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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"SAP Digital Manufacturing: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/sap-digital-manufacturing/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/sap-digital-manufacturing/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/sap-digital-manufacturing.md",
  "title": "SAP Digital Manufacturing: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "SAP Digital Manufacturing is on the AI manufacturing operations software map. We record 1 dated launch or event for it. The latest is dated May 14, 2026.",
  "period": "May 14, 2026",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
  "company": {
    "id": "CJ8D88D",
    "slug": "sap-digital-manufacturing",
    "name": "SAP Digital Manufacturing",
    "aliases": [],
    "site": "https://www.sap.com/products/scm/digital-manufacturing.html",
    "summary": "SAP's cloud manufacturing execution and operations product, sold with SAP S/4HANA to plant and production teams. SAP says \"updates to SAP Digital Manufacturing will strengthen compliance and traceability in regulated environments\". The AI is Joule: a Manufacturing Assistant that links shop-floor signals to wider context, and agents such as the Production Excellence Agent and the Production Master Data Readiness Agent, announced in May 2026 and rolling out in phases through 2026.",
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    "price_note": null,
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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    "merged_into": null,
    "category_names": [
      "MES and operations management"
    ]
  },
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  "dated_product_launches": 0,
  "undated_launches": 0,
  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
  "launches": [],
  "launch_list": false,
  "indexed": true,
  "summary": {
    "text": "SAP's cloud manufacturing execution and operations product, sold with SAP S/4HANA to plant and production teams. SAP says \"updates to SAP Digital Manufacturing will strengthen compliance and traceability in regulated environments\". The AI is Joule: a Manufacturing Assistant that links shop-floor signals to wider context, and agents such as the Production Excellence Agent and the Production Master Data Readiness Agent, announced in May 2026 and rolling out in phases through 2026.",
    "source": {
      "name": "news.sap.com",
      "url": "https://news.sap.com/2026/05/more-autonomous-supply-chain"
    },
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  "maps": [
    {
      "map": "manufacturing-operations-software",
      "title": "The AI manufacturing operations software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-sap-digital-manufacturing",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "SAP Digital Manufacturing",
      "site": "https://www.sap.com/products/scm/digital-manufacturing.html",
      "category": "MES and operations management",
      "what": "SAP's cloud manufacturing execution and operations product, sold with SAP S/4HANA to plant and production teams. SAP says \"updates to SAP Digital Manufacturing will strengthen compliance and traceability in regulated environments\". The AI is Joule: a Manufacturing Assistant that links shop-floor signals to wider context, and agents such as the Production Excellence Agent and the Production Master Data Readiness Agent, announced in May 2026 and rolling out in phases through 2026.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "news.sap.com",
        "url": "https://news.sap.com/2026/05/more-autonomous-supply-chain"
      },
      "price": "not published; sales-led",
      "price_published": false,
      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Named agent",
          "Assistant",
          "Production execution"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 1,
      "scale": "Enterprise incumbent: a public company or nine-figure revenue (Part of SAP SE, a public company)",
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      "sources": [
        {
          "name": "news.sap.com",
          "url": "https://news.sap.com/2026/05/more-autonomous-supply-chain"
        },
        {
          "name": "itbrief.co.uk",
          "url": "https://itbrief.co.uk/story/sap-unveils-agentic-ai-tools-for-manufacturing-supply"
        },
        {
          "name": "erp.today",
          "url": "https://erp.today/four-ai-use-cases-sap-unveiled-at-hannover-messe-for-embedded-intelligence-in-operations/"
        }
      ],
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      "cross_listed": false
    }
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/sap-digital-manufacturing/#event-1",
      "on": "2026-05-14",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "SAP announces Production Excellence Agent and Manufacturing Assistant at Sapphire",
      "summary": "At SAP Sapphire, SAP described new Joule Assistants, including a Manufacturing Assistant, and Industry AI agents that monitor production, quality and machine signals. General availability is phased through 2026.",
      "kind": "Launch",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI manufacturing operations software map",
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