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Optimization and Execution: How Manufacturing can lead the Industry Renaissance

Optimization and Execution: How Manufacturing can lead the Industry Renaissance

Content provided by Dassault Systemes.

Global manufacturing today faces significant operational challenges. Companies that were unable to meet these challenges have been left behind (for example, in High Tech think Blackberry and Compaq). The Industry Renaissance has transformed invention and production for the needs of today’s customers. How should manufacturers adapt to meet the challenges and shift from product-centric to customer-centric operations?

In addition to adapting strategic operations, manufacturing companies also require a tactical ability to plan and execute flawlessly at the facility level. Traditional processes lack visibility and the ability to capture real-world constraints. Only purpose-built solutions deliver realistic plans that can meet customer orders while managing the variability of supply and demand.

Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) and Planning & Optimization are both critical parts of the optimal solution. They also must be working together in harmony to achieve maximum benefit from their capabilities:

MOM Specifics: Visibility, synchronization and control over ALL operations: production, quality, warehousing, maintenance and field operations. The value created by MOM is both in efficiency and costs. Successful companies have been able to increase product mix and volume without capital expense by running existing manufacturing and assembly lines more effectively. By intelligent allocation and distribution of tasks and immediate updating of material requirements these companies have reduced cycle and takt times and reduced inventory levels.

Planning & Optimization Specifics: Planning, scheduling and optimizing production considering ALL constraints: material, capacity, labor skills, tools and setup. The value provided by planning and optimization is the ability to quickly and proactively identify potential manufacturing challenges such as bottlenecks and the impact on customer demand. By running simulations (proactively and on demand) successful companies have been able to deliver on customer due dates and increase customer service levels while simultaneously reducing inventory and cycle time.

Each solution has inherent value but are less effective when implemented in isolation. Manufacturers that execute without having a realistic plan are working blindly. Those that plan without effective execution are setting unachievable goals.

In numerous case studies, manufacturers have found that the limited visibility to shop floor activities and poor planning led to problems with over-scheduled machinery and equipment. Unforeseen bottlenecks and constraints constantly delayed productions and the only way to ensure on time deliveries was to expedite, add labor or overstock inventory and WIP; all at great expense.

Using both MOM and planning & optimization as part of an integrated process provides significant value. Thanks to material synchronization and optimal planning, inventory reductions of 40% or more have been achieved and cycle times reduced by up to 50%. More importantly, the ability to balance demand from sales, purchasing, manufacturing and finance leads to optimal outcomes for meeting customer orders at the lowest cost.

There are two well-known axioms that point out the need for this conjunction:
1.“No plan survives contact with the enemy” (from military history). The “enemy” in thiscase is the real world turbulence of shop floor variability and changes in customer demand.Due to the nature of increasingly customized orders and shortened lead times it is inevitablethat the production plans will need to be revised. This happens within tactical operationaltimeframes e.g. dropping in a priority customer order or a sudden shortage of raw materials.It is impossible to eliminate this variability (even with higher level planning processes) sothe important capability to add is the ability to react to changes and to quickly re-planproduction. This allows us to see the impact and, if necessary, evaluate trade-offs to settle ona compromise between (for example) cost and customer service levels.

2. “By failing to prepare, you are preparing for failure” (Benjamin Franklin). Hope is never aneffective strategy yet many manufacturers are planning production without truly effectiveprocesses or systems to provide insight and visibility to what the true outcome of productionwill be in the context of meeting customer demands. Spreadsheets are still a common toolin this process but are woefully inadequate in supporting a scalable and reliable planningprocess. The end result is a lack of agility and a production capability that becomes veryreactionary. Perhaps manufacturers in this state may still able to meet customer demand butthey would do so at the expense of skyrocketing costs of inventory and expedited logistics.Few companies today have the luxury of high customer service levels at any cost.

While the emphasis may vary with specific needs, most industries can benefit from this combined solution.

What about your industry?
All manufacturers perform the same critical tasks – procure components and raw materials; process those materials through the application of manpower and equipment; store and account for materials and finished goods; sell and deliver those goods to customers directly or through a distribution network; account for all of this activity and plan for the future. The advanced scheduling and dynamic management outlined above applies to all manufacturers in all industries, anywhere on the globe. And the more complex or volatile the value network is, the more these tools are needed and the less useful are spreadsheets and traditional ERP planners.

Complex discrete manufacturing includes industrial equipment, aerospace, transportation (cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc.), appliances, and products with many parts – deep and/or broad bills of materials. These manufacturers manage many parts/components and therefore have many suppliers and considerable inventory to order, track, and coordinate. Complex manufacturers also tend to have complex manufacturing processes with many steps and a lot of people and equipment to coordinate.

