Accelerating Global Business Process Standardization and Transformation in Manufacturing with SAP® Cloud ERP — A Sales and Manufacturing Platform Powered by SAP GROW

As manufacturers expand their businesses and face increasingly complex supply chains, they need to standardize business processes while addressing the requirements of individual countries and sites, and establish a foundation for leveraging AI.
ABeam Consulting combines SAP Best Practices with its proprietary sales and manufacturing template and extensive implementation assets to support the rapid, high-quality implementation of SAP GROW, an SAP® Cloud ERP offering for growth companies, thereby contributing to their sustainable growth.
By adopting Clean Core—a design approach that uses standard functionality with minimal modification—we also help companies continuously incorporate the latest capabilities after implementation, including SAP Business AI and the conversational AI copilot Joule, and transform into an Autonomous Enterprise built on collaboration with AI.

ABeam Consulting helps clients build a foundation that enables continuous growth in response to changes in the business environment.
Building on SAP’s standard implementation approach, SAP Activate Methodology, we combine our Global Sales & Manufacturing Template, which incorporates industry expertise, with extensive implementation assets. This enables rapid, high-quality, cost-effective implementation through Fit-to-Standard and allows clients to establish a foundation for growth at an early stage.
We also combine SAP line-of-business (LoB) solutions with SAP Business AI and the conversational AI copilot Joule to strengthen integration across operations and provide ongoing support for transformation into an Autonomous Enterprise.

We use a globally standardized sales and manufacturing template that integrates the standard model developed by SAP based on the business processes of leading companies worldwide with the business and implementation expertise ABeam Consulting has accumulated through numerous manufacturing projects.
In a conventional ERP implementation, considerable time is spent determining the optimal operations for the company from the ground up, and discussions may become focused on individual requirements at the expense of overall optimization. This service presents the desired state of manufacturing operations in advance as specific processes. By starting discussions with a Fit & Gap analysis against the standard model rather than with current operations, we accelerate decision-making.
We also take an integrated view of the entire business process—from manufacturing, sales, and purchasing to inventory and accounting—and globally standardize operations and systems that have been individually optimized in each country and at each site. Drawing on ABeam Consulting’s deep understanding of manufacturing, we promote Fit-to-Standard and establish at an early stage a common business foundation that supports business growth and global expansion while reducing implementation risk.

We use more than 260 add-ons and over 500 reusable deliverables to reduce the burden of building from scratch the requirements definition, design, development, testing, and other work required for ERP implementation.
These are not merely templates; they systematize the practical expertise that ABeam Consulting has accumulated and refined through numerous manufacturing projects. Even for manufacturing-specific operations that are difficult to address using standard functionality alone, add-ons and design and testing assets based on past implementations help limit custom development and the effort required for evaluation.
By combining proven business templates, add-ons, and implementation deliverables, we reduce variations in quality across projects while enabling rapid, high-quality, cost-effective implementation. This creates an environment in which clients can execute business transformation and generate returns on their investment sooner, rather than spending time on the ERP implementation itself.

ABeam Consulting positions ERP not as a system whose journey ends at implementation, but as a foundation that enables clients to continuously transform their own businesses and operations.
Accordingly, we build systems based on the Clean Core principle of maximizing the use of SAP standard functionality and minimizing custom development. This makes it easier to adopt the latest capabilities and innovations continuously delivered by SAP, creating a highly extensible and sustainable foundation that can flexibly respond to future changes in the business environment and operations.
We also combine the latest technologies, including SAP Business AI and the conversational AI copilot Joule, with specialized solutions for each business domain to advance data utilization across functions such as manufacturing, sales, procurement, and accounting. ABeam Consulting provides end-to-end support from strategy development (Discover) and implementation preparation (Prepare), through Fit-to-Standard (Explore), implementation (Realize), and go-live (Deploy), to operations and continuous enhancement (Run), helping clients transform into an Autonomous Enterprise that uses data and AI to make decisions and continuously adapt.

We provide broad coverage of manufacturers’ core operations through standard processes, supporting cross-functional, end-to-end operations and global business process standardization.