Manufacturing industries are steadily moving towards the adoption of Industry 4.0, with well-defined leveraging on automation, machine learning, and robotics. For industries to adopt these technologies, SAP S/4HANA is boon as SAP’s approach in manufacturing and production planning is featured to enable companies to easily adopt the concepts around Industry 4.0, with real-time data insights and intelligent enterprise. SAP provides a core component SAP S/4HANA for manufacturing on various factors like Production Engineering and Operations (PEO), Manufacturing Intelligence and Integration (MII), Manufacturing Execution (ME), and Digital Manufacturing Cloud (DMC) helping the industries to pave their way towards Industry 4.0 visions. In this blog let us check out on how companies can use SAP S/4HANA to go on-premise or cloud to expand their use of Digital Twins.
Side-by-side deployment of SAP:
SAP has focused on getting organizations to move to SAP S/4HANA but for many complex manufacturing industries this is a difficult target. To achieve this SAP has provided the ability on side-by-side deployment of Production Engineering and Operations components. This helps the companies to achieve a single source of truth for the manufacturing and engineering datasets like manufacturing bill of material.
Visibility and foresights:
Bringing visibility on the manufacturing engineering process helps the downstream functions to be more proactive than reactive. The foreseeing concepts in manufacturing companies can be made available with technologies like Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence.
Demand driven scheduling:
With demand Driven Scheduling, SAP introduces new methods to prioritize orders for scheduling. The SAP S/4HANA components supplement the existing Replenishment Planning and Execution methods, thus supporting the customers making their journey towards a Demand Driven Operating Model with their manufacturing processes.
Production Planning Optimization:
Most of the multilevel and complex production planning scenarios need more sophisticated approaches to make up with intelligent sourcing and lot size decisions. With the implementation of new solution capabilities from SAP S/4HANA customers of manufacturing industries can benefit from extended support on max days of supply, static and dynamic safety stock methods. SAP S/4HANA components also feature improved Production Planning Optimization (PPO) to plan for a time-continuous production schedule.
Flexible Integration:
Planning Integration is a core piece of supporting the process and data integration in SAP S/4HANA. A new controlling switch enables SAP S/4HANA on advanced planning behavior in the internal upstream of component manufacturing area. This offers more flexible integration capabilities on Production Planning and using Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PPDS).
Synchronized Planning:
This is one of the strategic topics on many key SAP customers. Supply chain planning is often isolated from several departments and organizational alignments. But with synchronized planning, different supply chain planning capabilities can be brought up together for supply planning, distribution planning and production planning. Synchronized Planning can also be enabled for PPDS in the Digital Supply Chain Edition for S/4HANA.
Wrapping up:
Want to know more on S/4HANA components? Well, it is a perfect time to connect with SAP BASIS Solution Services to empower your manufacturing and planning production process with our SAP solutions.