SAP Manufacturing Execution for the Factory Floor
June 25, 2019
SAP Manufacturing Execution for the Factory Floor
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with SAP Manufacturing Execution
SAP Manufacturing Execution system fills up the gap between the process, documentation, data collection, in-process inspection and enterprise information requirement. It is used across the production plant. All the manufacturing facility members and the quality inspection specialists use this application for their day to day work. Implementation of this solution made the production house paperless other than the labeling. Handwritten documents are now unavailable on the floor. Also, now the floor has space to save information which is not needed for the enterprise system.
Production lines are well mapped in SAP ME. This makes easy product flow on the shop floor, the user does not need to know what to run what not. The system ensures they use the most appropriate component at the most appropriate operation for a particular product.
Production lines are well mapped in SAP ME. This makes easy product flow on the shop floor, the user does not need to know what to run what not. The system ensures they use the most appropriate component at the most appropriate operation for a particular product.
- Visual routing ensures the production line layout is as appropriate as shown on the application.
- Production house needs a lot of data to do an in-process inspection of the product. ERP might not need that. SAP ME provides that place to do every data collection.
- Nonconformance functionality ensures when needed the product goes to the appropriate station to get repaired. Also, data collection can raise NC and can move the product to a particular station to get an issue corrected.
- All the information is well integrated with SAP ERP and makes SAP ME more valuable for the organization.
- SAP MII also comes along with SAP ME helps to get the application well integrated with the shop floor equipment.
- ODS or the BI part of the ME needed more improvement.
- The archiving job needs to be more robust.
- Database indexes need to me more analyzed and setup as per the organization requirement.
- SAP MII UI integration plugin to be developed for increased usability of this application.
- Production house is more efficient now.
- Less paperwork improved means less unproductive work on the shop floor.
- Regulatory audits are more efficient.
There was no product evaluated before using SAP ME. This replaced the custom homegrown MES system. The custom MES system had a lot of issues with the integration with SAP ERP. While evaluating the situation, SAP MII was the initial tool used to create the integration of the custom MES. We later found the fully functional tool SAP ME off the shelf had several functionalities out of the box.