Düsseldorf / Walldorf, Germany, 20.10.2026 (PresseBox) - Event for user companies in machinery and plant engineering on 28 January 2027: keynote by Hochschule Düsseldorf, user reports from Uhlmann Pac-Systeme and Scheuch, guided tour of SAP?s S-Factory. Registration now open, 30 places, free of charge.

BDF EXPERTS, SAP Silver Partner and specialist in Digital Supply Chain, is hosting a stop on SAP?s PLM Roadshow 2027 together with SAP on 28 January 2027. The event takes place at Cloud44 at SAP in Walldorf and is aimed at user companies in machinery and plant engineering. The central question is how companies can map highly variant products, from configure-to-order (CTO) to CTO+, in a structured way in SAP using SAP Product and Process Governance (SAP PPG). Participation is free of charge. Registration is now open at bdfexperts.de/events/saps-plm-roadshow-2027; the registration deadline is 11 December 2026.

Product variants, short-notice changes and special requests from sales are part of everyday business in machinery and plant engineering. Whether this results in an end-to-end process or a chain of manual rework is decided by the product structure in the ERP system. Drawing on user reports, the roadshow shows how companies build this structure with SAP PPG and what changes as a result in engineering, order processing and production.

The programme at a glance:

Keynote: Prof. Dr Lisa Gunnemann, Hochschule Düsseldorf [add title once confirmed]

SAP PPG in practice: Dr Ulrich Schmidt, BDF EXPERTS, shows the path from CTO to CTO+ based on a clean product data structure

User reports: Sebastian Barth, Uhlmann Pac-Systeme, and Oliver Meinhart, Scheuch GmbH, report on hands-on experience from their companies [align key messages with speakers]

S-Factory: guided tour of SAP?s S-Factory in Walldorf

Closing session: key takeaways and questions to all speakers

Doors open at 9:00 a.m. The programme runs from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., followed by an opportunity for networking until around 5:00 p.m.

?In machinery and plant engineering, complexity rarely stems from the product itself, but from the data behind it. With the roadshow, we use concrete projects to show how user companies can build their product structure in SAP so that variants remain manageable,? says Dr Ulrich Schmidt, Managing Director at BDF EXPERTS.

Attendance is limited to 30 guests. Each registration is confirmed personally; priority is given to user companies from machinery and plant engineering. Programme and registration: bdfexperts.de/events/saps-plm-roadshow-2027. Venue: SAP SE, Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16, 69190 Walldorf, Germany. Media representatives can request accreditation via presse@bdfexperts.de.

BDF EXPERTS is the brand of bdf consultants GmbH, an SAP Silver/SolEx Partner with comprehensive expertise across Digital Supply Chain and Corporate Finance & Treasury (CFT). For more than 25 years, BDF EXPERTS has been helping companies achieve measurable value creation through end-to-end digitalised processes based on SAP ERP and S/4HANA.

In Digital Supply Chain, BDF EXPERTS has built particular expertise in holistic data management. With SAP PPG (Product and Process Governance), BDF EXPERTS offers an innovative solution for the central management of all product and process data in SAP, laying the foundation for data-driven business models. Its consulting services cover all business processes of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), from data import and document management (SAP DMS) to the entire supply chain (SAP SCM, MM, PP, PS, SAM).

Clients range from innovative mid-sized companies such as Groz-Beckert and thermofin to global corporations such as Schüco, Scheuch, Haniel, Hilti, Bitburger, thyssenkrupp and many more. The company employs more than 60 people at its locations in Düsseldorf and Munich. Through BDF EXPERTS AG, a subsidiary of bdf consultants GmbH based in Neuhausen am Rheinfall, the company also serves clients in Switzerland and Austria.