SAM CASTRO
TITLE : GLOBAL VICE PRESIDENT , CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE
INDUSTRY : MANUFACTURING LOCATION : PENNSYLVANIA , US supply chain issues . For Castro , resiliency is the byproduct of having to have to handle these off-topic or out-of-sync scenarios and the ability to detect that you ' re out of sync with the original plan and react to it in a coordinated manner .
“ The faster you can do that , the faster you can correct that problem ,” says Castro . “ Then you ’ re able to identify how often those deviations occur — that frequency of occurrence , that is your opportunity .”
Being able to quantify that opportunity and understand what those little deviations
EXECUTIVE BIO
Sam Castro joined SAP in July of 2005 with the acquisition of a small company called Lighthammer . He was responsible for implementation consulting , field enablement , custom development , and training for the core products ( Illuminator , Xacute , UDS , CMS ). These products have since evolved into the core SAP Connected Manufacturing products ( Mfg . Integration & Intelligence or MII and Plant connectivity or PCo ) that you see today .
Sam is now part of SAP LoB Manufacturing Solution Management group , which is directly responsible for strategy , direction , and customer adoption of all of the manufacturing products at SAP . He is specifically responsible for Industrial Analytics , that is SAP MII , Digital Manufacturing for insights , and Digital Manufacturing for execution , and he is the solution owner for Process MES products . In this role , he is actively working on mid- and long-term features and deliverables and how they are positioned with the broader SAP portfolio ; he also provides guidance for product development investment .
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