The typical consumer goods manufacturer may have more simple bills and processes (although some processes may be very complex); equipment and asset scheduling is critical – keeping the production lines running is paramount. Raw material and component inventory is equally important as any shortage or quality issue may disrupt that all-important production schedule. Consumer goods manufacturers are also likely to have a more complex value network with customers who are very sensitive to availability and service levels. Distribution logic is as important to consumer goods manufacturers as supplier management is to complex product makers.

Process manufacturers, including food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and chemical among others, have similar equipment utilization concerns as consumer goods manufacturers and also operate under rigorous regulatory requirements for electronic records and sign-offs, quality mandates, and stringent traceability obligations. Fully integrated systems with built-in quality management systems and electronic signatures are essential for compliance in the fast-moving twenty-first century manufacturing environment.

While the emphasis may vary with the specific needs of the industry and market, all types of manufacturing can benefit greatly from operations that are both well-planned and executed.

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Localization Toolkit for SAP S/4HANA Cloud
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Localization Toolkit for SAP S/4HANA Cloud

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SAP is a global System solution that runs around the globe in different industries and companies. Every SAP implementation requires specific functionalities to cover the legal and fiscal business solutions for each country. This set of requirements receive the name of “Localization”.

SAP S/4HANACloud provides the customer with a Localization Toolkit. This kit gives guidance on covering the requirements on top of the available localization features for the current local versions, additionally, it works as a combination of many built-in localization features.

The Localization Toolkit for SAP S/4HANA Cloud documentation available on the SAP Community page provides the customer clarity in realizing a business need independently. It aims to reduce the implementation time by providing several useful links and code snippets in one place. This makes it a knowledge-sharing platform where the SAP localization development experts share their best practices with the extension developer ecosystem at the customer or partner’s side.

The Localization toolkit leverages the existing SAP technology and tools to tackle specific fiscal or legal localization scenarios by integrating the different elements it offers, in addition, it provides solutions that support customers effectively carrying out their daily business.

One of the main elements that the Localization Toolkit offer is the extensibility feature; this feature covers a broad spectrum of topics that allow customers and partners to adapt standard business software to their business needs. Including business configuration, integration, custom fields and logic, layout adaptation of user interface (UI), forms, and reports. It also covers custom terminology and translation for customer-specific applications.

Extensibility in SAP S/4HANA Cloud can be divided into two parts: Side-By-Side Extensibility through SAP Cloud Platform (used to extend by building new apps on the SAP cloud platform, consuming SAP S/4HANA cloud SDK and API’s) and In-App Extensibility through built-in capabilities (used to extend and adapt the core of SAP s/4HANA with built-in In-App extension capabilities).

The most recent element included in the Localization Toolkit is the SAP Central Business Configuration. This new solution will make it possible to configure business processes across different SAP products from one central place. SAP Central Business Configuration will first allow the configuration of SAP S/4HANA Cloud, essentials edition, but aims to the seamless implementation of end-to-end business processes across SAP’s Intelligent Enterprise Suite.

For more information about the Localization toolkit for SAP S/4HANA, visit the SAP Community page at the following link: https://community.sap.com/topics/localization-toolkit-s4hana-cloud

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Transformation of database for use with APS Systems

Transformation of database for use with APS Systems

Content provided by Prabu Natarajan and Ricardo Llama.

Most new APS projects start with a small POC before doing a full-blown implementation. For Ortems projects, the POC is often designed in-house using a Firebird database. After a successful design, the intent is to mirror this using the customer’s Ortems environment, where the database is MS SQL or Oracle SQL server.

The project team facing this kind of challenge can decide to do a fresh configuration and loading of master data in the SQL database manually, which is obviously time-consuming. VIC would be a useful tool to load the master data; however, there is not much help for moving the configurations. An alternate approach is to perform a database transformation – transform firebird data to SQL data. This eliminates the need for repetition of the activities performed during the design of the POC.

The database transformation process is simple and efficient, takes less than 2 hours on the first attempt, and comprises six steps.
Step 1: Select the firebird GDB file for the transformation, using the Environment Management module:

Step 2: Launch the VIC IBU module, and after connecting to the relevant environment, start the generation of Scripts and tables.

Step 3: Select the new location for the SQL script, the name and the new database type. In this example, the new database would be MSSQL.

After a successful generation, the new script is placed in the selected file directory.

Step 5: After creating the database, run the scripts 010_tabl through 070_trig located under \ORTEMS\APS\scripts\mssql\bdt\create to prepare the database for loading:

Step 6: Run the script generated by the VIC IBU module followed by, script 110_trigAudit. A successful run would have the new SQL database ready for use in the Environment Management module.

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