BMW and SAP S/4HANA, an innovative partnership to revolutionize production and optimize the supply chain. Let’s see the details
SAP SE recently announced the successful implementation of SAP S/4HANA at the BMW iFACTORY di Oxford, United Kingdom. This facility MINI represents the first of a series of BMW Group plants that are being established moving towards cloud architecturethanks to solutions specifically designed by SAP for the automotive industry.
Let’s see how production changes in BMW’s iFACTORY plants with SAP solutions
This move to the cloud represents a significant milestone in the BMW Group’s automotive manufacturing strategy, with the aim of revolutionizing the sector. Choosing SAP S/4HANA and SAP solutions for supply chain logistics underlines the BMW Group’s commitment to the digitalisation of production processes. All this allows you to establish new technological standards in the automotive industry. Alexander BureschChief Innovation Officer and Senior Vice President of BMW Group IT, commented as follows:
The Oxford plant is the first plant to be followed by a global rollout within the BMW Group. From now on, more factories will be added to the global production network every year, until everyone speaks the same language. As part of our digitalisation and harmonization strategy, this new solution allows us to connect relevant data on products, processes, quality and costs, enabling consistency and transparency of information throughout the production chain.
Thomas Saueressigmember of the Executive Board of SAP SE and responsible for the SAP Product Engineering area, underlined the importance of process digitalization in the automotive industry and highlighted the long-standing partnership between the BMW Group and SAP, which led to this joint implementation of cloud logistics solutions.
This joint solution simplifies and unites the complex processes involving component logistics, financial and purchasing management. This allows for greater standardization and greatly improves flexibility in staff support and training. The future implementation of RISE with SAP at all plants will allow the BMW Group to benefit from global standardization of logistics processesthe adoption of cutting-edge technological innovations and support between plants.
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