want it to be like clockwork , where everything always aligns . But we know that that ' s not always the case ”

SAM CASTRO SENIOR DIRECTOR , SOLUTION MANAGEMENT , LOB DIGITAL MANUFACTURING , SAP
the application side , which says , we know we have these technologies , we know that this data is being generated from our transacting processes , so we have our own structured analytics pieces and now we can use these structures to drive our own models to influence our execution process .”
SAP has global partners , as well as local partners , who rely on its technology . When Castro talks about partnerships , he does not put one partner over another .
“ We try to keep the community as open as possible ,” he says . “ We try not to promote one partner over another , because they ' re all very important to us .”
The openness of SAP and the openness of its software is for its customers to take advantage of , but also for their partners to put their own industry expertise behind .
“ It is what gives SAP the power that we have to leverage in our own technologies to leverage partner-led innovation using those technologies to intelligently power our applications .” 38 April 2023