October 01-02, 2015, Darmstadt, next to Frankfurt, Germany Connected Manufacturing with SAP – Optimise Operations, Gain Insight with Big Data and Redefine Competitive Advantage We are delighted to announce the inaugural International SAP Conference for Manufacturing, your exciting opportunity to learn how Connected Manufacturing can deliver a platform for optimizing manufacturing operations, allowing you to leverage a variety of data sources from both enterprise systems and operations. This customer-centric, business focused event - co-located as part of our International SAP Conferences on Extended Supply Chain - is designed for both discrete and process manufacturing industries, presenting an unmissable opportunity to learn how to manage your data, gain a strategic advantage, increase productivity, and reduce costs. Event Highlights: Learn first hand from leading companies from a wide range of industries how they have successfully deployed SAP solutions to transform their production, improve business processes and meet customer demands Understand SAP’s strategy and solution roadmap for the manufacturing industry Keep up-to-date with the latest news and innovations Share experiences with like-minded peers Increase your expertise in a collaborative learning environment Learn more about the products and services provided by SAP Partners that complement the SAP portfolio Part of our wider extended supply chain conference, this two day business focused event will enable you to explore how SAP solutions can allow you to unlock big data, utilize advanced analytics, streamline processes, understand your asset interdependencies, and reduce costs.

1. October 1–2, 2015
Darmstadt, Germany
International SAP
Conference for
Manufacturing
In cooperation with

2. WELCOME
Connected Manufacturing with SAP – Optimize Operations, Gain
Insight with Big Data, and Redefine Competitive Advantage
Join us in Darmstadt on 1–2 October for the International SAP Conference for Manufacturing. The event is packed with great
opportunities for you to meet with SAP experts, partners, and customers in a collaborative learning environment. With a user-
focused agenda designed specifically for both process and discrete manufacturing industries, this customer-centric event is
the perfect place to learn how industry peers are leveraging SAP innovation to achieve automated agile manufacturing and
increased visibility across their organizations.
As well as a dedicated agenda for the manufacturing industry, this event is co-located with both the International SAP
Conference on Supply Chain Management, and the International SAP Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, meaning
that you have access to information across the entire extended supply chain. These three events comprise the International
SAP Conferences on Extended Supply Chain 2015, where the focus is on enabling business leaders to leverage innovation and
technology to make real-time decisions with end-to-end visibility. Through dozens of case studies you will see how to put your
customers at the center of your business and differentiate yourselves through the responsiveness of your supply chain. Hear
firsthand from industry leaders including Mondelez, Whirlpool, Unilever, Philips, RWE, Beiersdorf, Caterpillar, Ferrero, ÖBB,
Schindler Elevator, and more on how they are consolidating their IT footprint, striving for new levels of operational efficiency,
fulfilling customer demand, and meeting profitability goals.
The two-day event is packed with opportunities for you to learn from a diverse range of SAP customers, business leaders, and
experts and partners. All of this will be delivered in an environment built for interaction, including preconference workshops, a
networking evening event, live demos, microforums, and much more.
Join us at this landmark event to increase efficiency, visibility, and collaboration across your extended supply chain.
We look forward to meeting you in Darmstadt!
Thomas Ohnemus
Vice President - Industry Cloud Extended Supply Chain
Management, Service Industries
SAP
Mike Lackey
Vice President, Solution Management, LoB Manufacturing
SAP

3. PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOP
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2015
For comprehensive details and online registration, please visit www.tacook.com/manufacturingworkshop.
The following workshop will take place between 09:00 and 12:30
Automated Agile Manufacturing
During this half-day preconference workshop, you will have a unique opportunity to explore how manufacturing solutions from
SAP enable global manufacturers to gain significant benefits from the Industry 4.0 and Internet of Things (IoT) initiatives at
SAP. Over the course of the workshop, we will give you a comprehensive overview of the SAP® solutions and will demonstrate
the value that they deliver to the manufacturing line of business.
After attending this workshop, you should have answers to the following questions:
•• How can the IoT and Industry 4.0 enable the connection of programmable logic controllers and processes to the enterprise?
•• How can SAP deliver the right solution to challenge complexity in my manufacturing operations?
•• What are the benefits of having manufacturing connected to the enterprise?
•• Who has already achieved significant gains with manufacturing solutions from SAP, and what benefits can I expect?
•• Where do I start?
This workshop is fully interactive and will encourage questions and answers from the audience, giving you the chance to take a
deep dive into the topic with seasoned experts and a selection of industry peers.
Workshop Leaders:
Paul Lasance, SAP
Carlos Portillo, SAP

