JSS MAHAVIDYAPEETHA

JSS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY

SRI JAYACHAMARAJENDRA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
 Constituent College of JSS Science and Technology University
 Approved by A.I.C.T.E
 Governed by the Grant-in-Aid Rules of Government of Karnataka
 Identified as lead institution for World Bank Assistance under TEQIP Scheme

DIAMOND JUBILEE YEAR :: 1963 - 2023

Subject:
Product Design & Manufacturing -
20IP530

ODD Semester-2022-23

Semester: V

(Automatic Clothesline Retriever System)

Event – II Submission

Submitted By, Submitted To,

Sharath G (01JST20IP036) Dr. Manjunatha.B M.Tech., Ph.D, AMIE

Yashwanth Gowda S (01JST20IP048) Assistant Professor,
Mohammed Suhale (01JCE21IP407) Department of I&P Engineering
JSS STU, SJCE, Mysore

Marks Scored Signature of the Faculty

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TABLE OF CONTENT

Topic Page
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INTRODUCTION
1.

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2. OVERVIEW OF SAP

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3. OBJECTIVE
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4. SAP MODULE

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5. KEY FEATURES AND CAPABILITIES

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6. ADVANTAGES OF SAP

12
7. DISADVANTAGES OF SAP

13-15
8. KEY STAGES IN SAP
IMPLEMENTATION

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9. CONCLUSION

10. REFERENCE 17

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INTRODUCTION:-

SAP PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) software is a comprehensive solution offered by SAP,
a leading provider of enterprise software solutions. It enables organizations to effectively manage
their entire product lifecycle, from ideation to retirement. SAP PLM software provides a range of
tools and functionalities to streamline and optimize various processes involved in product
development, manufacturing, and maintenance. SAP is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
system by SAP AG, a company based out of Walldorf in Germany. AG is derived from the German
word Aktiengesellschaft. According to German Language SAP Stands for Systeme, Anwendungen
und Produkte in Der Datenverarbeitung.

An SAP software suite that is being implemented as part of re-engineering and Provides end-to-end
solutions for financial, logistics, distribution, and inventories. Present scenario large number of
companies are using sap software for their day-to-day business activities. Systems, Applications,
Products in data processing, or SAP, was originally introduced in the 1980s as SAP R/2, which was
a system that provided users with a soft real-time business application that could be used in multiple
currencies and languages. As client–server systems began to be introduced, SAP brought out a
server based version of their software called SAP R/3, henceforth referred to as SAP, which was
launched in 1992. SAP also developed a graphical user interface, or GUI.

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Overview of SAP PLM Software:-

SAP PLM Software is a modular solution that covers various aspects of product lifecycle
management. It integrates with other SAP modules, such as SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource
Planning) and SAP S/4HANA, to provide a seamless end-to-end process for managing products.

The main components of SAP PLM Software include:

a. Product Data Management (PDM): Enables centralized storage and management of product-
related data, including CAD files, specifications, bills of materials (BOMs), and engineering change
records.

b. Product Structure Management: Supports the creation and management of complex product
structures, including multi-level BOMs, engineering change structures, and variants.

c. Engineering Change Management: Facilitates the controlled execution and tracking of

engineering change processes, ensuring proper approvals, impact analysis, and documentation.

d. Document Management: Provides a centralized repository for storing and organizing various
product-related documents, such as design specifications, test reports, and compliance certificates.

e. Project Management: Helps manage product development projects by providing tools for
planning, scheduling, resource allocation, and collaboration.

f. Quality Management: Enables organizations to define and enforce quality standards, track quality
issues, perform inspections, and manage non-conformances.

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Objectives:-

Objective of this research is mainly to cater information, facts, data and analysis to the various
segments of people viz. Auto component manufacturers, SAP professionals. Researchers and
students

 Collective study of business challenges faced by Auto component manufacturers and make them
aware how SAP can capture relevant information and generate reports to help in the decision making

 Provide information to Auto comp manufacturers how their business processes can be integrated
by using SAP

 Provide a collective information of various aspects of SAP such as its software products,
hardware, modular structure, to benefit researchers, students and entry level SAP professionals

 Provide collective view on SAP’s development as ERP product over the time period and create
comparison of SAP’s business growth with competitors in same space Provide information on
implementation methodology of SAP and the reasons behind the failed SAP implementations

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RESEARCH GAP:-

After studying various papers published in journals and other literature with related subject, few
gaps were identified. Such gaps are mentioned below.

 There is sufficient study found on SAP but the journey of SAP as ERP product and it’s maturity
with time is not well complied in any single research.

 Objectives of SAP implementation are covered in various studies but it varies in different studies
because the objectives vary company to company. Thus a holistic compilation of standard set of
objectives at one place is missing in any single study.

