SAP Adaptive Manufacturing Summit Online

The Global Plant Floor

Manufacturers today operate in a heterogeneous, complex, distributed environment - or in effect - a global plant floor. Learn how SAP provides both core and context to facilitate co-innovation with our partners that helps manufacturers to rapidly design and deploy new applications, successfully embrace emerging information technologies, and scale best practices globally to coordinate operations and execute successfully - across the global plant floor.

• Vivek Bapat, Senior Director, Solutions Marketing, SAP Labs LLC
• Dr. Frank Schuler, Vice President, Solution Management Manufacturing, SAP AG
• Alois Ponath, Chief Financial Officer, Grammer AG

Manufacturing 2.0: Manufacturing in the Age of Joint Value Creation

The time is ripe for radical rethinking of the application architectures, delivery, and supporting business models that support the backlog and accelerating investments required to support the new realities of demand-driven manufacturing. Force-fitting monolithic applications into manufacturing operations is costly, risky, time-consuming, and ultimately creates barriers to manufacturing agility and responsiveness - defeating the original intent. Leveraging scarce manufacturing skills, new user centric development tools, mobile and RFID sensor technologies, and collaboration tools with strategic design and manufacturing partners should all be part of your new IT recipe for meeting the needs of demand-driven manufacturing. AMR Research has coined this thought-provoking strategy as Manufacturing 2.0 - which will help manufacturers and vendors embrace the new world of demand-driven manufacturing operations.

• Colin Masson, Research Director, AMR Research

Opportunities for Multi-Tiered Manufacturing Visibility across the High Tech Supply Chain

As a channel master in high tech, Cisco has demonstrated leadership in connecting with its contract manufacturers for real-time manufacturing visibility. As the next stage in the evolution of supply chain efficiencies, this visibility must extend beyond contract manufacturers to component suppliers and beyond. This strategy will drive increased efficiencies throughout the end to end supply chain. Cisco will discuss strategies and the collaboration with SAP that is creating an integrated platform for manufacturing visibility leveraging Cisco's advance AON platform and the SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) composite application.

• Bill Ruh, Vice President, Advanced Services, Cisco Systems Inc.
• Arun Saksena, Global High-Tech Manufacturing Lead ISBG Manufacturing, Cisco Systems Inc.

Perfect Plant Execution in a Beverage Can Manufacturer

Rexam is one of the world's leading consumer packaging groups and the world's leading beverage can maker. As a premier delivery partner for SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) and the Perfect Plant, Tata Consulting Services (TCS) teamed with Rexam to deliver critical MES functionality to their manufacturing sites in the North American Beverage Can group. We'll discuss how Rexam and TCS utilized SAP xMII, as well as other SAP components, to tackle the challenge of deploying a high-availability MES (manufacturing execution system). You'll also hear why this new approach is so crucial for supporting manufacturing's demand for flexibility, adhering to established business processes and technology standards as well as controlling TCO (total cost of ownership). This presentation will be complemented by a break-out session providing deeper technical insights.

• Ashtad Engineer, Business Manager of Adaptive Manufacturing, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
• Ganesh Iyer, Manager, SAP Applications, Rexam Can Beverage North America

Real-World RFID Scenario

This session will discuss a business case where a high-volume manufacturer with a Wal-Mart radio frequency identification (RFID) mandate integrates RFID with an SAP back-end software system. Real information and examples of an implementation of SAP solutions for RFID will be shared and challenges will be discussed. A detailed review of lessons learned from this project will be presented.

• Patrick Verheijen, Vice President, Supply Chain, CIBER Inc.

Information Delivery at Dow Corning: Key to Innovation and Delivering Operational Excellence

Learn how Dow Corning is driving productivity improvements, reducing response times, enhancing visibility to manufacturing exceptions, improving decision support, continuous improvement through Six Sigma. The company is also communicating corporate business strategy with SAP technology. Take the opportunity to learn more about application development and information delivery program management.

