Microsoft to transform Italian steel maker Tenaris

  • April 5, 2022
  • William Payne

Microsoft is accelerating digital transformation at Italian steel pipe manufacturer Tenaris, with the aim of driving innovation across the steel firm’s global value chain. The Milan-based steel producer provides goods and service primarily to the energy sector, employing around 23,000 employees, and has recently embarked on a major decarbonisation programme. The digital transformation and value chain innovation programme that Microsoft will be driving over a five year period is part of the company’s overall plan to reduce its environmental footprint in Italy and across its worldwide supply base.

Under the Digital Transformation Alliance, Tenaris aims to fast-track its migration to the cloud environment leveraging a greater adoption of Microsoft’s Azure computing solutions for scalability, accessibility and reliability of information; develop new digital tools to enhance service to customer  using real-time data; optimise performance across its industrial footprint and supply chain through improved management and control processes that will also contribute to the company’s decarbonisation strategy, and evolve and enrich employees’ experiences with digital resources. 

“We aim to most efficiently collect, organise, digest and manage the data we generate and consume across our global business network, and ensure the various applications operate in a most streamlined, connected manner,” said Alejandro Lammertyn, Tenaris Chief Digital Officer. “By doing so, we will cast a wide net in our ability to make stronger connections among our employees, our customers and as a company, and in our agility to scale accordingly.”

“The objective of this alliance is to deepen the work that we have been developing with Tenaris in order to contribute with our technology to generate a data platform that adds more intelligence to its business strategy and revolutionise Industry 4.0 together,” said Fernando Lopez Iervasi, General Manager of Microsoft Argentina. “Tenaris’s vision of innovation is unique, and it is an honor for us to be strategic partners and reimagine together how to enhance data, gain efficiency, optimise processes, empower employees and promote environmentally sustainable projects with a positive impact on their business and how they operate in Argentina and other countries of the world.”

Through its business partnership with Microsoft, Tenaris will be working on developing its digital capabilities to capture, map and analyse its entire value chain, to identify possible actions that will contribute to its decarbonisation targets of 30% by 2030 announced in February 2021.