Case Study 1
Chemical Industry
SCM – APO (PPDS) Campaign Planning
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CUSTOMER OVERVIEW
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The client is a leading chemical company that develops, manufactures, and markets chemical products all around the world. They have achieved this market position by providing superior quality through continuous improvement processes in manufacturing, distribution and customer services.Their market winning quality is driven by the efficient supply chain strategy which leverages the emerging SCM tools and technology and secures a position ahead of their global competitors.
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BUSINESS CHALLENGES
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As a part of the client’s Supply Chain Strategy, the mySAP SCM Implementation was critical in bringing in a global production planning process and efficient inventory management within complex manufacturing phases to retain their market leadership position.
AMG ADVISORS was brought in as a consultant for developing an overall strategy and implementation of SAP APO PPDS campaign planning. AMG ADVISORS utilized its extensive experience and business knowledge in helping our client to develop excellence in the campaign planning process and fit their complex manufacturing model. |
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AMG ADVISOR'S APPROACH
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By mapping the business processes with the help of rapid implementation methodology, AMG ADVISORS identified the level of reengineering to remove the fractured visibility of key performance indicators across the supply chain and to improve multilevel campaign planning. AMG ADVISORS developed campaign modeling with a consistent global strategy where SAP PPDS was appropriately fitted in to accomplish the needs for campaign planning across multilevel process steps and its phases in Process Industry environment.
Within the Campaign Planning functionality, AMG ADVISORS developed the capabilities to enable pegging relationship between dependent products and recipes, Finite Scheduling, Constraint Coupling within the products, and Visual Detailed Scheduling Dashboard. The Finite Campaign Plan was consolidated with Cleaning and Setup phases. With the help of Setup Matrix, the Setup and Cleaning activity was designed to enable transition from one Campaign to another with SAP recommended best practices. AMG ADVISORS developed the Alert System which had helped Client to identify and react to exception scenario to better monitor and control the plan. Apart from the design and implementation of Campaign Planning solution of PPDS, AMG ADVISORS built a scalable global template with Standard Planning processes in PPPI environment.This template will help the client to implement at additional sites quickly and cost effectively going forward. AMG ADVISORS implemented this project with their Supply Chain Management methodology best suited for the client environment. |
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RESULTS
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AMG ADVISORS had successfully identified the key business objectives and delivered a Campaign planning tool within PPDS environment. Major challenges in finite campaign planning across multilevel recipes and phases in PPPI environment were addressed with innovative design approach to achieve a seamless and consistent integration with their R/3 Production Planning. Automation and Consolidation of finite Campaign plan for a longer horizon will help client to improve shop floor efficiency, accountability across the dependent phases, the cleaning and Setup Activity.
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