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Industry

Manufacturing & Industrial

Pain points

What manufacturing & industrial operators are wrestling with

  • ERP estates carry decades of bespoke modifications

    S/4HANA conversions surface accumulated bespoke logic that obscures process truth and complicates global standardisation.

  • OT and IT operate as separate worlds

    Plant-floor systems, MES and historians sit outside enterprise security, identity and observability disciplines.

  • Supply chain shocks expose planning rigidity

    Static S&OP cycles cannot absorb tariff shifts, supplier disruption or demand volatility at the speed boards now expect.

  • Sustainability reporting outruns measurement maturity

    Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions need granular, audit-grade evidence sourced from plant, logistics and supplier systems.

Regulatory drivers

Frameworks shaping the engineering bar

Named standards we treat as first-class constraints — not after-the-fact compliance theatre.

  • EU CSRD / ESRS
    European Union

    Mandatory sustainability disclosures including double-materiality assessments and assured ESG data.

  • CBAM — Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
    European Union

    Embedded-emissions reporting and levies on imported steel, aluminium, cement, fertiliser, hydrogen and electricity.

  • EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230
    European Union

    Updated safety, AI and cybersecurity requirements for machinery products and embedded software.

  • NIS2
    European Union

    Cybersecurity obligations for medium and large operators of essential services, including incident reporting and supply-chain controls.

Modernization themes

How we modernise manufacturing & industrial estates

  • 01

    Clean-core S/4HANA programmes

    Migrate to S/4HANA with side-by-side extensibility on BTP — preserving fit, removing accumulated bespoke debt.

  • 02

    IT/OT convergence

    Unified identity, observability and zero-trust networking across enterprise systems and plant-floor infrastructure.

  • 03

    Demand-driven planning

    Replace static S&OP with continuous planning engines using real-time demand, capacity and supplier signals.

  • 04

    Industrial AI and digital twins

    Asset performance, yield optimisation and predictive maintenance grounded in trusted plant data and validated models.

Operational risks

Risks we surface upfront

Transformation carries real exposure. We name it before kickoff so it can be engineered around.

  • Manufacturing downtime during ERP cutover

    critical

    Cutover sequencing must guarantee shop-floor execution, materials movement and shipping continuity within agreed tolerance windows.

  • OT cyber risk widens with cloud connectivity

    high

    Connecting historians and MES to cloud platforms expands attack surface; segmentation and monitored egress are non-negotiable.

  • Master-data debt blocks rollout sequencing

    high

    Material, supplier and customer master-data quality determines wave readiness and post-go-live stability.

Services

How we deliver in Manufacturing & Industrial

Engineering, consulting and managed-operations practices we deploy inside this vertical.

Proof

Manufacturing & Industrial outcomes

Selected engagements where we shipped measurable change inside manufacturing & industrial.

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