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- Industry: Industrial/Steel.
- Key Challenges: Establish functional and Technical Supply Chain / ERP landscape from the scratch, while the manufacturing plant is being assembled in parallel.
- Strategic Supply Chain Goals and benefits:
- Stream line Order To Cash process, Sales and Operational planning, Forecasting, Supply Planning, Order Promising, Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling processes.
- Reduce of waste by minimizing obsolescence.
- Enable Make To Order and Make To Forecast processes.
- Implement the effective production planning and detailed scheduling tool for Steel manufacturing.
- Effective Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) from manufacturing location to Steel Slitter network to the end users (Auto Manufacturer, for an example).
- Complex forecasting process to support all the possible characteristics of the Steel coils using the variant configuration.
- Proper product allocations to the customers based on the pre-defined (or dynamic) quota allocation.
- Support steel production campaign planning and make sure the demand/supply plan is well aligned with the same.
- Raw material (Iron slabs) planning.
- Backorder processing (BOP) for effective sales order process management.
- Short term and long term transportation planning.
- Integration of Broner Metals MES solution with SAP.
- SAP Modules Used:
- SAP 46C.
- SAP SCM/APO DP (Advanced Planner and Optimizer - Demand Planning).
- SAP SCM/APO SNP (Supply Network Planning).
- Broner MES for Short term production planning and Detailed Scheduling.
- Regional Scope and phases: North America. Implementation in two different phases.
- Key Performance Indicators Improved:
- Production/Schedule Adherence, Inventory Days of Sale, Days in Inventory, Inventory Days of Production, Obsolescence, Customer Service.