4. CONFERENCE AGENDA
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2015
09:30 Optional Preconference Workshop. For more information please visit
www.tacook.com/manufacturingworkshop or see previous page.
12:30 Conference Registration, Lunch, and Browse Shared Exhibition
13:30 Chairman’s Opening Remarks and Welcome
Thomas Ohnemus, SAP
13:45 Connecting Your Company Strategy with Your Customer and Product Strategy
•• The modern consumer and the importance of customer centricity, product personalization, and speed in
today’s consumer economy
•• How is the extended supply chain affected?
•• Road map on how to use technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud, and advanced analytics to
transform supply chains into demand networks, and connect products, assets, and manufacturing to
product networks
Hans Thalbauer, SAP
14:30 Leveraging Business Processes with SAP Software to Improve Along the Value Chain Based on the First
Swiss Helicopter Project
•• Business challenges from the point of view of a helicopter company
•• Why a startup company chose SAP software to help grow the business
•• Using augmented reality, 3D visualization, and business analytics with 3D products
•• Ensuring consistent product data in engineering, manufacturing, maintenance, and service
•• Current situation and business outlook
•• Demonstration of innovative software applications
Andreas Renker, Marenco Group
15:15 Afternoon Refreshments and Browse Shared Exhibition
16:00 Reduce Project Cost and Risk Leveraging a Model Company Approach
•• Learn about Unilever’s advance collaboration model with SAP to use best in industry IT implementation
practices
•• SAP Extended Warehouse Management as a business growth enabler
•• How can applying Unilever’s real life experiences to your business allow you to:
•• Implement proven technologies, methodologies, and tools
•• Reduce total cost of implementation, including project cycles
•• Reduce total cost of ownership
•• Road map and next steps
Jose-Luis Gonzalez, Unilever
Christian Boos, SAP
16:45 Thought Leader’s Perspective: The Internet of Things for Business in 2020
•• Towards the next industrial revolution: agility and responsiveness
•• Lack of supply chain visibility is the key barrier to performance improvement
•• Two sides of the same coin: big data analytics and the internet of things
•• Becoming a smarter organisation with the internet of things: critical use cases and examples
•• Making the business case of the internet of things: what is the expected business outcome?
Pierfrancesco Maneti, SCM World
17:30 Close of Day One
18:30 Depart for Conference Evening Event

