FactoryFour vs. SAP Digital Manufacturing

SAP Digital Manufacturing is a solid solution for discrete manufacturing since it covers most of the scenarios you could expect from this industry. Where SAP Digital Manufacturing still have some room for improvement is for process industry due to its rigidity when it comes to configurations so a little bit more of flexibility would be beneficial for some clients so they dont feel the need of complex customizations

Incentivized

• Automation using triggers and PPDs
• Shopfloor tracking using asset managements
• Low Code No Code dev style for POD interface development
• Intuitive dashboards using SAC

Incentivized

• Edge component - this needs to be improved to provide a seamless connection.
• The inbuilt functionalities like in ME instead of building separate production process.
• The EDHR reports needs to be similar in SAP ME.
• Configurable OEE reports and history reports delivered out of the box.
• Integrated with non - SAP ERP.

Incentivized

1. Modern cloud-based platform integrated with SAP applications 2. Real Time production visibility and traceability 3. Flexible extensionality like core extensions, in app extensions, Custom POD plugin extensions, integration extensions etc. Good integration with third part systems. 4. Effective shopfloor execution capabilities. 5. Strong POD UI for shopfloor users 6. Rework and Quality management

Incentivized

So far I have not explore other product other than SAP Digital Manufacturing because our core business offer is on MES. However, we are planning on explore some ERP development capabilities, specially to open up an space to asset management module which can bring a lot of value to our clients.

Incentivized

• As it is cloud based product, quarterly upgrades impacts the production and needs effort and resources for testing
• Product is not fully matured. It still has bugs

Incentivized