Webinar: How Howdens Joinery Revolutionized Production with SAP DM

About the Webinar: Manufacturing Excellence – Revolutionize Production Through Strategic Innovation

Geopolitical shifts, supply disruptions and increasing production complexity are pushing manufacturers to rethink their operations. Manual processes and disconnected systems limit visibility, hinder efficiency and slow innovation. In this webinar, discover how Howdens Joinery, the UK’s leading kitchen supplier, is future-proofing its operations by transitioning from legacy on-premise systems to SAP Digital Manufacturing in the cloud—enabling real-time visibility, smarter execution and enterprise-wide alignment across its global manufacturing network.

Attendees will learn how SAP Digital Manufacturing helps organizations:

• Connect plant operations with enterprise planning to enable real-time, data-driven decision-making while reducing total manufacturing costs
• Improve production efficiency and responsiveness through seamless execution and continuous control
• Accelerate innovation by moving from legacy systems to a modern, cloud-based architecture and innovative AI solutions

Whether you're looking to reduce costs, improve delivery performance or increase visibility across your operations, this session will provide strategic insights to help you navigate your digital transformation journey. Register now and explore Howden’s successful path to cloud manufacturing!

Our Speakers

Martin Gore: Martin is a multi-faceted alliance manager, business development and sales professional with a strong pre-sales background. His business solution experience ranges from e-Commerce to Customer Relationship Management and Enterprise Resource Planning applications, both for on-premise and on-demand deployments. Martin has worked on several Industry 4.0 manufacturing projects including Eramet, Eurofit Group, Federal Mogul Powertrain Otomotiv A.Ş. and Joris Ide Group.

David Peacock: David Peacock is the IS Manufacturing System Technical Lead for Howdens Joinery. He is a motivated and energetic IT professional with over 20 years of experience within the manufacturing supply chain, from developing CAD/CAM post processes to designing and building Manufacturing Execution systems. David is excited to be learning, developing and inspiring while building and implementing Manufacturing solutions for the future with latest technologies and based on Industry 4.0 practices.

Sam Castro: Sam Castro joined SAP in July 2005 with the acquisition of a small company called Lighthammer. At that time, he was responsible for implementation consulting, custom development, field enablement, and training for the core products like Illuminator, Xacute, UDS, CMS. These products have since evolved into the SAP Manufacturing Suite products that you see today and have inspired our SAP Digital Manufacturing and Production Connector products.

Our Expertise & Partnership with SAP

Engineering Industries eXcellence is a long-standing global SAP partner and strategic advisor for Digital Supply Chain and Digital Manufacturing transformation. We work closely with SAP’s digital supply chain division, whose innovative technologies help companies balance supply and demand in real time, build intelligent and connected supply chains and transform for the digital economy.

SAP, a global leader in enterprise application software, enables companies of all sizes and industries to run better by redefining processes and delivering transparency, resiliency and sustainability across supply chains. Our experts bring deep domain knowledge and implementation experience across regulated and complex manufacturing environments. Our partnership ensures clients like Howdens Joinery benefit from cutting-edge Digital Manufacturing solutions — helping them modernize operations, reduce costs and drive enterprise-wide alignment with a future-ready, cloud-based architecture.

Contact Us

During the event, our team will also be available to answer your questions live. Have questions before the webinar? Want to talk strategy or schedule a 1:1? We’re here to help. Don’t miss the opportunity to connect with us directly!

Interested in learning more about this event or requesting a meeting with our team? Contact us at [email protected].