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GuiXT.com© 2013 Synactive, Inc. GuiXT.com
How to Customize SAP Plant
MaintenanceDeeDee Kato – Director of Marketing
Tony Holland – Solutions Consulting
Manager
Agenda
• Plant Maintenance Challenges
• Liquid UI Platform
• Customer Use Case
• Screen design and tools demo
• WS function concepts– Steps for combining screens
– Screen Combine example
– WS Variables
– Invoking functions
– Interpreting function codes
• Code snippets
• Q & A
Challenges for Plant Maintenance Technicians, Supervisors, and Schedulers
Inefficient: SAP screens and navigation cause
a reduction in productivity for maintenance
technicians who are not SAP power users
Error-prone: Users do not understand
transaction-based language, data quality
suffers
Negative production performance: Orders
not closed even when the work has been
completed creates a work order backlog
Labor-intensive: Time-consuming
processes impact the need to respond
quickly to plant maintenance issues
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• Compliance to Regulatory boards
• Increase production costs
• Unplanned downtime
• Equipment failures
• Laborious scheduling and
monitoring of maintenance
resources
• Uncontrolled inventory
Challenges for company
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• Internally developed or acquired solutions
• Silo’d solutions for different interfaces
• Browser-based alternatives with latency issues
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And a multitude of SAP solutions
What if you could go from this ……….
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25 Screens with less than 4 input fields per screen
To this…..One Screen with all fields plus:
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• Intuitive Screen Layout
• One button click to access various lookups
• Data to be entered to screens that are not showing
• Pushbuttons and radio buttons for repetitive search criteria.
Statistics – AEI
• Single screen for (Purchase Requisitions) ME51N, ME52N and ME53N.
• Training time reduced by 80%.
• ME51N is now 4 min. vs. 8 min. process.
• Savings of 100K annually just on Create transaction.
Before and After Notifications
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• No tab, no drop down or pop up, simpler menu
• Failure Data section displayed only if needed for cleaner layout
• Browse, update, create, print
Before and After Work Orders
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• No tab, no drop down or pop up, simpler
• Failure Data section displayed only if needed for cleaner layout
• Browse, update
• Wildcard and BOM search for components
• Create emergency work order
• Time confirmation
Statistics
• More time available for actual maintenance work
(Stats for skilled users. For average users gains
are even better)
– Retrieve Notification or Work Order: -70%
– Create Notification or Work Order: -40%
• Less training required and better data quality
– No need of formal sessions. Basic on the job
training is sufficient.
Statistics
With approximately
8,000 work orders in
various stages, an
average of 5 mins
per work order was
reduced to 30 secs,
increasing
productivity by 90%.
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• Built on proven GuiXT technology
• Extends your SAP across both desktop
and mobile devices
• Consolidates business related
transactions, fields and tabs
• Start from SAP, Record Once and
Deploy everywhere
• No Java, ABAP programming; No 3rd
party application server required
• Simple scripting to empower a
responsive IT Team
Unified, Non-disruptive Business SolutionLean, Agile Development
Liquid UI PlatformConnects directly to SAP through patented connectivity
Agenda
• Plant Maintenance Challenges
• Liquid UI Platform
• PM - Customer Use Case
• Screen design and tools demo
• WS function concepts– Steps for combining screens
– Screen Combine example
– WS Variables
– Invoking functions
– Interpreting function codes
• Code snippets
• Q & A
GuiXT WS/Mobile/Offlinew/RFID Barcode ScannersSAP Module: PM,QM,WM,MFG
Customer Scenario(Maersk Drilling P3M)
About Maersk
• The largest container ship operator and supply vessel operator in the world since 1996.
• A.P. Moller – Maersk Group is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, with subsidiaries and offices in more than 135 countries worldwide and around 108,000 employees.
• It ranked 147 on the Fortune Global 500 list for 2010, down from 106 in 2009
• Revenue US$60.4 billion (2010)
• Operating income US $11.42 billion (2010)
• Employees 108,110 (average, 2010)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maersk
Business Case – Large Drilling Company
• No current support to access SAP during VSAT downtime (offline mode)
No existing handheld application being used in the drilling rigs offshore for maintenance of rigs.
