Production Operations with SAP Manufacturing Execution

SAP's manufacturing solution for discrete industries enables a fully integrated production process from top floor to the shop floor.

Production Operations with SAP Manufacturing Execution can orchestrate highly automated production processes enabling product variants with a lot size of one. Variants and their production sequence can be changed automatically, quickly, and easily. The solution also offers real-time transparency of production operations and KPIs plus complete traceability based on as-built records.

Production Operations with SAP Manufacturing Execution reflects SAP's roadmap to get connected with the future of Discrete Manufacturing. It allows very low production volumes while still making a profit, providing state-of-the-art production execution and insights to action in real-time.

Key Process Steps Covered

  • Connect between business processes and machines
  • Standardize processes across plants and paper-based tracking systems
  • Get accurate end-to-end product traceability information
  • Use best practices for leveraging Big Data to gain real-time visibility into operations
  • Enable better predictive maintenance

Benefits

  • Address individual customer requirements with real-time lot size of one production in high-volume production scenarios
  • Integrate top floor to the shop floor (and the other way around) to minimize disruption including machine integration into production cycle
  • Simplify and minimize manual interaction
  • Allow data capture from the source
  • Enable discrete and process manufacturing
  • Gain new insights into the shop floor based on trends and prediction with SAP S/4HANA capabilities