SAP Industrial Machinery and Components (IM & C) Solution are configured with the experience gained from thousands of installations for midsize manufacturing customers. Consolidating IT platforms with SAP solutions gives you more competitive advantages including increased visibility and control, a 360-degree customer view and the capability to provide 24x7 services.

SAP for Industrial Machinery and Components (IM & C) Solutions provides a Single Integrated Platform for global visibility. Through this platform, enterprises can perform diverse functions such as supply chain management, manufacturing operations leaning, service management, financial controlling and corporate services. Its open standards feature provides scalability and thus flexibility for future growth.

Moreover, SAP for IM & C Solutions includes SAP Best Practices offerings for more than 25 industries, which allow companies to deploy world-class industry-specific ERP. Each SAP solution set has specific software, configuration, demo data, documentation, step-by-step implementation procedures and conversion tools for pilot implementation in only two weeks, and full implementation in as few as 16 weeks.

SAP for Industrial Machinery and Components (IM & C) Solutions can help companies lower the total cost of ownership and accelerate Return on Investment (ROI) dramatically. It is proven that the cost of SAP's standard level of support is lower than the competition's by 18% to 29% with more cutting-edge features.

• customers, sales order & credit management
• maintenance contract & service order processing
• streamlining of product development processes
• engineering change management
• optimization of vendor base, inventory, and supplier collaboration
• improvement to forecasting and supply chain visibility and efficiency
• cost accounting and pricing management
• streamlining of quote response and order processing and support of configure-to-order needs
• access to real-time information to resolve customer issues and deliver parts in a timely manner
• comprehensive financial reporting, analytics and operations