Serving with its 4,300 service spots all around the country, USA based delivery company UPS created an extensive 3D printing network. For this networks where the customers can obtain their 3D printed orders in days only, the company collaborated with SAP software solutions.
Uniting more than 60 UPS Stores, Fast Radius On Demand Production Platform and 3D printing facilities in Lousville, this sales network is aimed to make 3D technology more accessible. Starting its 3D projects in 2013 for the first time and collaborating with Stratasysy in that regard, UPS wishes to expand its services with Fast Radius and SAP.
SAP announced during the keynote at its annual user’s conference in front of 20,000 people, 
a new partnership with UPS to create an end-to-end digital manufacturing solution utilizing Fast Radius for back end global production. In this model, SAP would identify parts that its customers hold in inventory that are recommended for on demand production using industrial 3D printing or other on demand production technologies. UPS and Fast Radius will then partner to manufacture and distribute these parts. In effect, SAP just alerted tens of thousands of companies to the opportunity of taking millions of parts out of inventory. On demand production just became a trending topic in CEO’s offices and boardrooms around the world.
“UPS is a leader in bringing industrial-strength 3D printing to reality. By building this disruptive technology into our supply chain models, we also bring new value to our manufacturing customers of all sizes,” said Stan Deans, president, UPS Global Distribution & Logistics. “Additive manufacturing technology is still developing rapidly so ‘manufacturing as a service’ is a smart approach for many companies.”