Mastering SAP Data Management with McKinsol’s Intelligent Data Management Express (iDMX)
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Reduce Manufacturing Cost by Identifying Lowest Cost Alt BOM
Every company needs help in identifying opportunities for direct material cost reduction. For a product, there can be several alternative bills of materials (Alt BOMs), which can have varied costs based on market conditions. In standard SAP, there is no report to identify the lowest cost BOM; the system may be using a high cost…
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Michael Pytel on Solution Manager 7.1, testing, BPCA & TBOMs (Q&A transcript)
I recently moderated a web forum with NIMBL‘s Michael Pytel on SAP Solution Manager 7.1 support for test management and change impact analysis. Michael took questions on the accuracy of BPCA, using static vs. dynamic TBOMs, new features for BPCA and TBOMs, and other topics. For the full Q&A, you can view the questions and…
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What You Should Know About Kitting and Its Benefits
Implementing a kitting process in a discrete manufacturing environment allows you group items that are part of the same assembly into kits, which you can then track together. Find out about the functionality in R/3 that supports this process. Key Concept A kit contains a group of individual parts that may come from the same...…
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Effectively Manage Scrap in Your Production Processes
Discover how you can manage assembly and component scrap at various levels in an SAP system, including the master data and transactional data levels. In addition, see how to record scrap at the cost center level. Key Concept Successfully assigning assembly and component scrap in master data enables an SAP system to not only consider...…
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Reduce Costs with Better Handling of Scrap Master Data Elements
SAP ERP Central Component 6.0 offers several scrap master data elements. Understand the purpose of these master data elements, how the various scrap fields work together, and when and how to use master data elements to get the desired business results. Key Concept Scrap means different things to different people. The most common business meaning...…
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Simulate Your Production and Procurement Planning with SAP LTP
SAP Long-Term Planning (LTP) functionality is used to simulate various business scenarios to help in production and procurement planning using existing master data and other information. Understand the end-to-end process of running LTP and evaluating the results. Key Concept SAP Long-Term Planning (LTP) provides an interactive as well as institutive tool for business simulation. It offers...…
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Exploit Demand Planning to Forecast Dependent Requirements in SAP APO
Learn the process flow of an SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (APO) forecast with bills of material (BOM). Follow a step-by-step procedure to release a forecast and interpret the results. Key Concept Demand Planning (DP) in SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO) helps to generate forecasts based on historical values. Forecasting is generally done...…
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SCM & PLM: Case study: Increasing market share and reducing cycle time at Bombardier Aerospace — Lessons from the company’s SAP PLM, SAP Portfolio and Project Management, and SAP SNC deployment
Learn how Bombardier Aerospace integrated and improved visibility across its engineering and manufacturing processes using SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC) and SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM). here Tandeep Sandhu If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.... Membership Required You…
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Dynamically Create a Standard Cost in a Sales Order Using Options Chosen for a Configurable Material
For a configurable product, the options chosen during the sales order process can influence both the price of the product and the cost to manufacture it. Once the product options have been selected, they are used to create a cost estimate, which the system saves on the sales order item. The cost estimate is subsequently...…
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Streamline SAP ME Routing Maintenance Using Routing Scripts
Learn how to implement custom scripts in SAP Manufacturing Execution (ME) to influence decision making on factors other than just non-conformance scripts that come documented with the product. Key Concept SAP Manufacturing Execution (ME) supports the use of routing scripts to help in decision making when a branch exists to multiple next possible operations. The...…
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