SAP
SAP
’ s Sam Castro on AI and risk resilience in manufacturing
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Risk resilience and sustainability in the supply chain When you talk about risk resilience at SAP , it ’ s about how to handle the real world , not setting up a plan and adhering to it day in and day out .
“ You would like it to be like clockwork , for sure ,” says Castro . “ Where everything always aligns and meshes the way that it ' s supposed to all the time , every second . But we know that ' s not always the case .”
Weather events , pandemics , labour shortages or large sporting events can cause supply chain issues . For Castro , resiliency is the byproduct of having to have to handle these off-topic or out-of-sync scenarios and the ability to detect that you ' re out of sync with the original plan and react to it in a coordinated manner .
“ The faster you can do that , the faster you can correct that problem ,” says Castro . “ Then you ’ re able to identify how often those deviations occur — that frequency of occurrence , that is your opportunity .”
Being able to quantify that opportunity and understand what those little deviations actually add up to , and how that impacts the business financially , is one of the key topics around what customers will hear about resiliency from SAP , says Castro .
“ Sustainability is an overlay to that , sustainability is a byproduct of efficiency ,” says Castro . “ Being a sustainable enterprise means that you ' re an efficient enterprise . If things are running effectively , things are running safely , and in a very energy-friendly manner as well .”
Castro views the impact of the cloud on manufacturing as a positive one .
“ There are benefits for the IT team from a maintenance perspective and a continuous update and management of that software package ,” he explains .
Cloud users are not dealing out of sync or outdated documentation , they ’ re not dealing
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