 A collective view of SAP’s different versions created from the beginning and relevant software,
hardware, modular structures at one place is not available in previous studies.

 There are ample studies available which talk about the challenges of the Auto component
manufacturing. But, the studies lack the focus on the use of SAP to track relevant information in the
study and produce the reports to help overcoming such challenges.

 The post SAP implementation scenario is not properly covered in the previous studies.

A collective study of various implementation methods used for SAP implementation and the reasons
of failures are not properly covered in any single research.

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SAP Modules :-

SAP works on 3 core functional areas such as Logistics, Finance and Human resources. Different modules
are created in these functional areas, which are tightly integrated with each other.

1. Logistics - Logistics

 Sales and Distribution (SD)

 Material Management (MM)
 Warehouse Management (WM)
 Production Planning (PP)
 Plant Maintenance (PM)
 Project System (PS)
 General Logistics (LO)
 Quality Management Logistics module

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2. Financial o Financial Accounting (FI)

 Controlling (CO)
 Enterprise Controlling (EC)
 Investment Management (IM)

 Treasury (TR)

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3. Human Resources

 Personnel Administration (PA)

 Personnel Development (PD)

SAP HR Module Apart from the core functions described above, SAP has also come up with
some high end modules like Customer relationship management (CRM), Supplier relationship
management (SRM, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Business intelligence and Business
objects (BI-BO) etc.

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Key Features and Capabilities:-

SAP PLM Software offers a wide range of features and capabilities that empower organizations to
effectively manage their product lifecycles.

Some key features include:

a. Centralized Data Repository: Provides a single source of truth for all product-related data,
ensuring data consistency and accessibility across the organization.

b. Collaboration and Workflow Management: Facilitates collaboration among cross-functional

teams, streamlining communication, document sharing, and workflow automation.

c. Change Control and Version Management: Enables organizations to manage engineering

changes, maintain version control, and track historical revisions.

d. Compliance and Regulatory Management: Helps organizations adhere to industry-specific

regulations and standards by providing compliance tracking and documentation capabilities.

e. Analytics and Reporting: Offers robust reporting and analytics capabilities to gain insights into
product performance, project status, and quality metrics.

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Advantages of SAP:-

 SAP software manages these business management tasks in modules that all work together in

one system by sharing information.

 Promoting consistent practice across an entire division

 No duplicate data

 Automate Project Monitoring and Multidimensional and flexible reporting

 Standardization of business processes

 Make Planning, Scheduling, Tracking, and Management easier leaving more time for you to

perform value-added work

 Ability to provide clear-cut job roles with authorizations

 Enabling integration with e-commerce

 Cost Savings on overheads such as Stationery, File Storage, etc.

 Compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards.

 Better product quality control and traceability.
 Efficient maintenance and service operations, leading to higher customer satisfaction.
 Integration with other SAP modules for end-to-end enterprise resource planning (ERP)
capabilities.

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Disadvantages of SAP:-

 Relatively Expensive SAP requires relatively large funds. In addition, the maintenance and
upgrade costs are quite large.
 Demanding High Quality Human Resources, This system requires qualified human
resources to enter data precisely and with timeliness.
 Demands Highly Trained Staff
 Lengthy Implementation Time
 Inter-modules functions least understood by business, but high on list of reasons to buy
 Creates internal conflict in organizations
 SAP rolls out new versions every 6 months

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Key Stages in SAP Implementation:-

Accelerated SAP (ASAP) is one of the standard SAP project preparation and systems
implementation methodology. By following this SAP implementation methodology, you can
effectively optimize time, cost, quality and accelerate your SAP ERP implementations process.
There are seven key stages in this SAP implementation process.

1. Project Preparation/Planning

This is the start phase we were talking about earlier that leads to the SAP implementation
project failure. It involves planning the entire project after considering all the details and
factors, which can be challenging due to the vast landscape. Hence, it is essential to select one
of the best SAP implementation companies, or in other words, SAP MSPs. They can help you
in different ways to create the most efficient SAP roadmap.

You need to specify your requirements to the SAP implementation companies and define
objectives, scope, and priorities. Based on your needs, you and the MSP can come together to
pick the right tools and approaches that can cater to your requirements. Once the tools and
approaches are selected, choose the operations that should be migrated to SAP or modernized.

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2. Business Blueprint

Before the erp implementation methodology, it is essential to understand and outline your
future business processes in detail. There will always be some differences or gaps between your
current and future business processes. Creating a blueprint document will help mitigate these
gaps to ensure smooth SAP project planning.

