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Manufacturing Integration:

How SAP PPG closes the gap between design and production

19. February 2026
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In today’s dynamic manufacturing world, traditional processes often reach their limits. The separation of engineering and production, manual data maintenance and a lack of transparency hold companies back. How can modern requirements for flexibility, automation and real-time control be met in order to stay competitive?

The four critical challenges in manufacturing

Every production manager knows the central questions: what, when, how and with which resources should be manufactured? In our new whitepaper, we show why these seemingly simple questions become complex challenges in practice, particularly when handling different business and production models such as Configure-to-Order (CTO) and Engineer-to-Order (ETO).

Why traditional approaches are no longer sufficient

Whether variant-rich products, order-based manufacturing or the need to respond quickly to market changes, the demands on production are as varied as your customers. In the whitepaper, find out where traditional SAP ERP processes reach their limits and which modern alternatives exist to end the master data chaos and increase agility.

SAP Product and Process Governance: the answer to dynamic manufacturing processes

With SAP Product and Process Governance you gain a solution that combines flexibility, automation and seamless integration of engineering and production. Discover how the “digital twin” in the product structure, automated routing creation and gapless document linking revolutionise your processes and pave the way to Manufacturing 4.0.

Download the whitepaper now and rethink delivery planning!

Gain exclusive access to detailed process descriptions, best practices and concrete solution approaches for your Manufacturing Integration. Download our free whitepaper and find out how SAP Product and Process Governance takes your production processes to the next level and gives you a decisive competitive advantage.

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