www.se.com Schneider Electric Universal Registration Document 2021 46 Chapter 1 – Group strategy and sustainability 1.2 Schneider Electric’s unique operating model 1.2.1 The integrated company The Schneider Electric Group is built as one operating model to both deliver simplicity benefits to customers and significant advantages in attracting talents, scaling deployment, as well as bringing simplicity and cost efficiency, especially region by region. ONE Sales Marketing Digital Supply Chain Associated Software Benefits for Customer Company Customer experience Digital journey Data for digitization Attractiveness for talents Scale for deployment and strategic positioning Simplicity and cost efficiency To resolve our customers’ complexity, Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure ™ architecture delivers four integrations to enable them to become more digital and more sustainable. Those four integrations allows us to provide our customers with a complete plug and play and seamlessly integrated solution. Quadruple integration 1 Energy + Automation Schneider Electric has a unique capability to bring together both energy and automation to achieve greater power and process efficiency. It is this ability to differentiate, through its integrated model combining disciplines, that allows Schneider to increase customers’ benefits. 2 End Point Cloud Schneider Electric products are connected from every-end point – on the shop floor, in the infrastructure, in the cloud – so that everybody can see a digital twin of what is happening in the physical world. Our connectable products collect data, which are processed at edge or in the cloud, through the Ecostruxure ™ offering of Schneider. 3 Design & Build Operate & Maintain Schneider Electric provides software and solutions that cover the whole digital thread for customers with the offering of AVEVA, RIB Software, Planon, IGE+XAO, ETAP, and others. It allows for seamless integration of the installation’s digital life-cycle through one digital twin, from first design to operations and maintenance. 4 Site-by-Site Unified Company Management With Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) becoming more essential, manufacturers are requesting factory floor data anytime and anywhere around the world. Our offerings allow for integration on a whole company basis by connecting all assets and sites into one repository, allowing for efficiency at a company-wide scale – unified operations centers enable customers to optimize efficiency, investments, and carbon reduction strategies across the company (versus a site-by-site focus).