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"You need to be able to exchange information between manufacturing and supply
networks – so you can respond quickly to changing customer demands. That's the power of the
SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) application.
SAP MII solves the disconnect between the plant floor and the rest of the enterprise."
Source : SAP
SAP Manufacturing — Manufacturing Intelligence Dashboards
Manufacturing Intelligence is also known as :
Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence,
MFG Intelligence Solution,
Operational Excellence,
Manufacturing Intelligence Knowledge,
Manufacturing Intelligence Business,
Manufacturing Intelligence Strategies,
Manufacturing Intelligence Capabilities,
Management Manufacturing Intelligence,
Manufacturing Intelligence Benchmark,
Free Manufacturing Intelligence,
Manufacturing Intelligence Software Portal,
Manufacturer Intelligence,
Manufacturing Intelligence Tools,
Manufacturing Intelligence Architecture,
Optimize Manufacturing Processes,
Manufacturing Integration Intelligence,
Manufacturing Intelligence Solutions,
Event Driven Manufacturing Intelligence,
Automation Manufacturing Intelligence,
Analytic Intelligence,
Application Intelligence,
Auto Manufacturing Intelligence,
Balanced Scorecard,
Balanced Scorecard Example,
Balanced Scorecard IT,
Balanced Scorecards,
Business Dashboards,
Business Definition Intelligence.
Production personnel are
hindered in their ability to
make rapid, right-time decisions
on the factory floor by their
inability to gather relevant
information from disparate,
stand-alone systems. Additional
challenges include the lack of
real-time alerts on shop floor
exceptions, workflows to
resolve them, and relevant
key performance indicators for
production processes.
Manufacturing intelligence
dashboards offered in the SAP®
Manufacturing solution provide
configurable role-based entry
pages that deliver the visibility
production personnel need to
be responsive to exceptions and
changes in demand or supply,
deliver superior performance,
and run manufacturing at the
speed of business.
Working Smarter on the Shop Floor
To thrive in a world of global competition and demanding customers,
manufacturers must be able to sense and respond to
change, and adapt quickly and accurately to evolving conditions.
To a large extent, adaptability depends on a company’s
frontline production employees – and making sure those
employees are armed with the right information. To remove
delays and errors from processes – and enable manufacturing to
work at the speed of the business – you need to give plant managers,
quality inspectors, and production and maintenance
supervisors the ability to identify and resolve problems rapidly,
as they arise, and to monitor, measure, and improve manufacturing
performance over time.
In short, adaptiveness depends on being able to push decision
making to the shop floor. But that’s often easier said than done.
At many companies, the various systems used for enterprise
resource planning (ERP) , manufacturing execution, and shopfloor
automation are not well integrated. Data is fragmented
across systems. There is little or no real-time information about
production events available on the shop floor. And users cannot
easily access up-to-date reports and perform the rapid analyses
needed to evaluate and improve performance.
It’s an environment where plant managers and production
personnel are overloaded with data – but without ready access
to essential information about orders, labor, machines, material,
and capacity. Pulling information together from disparate systems
is slow and difficult, and decision makers have to work
without a clear, up-to-date view of what is actually happening
in the plant. In short, production personnel are faced with a fundamental
lack of visibility into their manufacturing operations,
which makes it difficult to understand and respond to change,
impairs their performance, and ultimately hampers the
company’s ability to meet customers’ needs.
Keeping Production People up to Speed
To help manufacturers tackle those challenges – and empower
production personnel on the shop floor – SAP offers the SAP®
Manufacturing solution with comprehensive, integrated capabilities
that include powerful manufacturing intelligence dashboards
that deliver integrated, targeted information about the status of
the plant and production lines at a glance.
Manufacturing intelligence dashboards aggregate relevant
content from the full range of manufacturing systems (ERP,
manufacturing execution, and shop-floor automation) into a
single, up-to-the-minute view of operations. By providing visibility
into plant activities, these role-specific dashboards enable
employees to monitor and manage manufacturing performance
and respond quickly and effectively to changes. Automatic alerts
inform decision makers when problems and exceptions arise in
production. They in turn can trigger automated workflows to
resolve these before they become customer issues.
With the manufacturing intelligence dashboards offered in
SAP Manufacturing, you can provide your production
personnel with:
- Content that is based on the individual’s role in the manufacturing
process, which ensures that employees have the relevant
information needed to manage and make decisions in a format
they are comfortable with – while eliminating the overload of
extraneous data
- Integrated decision support for planning and execution, by
giving production personnel a clear understanding of the
current status of plant operations and the actions they can
take to keep performance levels high
- Ready-to-use manufacturing and business content, such as key
performance indicators (KPIs) for production processes, which
can be configured and displayed to meet the user’s needs, as
well as the ability to draw real-time data from various
applications
- Sophisticated analytics and reporting tools that allow decision
makers to quickly recognize trends, detect potential problems,
analyze their root causes, and identify opportunities to improve
production performance
- Real-time exception detection and management, enabling
employees to monitor processes closely and address problems
quickly – before they have a negative impact on the customer
With manufacturing intelligence dashboards, production personnel
can easily monitor critical metrics, using the company’s
custom reports or KPIs from a predefined library provided by
SAP. They can drill down on each KPI to analyze the cause and
get to the bottom of problems. Responding to real-time alerts
in their dashboards, production personnel can trigger workflows
in SAP ERP to resolve problems quickly.
The dashboards are designed to meet specific company needs and
fit in with established systems and processes. These dashboards
can be configured easily to track and display the metrics that
are important to your company, and users can personalize dashboards
to enhance access to the information needed for their
jobs.
Manufacturing intelligence dashboards are integrated with SAP
solutions, such as SAP Business Intelligence, which ensures that
frontline employees have access to a full range of business information.
Based on the open SAP NetWeaver™ platform, dashboards
can be integrated easily with the SAP xApps™ portfolio of packaged composite applications and non-SAP systems as well,
providing the scalability to grow with changing business conditions.
Overall, this integrated, flexible approach ensures that the
dashboards can meet your needs today and tomorrow – with a
low total cost of ownership.
The Payoff of Empowered Employees
Manufacturing intelligence dashboards enable your production
personnel to make rapid, accurate decisions on the factory floor,
and let your company:
- Execute production plans on time and within budget
using real-time snapshots of factory and production-line
operations, sophisticated decision-support tools, and current
production-cost data
- Find and solve problems quickly and proactively with realtime
exception detection and alerts that highlight critical situations
and automated workflows that let employees trigger the
right responses to issues as they arise
- Increase productivity and efficiency by giving employees
easy access to aggregated, targeted data from multiple, heterogeneous
systems in a user-friendly format, configured to their
specific needs
- Keep improving manufacturing processes over time with
the ability to track KPIs; perform root-cause analyses; and
monitor, measure, and control production performance
To Get Started . . .
With the manufacturing intelligence dashboards offered in
SAP Manufacturing, your production employees can have the
visibility into plant operations needed to increase responsiveness
and performance. Dashboards can empower shop-floor decision
makers to act quickly and accurately, keeping your manufacturing
operations in step with customers – and ahead of the
competition.
To find out how manufacturing intelligence dashboards – and
SAP Manufacturing – can help your company succeed in a fastmoving
industry, visit www.sap.com/manufacturing