Manufacturing Magazine - June 2021 | Page 126

SAP INDUSTRY 4.0

Andy

Hancock from SAP talks about Industry 4.0
Beyond the four walls of the siloed plant , SAP enables businesses to stack further data from external suppliers , their wider network and begin to derive true value . In the boardroom , executive

Where this empowerment truly comes into effect is in the time it takes to make decisions and implement them leadership , now fully informed by this aggregated data , are able to deliver to their shareholders .

“ The CEO or CFO have their core values that they need to meet , whether that ’ s sustainability goals , P & L , or something else ,” Hancock says . " Where this empowerment truly comes into effect is in the time it takes to make decisions and implement them . We can now actually bring the data all the way down the individual steps to the operator , because it ' s all connected . Decisions made at the top can be actioned incredibly fast throughout the business . That ' s a very simple example , but it shows how this layered approach works in a lot of our businesses that we see .”
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