• Keith Carey, Associate Architecture Consultant / Enterprise Architecture & IT Governance, Dow Corning

Aligning Business and Production Processes to Meet Business Challenges

Learn where Weyerhaeuser sees the value in the three-way intersection of plant and enterprise systems with its business processes - and the value the company sees in integrating these systems to drive performance. Join Weyerhaeuser and GE in a discussion on the business needs addressed by SAP's enterprise applications and by GE Fanuc Production Management Software as key platforms for Weyerhaeuser's success.

• John Leppiaho, Senior Manager of Production Management Software, GE Fanuc
• Darcy Hagedorn, Senior Enterprise Architect, Information Technology, Weyerhaeuser

Enhance Customer Responsiveness and Reduce Manufacturing Cost Using SAP xLPO

Learn how SAP xApp Lean Planning and Operations (SAP xLPO), built on the Toyota production system, fits into a functioning lean environment - and how O. C. Tanner is conducting its review of SAP xLPO. O.C. Tanner will discuss the advantages of automation in a lean factory using SAP xLPO and the anticipated business benefits after implementing SAP xLPO. Presenters will also discuss lessons learned along with tips and tricks for an SAP xLPO implementation and current project status.

• Wayne Carlston, Director, Manufacturing Systems Development, O.C. Tanner
• Vaidy Iyer, Practice Lead - Emerging Technologies, SEAL Consulting Inc.

Celanese MES with SAP xMII

This session is a brief tour of the Celanese experience with SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII). Since the first pilot project in 2004, Celanese has deployed SAP xMII for a variety of plant intelligence and integration applications. An overview of the company, the manufacturing process, and SAP xMII will be presented, along with the Six Sigma tools used during project development. The application of intelligence versus integration and examples of each will be discussed. Attendees should gain insight into how to deploy SAP xMII in their organizations.

• Mike Lyons, Global SAP xMII Development Team Leader, Celanese

Out-of-the-Box Manufacturing Integration

Arla Foods presents its implementation of a solution based on a packaged composite application (PCA ), that builds on SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) and the Invensys Wonderware Archestra framework. This session will explain how the PCA is a fast track for anyone who wants to implement S95 based B2M integration at a lower life cycle cost. Having implemented S95/ B2MML integration with XI and standard tools, Arla talks about how joint composite applications between SAP and Endorsed Business Partners such as Wonderware take solutions to a new value level versus sets of tools.

• Arne Svendsen, Production IT Manager, Arla Foods
• Poul Klemmensen, Application Architect, Arla Foods

Shop-Floor Execution Using SAP xMII: Challenges and Resolution

In a highly competitive market, Rexam Beverage Can North America (BCNA) has used technology, specifically the SAP Business Suite family of business applications, to its advantage for many years now. This presentation is primarily focused on describing Rexam's efforts toward achieving local survivability and the adoption of SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) to deploy critical manufacturing execution transactions with an objective of minimizing disruptions during planned and unplanned downtime of the SAP ERP application. The presentation will also focus on some of the technical challenges encountered in the project and how the project team overcame them.

• Avneesh Tandon, Team Leader, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
• Ganesh Iyer, Manager, SAP Application Development, Rexam Beverage Can North America

Vought Aircraft: Best Practices for New Aircraft Manufacturing Operations: Boeing 787 Dreamliner

The new Boeing 787 Dreamliner is the first rollout of a brand-new Boeing airplane since the 777 in 1994. The business model that supports such massive initial investment and long-term commitment has to include partners that are willing to share the risk and innovate. Boeing's 787 partners like Vought Aircraft and Alenia carry big pieces of that burden. This presentation presents some of the innovative approaches, processes, and people behind the information technology for this innovation business model. You will learn about the challenges and lessons learned from this fantastic endeavor.

