BMW Group Revs Up iFACTORY Plants with SAP S/4HANA and Supply Chain Logistics
SAP News, Friday, September 8,2023
SAP SE nnounced that the BMW iFACTORY in Oxford, United Kingdom, has successfully gone live with SAP S/4HANA, using SAP's cloud-driven solution architecture for automotive industries.
The MINI Plant in Oxford is the first of BMW Group's connected factories moving to the digitized cloud architecture over the next few years.
Going live for the first time worldwide in the production environment at the MINI plant is the next milestone for BMW's iFACTORY, which represents BMW Group's revolutionary strategy for future automotive production. BMW Group chose SAP S/4HANA and SAP's supply chain logistics solutions to jointly create the first blueprint for process digitization of automotive plants of the future, establishing a new technology standard that could shape the automotive industry.