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Transform Manufacturing With S4HANA PDF
Transform Manufacturing With S4HANA PDF
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White Paper Background
and Key Definitions
The information outlined below is helpful to understand the contents
of this value proposition white paper. It gives clear details on the objective
and scope of the paper. Key definitions are also provided for select
sections of the paper to provide further clarification.
Value Proposition 17
Customer References 18
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SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing Overview
Manufacturing is undergoing fundamental changes driven by dynamic market trends, demand variability,
increasing product configuration, omnichannel sales and marketing, and compressed delivery times.
The “market of one” is becoming reality as customers Moreover, this needs to be done in a market that predictive indicators for preventative maintenance
require products that are tailored to their specific expects the manufacturer to operate a live business, and product service, all while understanding
needs or desires; they expect rapid delivery and where “right now” information is dictating processes the cost implications and tradeoffs scenarios.
yet they demand the highest quality at competitive and driving decisions. SAP S/4HANA enables you to react quickly to
prices. Furthermore, they have traceability and variable market demand, predict operational
However, when companies are thinking about
genealogy requirements stemming from product issues, and improve manufacturing performance
digital transformation, they often begin on the “edge”
safety, legal, or maintenance needs. by streamlining and integrating the entire lifecycle
in areas like sales and marketing. This approach
– from planning and scheduling, to sequencing
The combination of these factors is straining ignores the fact that, without an agile manufacturing
and execution, to analysis. With SAP S/4HANA
every aspect of the manufacturing lifecycle, from process, transformed for the dynamic and resource-
providing the most current information on demand,
managing the supply chain, bill of material (BOM), constrained environment, it becomes impossible to
manufacturing processes, resources, and capacity
and order management, to engineering design, serve the demands of the customer. Many companies
are tightly aligned to market and customer demands
through manufacturing engineering, to the shop have evolved to a complex core business system
to ensure optimal production efficiency and profitable
floor, logistics, and service. How can manufacturing through organic growth or through M&A, and, in
and timely delivery of products. The holistic, single-
businesses reduce these pressures and not many cases, have deployed multiple systems across
source solution provides the optimal transparency
just compete in this market environment, multiple plants. This results in a severe lack of
and capabilities for end-to-end analysis.
but actually thrive? integrated visibility into enterprise business systems.
Those who try to merely integrate systems find that The effort involved to identify and implement
A focused effort is needed to integrate systems,
it leads to more complexity, resulting in a high cost continuous improvement or optimization measures
streamline processes, capture reams of data and
of ownership, inability to respond adequately to is becoming unsustainable. Therefore, in future
analyze it intelligently to make sound decisions,
changing demand, data synchronization issues, enhancements, SAP intends to incorporate artificial
adjust resources, and reduce waste. In order to
data latency, and poorly informed decision-making intelligence services such as machine learning to
achieve this digital transformation effectively,
based on dated information. further enable automation and insight to action.
a high degree of efficiency in manufacturing
The SAP system would continuously learn from
processes and automation in business decisions To help mitigate these challenges, SAP designed
the actual data and would automatically apply
must be established. Automation of processes SAP S/4HANA as a digital core, a single holistic
customer-defined rules to either propose measures,
from material requirements planning (MRP), solution that encompasses enterprise planning,
change master data, or adapt processes so the user
through production, to distribution, with intelligence manufacturing execution, and service. SAP S/4HANA
can focus on exceptions and other business priorities.
that predicts actions, enables more accurate enables unprecedented harmonization of planning
forecasts, and provides the agility to make individual and execution processes with the capacity to connect
adjustments to products, optimizing customer Internet of Things (IoT) devices to automatically
desire, revenue, and margins. respond to fluctuating signals, as well as to provide
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SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing Overview
MANUFACTURING CAPABILITIES
Outlined below are the primary capabilities for manufacturing where value can be achieved
through SAP S/4HANA + SAP cloud and LoB solutions.