Problem Statement
• Previous project with another vendor did not get deployed successfully and got lost in the pipeline. (Cost to develop $1.3Million USD)
• Synactive Offline solution was more for less (relatively a fraction of the cost, but more functionality)
• Support for offline VSAT
Synactive’s Approach
• Develop an offline application to handle PM process in SAP
• Successfully download records from SAP through VSAT connection
• Perform rig maintenance on Mobile Devices in offline mode
• Successfully synchronize data into SAP eliminating redundant data entry
Synactive Solution
• Mobile Application works with both Stylus and Keypad.
• User has help screens to guide through each screen built into the application.
• Added easy navigation through context-menus.
• First implementation for synchronizing through high latency VSAT
Screen Cam
Download Metrics Through VSAT (750ms Latency)
Notification Records VSAT (mm:ss) Land Line (mm:ss)
318 1:36 0:26
319 1:30 0:25
Before / After Screen Performance Improvements
Screens
• Work Order Display
• Notification Display
• Create Notification
• Create Work Order
% Time Spent
• 71%
• 69%
• 40%
• 37%
Native SAP
• 35 Seconds
• 35 Seconds
• 250 Seconds
• 330 Seconds
Guixt
• 10 Seconds
• 11 Seconds
• 150 Seconds
• 210 Seconds
WS function concepts
• WS function concepts
– Steps for combining screens (Using Designer)
– Screen Combine example
– WS Variables
– Invoking functions
– Interpreting function codes
Screen Combine – 5 Step Process
1. Record business process
2. Turn off the recording and save the recorded function
3. Design the interface
4. Make changes to the recorded function
5. Attach the function to a Pushbutton or a UIEvent
• Launch designer and toggle to the script mode.
• Click on the record option
• Complete steps involved in the business process
Step 1: Record Business Process
Screen Combine
Screen Combine
Step 1: Record Business Process • Select Views
– Basic Data 1
– Sales Org. Data 1
– Sales: General/Plant Data
– MRP 1, MRP 2, MRP 3
• Click “Organizational levels”
• Enter: Plant, Stor. Location, Sales Org, Division
• Press Enter
Screen Combine
• Enter “Material description”
• Enter “Base unit of measure”
• Enter “Material group”
• Click on “Sales: sales Org.1”tab
Step 1: Record Business Process
Screen Combine
Step 1: Record Business Process
• Enter “Tax Classification”
• Click on
“Sales: General/Plant” Tab
Screen Combine
Step 1: Record Business Process
• Enter “Trans. Grp”
• Enter “LoadingGrp”
• Click on “MRP 1” Tab
Screen Combine
Step 1: Record Business Process• Enter “MRP type”
• Click on “MRP 2” tab
• Check “Bulk material”
• Enter “SchedMargin key”
• Click on “MRP 3” tab
Screen Combine
Step 1: Record Business Process
• Enter “Availability check”
• Click on “Save” to create material
• Click “Yes” to create material
• Turn off recording
• Step 2: Save the script recording as a function in the same script file or a different script file
Screen Combine
Screen Combine
• Delete unwanted fields
• Default values in fields
• Create radio buttons for “Plant” to limit user choices
• Select Text control to change Inputfield label
• Specify label for the Inputfield
• Step 3: Design Screen Interface Using Designer
Screen Combine
• Double click on edit field
• Specify size of the Inputfield
• Select ‘Parameters’ to specify name of the variable. User input is stored in this variable
• Step 3: Design Screen Interface Using Designer
Screen Combine
• Step 3: Design Screen Interface Using Designer
