SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII)

Synchronizing Manufacturing Operations for Manufacturing Excellence

For manufacturers to deliver on their customer expectations, connecting the factory to the enterprise and supply chain is critical. To deliver manufacturing excellence, companies must be able to reliably produce to target with best-in-class, year-to-year cost reductions and quality improvement. They also need manufacturing synchronization, electronically linking enterprise business processes and master data with plant manufacturing processes to run from a "single version of the truth."

Manufacturers need to embrace manufacturing synchronization and manufacturing excellence to become adaptive. Adaptive manufacturing is the ability of a factory to profitably replenish the supply chain while dynamically responding to unpredictable change. Adaptive manufacturing enables companies and their production personnel to deliver superior performance through higher visibility and responsiveness.

SAP xMII enables adaptive manufacturing by synchronizing manufacturing operations with the enterprise to deliver the "single version of the truth" and drive manufacturing excellence.

The SAP xApp manufacturing integration and intelligence (xMII) is a packaged composite application that delivers:

Manufacturing Intelligence: Real-time analytics engine that aggregates and delivers unified visualization of events, alerts, KPIs and decision support to production personnel thru role-based dashboards.

Manufacturing Integration: A single ISA-95 compliant layer enabling SAP ERP connectivity into real-time plant floor apps. (MES, SFA, legacy apps.) to drive plant-to-enterprise business process interoperability.

SAP xMII enables real-time transactional integration between plant floor and enterprise (SAP ERP) systems out-of-the box through:

  • Universal connectivity to the data, functionality and processes of existing plant floor systems
  • Business Logic for creating automated events, KPIs and alerts
  • Workflow to synchronize plant and Enterprise business processes
  • Built in S95 and B2MML messages and schema to make legacy systems interoperable

Catalyst can help companies by implementing SAP xMII to electronically synchronize enterprise business processes and master data with real-time manufacturing processes and systems using pre-built adapter delivered out of the box. This helps companies gain higher customer satisfaction from improved responsiveness and reduces costs, errors and latency associated with manual data entry of plant data into the ERP.

Key Customer Benefits:

  • Real-time performance management – provides actionable measurements of asset performance to speed goal attainment
  • Continuous Improvement – links production metrics to improvement and causal analysis to accelerate process improvement
  • Bottom Line: production personnel can monitor, measure, analyze and control KPIs and variances thereof, to improve their performance, productivity and quality of work life