Manufacturing

Facilitating the integration of manufacturing enterprises with contemporary technology.

Discover a comprehensive solution designed to streamline every aspect of manufacturing operations—from batch costing and raw material planning to production scheduling and industry-specific requirements. With 2iSolutions’ powerful technological offerings, including the SAP Manufacturing Execution System and SAP SHOP Connect, manufacturing firms are empowered to drive efficiency, ensure real-time visibility, and meet complex business demands with precision.

Where agentic AI is earning its place in manufacturing

Manufacturing is where we have the most measured results, because manufacturing estates are where custom ABAP accumulates fastest: decades of reports, interfaces and shop-floor logic written to fit a specific plant.

On a cement producer's custom report estate, agentic AI remediation delivered up to 80% faster ABAP reports. On a steel producer's order-to-cash workflows, dispatch and billing ran 70% faster. Both are written up as case studies on this site, and in both cases the functional output was unchanged — only the runtime moved. That is the point: a performance engagement that changes what the numbers say has failed.

The plants, the interfaces, and the twenty years between

Manufacturing estates accumulate custom code faster than almost any other sector, for an understandable reason: no two plants are the same. A report gets written for one site, copied and adapted for the next, and twenty years later the system contains a dozen variants of nearly the same logic, each with its own quiet assumptions about units, shift patterns or what counts as scrap.

None of that is visible from a system landscape diagram. It becomes visible when somebody proposes moving to S/4HANA and asks what will break.

Where we usually start

With an inventory, because an honest estimate is impossible without one. Agents read the actual custom code and integrations, identify what will not run on S/4HANA, flag what nothing has called in years, and attach an effort and cost figure to each object. What comes back is a scored, object-level view of the estate rather than a range.

From there the sequence is remediation, then the regression testing that proves functional parity, then performance work on whatever still runs too slowly. Each stage is reviewed by SAP architects who know the modules involved, because the agent cannot know that a given report is used by one team once a quarter, or that an apparently dead program runs on a scheduler nobody documented.