• Luke M. Rapach, Principal Consultant, Perot Systems
• Yves Dufort, Director, Production & Performance Management Business Unit, Wonderware

Increasing Manufacturing Productivity with SAP xMII - Downtime Data Collection and OEE Visualization

Through the use of downtime data collection and the presentation of OEE through the SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) reporting, Bush Brothers & Company has managed to increase its productivity in its two manufacturing facilities without adding equipment or personnel. Learn how Bush Brothers leverages SAP xMII reporting to share information with a key business partner to provide feedback on quality related issues.

• Larry McGahee, Sr. Project Leader, IS, Bush Brothers and Company

RFID enabled production - using the SAP Auto ID solutions to ensure efficient qualitiy monitoring

Traceability and RFID at GRAMMER - Within the production process data is generated which must be continuously traceable up to the customer. Power of screw data / Batch data / Test results / Machine parameters - GRAMMER is having a customer anonymous production and each finished product will receive a „RFID-TAG“ to automatically inform the customer upon goods issue and to identify the delivery note number. In this process the RFID-TAG numbers are being associated with the delivery note data and filed in the SAP Auto-ID-Infrastructure.

• Thomas Ebert, Senior Manager SAP CCC, Grammer AG

Weighing Solution based on SAP ERP in pharmaceutical production at DHU

DHU is a midsize manufacturer of homeopathic pharmaceuticals in Germany. SAP Consulting implemented a solution for the bulk production including the weighing process. The solution is based on SAP ERP PP-PI, using PI sheets and OPC connectivity to the weigh scales, including an applet showing the weighing progress. DHU eliminated the need for a separate weighing system - saving a lot of system and interface maintenance.

• Daniel Brinken, Teamleader SAP Logistics, DHU
• Arne Manthey, Solution Manager, SAP

Obtaining World Class Maintenance using SAP xMII

Perrigo Company is utilizing SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) to achieve world-class maintenance objects by tracking metrics and simplifying screens for the craft to utilize. Perrigo is also working on conditioned-based monitoring coming through SAP xMII into SAP to generate predictive maintenance plans. These tools, working in conjunction, have enabled Perrigo to continue to grow towards attaining world class performance in the plant maintenance arena.

• Rob Dombkowski, Business Process Architect, Perrigo Company

RFID in Manufacturing Operations for the Consumer Supply Chain

Hewlett-Packard (HP) will provide an overview of its implementation of RFID in manufacturing operations for the consumer supply chain ,as well as how it has helped customers realize the benefits of RFID in their own manufacturing operations. The session will also present examples of customer projects where HP has leveraged internal know-how to assist customers in implementing RFID in manufacturing processes, to provide operational and financial results.

• Guillaume Oget, RFID Solution Manager, Hewlett Packard

Leveraging SAP xMII to Drive Continuous Improvement in Discrete Manufacturing

Lincoln Electric is committed to providing the most innovative, cost-effective, quality welding and cutting solutions. The company has extended its existing shop floor application landscape, a combination of control systems, packaged and home-grown applications and other information silos to deliver a highly flexible MES (manufacturing execution system). By utilizing SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) as the key piece of technical infrastructure, Lincoln delivered the MES quickly, cost-effectively, and in an evolutionary approach - building on success after success. This presentation will also focus on a couple key technical challenges that were solved with SAP xMII. If you have questions on where to start, or where you can drive return on your investments in shop floor technology, join this presentation.

• Scott Hageman, MES Manager, Lincoln Electric

In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant with SAP - Downstream Operations

This presentation will discuss the typical issues identified with oil & gas Refineries, utility power plant and chemical processing companies - and how these issues can be addressed using SAP and SAP partner adaptive solutions (such as EAM, NRX, Meridium, and Pavilion). Hear about current projects that are being implemented by current customers.

• Stephane Lauzon, Director, SAP
• Dan Brummer, Strategic Applications, SAP

SAP Event Management: Reduce Risk Through Visibility

The SAP Event Management application has provided a key functionality in the overall supply chain management solution from SAP for many years. With the focus today on the deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID), SAP Event Management has come into its own as the backbone for RFID and computing. This presentation will describe the features of the stand-alone SAP Event Management application and highlight how leading corporations such as Porsche, BASF, and International Paper are leveraging SAP Event Management to reduce risk and improve visibility.

