Industry Specific Planning Processes
- Pre-planning of critical materials and bottleneck capacities
- Pre-structuring of the production plan
- Order calculation and sales price calculation
- Automatic generation of production orders per sequence
Planning and Availability Checks
- Automatic reservation of materials combined with availability check
- Generation of purchase requisitions and automatic transfer to purchasing
- Automatic material requirement planning for stock material
- Automatic reservation of capacity requirements, graphical and tabular views of capacity loads, combining of production orders, concurrent resource planning
- Automatic transfer of planned production orders to scheduling
- Automatic availability checks for tools, printing inks, ok-to-print
- Pre-production of semi finished goods/make-to-stock production
- Cross-company and inter-company business
Supply Chain Management
- SCM agreements with customers and suppliers
- Presetting of electronic data interchange (EDI) for standard messages
- EDI capability (excluding EDI-converters to non-SAP systems / different SAP data models)
- Scheduling agreement / forecast delivery schedule
- Vendor managed inventory, consignment stock
- Costing, valuation and results analysis for SCM finished goods and product families
- Finance integration
Scheduling
- Integrated scheduling with graphical user interface
- Automatic planning processes, sorting of production orders
- Automatic availability checks for material, tools and ok-to-print
- Automatic warning when exceeding confirmed delivery dates
- Release of production orders, display of released order queue at production terminal
- Capability to interconnect to machine data capture systems
- Splitting of production orders and automatic dispatching of remaining quantity
Material Management
- General coding concept, material classification
- Purchasing with purchase requisitions, contracts, purchase order, etc.
- Customer`s claims processing, debit notes
- Design of purchasing organisations independent of company codes
- EDI capabilities, SCM agreements with suppliers
- Purchasing statistics and vendor evaluation
- Batch management and batch tracing
- Warehouse management, automatic inventory record keeping
Warehouse and Handling Unit Management
Handling Units (HUs) are groupings of material representing real units like reels, covering boxes, pallets etc. Every HU has a unique Id. Full traceability of the material flow from the supplier to the customer is available. HU management is basis of machine-readable material identification.
- Maintenance and unique identification of packaging units
- Inventory management by batches and storage units
- Purchasing with purchase requisitions, contracts, purchase order
- Barcode control of material movements per packaging unit
- Warehouse management, stock removal / stock placement strategies
Production and Completion Confirmation
- Full integration of production
- Event-driven completion confirmation
- Warnings at impending under delivery or over delivery exceeding fixed tolerances
- Unscheduled tasks, ad hoc external order processing, cross-plant production, material movements and supplies
- Rework and excess work, manufacturing of replacements, sorting orders
- Capability to include: in-process inspections, inspection characteristics, quality inspections
- Batch related goods issue and backflushing
- Automatic posting of tool strokes / rotations
- Special production orders for mixed colours
- Production information system
Cost Accounting and Results Analysis (Controlling)
- Customised costing sheet (full cost) and calculation of contribution margin
- Costing of quotations, sales order costing
- Results analysis
- Pre- and post-calculation of service orders
- Information system displaying variances
- Integration of cost centre controlling and financial accounting
- Preconfigured industry specific information system
Finance
- Presetting of master data
- General ledger- balance analysis, automatic clearing, reporting, closing, and planning
- Accounts payable
- Accounts receivables
- Banks- Incomings, outgoings, data medium exchange
- Fixed assets- Acquisition and retirement, depreciation, value corrections, reporting, integration in cost centre accounting
- Integration of financial accounting in controlling (CO), materials management (MM), production (PP), sales (SD) and customer services (CS).
Quality Management
- Fully integrated quality management functionality, GMP compatible, auditable
- Defect evaluation lists
- Test equipment management
- Planning and processing of goods receipt inspections, laboratory tests, in-process and final inspections
- Automatic generation of quality notifications
- Evaluation of inspection orders and customer complaints, defect statistics
Product Specification
Parameter controlled product specification including the documentation of product features required by and guaranteed to the customer.
Technical Documentation Interface
Export of SAP documents like samples and printing layouts with reference to document type, number, description, version, status and customer instructions into technical systems like CAD, image editing, packing line and robots.
JDF/JMF Interface
- JDF / JMF support
- order reference for machine pre-settings
- production data collection
- machine data collection
- electronic job ticket
- display of linked documents