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SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing Overview
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Manufacturing Planning and
Available to Promise Deep-Dive
Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions
• Long and overnight • Planning runs at a • Live MRP available • Embedded production • Reduced manufacturing
batch runs result in predefined times with • Improved effectiveness planning and detailed cycle time
planning inefficiencies data that first must be of planning with more scheduling capabilities • Improved manufacturing
• Inflexibility to include consolidated from frequent and faster MRP with a single planning run function planning
real-time, changing various systems runs – multiple times a • Extension of MRP efficiency
demands in the • Separate manufacturing day and 10 times faster scenario coverage, • Reduced inventory levels
planning run leads planning processes • New MRP cockpit like make-to-order
to outdated and available in planning supports exception- or engineer-to-order
inaccurate planning systems and ERP based working model • New graphical
systems accompanied by planning table for
simulation features capacity load leveling
and decision support and sequence planning
with easy-to-use
SAP Fiori apps
• Complexity in back Low-volume back order • Easy-to-use/ • Flexible order • Reduction in back-
order processing processing supported high-volume back confirmation based ordered items cancelled
• Inefficient strategies order processing on business priorities • Improved productivity
to fulfill orders from • Performance in advanced ATP back in order fulfillment
the entire network or improvements order processing processes
to substitute products for releasing large • SAP Fiori app to
automatically production orders enable timely actions
on short-term supply
and demand changes
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Manufacturing Planning and Available to Promise Deep-Dive
Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions
Disparate planning and Inventory management ERP and planning are educed supply chain
R
transactional systems systems and planning part of the same digital planning technology cost
lead to data integration systems need core of SAP S/4HANA
latency and errors integration with
ERP for material
requirement planning
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Manufacturing Orchestration and Execution
Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions
Overhead in managing The SAP Manufacturing • In combination Shop floor cockpit • Reduction in
a disparate set of shop Execution application with SAP S/4HANA, for live production manufacturing
floor systems across integrates shop floor SAP Manufacturing visibility, orchestration, technology cost
multiple plants that with ERP and reporting Execution and and confirmation • Reduction in
are not integrated into systems SAP Manufacturing manufacturing
enterprise planning Integration and overhead cost
and business Intelligence (SAP MII)
• Improved collaboration
allow for end-to-end
and productivity
process integration
across the plant
• SAP Plant Connectivity
software provides
connectivity directly
to the shop floor
device to enable “lot
size of one” production
Complex and expensive SAP Business Suite Fundamentally new data Global and local Reduction in
system landscapes software provides models and functions deployment options with manufacturing
with multiple shop an integrated solution reduce the number the possibility to run SAP technology cost and
floor systems in from enterprise of systems required, S/4HANA at the global simplified architecture
distributed plants, planning to shop simplifying the IT headquarters while local
resulting in high TCO floor execution landscape and plants or regions run their
lowering TCO manufacturing operations
with SAP Manufacturing
Execution and SAP MII
on any database
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Manufacturing Orchestration and Execution
Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions
Limited system SAP Business Suite IoT capabilities supporting Reduction in order
flexibility and automation software provides machine-to-machine fulfillment lead time
available to cater to solutions for variant connectivity, allowing for make-to-order
the customization configuration and make- for automation and (MTO) scenario
demands in a cost- to-order and assemble- unprecedented flexibility
effective manner to-order scenarios of manufacturing processes
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Manufacturing Orchestration and Execution
Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions
Inefficient or ad hoc Visual manufacturing Visual manufacturing Engineering cockpit that • Improved manufacturing
handover of bill-of- planner for leveraging planner for leveraging uses 3D information to FTE efficiency
material information 3D CAD information, 3D CAD information, create manufacturing- • Simplified and enhanced
and design changes thereby simplifying thereby simplifying relevant master data digital collaboration
from engineering the handover process the handover process and efficiently handles
to manufacturing engineering changes
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Manufacturing Orchestration and Execution
Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions
Inefficient application • SAP Manufacturing UI simplification, role- Role-based apps • Further enhancements Improved manufacturing
proximity often requires Execution provides based (persona-based) provided by SAP of manufacturing apps execution FTE productivity
shop floor workers configurable, role- UI5/SAP Fiori apps Manufacturing • New SAP Fiori UX
to go to a central and place-specific to support production Execution and SAP MII, for complex assembly
terminal to make and personalized transactions (for tailored to the needs manufacturing
required entries, dashboards for example, order of operators with easy-
resulting in delays operators; SAP confirmations, operation to-use personalization
and errors Manufacturing confirmations, etc.) options available
Execution and on touch screen
SAP ERP need or mobile devices
to be integrated
• Touch screen operator
UIs for use on
manufacturing floor
• Browser-based
UI5/HTML5 mobile
applications for
wireless bar code