• Stephen Cloughley, Senior Director, Real World Awareness, SAP

In Pursuit of Excellence in Discrete Manufacturing Operations: SAP Perfect Plant Solutions

Learn how multiple SAP modules and applications integrate and combine to enable a Six Sigma Lean manufacturing strategy. See how SAP's lean shop floor scheduling tool, SAP xApp Lean Planning and Operations (SAP xLPO) ,formerly Factory Logic, works in conjunction with the SAP ERP application to support a taskt-based , pull schedule at the cell and shift levels. SAP xLPO also works with SAP ERP Kanban for internal and supplier material replenishment.

• Tom Wright, Industry Principal, Automotive, SAP America

Manufacturing Intelligence - The Key to Continuous Improvement for Lean Manufacturing

Learn how SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) gives production personnel visibility, reporting, and analytics capabilities - enabling rapid response to manufacturing exceptions on the shop floor in real time. SAP xMII, combined with SAP xApp Lean Planning and Operations (SAP xLPO), empowers continuous Improvement teams with unprecedented levels of information access, including the ability to quickly respond to changing business conditions. See how the combined power of SAP xMII and SAP xLPO can help you successfully sustain lean manufacturing initiatives on the shop floor.

• Bimal Mehta, Senior Solutions Manager, SAP Labs LLC
• Ganesh Wadawadigi, Senior Director, ASM Manufacturing, SAP Labs LLC

Five-Step Roadmap to SAP xMII Deployment

This five-step road map will help you understand what you need to implement the SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) composite application. Follow easy-to-use steps and methodology to help you successfully blueprint functionalities, build an effective team, and establish a rapid deployment model that you can repeat and enhance after every deployment.

• Mo Ghanem, Director, Partners and Field Enablement, SAP

SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence - Product Roadmap

This session will focus on the technical and business roadmap for SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII), and how it fits into the overall SAP Manufacturing solution strategy.

• John Schaefer, Product Manager, SAP Labs LLC

Road-Mapping Your Manufacturing Strategy

Learn how to assess your present manufacturing performance, including basics on Perfect Plant and the SAP Manufacturing solution. This session will answer questions on how to get started, what's the best approach, what should you look out for, what is the business case, where should you look to for value opportunities, and how have other customers done it. Specific case studies will be included.

• Ian Ryan, Senior Director, Solution Value Network, SAP America
• Paul Boris, Director, Business Perfect Plant CoE, SAP America

SAP xLPO - A Solution Brief

SAP xApp Lean Planning and Operations (SAP xLPO) is a visual, simple-to-use, pull-based planning, scheduling and execution application - with powerful what-if planning and exception management capabilities. This session will cover the product capabilities in detail and also give a preview of the new capabilities planned for the next release and how it will extend the applicability of SAP xLPO.

• Rao Addanki, Application Solution Manager - Lean Operations, SAP Labs LLC
• Sunil Roy, Application Solution Management, Manufacturing, SAP

Quality Management with SAP - Outlook and Direction

SAP offers comprehensive capabilities for quality management across all manufacturing industries, seamlessly integrated into the supply chain and leveraging SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) to support in-process controls. See how SAP quality management can evolve in your company either to act as a LIMS or CAQ system, and learn about upcoming quality-management-related developments in SAP ERP. Find out how SAP's approach to an enterprise service-oriented architecture (eSOA) can impact your business strategy for quality management processes.

• Manfred Schulz, Product Manager, SAP

Operations Excellence in Life Sciences

This presentation will discuss the significance of, the need for, and the challenges involved in driving a metrics-based performance management system predicated on bridging the disconnect between the plant and the enterprise in the life sciences industry. The presentation will also deliver insights on how leaders like Novartis and Roche Pharma are deploying real-time visibility into performance deviations across the plant and the enterprise to drive superior performance across people, processes, assets, and plants, aligned with corporate objectives.

