SAP Solution: Digital Twin

Once before, a virtual world was very much in vogue: renowned companies from the German economy also got involved in Second Life. The experience was valuable, but the result sobering.

Retailers are under attack from many sides: from Internet retailers, from brand manufacturers in direct sales. Margins are coming under pressure as a result. But help is at hand. A start-up from Germany is turning the cost screw.

More and more companies are turning to the support of a digital twin when planning new production facilities and supply chains or when expanding or improving old logistics concepts.

What is a globe? A very reduced and simplified model of our world. The globe is therefore a duplication of the earth on the basis of well-defined parameters.

Professor August-Wilhelm Scheer is the inventor of Aris. Business Process Management is one of his passions and an eternal place for innovation and disruption. In the SAP community, the "Aris wallpapers" are notorious, filling the walls of the respective conference rooms with flow charts. Digital Twins are a modern variant of optimizing the organizational structure and process organization, with Process Mining in between...

CAD data are the basic framework. The variant configuration is the individual offer to the customer. Added to this are good relationship management and pricing. Until an ERP system is a satisfactory quotation and sales system, it needs many adaptations. SAP partner SAE has solved this Gordian knot. Peter M. Färbinger, E-3 Magazine, spoke with the managing directors Susanne Henkel and Erich Schaarschmidt.