SAP DM for the Metal Industry

Metalworking Industry - Shaping the Future Under High Innovation Pressure

The metalworking industry continues to face mounting challenges: rising energy costs and the pressure to decarbonize strain production. Global overcapacity and cheap imports intensify competition, while geopolitical tensions complicate raw material supply. Labor shortages, cost pressure, and growing customer expectations for individualized products, faster delivery, and digital ordering processes are driving digitalization and pushing innovation requirements to new heights.

Energy & Resource Efficieny

Rising energy and raw material costs, increasingly complex logistics and supply chains, and unpredictable impacts on global commodity markets pose major challenges for the industry. Efficient production processes, embedded in a transparent supply chain, are therefore essential.

Global Overcapacity & Trade Pressure

Increasing competition and price pressure force companies to adopt innovative business models, expand internationally, and digitalize processes to remain competitive through transparency and digital communication.

Sustainability & Environmental Awareness

With stricter requirements for sustainability, environmental protection, and end-to-end traceability, the industry must leverage digital technologies to capture emissions, ensure supply chain transparency, and efficiently meet regulatory demands.

Innovation Pressure & Digitalization

Labor shortages, rising efficiency requirements, and growing competition make one thing clear: accelerated automation and the use of AI and robotics are indispensable. Digitalization opens up decisive opportunities to remain competitive in the long term.

Our Solution: SAP Digital Manufacturing by delaware - Digital, Transparent, Industry-Specific

SAP Digital Manufacturing by delaware is a cloud-based MES solution co-developed with SAP, tailored specifically to the requirements of the metalworking industry. With customized extensions, it seamlessly connects SAP S/4HANA to your production and logistics – ensuring operational security and the implementation of individual process needs.

The result: maximum transparency, real-time control, and sustainable efficiency – for a digitally connected, future-ready production environment.

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Your Key Benefits

Capture machine status, logistics events, and process data in real time for full visibility. Live monitoring, contextual reporting, and extended traceability deliver end-to-end insight into material and defect flows – from raw material to finished product.
Easily integrate machines with low-code/no-code tools and automate data entry and feedback. This minimizes manual errors, improves data quality, and enables streamlined, reliable, digitally controlled production.
Respond dynamically to unforeseen events and rising customer demands with intelligent last-mile order control and low-code/no-code features that allow fast process changes without complex development.
Enhanced defect detection, process-integrated defect management, and full traceability of handling units enable targeted quality control – from raw material to finished product.
Support for combined production orders and precise tracking of scrap materials enable material-number-based reprocessing. This ensures optimal resource utilization and sustainable cost reduction.

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Home of Manufacturing

We are a holistic SAP partner focused on industry-specific extensions and proprietary solutions. As a full integrator, we guide companies from ECC to SAP S/4HANA and implement best practices efficiently. With SAP Digital Manufacturing by delaware, we support the entire system and process landscape, introducing MES solutions as an end-to-end partner – structured and pragmatic.

Deep Industry Expertise

We understand the requirements of continuous flow and roll-based manufacturing – from extrusion and coating to batch tracking and labeling. Our experience with high product variety and complex production chains flows directly into our solutions. By transferring proven best practices and cross-industry know-how, we deliver greater efficiency and long-term shop floor resilience.

SAP Platinum Partner & Co-Innovator

Together with SAP, we develop pioneering solutions like SAP Digital Manufacturing by delaware – designed for energy-intensive industries with high process complexity. Our co-innovations combine deep process expertise with SAP technology, enabling sustainable solutions tailored to your specific challenges.

Locally Present, Globally Scalable

With regional presence and international experience, we provide fast, on-site support. Our deep process knowledge and extensive project experience in complex manufacturing environments enable efficient, industry-specific solutions that strengthen your SAP landscape and future-proof your production.