• Andy De, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing, SAP for Life Sciences, SAP
• Mandar Paralkar, Director of Solutions Management, SAP for Life Sciences, SAP

Manufacturing Enterprise Services Bundles

This session will discuss enterprise services (ES) bundles, and how they can be used to extend the functionality of SAP ERP. The services delivered through ES bundles can also be used to create composite applications using the SAP NetWeaver platform's enterprise services development and modeling tool, as well as using SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII). Learn how ES bundles are one of the ways that SAP is implementing a program of service enablement as part of an overall strategy of moving toward enterprise services-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) across all products.

• Satya Narayan Sahu, Solution Manager, SAP Labs India
• Juergen Wettengl, Solution Manager, SAP

Boost the PI Sheet: New Developments & Techniques for Enhancements

This presentation will focus on extensions of XSteps for regulated environment and newly developed standard functions using productivity tools to speed up implementation, along with techniques for enhancements (style sheets and function modules) within PI.

• Arne Manthey, Solution Manager, SAP
• Dr. Uwe Dittes, Senior Developer and Project Lead, SAP

Building a Low TCO Application with SAP xMII

There are many features built into SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) designed for extensibility and reusability. This session will cover how the proper application of these techniques minimizes the amount of content you need to develop to meet the requirements of a project, as well as minimizes the maintenance and update effort. In addition to lowering the TCO of your composite solutions, these techniques also enable you to create reusable components.

• John Schaefer, Product Manager, SAP Labs LLC
• Jeremy Good, Sr. Solution Architect, SAP Labs LLC

New SAP Manufacturing ERP Features and Functions for Discrete Manufacturers

This presentation will be about the newest ERP manufacturing features and functions developed for discrete manufacturers, including electronic work instruction for production orders, repository for standardized execution steps (building blocks) to create the routings and electronic work instructions, and process control interface for download of production schedule and upload of production performance messages.

• Juergen Wettengl, Solution Manager, SAP
• Dr. Uwe Dittes, Senior Developer and Project Lead, SAP

SAP xMII: Mobilizing your Manufacturing Environment

SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) is extremely flexible in many ways - from content display to custom integration. This presentation will focus primarily on mobile application development using SAP xMII to best leverage mobile devices for information delivery. It will also touch on custom action development in the business logic environment and how the SAP Developer Network (SDN) currently supports this development.

• Salvatore Castro, Senior Solution Architect, SAP Labs LLC

The Hidden Secrets of SAP´s Quality Management Application

This session focuses on some practical examples on how to use SAP's powerful, quality management application to solve your business problems. Learn more about hot topics such as reporting and evaluation of quality data, optimizing product compliance using the new audit management tool, and using SAP ERP as integrated enterprise LIMS. Some complementary consulting solutions from partners and SAP will be highlighted.

• Manfred Schulz, Product Manager, SAP

Component Overview of SAP Solutions for RFID

The SAP Auto-ID Enterprise offering provides a proven, scalable, model-driven, service oriented, enterprise-class platform to compose and deploy not only radio frequency identification (RFID) but also any auto-ID-driven scenario. Get a detailed overview of how the SAP Auto-ID Infrastructure offering provides the ability to integrate real-world and uniquely serialized data and offers preconfigured support for business processes such as the RFID-enabled outbound/inbound logistics process and returnable transport items process.

• Priyanka Khaitan, Product Manager for SAP Auto-ID Enterprise Solutions, SAP Labs LLC.

Managing Returnable Transport Items (RTI) through RFID

SAP's Real World Awareness (RWA) solution provides the "sense and respond" capabilities of SAP RFID to enable the enterprise to know where its products and its assets are in real time. This presentation will describe the key components of the RWA solution that provide this capability - and will showcase a number of customer cases such as Airbus and Pratt & Whitney, that demonstrate the value of seamlessly tracking assets beyond the four walls of the factory.

