Production Engineering & Operations (SAP PEO)

The life cycle of a product begins with the EBOM - Engineering Bill of Materials, a type of technical bill of materials that depicts the planned product. Once the product is technically developed, it is handed over to production in the form of a manufacturing bill of material or MBOM. Three tools for the handover-to-manufacturing process help to manage the reconciliation of the engineering bill of material with the manufacturing bill of material: SAP Product Structure Synchronization (PSS), SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Manufacturing Planner (3D Vemp) and Intelligent Enterprise Handover, which also combines functions of the first two tools.

• Until now, SAP's core system did not offer a reasonable interface for data transfer to SAP PP - which is why users had to deal with lists without 3D models. S/4HANA, on the other hand, is equipped with the new TDMI interface (Team Data Management Interface). SAP PEO thus understands all common CAD and PLM systems, such as those from Siemens, Solidworks, Windchill or Teamcenter.
  In this way, for example, engineering parts lists can be enriched with 3D models and additionally with PMI data (Product Manufacturing Information) such as tolerance specifications or spot welds and transferred to the SAP core system. This enables very granularly resolved complex workflows that are linked to 3D BOMs. An integrated QM module also provides inspection during production

• Impact analysis supports manufacturing in quickly and efficiently determining all manufacturing objects that are potentially affected by a change - such as routings, bills of material, production orders or purchase orders.
• In engineering, impact analysis can be used as a where-used list to see where an attached object, such as a material, is still being changed. In this way, parallel changes can be identified at an early stage and, under certain circumstances, changes can be merged.

• The Change Record bundles the SAP objects to be changed and thus forms the central link in the PEO. The Change Record workflow ensures that every processor, be it the requester, engineer or the person who has to approve the change, is always aware of what is currently being changed and what the current status of the changes is.
• The change record historizes changes and decisions so that in the event of future queries, it can be quickly shown why a change was made
• Since the FPS02 release in spring 2021, the new Change Record can reuse the proven Process Route instead of having to use Flexible Workflows. The Process Route provides more functionality and automation, allowing end users to focus on what's important: Their work

For the entire SAP PEO functions, a variety of user-friendly applications are available in the system in the SAP Fiori Launchpad in addition to classic GUI transactions. On this basis, it is possible to implement and establish end-to-end processes with seamless traceability with regard to engineering changes. This provides designers, planners, production controllers, work planners and workers with a platform that accesses the same database.

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• Operation activities are features that are predominantly known from MES software solutions. Production planners use them to represent individual production operations of a routing in multiple activities in order to significantly increase the level of detail.
• For example, you have full functionality compared to the familiar sub-operations from ERP. All aspects of a workflow, such as component assignment, work instructions, inspection characteristics, production resources/tools, documents, acceptances, qualifications and task managers can thus be assigned to operation activities

• Planning and execution of the production order are carried out in SAP PEO via FIORI apps specially designed for this purpose.
• Based on the stored qualifications, employees are assigned to the pending orders and their work lists are filled. In this way, it can be ensured from the outset that only qualified employees perform certain work or activities.

• Production monitoring provides the responsible employees with tools to analyze the manufacturing process for serialized products. For example, it documents which components were assembled or disassembled, which data was collected, and which problems were logged. This makes it possible to monitor every single operation activity related to a manufacturing order.
• An as-built report for assemblies based on the production order shows material and serial numbers and thus supports the analysis. Managers can see which materials (planned and unplanned) have been consumed, including materials in sub-assemblies.