SAP ERP Solution for Mechanical Equipment Manufacturing Industry

Project and R&D management can accelerate the launch of new products, thereby promoting consistency between customer needs, product design, and delivery of products. At the same time, project based business node management is carried out to control personalized product requirements proposed by customers, including project planning, progress, cost, and budget control.

• Achieve seamless integration between SAP and professional design systems

Design a system for product design and import it into the SAP system. Engineers can modify the design, automatically generate a production material list, and hand it over to the production department. This will provide real-time feedback to various business departments, unify the information platform, and reduce information silos.

• Project management covers the entire project lifecycle

From initiation, planning, execution to closure, monitoring project timelines and ensuring compliance with deadline requirements can effectively budget and control costs, thereby improving cost transparency in project management.

• Implement effective design management trial production process

Independently manage materials, equipment, and tooling for research and development, and achieve multi version management of BOM and process routes, making it easy to trace historical records at any time.

The non-standard product manufacturing management component with independent architecture for non-standard production businesses, utilizing the optional BOM of the solution, helps enterprises effectively manage personalized and customized production orders, and effectively manage and control the production process.

• The solution provides optional BOM function

When receiving orders, the salesperson determines and selects certain optional parts. And it provides the R&D department with the function of E-BOM (Engineering BOM), which facilitates the management of E-BOM by the R&D department and allows for data sharing and mutual conversion with formal BOMs.

Basic file control

Comprehensively improve the management of basic files such as material data, BOM, and process routes.

Improve complete production management processes, assist mechanical equipment manufacturing enterprises in formulating reasonable production plans based on materials, equipment, production capacity, etc., according to the status of order execution, improve customer satisfaction, and bring greater benefits to the enterprise.

• Batch requirement planning subsystem

To enable enterprises to better prepare production plans and material procurement plans for products and semi-finished products in each stage according to orders, and to arrange production reasonably based on product or equipment capacity, improving the enforceability of production plans. This can be better applied to planned production and order taking production modes, greatly improving work efficiency and accuracy.

The solution has built MES manufacturing execution function on SAP to solve the problems of delayed order execution, scattered processes, rough production capacity, and low production efficiency encountered by equipment and mechanical equipment manufacturing enterprises during the production execution process, in order to improve production efficiency.

• Strengthen workshop operation plan

Reasonably allocate personnel and working hours, provide timely and accurate production feedback, ensure the transparency of production data and progress, and improve the completion rate of production plans and product delivery times.

• Real time collection of workshop data

By using barcode technology to track the entire production process from material production to finished product warehousing, all events that occur during the production process are collected in real-time, making the entire workshop completely transparent.

• Transparent production process

Make the product clear and transparent throughout the entire production process, efficiently trace the causes of problems, develop targeted measures to solve quality bottlenecks, achieve product quality traceability, and reduce costs.

• Progress and resource tracking

Real time recording and monitoring of the completion of production processes and processing tasks, analyzing personnel work efficiency, labor productivity, equipment utilization, product qualification rate, scrap rate, etc., promptly identifying and improving problems during the execution process.

The plan has a complete quality management and traceability process, with serial number and batch tracking management comprehensively running through various business nodes such as raw material procurement, in transit, production, warehousing, and outbound of orders. It can trace every step of the product, visualize and clarify the quality of the product, improve service quality, and enhance brand strength.

• Electronic quality results

Improve and replace the current manual and paper-based quality ledger model, strengthen quality control standards, help enterprises build a comprehensive quality system and fully integrate it into various business processes, strictly control quality issues in each link, and ensure product quality.

• Full business process traceability

Using barcode to record quality inspection results, the system can trace the results at any time, improving work efficiency; Conduct quality analysis on quality accidents, propose corrective and preventive measures, and make improvements to ultimately achieve the goal of product quality improvement.

• After sales service support system

Establish an after-sales support system to promptly respond to customer issues and provide reasonable support, including return and exchange plans, repairs, recalls, etc.

For mechanical manufacturing enterprises that focus on assembly and simplify production processes, some materials, semi-finished products, etc. can be outsourced for processing and disposal. By outsourcing workers, outsourcing warehousing, or directly entering the production line, the enterprise's business can be streamlined and costs can be saved.

In addition to providing outsourcing work orders for product outsourcing processing management, the plan also provides process outsourcing functions. For outsourced product processes that do not require inventory management, they can be directly integrated into the production line, avoiding inventory management difficulties and correctly processing accounts.

The plan clearly covers the expenses incurred by all processes of mechanical equipment manufacturing enterprises, from sales to research and development, from procurement to production, and from warehousing to outbound, effectively monitoring business processes, helping mechanical equipment manufacturing enterprises obtain refined cost information, effectively saving and controlling operating costs, and applying more funds to product research and development and expanding operations.

• Cost refinement division

The plan divides costs into: material costs, labor costs, manufacturing costs, and processing costs. The cost calculation method is flexibly configured according to requirements to adapt to various complex cost accounting situations, and has clear data reports for various expenses incurred in various business processes, freeing financial personnel from complex manual tasks such as data collection and cost allocation, providing cost information to managers faster and more accurately, and improving the management decision-making level of enterprises.

• Flexible report visualization

With the flexible data reporting and business analysis suite of SAP ERP, enterprises can visualize production cost data, effectively control cost analysis and gross profit analysis, and obtain real-time input and output of each task.

The plan has built an intelligent warehousing system, which achieves refined inventory management through docking with equipment such as PDAs, barcode guns, inventory machines, and various transportation equipment, thereby optimizing the procurement process and improving inventory accuracy.

• Innovative integration of barcode labels and RFID technology

Intelligent devices run through the entire logistics process, achieving data-driven and intelligent control of products.

• Establish application scenarios for automated equipment such as three-dimensional shelves/containers

By using information technologies such as the parent vehicle system, four-way shuttle vehicle technology, multi-layer shuttle vehicle technology, ground four-way light 2 heavy AGV technology, cargo to person picking system, WMS (warehouse management system) system, WCS (warehouse control system) system, etc., the solution of "shelf+robot=automated warehouse material storage system" is achieved.

Combining SAP's research and business practices at the Industry 4.0 level for intelligent manufacturing and smart workshops, TransInfo R&D Center is based on the SAP system, targeting small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises. With affordable costs, it helps small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises build light intelligent manufacturing application scenarios, and leverages SAP Leonardo's innovative solutions to bridge multiple automation devices and data centers.

• SAP Solutions for Industrial Internet

Omni Channel Solutions（Hybris）/Core Operations Management（S/4 HANA ERP）/Agile R&D Management（PLM）/Intelligent Manufacturing Solutions（ME/MII）.

• SAP solutions for external IoT:

SAP HANA Cloud Platform/Big Data Predictive Analysis/SAP Leonardo IoT Solution.

The combination of SAP Leonardo and related intelligent manufacturing hardware equipment: Siemens/Panasonic/Foxconn/Honeywell, etc.