SAP for IM&C supports all manufacturing models including Engineer-to-Order, Make-to-Order, and Make-to-Stock. Characteristics of an Engineer-to-Order (ETO) process are complex end products, every new product order is at least 20% new design, strong customer oriented production, project based manufacturing (Program Mgt), emphasis on customer service spare parts and integrated product & process design (extreme documentation standards). Make-to-Order (MTO) process characteristics include configurable end products, minor engineering effort during production of end product, subassemblies and components procured to forecast and the manufacture of end products driven by customer order. Characteristics of a Make-to-Stock (MTS) process are commodity based end products, production prior to sales order based on forecast, end products sold from inventory, controlling of inventory is critical and distribution and warehousing of end product is the norm.