Building and Construction

SAP Building Products help businesses to reimagine business models, processes, and products by driving digitalization.

Providing greater flexibility for today, while paving the way for business model innovation in the future. It helps companies gain competitive insights into operations to help increase efficiency, and drive data driven decisions.

Building construction is the furnishing of labor, equipment, material, or supplies in the design, building or construction of projects. Global changes are impacting building materials companies and the population is growing resulting in increased demand. Customer expectations have risen, they want to be in the loop with real-time tracking and expect to get notification updates. Companies are pressed to reimagine their processes, accelerating a digital transformation. Industry 4.0 technology is a gamechanger to impact productivity, help to turn challenges into opportunities, connect with customers, and integrate partners.

SAP offers advanced customer service capabilities to enable a self-service environment. This allows companies to engage customers with building product innovations.

SAP Building Products include:

SAP Building Products help businesses to reimagine business models, processes, and products by driving digitalization.

Providing greater flexibility for today, while paving the way for business model innovation in the future. It helps companies gain competitive insights into operations to help increase efficiency, and drive data driven decisions.

Building construction is the furnishing of labor, equipment, material, or supplies in the design, building or construction of projects. Global changes are impacting building materials companies and the population is growing resulting in increased demand. Customer expectations have risen, they want to be in the loop with real-time tracking and expect to get notification updates. Companies are pressed to reimagine their processes, accelerating a digital transformation. Industry 4.0 technology is a gamechanger to impact productivity, help to turn challenges into opportunities, connect with customers, and integrate partners.

SAP offers advanced customer service capabilities to enable a self-service environment. This allows companies to engage customers with building product innovations.

SAP Building Products include:

  1. Intelligent products and projects. Includes portfolio and product management, product development and configuration, and commercial project management and collaboration.
  2. Customer relationship and experience. Omnichannel commerce, omnichannel customer experience, retail store management, trade promotion management, configure price and quote to cash, sales force automation, sales force automation, sales performance management, customer experience management, business marketing and optimized marketing.
  3. Manufacturing and asset operations excellence. Industrial insights, manufacturing networks, manufacturing operations and execution, environment health and safely, asset performance management, asset operations and maintenance, and asset collaboration.
  4. Digital logistics. Yard and warehouse management, transportation management, track trace and logistics networks, order promising.
  5. Business planning. Demand management and insights, sales inventory and operations planning, and response and supply planning.

SAP software solutions for building products include:

  • SAP S/4HANA. For operational excellence across financial, sales, procurement, and manufacturing with a personalized user experience.
  • SAP Customer Experience. Ability to engage and connect with your customers anywhere on any device with a state-of-the-art customer experience.

Key considerations for SAPinsiders:

  • The Intelligent Enterprise for Building Products Companies. Read the white paper from SAP, to learn how they are helping companies create great customer experiences through tailor-made solutions.
  • Case study: How Hunter Douglas Got Illumination from SAP S/4HANA Consolidation. Review the case study on how Hunter Douglas went through a series of acquisitions and faced challenges stemming from a decentralized model. They consolidated into one SAP S/4HANA solution and incorporated a digital transformation for optimal operational efficiency.
  • Video: Learn how SAP S/4HANA Enables the Eczacibasi Group to Digitally Connect All of its Business. Eczacibasi Group, Europe’s leading bathroom and tile manufacturer went through a digital transformation with SAP S/4HANA. Listen to this video to learn how they broke down the project into digestible components.

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    Published: 27/June/2024

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    Construction and mining equipment manufacturer Komatsu Australia has reported a 25 to 40 percent efficiency bump in its human resource (HR) management and a two percent increase in overall workforce productivity after implementing SAP SuccessFactors. Komatsu implemented SAP SuccessFactors’ entire suite after it was adopted by the company’s other regions, with the aim to boost…

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  3. View from the Top – Building a Transport Capability to Drive Growth & Scale at CSR

    Cameron Webb, Executive General Manager, Transformation, Technology and Digital at CSR Limited, shares a little about the structural changes made to streamline business units towards a “One CSR Way” which includes equipping the organisation with enabling technology to support this new operating model. Mastering SAP Premium Access Membership Required You must be a Mastering SAP…

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    Published: 22/December/2022

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    How Eczacıbaşı Group Embraced Digital Transformation

    Published: 29/July/2021

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    Whenever a company undergoes a large-scale digital transformation initiative, an extensive list of possible scenarios can come out of seemingly nowhere to hamper the success of a project. The challenges can range from determining the technical architecture to building a roadmap that connects IT and business process owners across various time zones. For the Eczacıbası…

  6. Alp Guldur, IT Director and Digital Leader of Eczacibasi Group Building Products Division

    Video: Learn How SAP S/4HANA Enables the Eczacıbası Group to Digitally Connect All Areas of Its Business

    Whenever a company undergoes a large-scale digital transformation initiative, an extensive list of possible scenarios can come out of seemingly nowhere to hamper the success of a project. The challenges can range from determining the technical architecture to building a roadmap that connects IT and business process owners across various time zones. For the Eczacıbası…

  7. Case Study: How Hunter Douglas Got Illumination from SAP S/4HANA Consolidation

    True business transformation extends beyond simply implementing an ERP solution, whether SAP or otherwise. It can entail establishing enterprise-wide and integrated processes, re-defining or clarifying roles and responsibilities, employing new technologies, and shifting the mindset of the organization. Most importantly, it requires executive buy-in and support and a universally shared vision. But how can an…

  8. Mohawk’s Successful Migration to SAP S/4HANA with SAP & Red Hat

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  9. SAP S/4HANA Migration Lessons Learned

    Published: 18/February/2019

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    With all the SAP ERP customers out there under the looming deadline of upgrading to SAP S/4HANA by the end of 2025, it’s not surprising that more and more of the customers that we speak with are currently planning or already undergoing migrations to SAP S/4HANA. During these conversations, we have heard many commonly recurring…

  10. Grupo TDM Moves to the Cloud with SAP HANA and Delivers Faster and More Efficient Service to Customers

    Published: 27/December/2017

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    Grupo TDM wanted to replace its home-grown IT infrastructure with scalable, flexible software hosted on a cloud platform and deliver faster and more efficient service to its customers. Learn how the company implemented SAP HANA running on IBM Cloud for SAP applications to achieve fewer manual, error-prone, paper-based processes; 50% faster information access, providing more…