Product Definition in Metals, Paper, Textiles and related industries

Presenter Stefen Weisenberger
  
BioStefan Weisenberger is Solution Manager at SAP AG for the Mill Products industries (incl. Metals, Paper, Textiles, Packaging, Furniture) focussing on attribute based processes in sales, supply chain and manufacturing, including variant configuration, batch classification, characteristic dependent planning, and ERP-centric manufacturing execution processes. Stefan has a degree in Chemical Engineering, and has been with SAP since '96 as a developer, solution archtitect and solution manager, always with an industry focus.
CompanySAP  
Abstract

How to deal modelling wise with typical challenges in Mill Industries: Dimensional products, inevitable deviation in manufacturing, planned configuration vs actual configuration, alternative unit conversion

  • Hierarchical attribute-rich product model: KMAT, configurable variant, batch, WIP batch.
  • Attribute driven Supply Chain & Logistics:
    • Matching Sales-Demand-Attributes(VC)- and Production-Batch-Attributes (Batch classification.) through batch determination
    • Matching Supply and Demand in APO based on attributes (characteristic dependent planning CDP)
    • This will be a recap for beginners on the typical product definition in the Mill Industries. Many customer still do not use VC, but have defined each possible combination as product. This session will cover our view / best practive of using various class-types & ERP master data to deal with the vast amount of attributes in steel or paper
Audience Intermediate: Modeler, Process Expert, Developer, Configuration Mgr/Dir, Business Mgr
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