• No field for
– “Availability check”, default to “01”
– “SchedMargin, default to “000”
• Create Checkbox for “Bulk Material”
• Specify name of variable for the checkbox
Screen Combine
• Add code to select table rows (Select Views). These are not recorded by the script recorder
• Step 4: Modify Recorded Script
• Create Pushbutton with icon
• Check “Process” checkbox
• Specify function name
• Step 5: Link the recorded function to Pushbutton
Screen Combine
Code snippets -SAPLSMTR_NAVIGATION.E0100.sjs
• title('Launchpad: Powered by GuiXT');• clearscreen();
• productName = "LiquidUI:";
• MainDir = "d3=C:\\GALA";
• PMUTIL2012Dir = "d3=C:\\GALA\\UTIL-2012\\PM";
• MMVASDirN = "d3=C:\\GALA\\UTIL-2012\\MMC-Trial";• MMVASDir = "C:\\GALA\\UTIL-2012\\MMC-Trial";
• PMCTrial = "d3=C:\\GALA\\UTIL-2012\\PMC-Trial";
• load("globalFunctions.sjs");
• box([0,0],[5,44],'Plant Maintenance - Packages');• pushbutton([1,2],"PMC - Trial","/nsession_manager/"+PMCTrial, {"size":[2,40]});• pushbutton([3,2],"Plant Maintenance","/nzguixt/"+PMUTIL2012Dir, {"size":[2,40]});
• box([0,46],[5,90],'Material Managment - Packages');• pushbutton([1,48],"MMC - Trial","/nsession_manager/"+MMVASDirN, {"size":[2,40]});
• set('V[Z_LOAD_FILES]','');
Code snippets -SAPLSMTR_NAVIGATION.E0100.sjs
• function isBlank(jvar){ //checks the value of a variable• if(typeof jvar == 'string') {• jvar = jvar.trim();• }• return(jvar == null || jvar == "" || jvar == void 0);• }
• String.prototype.trim = function() { return this.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "");} //Creates a string prototype function
• title('Consoles: Powered by GuiXT WS Platform');• if(<'P[Create role]'>.isValid) del('P[Create role]');• if(<'P[Assign users]'>.isValid) del('P[Assign users]');• if(<'P[Documentation]'>.isValid) del('P[Documentation]');• if(<'P[Move Favorites down]'>.isValid) del('P[Move Favorites down]');• if(<'P[Move Favorites up]'>.isValid) del('P[Move Favorites up]');• if(<'P[Add to Favorites]'>.isValid) del('P[Add to Favorites]');• if(<'P[Delete Favorites]'>.isValid) del('P[Delete Favorites]');• if(<'P[Change Favorites]'>.isValid) del('P[Change Favorites]');• if(<'P[Other menu]'>.isValid) del('P[Other menu]');• if(<'P[User menu]'>.isValid) del('P[User menu]');• if(<'P[SAP menu]'>.isValid) del('P[SAP menu]');• if(<'P[SAP Business Workplace]'>.isValid) del('P[SAP Business Workplace]');
• pos('X[IMAGE_CONTAINER]',[8,0]);• pushbutton([TOOLBAR], '@2M@Main',"/nsession_manager/"+MainDir);
• box([0,0],[7,40],'PM Consoles');• pushbutton([1,1], '@5W@Planner', '/niw47',{"size":[2,39]});• pushbutton([3,1], '@KJ@Scheduler', '/nmb52', {"size":[2,39]});• pushbutton([5,1], '@CK@Supervisor', '/niw28', {"size":[2,39]});
Upcoming Events
Webinars: Continue the Function Module Series:
• Material Management, Oct
• Sales and Distribution, Nov
• Warehouse Management, Dec
Conferences:
• SAP for Utilities, Sept 15-18 in Huntington Beach, CA (Marin Municipal Water District speaking session)
• ASUG Fall Focus, Sept 25-27 in Philadelphia
• (Pacific Drilling, Marathon Oil speaking sessions)
• Oil and Gas, Oct 6-9 in Dallas
• SAP TechEd, Oct 22-24 in Las Vegas
• Enterprise Mobility, Projects, Reporting, Nov 20-22 in Orlando
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© 2013 Synactive, Inc.
For more information aboutLiquid UI Platform:
Tel: 650-341-3310
Visit Business Impact page for ROIs and information on building business case
http://www.guixt.com/impact/bi.php
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