Business Process Automation in SAP S/4HANA with SAP Intelligent RPA

Unit 4: Process Automation in Manufacturing and

Supply Chain – Part 1
Process Automation in Manufacturing and Supply Chain – Part 1
Innovations in SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing and Supply Chain
aATP DDMRP
▪ Customer segmentation ▪ Overcome increasing
▪ Automated mass order volatility in demand and
processing using shorten lead-time
alternative variants ▪ Keep inventory at optimum
▪ Manage shortages along amount to deal with variation
with business priorities at minimum cost across the
▪ Improve business rules chain
▪ Fast re-plan ▪ Driving replenishment on
▪ Plant and material actual demand, not
substitution forecasts. The best use of
assets is to make what is
needed and what sells.
▪ Propose decoupling points
and buffer levels
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pMRP Quality Inventory
▪ Simulate future scenarios
for the plant to predict
Management Management
▪ Defect code proposal ▪ Predict arrival and manage
capacity and component
based on problem delivery delays for stock in
demand
description transit
▪ Closed loop inspection ▪ Pre-built set of inventory
planning using failure KPIs for analytics with drill-
mode and effect analysis down functionality
▪ Early detection of slow or
non-moving stock
▪ Situation handling for
overdue stock in transit
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Criteria for selecting processes for automating with RPA

Focus Area Criteria

▪ Consolidate and manipulate data from multiple data sources, such as Manual & repetitive
Excel, vendor portal, SAP systems
Collect data ▪ Multiple applications touched by the user during process execution,
e.g. Excel, Outlook, Web application, SAP S/4HANA, ERP, non-SAP
systems

High volume
▪ Approval follow-up with multiple stakeholders
Collaborate, ▪ Workflow trigger
trigger user
▪ Automatic service ticket resolution
action, and
communicate ▪ Monthly reports
▪ Email integration Multiple systems

▪ Process can be accelerated and improved by a digital assistant,

for example, the integration of chat bots and RPA bots to perform
Improve user operational work on user’s behalf Workaround for
productivity
▪ Part of the processes are completely executed by bots, e.g. 24/7 native integration
execution

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What is SAP Intelligent RPA?

Robotic process automation (RPA) accelerates digital transformation of business processes

by automatically replicating tedious actions where human workers don’t bring any added value.

Unattended:
Fully automated process, where robots are working autonomously with human
supervision only

Attended:
Partially automated process, where robots are co-working with humans, also called
robotic desktop automation (RDA)

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SAP Intelligent RPA architecture

Developer/Designer Administrator

R R R

Desktop Studio Factory

R
Application Studio Export Configuration Monitoring

Deployed
Package
Package
Credentials

Hierarchies

Desktop Agent

R R
Execution
Application Agent Orchestration
Logs

Client / On-Premise SAP Cloud Platform

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Available RPA bot templates for manufacturing and supply chain*

Type of
Scope Source System(s)
Automation
Post Goods Movement (4FP) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
Outbound Delivery – Post Goods Issue for Non-Warehouse Management (4HV) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
Create Just-In-Time Calls (4HX) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
Intelligent Production Order Conversion (4HR) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
Process Order Confirmation (4G7) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
Production Order Completion (4FF) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
Maintain Planned Independent Requirements (4FL) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
Mass Printing of Production Order Picklist (4FZ) SAP S/4HANA Cloud UI
Production Order Operation Confirmation (49T) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
Physical Inventory Count – Generate Count List (49R) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
Physical Inventory Count – Upload Count List (4A8) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
Make Usage Decision in Quality Inspection (4G9) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API

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