Plant-level performance is where supply chain strategy becomes operational reality: the plant floor determines cost, service reliability, quality, and working capital. The paper shows how SAP ERP, manufacturing execution, planning, and analytics become an operational performance platform rather than a transactional system.
It covers five domains — planning and scheduling excellence, production execution and shop floor visibility, inventory and warehouse optimization, quality and compliance control, and asset and maintenance performance — with the SAP capabilities and KPIs for each, from finite capacity scheduling and exception dashboards to inspection plans, preventive maintenance, and OEE visibility.
It adds cost transparency and analytics for margin control, and a 90-day action plan: diagnose in the first 30 days, activate dashboards and tighter confirmations by day 60, and optimize incentives, coding standards, and safety stock by day 90, while avoiding over-customization, shadow spreadsheets, and incomplete master data.
The full paper is available above as a PDF. See also "SAP Digital Manufacturing Cloud (DMC): Key Functionality" and "How SAP Helps IT Executives Deliver 2026 Business Priorities" in the Resource Library.