In these sessions, the SAP implementation partner will analyze all the gaps and streamline the
as-is and future SAP processes. The satellites and organizational structure, along with other
details, are also identified during this phase. The organizational structure changes include the
basic information to be customized for the SAP implementation to be successful and the SAP
or ERP software to work. On the other hand, the satellites are a list of programs that do not
need to be changed as they won’t be required by the SAP software but will be used even after
you go live.

3. Realization/Implementation

Once the gap analysis is over, your SAP implementation partner will configure your baseline
system, called the baseline configuration. The ERP implementation project plan fine-tunes that
system to meet all your business and process requirements and will eliminate all the gaps found
in the business blueprint to ensure seamless SAP implementation. During this phase, any
customizations required are also taken care of by the SAP implementation team.

Converting non-productive systems and making all the adjustments to blend the current
infrastructure with the erp implementation processes happens in this stage.

4. Integration Tests

During the migration and implementation, testing will also begin parallelly (it goes hand-in-
hand with the Realization phase). The erp implementation phases will start conducting various
tests (Unit and Integration tests) to determine how well the implementation is proceeding and
ensure that the SAP systems deliver results.

The integration phase is partitioned into many setups. The first setup can be migrating and
testing only half of the current process. Another setup can be testing one entire process after

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implementation on the SAP landscape. Finally, in the end, the whole process and workload are
tested.

5. Preparation

As the name gives out, the final preparation phase includes activities required to prepare both
systems and your employees before going live. Depending on the Realization and testing phase
results, an erp implementation methodology will make any changes if requ ired for a complete
migration to the SAP systems.

People will be trained to carry out their daily operations using the SAP and ERP software. This
stage is like a pre-check before going live to ensure everything is 100% ready.

6. Go-live

During this phase, you move from a pre-production environment to a live environment and
migrate all the data to the production environment’s SAP systems. Once all the data is migrated
to the new SAP systems, the former systems are not used anymore. Along with the data
migration and use of new applications, the project managers will also ensure running frequent
tests to check if everything works as expected.

SAP systems are monitored continuously and are optimized for performance. Also, the erp
implementation project plan production support system setup is done during this stage.

7. Production/ GO Live Support

This phase involves setting up a dedicated support team and handover from the implementation
team to the support team that can constantly monitor and remediate any production issues. The
support team will also help the users, and root users get used to the SAP systems and
applications whenever required. Support documents are built and maintained to ensure smooth
operations.

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CONCLUSION :-

There are a number of ways that employers can end up in legal trouble, but among the
most common is a failure to pay workers what they are owed. In order to do that, business owners
need to make sure they are keeping careful track of employee hours. This is one of the main reasons
why an Employee attendance monitoring system is so important. Discrepancies in employee hourly
records happen all the time for a number of reasons.Employee Attendance management is important
to every single organization, it can determine whether or not a business will be successful in the
future. Businesses will have to keep a track of employees, this being their main concern and a lot of
other things. Monitoring attendance helps in the long term for a business, as an employer will be
able to tell which employees arrive early, which arrive late and who has the most absences without
any valid reason. This could help an employer in deciding which employees are most suitable to
work in the business, having employees who arrive to work on time means that the day-to-day tasks
of the organization will be fulfilled.

SAP which was earlier meant for large organizations can now be seen implemented in small-scale
industries too. Many companies have realized the high potential and importance of SAP solutions
in their businesses and so are making the most of it. Moreover, the fact that many fortune 500
companies are extensively using SAP systems internally for their daily operations and reporting, it
has triggered SAP basis jobs in the market. This paper provides the implementation of Employee
Attendance Management System using SAP. It is implemented as it provides a comprehensive set
of integrated cross functional business process. By centralizing data management, SAP software
provides multiple business functions with a single view of the truth. This helps companies better
manage complex business processes by giving employees of different departments easy access to
real-time insights across the enterprise. As a result, businesses can accelerate workflows, improve
operational efficiency, raise productivity, enhance customer experiences – and ultimately increase
profits.

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1. Biskie, Steve. Surviving an SAP® Audit (PDF). GalileoPress.

2. Linda K. Lau (2005) “Managing Business with SAP: Planning, Implementation and Evaluation”
(ISBN 1- 59140-380-4), , pp.1-345

3. IBM study (2009), “Challenges for the automotive industry in an on demand environment” – pp
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4. Timothy J. Sturgeon and Johannes Van Biesebroeck (2010) “Effects of the Crisis on the
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5. Mckinsey (2012), Delivering large-scale IT projects on time, on budget, and on value, 2012,
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6. Geneca (2010) “Interview based study of software project failure by Geneca, a software service
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7. NSDC (2009) “Human resources and skill requirement in Auto and Auto component sector
(2022)”, Report by National Skill development corporation, pp 1-94

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