5. CONFERENCE AGENDA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2015
08:30 Welcome Back and Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Carlos Portillo, SAP
08:45 Connected Manufacturing: The Road to Operational Excellence in the Digital World
•• Understanding today’s challenges to the manufacturing industry
•• Adapting to change for Industry 4.0
•• Utilizing IoT in manufacturing
•• Utilizing the SAP HANA platform for gaining insight with Big Data and redefining the competitive
advantage
•• The impact of business networks on manufacturing
Mike Lackey, SAP
09:15 Creating the Paperless Factory at Nestle with SAP Solutions
•• Business overview and business drivers
•• The factory operators’ (IT) needs for operating an efficient production line
•• Using the SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence application for factory operators
Rudolf Noorman, SAP
Victor Trivelli, Nestle
10:00 Morning Refreshment Break and Browse Shared Exhibition
10:45 Energy Management at Ferrero Using SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence
•• Energy management within the Ferrero Group
•• Initiatives of the Ferrero Group
•• Statistics, data, and facts for energy management
•• IT strategy and integration on the shop floor
•• Energy management and energy reporting using SAP software
Speaker to be announced, Ferrero
José Iglesias, Ciber
11:30 Machine Big Data Analytics in Manufacturing
•• Using SAP HANA cloud platform and new Industry 4.0 Big Data Analytics features to process manu-
facturing raw data into knowledge
•• Replacing conventional re-active and time consuming Quality Assurance into real time quality assess-
ment in order to achieve Zero-Defect-Production
•• How manufacturing engineering can optimize process development and maintain long term pro-
cessstability and integrity with Process Analytics
Volker Kreidler, SAP
12:15 Networking Lunch and Browse Shared Exhibition
13:30 Using SAP Manufacturing Execution to Control Complex Multivariant Assembly
at Festo AG & Co. KG
•• Achieving transparency in cost efficiency
•• Achieving zero assembly error
•• Guided work instructions to workers with the SAP Manufacturing Execution application
•• Automatic data collection and documentation in all assembly steps and materials
Achim Klein, Festo AG & Co. KG
Steffen Himstedt, Trebing + Himstedt
14:15 Empowering the End User with Real-Time Insights Into Manufacturing Operations
•• Tools, techniques, and tips to improve user adoption and experience
•• Leveraging the internet of things and building a truly connected manufacturing strategy
•• Facilitating complete visibility and control over the manufacturing process with SAP MII
•• Increasing the effectiveness of operations with predictive maintenance and reporting
Customer speaker to be announced
15:00 Afternoon Refreshment Break and Browse Shared Exhibition

6. CONFERENCE AGENDA
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2015
15:15 The Implementation Project for SAP Manufacturing Execution at Schindler Elevator:
The Locarno Plant
•• The business case for using the SAP Manufacturing Execution application
•• SAP Manufacturing Execution in PCB production and assembly lines
•• The project plan
•• Full traceability in place and increase of assembly efficiency
•• Real-time work instruction
•• Implementation of an additional tool for SAP Manufacturing Execution using Web services
Alessandro Calidonna, Schindler Elevator
16:00 SAP Manufacturing Focus Topics, Solution Portfolio and Roadmap
•• Understand SAP’s main innovation focus areas for the manufacturing industry
•• SAP’s solution portfolio and offering
•• Solution roadmaps and manufacturing Rapid Deployment Solution offering
Ralf Lehmann, SAP
16:30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Conference

7. PREMIUM SPONSORS
PLATINUM SPONSORS
Ciber
Ciber is a global IT consulting company with 6,700 consultants in North America, Europe and
Asia/Pacific, and approximately $1 billion in annual revenue. Client focused and results driven,
Ciber partners with organisations to develop technology strategies and solutions that deliver
tangible business value. Founded in 1974, Ciber is a company with nearly 40 years of proven IT
experience, world-class credentials and a wide range of technology expertise. The company
trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: CBR).
Ciber has over 20 years’ experience in Manufacturing with more than 100 clients worldwide
benefiting from its solutions and services. Ciber combines a deep understanding and proven track
record with SAP’s core solutions with its expertise in Business Process Integration, Supplier
Relationship Management (SRM), Mobile, Cloud, Business Intelligence and Managed Services to
deliver complete solutions for its manufacturing clients.
For more information, visit www.ciber.com
Trebing + Himstedt
Trebing + Himstedt is a specialist in manufacturing execution system software from SAP and a
strategic partner for manufacturing solutions. We support corporations and small and midsize
customers in different industries in implementing end-to-end processes, from the SAP ERP
application down to individual machines. Our long years of experience on the shop floor and
dealing with automation, combined with process know-how and expertise in business
requirements, make Trebing + Himstedt a sought-after consultant for manufacturer-independent
integration concepts. Trebing + Himstedt places special emphasis on the core topics of
production key performance indicators, variant production, and product traceability.
As an SAP partner, Trebing + Himstedt implements and licenses manufacturing solutions from
SAP, including the SAP Manufacturing Execution, SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence,
and SAP Overall Equipment Effectiveness Management applications, SAP Plant Connectivity
software, and the add-on shop floor dispatching and monitoring tool for SAP ERP.
For more information, please visit: www.en.t-h.de/mes
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workshop, lunch on both days,
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conference attendees, and
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Event Venue
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Schlossgraben 1
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Email: info@darmstadtium.de
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