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SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence: Visibility, Responsiveness, Performance

Applies to: xMII version 11.5

Summary SAP’s newest xApp, xMII, provides unprecedented access to the disparate host of shop floor systems, data bases, and ERP systems found in today’s production facility. Whether you want to consolidate, analyze, simplify, or synchronize data, xMII allows you to connect to, transform, and display that information now.

This article is a compilation of information from various SAP sources to introduce the user to xMII.

Created on: 15 June 2006

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Author Bios Jim Flandreau joined SAP in 2005 as an Application Consultant. Prior to joining SAP, he had eight years experience in operations and logistics with a Fortune 100 Consumer Products Company, and five years as Field Artillery Officer in the US Army. He earned his MBA in 2005.

Mo Ghanem is a field enablement manager for xMII with SAP Manufacturing. He has 10 years experience in manufacture synchronization and business process optimization. He came to SAP with the Lighthammer acquisition; at Lighthammer, he managed professional services and implementations.

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Table of Contents Overview............................................................................................................................. 4

Functionality ........................................................................................................................ 4

Training...............................................................................................................................5

Implementations .................................................................................................................. 5

Appendix A: Shop Floor Connectivity ..................................................................................... 6

Appendix B: Example SQL Query.......................................................................................... 8

Appendix C: Example Business Logic .................................................................................... 9

Appendix D: Example Web Page Being Designed in Microsoft FrontPage ............................... 10

Appendix E: Dashboards .................................................................................................... 11

Appendix F: Manufacturing Integration Architecture............................................................... 19

Appendix G: Configuration .................................................................................................. 21

Appendix H: Required Skills and Deliverables....................................................................... 23

Appendix I: Additional xMII Information ................................................................................ 27

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Overview SAP xMII is designed to enable clients to become more adaptive by connecting disparate shop floor systems and/or their ERP system and to use that integration to provide real time information. xMII enables:

Manufacturing integration -- SAP xMII seamlessly integrates plant processes with business operations. The solution provides a single, standards-compliant connection between shop-floor activities and enterprise systems for ERP, manufacturing execution, and sales-force automation.

Manufacturing intelligence -- The real-time analytics engine in SAP xMII aggregates, calculates, and delivers a single view of relevant events, alerts, key performance indicators (KPIs), and decision support. Production personnel access all relevant information through a single, role-based dashboard. Empowering them to make fast, accurate decisions that can improve your bottom line.

The Business benefits include:

Lower total cost of ownership -- SAP xMII provides real-time connectivity between the shop floor and your ERP system. Prebuilt, standards-compliant connectors significantly reduce initial costs, complexity, and total cost of ownership.

Higher productivity for shop-floor personnel -- The solution aggregates data from multiple systems to deliver useful information to plant employees through alerts, reports, and key performance indicators (KPIs). A single view of analytic information through role-based, configurable dashboards enables fast, accurate decision-making.

Continuous improvement in processes and performance -- SAP xMII delivers real-time analytics that enhance manufacturing performance. Production personnel can monitor, measure, and control process-improvement initiatives, including Six Sigma, Lean manufacturing, and right-first-time manufacturing.

Superior asset usage -- With SAP xMII, you can take advantage of asset-to-asset and plant-to-plant comparisons that enable benchmarking, better asset usage, and rationalization of poorly performing assets.

Faster time to value -- SAP xMII can usually be implemented within 90 to 120 days, delivering rapid return on investment.

Functionality

SAP xMII offers a broad library of pre-built connectors for connecting to shop floor systems. It also has the ability to use any BAPI, RFC, IDOC, or any remote enabled function module to provide visibility and transaction execution capability into any SAP component (see Appendix A). Once connected, Query and Display Templates can be created to assemble the desired data. Queries can be in the form of Tag, SQL, Alarm, XML, Xacute, OLAP, or Aggregate, while Displays include Line, Bar, Gauge, Regression, Pie, Grid, Scoreboard, Lights, Browsers, etc. (See Appendix B for an example of an xMII query)

The core of xMII, however, lies in its Business Logic Editor (Appendix C). The Logic Editor receives inputs in the form of queries, IDOCS, BAPIs, flatfiles, Web Scrapings, XML, HTML, text, and images. This graphical programming interface allows the developer to connect to data and manipulate it structurally, perform any number of calculations, and transform its output into email, XML, HTML, or PDF files. The Queries, Displays, and Business Logic transactions are then combined into role based interfaces. These interfaces are web pages that are created using JavaScript and a web authoring software such as Microsoft’s FrontPage or Macromedia’s Dreamweaver (Appendix D). The interfaces have drilldown capability and can be displayed securely over intranets, extranets, or the Internet.

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Examples of role based user interfaces are represented in Appendix E. Examples include Dashboards, Scorecards, Manufacturing Analytics, Trends, Reports, SPC, and a SAP ERP interface.

xMII is sometimes confused with other SAP products such as XI, BI, or Enterprise Portal (EP). In short, the main differences between these products are:

XI and xMII - XI is recommended for ERP-Plant integration because of its message routing, queuing, store and forward services. xMII is designed as a ERP-Shop Floor integration tool that provides real time displays. They are complementary.

BI and xMII – BI is the Enterprise-Class Intelligence platform that performs complex analysis on prepared multi-dimensional datasets (usually historical). xMII provides real time data/analytics from disparate systems. xMII can connect to BI to leverage its data. They are also complementary.