• Stephen Cloughley, Senior Director, Real World Awareness, SAP Labs LLC

SAP xMII Dashboards

This session will explore the various functional possibilities offered through SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) for creating and deploying dashboards and reports that can span the shop-floor to corporate KPIs. You will be able to see and analyze real-world examples of dashboards and learn some best practices on how to use and manipulate SAP xMII dashboarding objects like SPCs, trend charts and Pareto analysis. Participants will also get a clear view of the many SAP xMII charting capabilities, SVG manipulation, XSL Transformations, PDF document creation, and CSV exports which make up the SAP xMII visualization component.

• Alin Pene, Solution Architect, SAP Labs LLC

Manufacturing Survey Results: Benchmarks and Leading Practices

To understand how the manufacturing has been transforming to a critical driver of increasing market competitiveness, ASUG and SAP have jointly established a manufacturing menchmarking program. This session will present an overview of the study results. You can evaluate the manufacturing processes in terms of effectiveness, cost, staffing, organization model, IT, and best practices and will enable participants to compare your own company's performance with the ASUG benchmark group.

• Ian Ryan, Senior Director, Solution Value Network, SAP America

In Pursuit of the Perfect Plant with Lean Manufacturing

SAP has launched an initiative under the Perfect Plant umbrella with a portfolio of solutions to address this need and provide tools and best practices to enable manufacturing companies to drive up their production performance in alignment with their enterprise objectives. With the recent addition of SAP xApp Lean Planning and Operations (SAP xLPO), SAP now has a unique offering for manufacturers to adopt and extend a lean manufacturing environment across their enterprise. This session will give an overview of SAP xLPO, its capabilities and value it can provide to your manufacturing initiatives to keep pace with your customer demand.

• Ganesh Wadawadigi, Senior Director, ASM Manufacturing, SAP Labs LLC
• Sunil Roy, Application Solution Management, Manufacturing, SAP

Best Practices of Implementing ISA-95 Industry Standard

This presentation will showcase the best practices of implementing "Industry Standard ISA-95," which include how customers should make their roadmap to integrate their MES systems with SAP, SAP's solution to support ISA-95 standard, how SAP has extended the ISA-95 standard without modifying the ISA-95 original syntax, and best practices for customers to extend and enhance the ISA-95 standard based on their requirements.

• Satya Narayan Sahu, Solution Manager, SAP Labs India
• Juergen Wettengl, Solution Manager, SAP

Accelerating Manufacturing-to-ERP Integration from Requirements Definition and Implementation

This session will present the content, tools and techniques that help accelerate the definition and implementation of manufacturing to SAP ERP integration projects. Topics covered will include manufacturing integration templates, data exchange reliability, improvement of process and data visibility, reduction of time-to-value of applications, simplification of project execution, and the role of enterprise services, composites and standards in projects.

• Rich Crossan, Director, Applications Solution Management, SAP Labs LLC

Messaging in SAP xMII 12.0

This presentation will discuss best practices on how to use SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII) in large environments. Topics will include deployment options, distribution between central and plant specific components, development of your own business logic, best practices on how to handle complex XML structures, performance considerations, and synchronous and asynchronous communication with an ERP system.

• Stephan Boecker, ASM Manufacturing, SAP Labs LLC
• Jeremy Good, Senior Solution Architect, SAP Labs LLC

Green Manufacturing

Green Manufacturing is a fundamental principle and duty to society which, if successful, will change the culture of the whole corporation, require the commitment of every employee, and be a long term and evolving commitment. This session will discuss how the proposed Green Manufacturing dashboard proposed will help enterprise capture details to ensure and monitor performance of its manufacturing operations towards compliance with regulatory, environmental and operational mandates.

• BT Narasimha, Vice President, SAP Labs India
• AN Navaneeth, Senior Solution Consultant, SAP Labs India