Tak­ing the next step for­ward towards effi­cien­cy means rec­og­niz­ing that there are many mod­els and dig­i­tal threads required to opti­mize the flow of prod­ucts as they phys­i­cal­ly tra­verse the val­ue chain and are sup­port­ed in the field. Mod­els of demand, sup­ply chains, fac­to­ry flow, main­te­nance, qual­i­ty, finan­cial, and pro­duc­tion engi­neer­ing oper­a­tions (PEO) to name a few. For many, if not most, of these mod­els, the sys­tem of record is ERP. It is time to rec­og­nize that dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion on the shop floor is as much about being solid­ly con­nect­ed to ERP as it is to PLM. Man­u­fac­tur­ing exe­cu­tion sys­tems (MES) and man­u­fac­tur­ing oper­a­tions man­age­ment (MOM) sys­tems need to be cho­sen for their abil­i­ty to max­i­mize enter­prise through­put for both devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion. This ses­sion will cov­er the amaz­ing ben­e­fits of an MES embed­ded in ERP.

• The role of SAP in enter­prise optimization
• How to elim­i­nate the shop floor inter­face to SAP
• How to enable dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion in small and/​or pro­to­type shops
• How to prop­er­ly choose an MES/MOM system