EP and xMII – xMII can be considered a lightweight content delivery mechanism for providing content into any enterprise portal.

Refer to Appendix F for a diagram of the recommended system architect for both within the plant and between plants.

Refer to Appendix G for a list of system requirements.

The current version is 11.5. Version 12.0 is due out in Q1, 2007 and will be leveraging SAP’s Netweaver WebAS. SAP’s future release of Visual Composer is expected to impact the way in which xMII is implemented, but it is still too early to specify to what extent.

Training

SAP Education provides two one week courses for xMII. The introductory course is WHALH1, and the advanced course is WHALH2. The introductory course covers connecting to databases, building web pages in Microsoft’s FrontPage, and the basics of building Query and Display templates in xMII. The advanced course builds on the previous course and introduces the Business Logic Editor, as well as other advanced topics.

Following the training, SAP Labs offers a residency program that encourages consultants and partners to return for two weeks (at no cost) to practice advanced exercises. Due to the power and flexibility of the product (as well as the encouraged level of familiarity with JavaScript, HTML, XML/XSLT, database design, and interfacing into backend systems) the additional time is recommended. In house experts usually require several months of ongoing practice to become thoroughly proficient.

Appendix H presents a complete list of the recommended skill sets a consultant should have, a sampling of the type of project activities he would be expected to perform, as well as typical deliverables.

Implementations

Opportunities for implementation seem to have revolved around the following requirements: Master data distribution & synchronization, SAP transaction simplification and automation, Enterprise & Plant Metric Coordination, and Unique Process Synchronization.

The lightweight nature of this application allows for implementations that are measured in weeks, rather than months or years. A lone, skilled consultant can usually configure a standard, straight forward implementations in roughly 6-10 weeks, which keeps costs down.

For more information, go to: http://www.sap.com/usa/solutions/xapps/xmii/index.epx

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Appendix A: Shop Floor Connectivity (Page 1 of 2) Connectors

Data Servers

Name Description ActivePortal Illuminator Active Portal Database ActivePortalMetrics SQL Database ActivePortalMetrics_MSSQ SQL Database L ActivePortalMetrics_ORAC Oracle Database LE AggregateConnector Default Aggregate Query Server AlarmSuite Default AlarmSuite Server ASIQualityDB Default IDBC Server

Default CitectHistoryEventUDS CitectHistoryEventUDS Server CitectUDS Default CitectUDS Server DB2_Database DB2_Database EasySoft_ODBC_Database Default EasySoft JDBC/ODBC BridgeFIXHistoryEventUDS Default FIXHistoryEventUDS Server FIXHistoryUDS Default FIXHistoryUDS Server FIXUDS Default FIXUDS Server IDBC Default IDBC Server iHistorian Default iHistorian UDS InSQL Default InSQL Server InSQLOleDB Default InSQL OleDB Server InTouchUDS Default InTouchUDS Server IP21 Default AspenTech IP21 Server

Default AspenTech IP21 OLEDB IP21OLEDB Server Default Microsoft OLAP Query MSOLAP Server

MSSQL_Database MSSQL Database MySQL MSSQL Database Northwind Northwind Database ODBC_Database Default ODBC Database OLAPConnector Default OLAP Query Server OLAP_BW_Test SAP BW OLAP Server OLEDBConnector OLEDB Connector OPCHDAUDS Default OPCUDS Server OPCUDS Default OPCUDS Server OpenConnector Default OpenConnector Oracle_Database Default Oracle Database PIUDS Default PIUDS Server QualityPortal Illuminator Quality Portal Database RSViewUDS Default RSViewUDS Server SAPBWOLAP SAP BW OLAP Server Simulator Simulation Server Sybase_Database Sybase_Database UDC Default UDC Server VirtualALARM Default VirtualALARM Server VirtualOLAP Default VirtualOLAP Server VirtualSQL Default VirtualSQL Server VirtualTAG Default VirtualTAG Server VirtualXacute Default VirtualXacute Server VirtualXML Default VirtualXML Server XacuteConnector Illuminator Xacute xMIIRetry MSSQL Database XMLConnector Default XMLConnector Server

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Appendix A (Page 2 of 2)

SAP ERP Interfaces

SAP xMII has the ability to use any standard or custom BAPI, RFC, IDOC, or any remote enabled function module.

Sample Of SAP functions accessible from SAP xMII.

The xMII ability to easily extract data from SAP provides real-

time visibility and distribution to plant level systems of:

The xMII ability to perform transaction execution into SAP enables automated, plant level

creation of:

Planned Orders Production ConfirmationsBills of Material Process Messages

Production & Process Orders Material ReceiptsMaterial Inventory Levels Material Consumptions

Inspection Lots Data Material transfersMaster Recipes Inspection results recordingMaterial Details Quality Notifications

Batch Details Batch Characteristic recordingResources & Functional Locations Work Orders & results recording

Maintenance Work Order & Notification details

Maintenance Notifications

Material & Order Costs

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Appendix B: Example SQL Query

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Appendix C: Example Business Logic Transaction

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Appendix D: Example Web Page Being Designed in Microsoft FrontPage

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Appendix E: Dashboards

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Appendix E cont.

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Appendix E cont.

Scorecards:

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Appendix E cont.

Manufacturing Analytics:

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Appendix E cont.

Trends:

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Appendix E cont.

Reports:

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Appendix E cont.

SPC:

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Appendix E cont.

SAP ERP Interface: Example of User Simplification

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Appendix F: Manufacturing Integration Architecture

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