Operations Analytics

Main Process

 

Inventory controlling provides different standard analyses and reports display actual stock situation according to quantity-based and value-based criteria. Other reports are available for monitoring characteristics on a periodic basis.

Warehouse analytics helps analyze warehouse activities information. It is possible in the future releases to extract and transfer information to the SAP BW, where it evaluates and reduces the extensive information from warehouse management to a few essential performance measurements. Key performance indicators (KPI) for warehouse management support the analysis of the physical flow of quantities and workload in the warehouse.

Provides various standard analyses and reports to visualize production-related information.

KPIs provide a means of judging the performance of business processes internally by time period, collaboratively with others within your distribution supply chain, and externally by benchmarking against similar companies.

Strategic performance management: On a strategic level, distribution statistics give you the feedback needed for true closed-loop supply chain management, which is key to driving continuous improvement, delivering superior performance over time, and ensuring that your supply chain continues to be efficient and competitive.

Operative performance management: On a day-to-day operational level, the solution provides constant surveillance of key performance measurements and automatically generates an alert when there is a deviation from plan, so that you can keep processes working at maximum efficiency.

Enables salespeople to quickly and easily understand the actual status and overall effectiveness of the sales organization. Helps obtain the data necessary to proactively address trends and measure success and revenue shortfalls.

Provides organizations with a comprehensive view of key figures of all service-related scenarios. Enables companies to analyze:

Service Profitability : Monitors financial trends, analyzes costs and revenues per customer, service organization, service contract, and service operation, identifies unprofitable and successful services.

Installed Base Analysis : Shows the volume of all orders referencing to an installation during a specific time period. Enables analysis on costs, revenues, and profit generated by an installation. Provides information about the location of installations and shows the amount of orders for an installation.

Customer Analytics : Provides companies with a comprehensive view of their customers. Helps companies understand the true value of their customers and gain insights to understand customer behavior and customer satisfaction.

Warranty Analytics : Provides information about the amount of products with or without warranty, monitors expired warranties in the installed base, and analyzes costs and profit of warranty processes.

Project Information System : Is a flexible, comprehensive information system that you can use to monitor and control your project data. Enables you to evaluate individual projects, partial projects, or multiple projects. Includes overview reports and reports offering various degrees of detail. Is designed to meet the needs of both project management and ordinary project personnel. Predefined InfoCubes are available for the SAP BW.

Product Design Optimization Analysis : With the concurrent costing tool, provides product cost information in the early product development stages. Based on the target costing approach, enables design-to-cost engineering and early cost optimization. The possibility to calculate product characteristics and design alternatives provides valuable information to the product design team.

Quality Costs

Provides orders to plan, collect, settle, and evaluate quality-related costs (appraisal and/or nonconformity costs).

Quality Management Information System

Quality data are delivered into SAP BW and into the logistics information system (LIS). Both aggregate the operational data and calculate key figures to be used for quality analysis. SAP BW offers state-of-the-art comfort, such as Web reporting. Both systems provide standard and user-defined quality analyses of key figures (quality scores), performance indicators (Cpk), trends, exceptions, correlations, Pareto diagrams, etc. You can use these results for vendor evaluation, internal and external benchmarking, balanced scorecards, and other methods of quality analysis.

Web Reporting Using the SAP BW

Delivers predefined business content for SAP BW for the evaluation of inspection lot and notification data.

Cost-effective maintenance requires a detailed understanding of the costs caused by the individual asset, manufacturer, production facility, or production site.

Reporting and Asset Information System : Asset life-cycle management offers a broad range of reporting features for technical objects and operative instruments (such as orders and notifications). The information system also provides strategic evaluations for a organization including MTTR/MTBR[RP1] analysis.

Asset Business Content in SAP BW : Asset life-cycle management also offers business content in SAP BW. Notification- and order-based InfoCubes and queries provide important information about asset availability, performance, and costs.