SAP for Industrial Machinery & Components (SAP for IM&C) supports evolving business processes by helping you manage customers, supply chains, product life cycles, and services. This comprehensive set of solutions enables you to perform a range of critical activities, including:

• New product development and introduction (NPDI) – SAP solutions address your complete NPDI process – enabling you to align your product strategy with corporate strategy and key performance indicators (KPIs); manage ideas and concepts, development projects, and your project portfolio; gather requirements; create prototypes of new products; source suppliers; and manage ramp-up and market launch activities.
• Sales and marketing – SAP solutions allow you to maximize marketing effectiveness and sales team productivity. You can dramatically shorten sales cycles, increase revenues quickly, and promote customer loyalty. Our solutions deliver the consistency, predictability, and effectiveness you need to turn promising leads into profitable customers.
• Supply chain planning – SAP solutions enable adaptive supply chain processes, delivering planning and execution functionality for managing enterprise operations, as well as collaboration technologies to extend those operations beyond corporate boundaries.
• Manufacturing – SAP solutions support all manufacturing models, including engineer-to-order, make-to-order, and make-to-stock manufacturing. You can reduce late orders and order lead times, execute outsourcing and offshoring strategies, reduce administrative effort and transaction costs, and lower working capital through inventory reduction and improved capacity utilization.
• Procurement – With SAP solutions, you can maximize the return on relationships with all suppliers across all categories of spend. Our solutions cover the full supply cycle, from strategic sourcing to operational procurement and supplier enablement, leveraging consolidated content and master data. With SAP solutions, you can optimize supplier selection, compress cycle times, and create effective sourcing and procurement strategies.
• Logistics and distribution – With SAP solutions, you can obtain, track, and distribute material and products to the proper places and in the proper quantities. You can also address logistics and distribution problems with specific logistics methods.
• Aftermarket sales and service – SAP solutions support the delivery of world-class customer service, enabling tactical and strategic service planning, service administration, transactional support, and operational and financial analytics. With support for single and multitiered service operations across the entire enterprise, our solutions enable collaborative business processes for activities such as budgeting, resource planning, product planning, field service, installed-base management, customer self-service, spare-parts management, market research, and multichannel campaign execution and measurement.