scanners used
on the shop floor
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Inventory and Basic Warehouse Management
Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions
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Inventory and Basic Warehouse Management
Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions
• Limited inventory Inventory analysis is Easy-to-use and Extended SAP Fiori apps • Increased inventory
visibility, thereby possible via a separate intuitive SAP Fiori apps for inventory analysis accuracy
increasing error analytical system with for inventory managers • Increased on-time
rates, driving supply data integration issues and warehouse clerks delivery performance
shortages, and and data latency
inhibiting profitable
inventory sourcing
• Lack of clear visibility
across the material
flow and inventory
monitoring results
in poor on-time
delivery performance
• I n-process valuation • Material ledger • Material ledger available Optimization of lock • Increased visibility
leads to longer locks of activation available as a default option; all behavior for moving into actual profitability,
materials on site level along with functionality inventory valuation data average-priced allowing for margin
•C
omplexity in valuating of actual costing; exists in material ledger, materials optimization
inventories in multiple however, inventory removing redundancies • Increased inventory
currencies and for valuation data and aggregates accuracy
different valuation exists in multiple • Faster actual costing
methods (legal/ aggregated tables due to optimized code
profit center/ • Inefficient processes based on SAP HANA,
reporting purposes) for carrying out faster reporting as
actual costing needed for actual
redistribution/ costing, multiple
revaluation; currency and multiple
slow reporting valuation methods
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Quality Management
Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions
Difficulty getting Quality-management- Supports core quality Core quality Reduction in the cost
an end-to-end view relevant functions management processes management processes to support quality
of quality due to are integrated with for user roles of quality supported by new roles management
distributed systems supply chain, covering engineering, quality in SAP Fiori user
the areas of quality inspection, and quality experience for quality
engineering, quality improvement technician, quality
inspection, and engineer, quality
quality improvement planner, quality manager,
quality auditor, and
calibration technician
Analysis based on past • Different systems are Integrated, simplified Reduction in revenue
performance instead available for quality quality management loss due to quality
of proactive measures management and quality combining quality and compliance issues
based on asset and issue management management
production performance processes; integration and quality issue
needs to be done management
between these systems capabilities with built-in
• Real-time simulations IoT connectivity and
or predictive capability predictive analytics
to detect quality issues
is not available
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Quality Management
Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions
Recording quality Generic UIs are Point-of-detection • Enhanced efficiency Improved quality
inspection results available for recording recording via SAP in quality assurance management
is time-consuming quality inspections Fiori app (also mobile- execution (results FTE efficiency
and inefficient enabled) for faster and recording)
more efficient recording • SAP Fiori apps for
by quality technicians results recording
(role-based)
•D
ifficult to maintain Batch traceability SAP Asset Intelligence • Enhancements in the Improved regulatory
traceability and throughout all Network: data about area of user interface compliance
serialization of manufacturing the machine usage, and performance
components steps and inbound its failures, information optimization
• Traceability reports and outbound on each serialized • Improved insight into
are time-consuming logistics processes component, including action capabilities
to generate and are its history and quality
often error-prone data, can be exchanged
via the network
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SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing Value Proposition
The opportunity exists to transform business processes and achieve your digital transformation
goals with more automation and better alignment to your end-customers by delivering products
tailored to their specific requirements.
• R
un Simple (master complexity) – Simplified and • Reduction
in total manufacturing costs up to 10%
efficient production planning and execution processes • Reduction
in manufacturing cycle time up to 10%
• R
un Live – Decision-making with automated transfer of • Reduction
in scrap value up to 25%
production results and real-time updates on performance
• Increased material posting throughput from 5–25x
• F
undamentally new available-to-promise
• Reduction
in order lead times (10–15%)
functionality for increased customer
satisfaction • Improved
labor utilization with “live” production
Strategy Business
monitoring (up to 10%)
• A
utomation that enables business Enablement Benefits
process transformation • Distinct
systems consolidation, reduced by 30%
• Improved profitability
Risk Employee
Management Engagement
RISK MANAGEMENT EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
• D
emand-driven planning model and live inventory updates • Increase in productivity through tailored UX
reduce risk of revenue loss due to stock-outs • Higher throughput
• I ntegration of execution and planning systems reduces
risk of revenue loss due to cancelled orders
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enefits are based on early adopters of SAP S/4HANA or conservative outside-in benefits due to moving from a traditional ERP to enhanced
B
SAP S/4HANA + LoB and cloud capabilities. As each enterprise is at a different level of maturity, our recommendation is to work with you
to determine the value proposition for your enterprise.
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Customers are Achieving Value from SAP S/4HANA
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