Implementing SAP Manufacturing Execution

Chandan Jash, Dipankar Saha

• Publisher: SAP PRESS
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781493212392
• eBook ISBN: 9781493212408
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Computer Science General
• Index: Computer Science

Get SAP Manufacturing Execution up and running! Use detailed instructions to configure routing design, data collection, shop order management, and more. Apply real-world scenarios to understand and implement the extensive customization options for SAP ME. Explore public Web Service APIs, advanced reporting, and shop floor systems integration. Find the answers to all your SAP ME questions, and ensure a smooth SAP ME implementation! Administration and Configuration Learn how to bi-directionally integrate SAP ME and SAP ERP through SAP MII and set up the resulting SAPMEINT component. Configure SAP ME, and create and enhance master data, using step-by-step instructions. Features and Functionality Learn what SAP ME can do, from routing design, shop order management, and shop floor control, to data collection, product genealogy, quality reporting. Use detailed instructions to set up and execute these features in your system. Advanced Enhancement Discover the custom enhancements available in SAP ME, including Web Service APIs, advanced reporting, and shop floor systems integration. Find out how to enhance standard SAP ME implementations using these functions and software development kits.

Highlights:

• SAP ME configuration
• SAP MII
• SAPMEINT
• Master data management
• Routing design
• Shop order management
• Quality control
• Product genealogy
• Labor tracking
• Advanced reporting
• Shop floor integration
• Public APIs Web Service

Part I

Administration and Configuration

This chapter explains the integration mechanism between SAP ERP and SAP ME and the configurations required in the SAPMENINT component in SAP MII for integration. It explains how to configure SAPMEINT and describes the functionality of different monitoring activities.

1Configuring and Monitoring SAPMEINT

Because SAP ME is an MES solution, you need to integrate it with SAP ERP and other external applications to exchange master and transactional data bi-directionally. The integration with SAP ERP is most important, because most of the master data such as material, work center, routing as well as transactional data such as production orders, and inventory are maintained in SAP ERP and need to be sent to SAP ME for its operations. In addition, SAP ME needs to send different information such as shop order confirmations, nonconformances, and equipment breakdown information to SAP ERP for recording actuals.

Because SAP MII is an SAP product for manufacturing systems integration, it is a natural platform of choice for integrating SAP ERP with SAP ME. SAP delivers the integration content for most of the standard master and transactional interfaces to exchange data bi-directionally between SAP ERP and SAP ME. SAP ME/SAP ERP integration, or SAPMEINT, is a component of SAP ME on SAP MII that contains all required interfaces for communication between SAP ERP and SAP ME. In this chapter, we’ll explain the SAPMEINT configuration details and features and also go over your monitoring options.

1.1Configuring SAP MII for SAP ME

SAP MII is an integration and composition platform which is used along with SAP ME for integrating with SAP ERP and other systems. In the following sections you will learn how to configure SAP MII and the SAPMEINT framework for integrating SAP ERP with SAP ME.

1.1.1SAP ERP and ME Integration

The SAPMEINT component of SAP MII provides a framework through which message workflows can be defined to integrate SAP ERP and other external systems with SAP ME using different interfaces. The SAPMEINT workflow framework is designed to provide a mechanism through which any interface mapping can be easily incorporated between SAP ERP and SAP ME and changed as needed through simple configurations. SAP provides integration content in the SAPMEINT component as message workflows for the interfaces listed in Table 1.1 and Table 1.2. These message workflows provide the mapping, error-handling, and transfer mechanisms between SAP ERP and SAP ME.

SAP ERP Interface	SAP ME Interface
Material	Material
Material with classification	Material with custom data
BOM	BOM
Work center	Resource or work center
Work center with individual capacities	Work center with resources
Routing (standard and rate)	Routing with operations
Routing with document info record	Routing with work instruction
Personnel with qualification	User with certification

Table 1.1Master Data Interfaces Provided by SAPMEINT

SAP ERP Interface	SAP ME Interface
Production order	Production shop order
Production order with serial numbers	Production shop order with SFC numbers
Production order with document info record	Production shop order with work instruction
Production order with quality inspetion lot	Production shop order with quality inspection lot
Production order with BOM and routing	Production shop order with BOM
Production order with scheduling information	Production shop order with quantity splits associated with resources and scheduling information
Planned order	Repetitive shop order
Planned order with BOM and routing	Repetitive shop order with BOM and routing
Service order	RMA shop order
Inventory	Floor stock (inventory ID)
Quality notification	Nonconformance
Equipment (PM), technical resource, and tool	Resource and tool number and usage with information and downtimes
Production/planned order confirmation	Shop order completion
Production/planned order scrap	Shop order scrap
Activity confirmation for production order	Approved direct labor records (only collected work time)
Quality inspection results	Data collection for quality inspection

Table 1.2Transactional Data Interfaces Provided by SAPMEINT

SAPMEINT uses the message service available in SAP MII for receiving messages from SAP ERP. All messages from SAP ERP for SAP ME are sent as IDoc messages. From SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 5 onwards, a new component is available in SAP ERP called the Data Replication Framework (DRF), which can be used to automatically send IDoc messages on specific events, such as release of production orders, goods movement, and so on. The message listener in SAP MII provides a listener for IDoc messages and receives IDoc messages sent from SAP ERP, buffers them in the message service, and executes...

Table of contents

• Dear Reader
• Notes on Usage
• Table of Contents
•   Foreword
•   Preface
•   Introduction to SAP ME
• Part I – Administration and Configuration
• 1   Configuring and Monitoring SAPMEINT
• 2   Configuring SAP ME
• 3   Master Data Management
• Part II – Features and Functionality
• 4   Routing Design
• 5   Shop Order Management
• 6   Shop Floor Control Management
• 7   Data Collection
• 8   Nonconformance and Quality Control
• 9   Product Genealogy and Tracking
• 10   Production Operator Dashboards
• 11   Message Board Service
• 12   Labor Tracking
• 13   Packing Service
• Part III – Advanced Enhancement
• 14   Custom Enhancements Using Public API Web Services
• 15   Shop Floor Systems Integration Using SAP MII and Plant Connectivity
• 16   Advanced Reporting in SAP ME
• 17   Enhancing SAP ME with SDKs
• Conclusion
• The Authors
• Index
• Service Pages
• Legal Notes