Siemens and SAP for industrial transformation

Handshake announced between Siemens and SAP for a collaboration that will make the experience of the two groups available to companies involved in the industrial transformation process. The partnership will offer solutions designed, among other things, to manage the product life cycle, supply chain and asset management so as to allow customers to offer innovations and the adoption of collaborative business models.

Industrial transformation: handshake between Siemens and SAP

The agreement provides that both organizations can complete and integrate their respective offers. In this way, customers will be able to break down the silos between design and business so that producers, design teams and service managers have the necessary information in their daily activities. This is the comment of Klaus Helmrich, member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO of Siemens Digital Industries.

Digital transformation will be fundamental for manufacturing industries to increase productivity and flexibility and accelerate innovation, companies must then find new ways to work together to realize the digital enterprise. This exciting collaboration between two industry leaders is not just about interoperability and interfaces; it's about creating a truly integrated digital thread that combines product and asset life cycle management with business to allow customers to optimize production.



echo the words of Thomas Saueressig, a member of the Executive Board of SAP SE and responsible for the SAP Product Engineering, with a reference to the combined solutions intended for customers , among other things, to reduce time to market by leveraging the information generated from the scenarios of "Industry 4.0".

The companies manufacturing plan and provide products and resources more and more intelligent. Access to business information in real time through the network is therefore essential to bring to the market new and better innovations more quickly. Bringing together the expertise of SAP and Siemens to offer business processes that are enabled for Industry 4.0 allows businesses to create a thread about digital that covers the entire life cycle of products and assets. With this solution end-to-end, the different teams of an organization can collaborate effectively to design and deliver innovative products in a way that is productive, profitable and sustainable.



As a first step, SAP will provide the Teamcenter software from Siemens as the basis for the collaboration during the product life cycle and data management, and Siemens will offer the Intelligent software Asset Management, and Portfolio and Project Management SAP useful to maximize the business value for manufacturers and operators through the network.