White Paper - Cost-Effectively Manufacturing and Offering Highly Customized Products

Can a highly customized product be offered with the same lead time and at the same price as a standard product? For many companies in the machinery, plant, and complex engineering sectors, that is precisely the key question. Our answer: Yes – if the process model is right.

Many companies today still develop each customer order as a one-off case using Engineer-to-Order (ETO). The switch to Configure-to-Order Plus (CTO+) in SAP S/4HANA transforms the one-off case into a configurable series – based on a standardized, digital product model that maintains all product-relevant data across the entire lifecycle in a unified model.

In our white paper, you’ll learn:

the five measurable benefits of the transition – from shorter delivery times and lower costs to greater automation,
how the three end-to-end levels – from product provisioning through sales order management to fulfillment logistics – interact,
what role the digital product model plays in this process – from the technical product portfolio (150%) to the technical order structure (100%),
and how you can experience a prototype of this approach in our Model Factory using a real SAP S/4HANA system.

The white paper is now available for free download.

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