SAP monitors from SERKEM

Clear display of data and processes with the possibility to actively intervene and control!

Your Requirements

  • Overview of data and processes
  • Possibility to actively intervene in the processes
  • Possibility to control the processes
  • Adaptation to customer-specific requirements and processes

Our Solution

  • Display of necessary data for operation via a central monitor
  • Access to all relevant information on a screen in SAP
  • Navigation takes place via icons
  • Window for entries
  • Monitors for different company areas and processes

Your Benefits

  • Detailed information in SAP are available to the user in compressed form
  • Overview through traffic light system
  • No jumping into the SAP standard transaction
  • Enrichment with customer-specific logic in the project
  • Connection of external systems

The SERKEM solution in detail

The number of tasks for individual employees is constantly increasing. It’s important to maintain an overview of the various activities and their progress.

With the various SAP monitors offered by SERKEM, employees can quickly get an overview of the current situation in specific areas at any time. In addition to displaying data and processes, the SAP monitors provide the ability to actively intervene in and control these processes.

SERKEM’s monitor and cockpit solutions in SAP can be used across SAP, LES, SAP WM, and SAP EWM.

At a Glance

Main functions of the SAP monitors in SAP

With the SAP monitors of SERKEM, any complex processes can be displayed and edited. The SAP monitors can be put together customer-individually and can therefore be easily adapted to special requirements and needs.

Selection of reference monitors:

  • List of orders according to certain entry selection parameters (manufacturer part number, article number, EAN, VDA label, advice number, …)
  • Possibility of a getaway to standard SAP transactions
  • Functions for sorting, filtering, totaling, etc.

  • Screen area for requirements situation (sales orders, dependent requirements, planning requirements)
  • Screen area for the current situation of the planned orders
  • Alternative time scaling month/week/day
  • Simplified presentation at monthly level
  • Only forecast viewing or incl. cover elements for production planning
  • Restriction for individual checks possible
  • Only production view possible
  • Reporting functions including Excel download for posting on the respective assembly line
  • Information about the planned objects
  • Productivity reporting using agreed KPIs

  • Station-/product-oriented entry
  • Additional identification aids
  • Operator-optimized process control of the entries to be made with additional validations and automatic pre-assignments
  • Options for print output production
  • Automatically booked additional functions for scrap/rework
  • SAP GUI or browser-based application at the front end of the user

  • Relocations at different warehouse locations
  • Data entry on the selection screen (source data, parameters of the order/for delivery, program parameters, etc.)
  • Check whether the destination storage location is permitted/the transfer location is available
  • Determine the storage location stocks
  • Reduction of stocks during relocation
  • Creation of purchase orders and replenishment orders

  • Entry through various organization-units such as warehouse number, shipping point
  • List of all deliveries which are relevant for picking without a transport order
  • Time interval and start date can be determined by the user
  • Display of the associated shipment numbers for the deliveries
  • Jump directly to the respective delivery/transport order
  • Buttons to update, create new shipments, assign deliveries to shipments, edit deliveries/shipments

  • Status of transport orders in traffic light format
  • Priorities with the possibility of change
  • Execution timing
  • Execute the transport order immediately
  • Change queue
  • Assign users to transport requests
  • Jump into material master data

  • Clear display of all transport orders
  • Display of removal or transport
  • Jump to sales document possible
  • Display of the associated delivery
  • Transport orders can be grouped from the monitor
  • Change carrier, etc.

  • Create shipment
  • Assign deliveries to shipment
  • Process deliveries
  • Display transfer orders

  • Problem: incorrect package formation because of incorrect master data maintenance
  • Avoid the formation of many packages with  small numbers of units
  • New factor in package formation: determines the minimum number of boxes per delivery item, from which the boxes are marked as dummy packages
  • Dummy packages require manual intervention to release the packages, delete the package formation or convert it to a pallet

Monitoring of deliveries via a cockpit and better planning with additional information such as Pick and pack times

  • Traffic light display shows that the target pick-up date/time has been exceeded or fallen short of, as well as shipments without a pick-up date
  • Picked shipments with statement of shared picked TAs in all TAs and remaining time
  • Grouping of the shipments according to delivery dates with date and time
  • Time per transport order including remaining picking time
  • Earliest delivery date of all deliveries for the shipment
  • Number of deliveries and delivery items, deviations, total weight, etc.

  • Cockpit for shipping and transport processing
  • Transport creation and processing
  • Packaging, message output, goods issue posting

  • Screen for all activities to control and monitor the production
  • Traffic light system
  • Individual surface design
  • Capacity and material availability
  • Dates and leadership information
  • Settings per user in navigation profiles

  • Multi-level BOM explosion with inventory information and research options
  • Extension to display stock information (component stocks and stock types)

As a warehouse management solution in SAP, SAP EWM offers you various options to get a complete and up-to-date overview of warehouse activities. Various monitors and cockpits are already included in the standard delivery.

The SAP EWM warehouse management monitor or warehouse monitor provides a multitude of predefined reports for various processes and documents as a central control and monitoring instrument. At the same time, you can assign, initiate and control work processes via the monitor.

  • Methods as a central means of interferring in the operational process: own methods can be created for the administration and control of warehouse objects and processes
  • Information about the current situation in the warehouse: e.g. process steps in goods receipt/goods issue, inventory, resource and work management, warehouse stocks, warehouse orders, warehouse tasks
  • Alert monitoring: emphasize current and potentially problematic situations in the warehouse as well as methods for implementing corrective measures
  • Framework with a large number of process-specific reports in the standard: standard reports for various business processes, e.g. goods receipt depending on the process step for unloading, deconsolidation, quality inspection, storage
  • Personalization options: define and integrate your own reports, layouts or monitors depending on specific business requirements
  • Comprehensive and flexible adaptation and expansion options: modification-free adjustments and extensions of the standard monitor for adapting to your own process requirements

In the warehouse cockpit, defined warehouse key figures or objects are displayed graphically based on various chart types, such as traffic light, bar or column charts or tachometers.

The warehouse cockpit in SAP EWM is based on the Easy Graphics Framework (EGF). EGF enables easy configuration of cockpits. It offers the following functions:

  • Real-time display with configurable auto-refresh functionality
  • Navigation from the graphic to other applications by defining follow-up activities
  • User-specific and cross-definition of cockpit layouts
  • Flexible authorization concept on both the object and functional level

This enables you to create a completely new warehouse cockpit with your own objects, functions and key figures or to adapt or expand the warehouse cockpit supplied by SAP in SAP EWM.

With the help of the graphical warehouse layout in SAP EWM, you can display the interior of the warehouse as a two-dimensional graphic, including:

  • Stock situations
  • Information about the storage bins and space utilization
  • Information of the resources that are currently working in the warehouse and on conveyor technology for each warehouse number

SAP EWM also has predefined DataSources to extract data in SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (BW). Transferred data like executed workload, additional logistic services, warehouse orders, etc. can be analyzed. Business forecasts can then be derived on the basis of the analysis results.

Warehouse performance dashboard, based on EWM BW content:

  • Access to most important KPIs of the warehouse
  • Quick and good overview of services in different warehouse locations
  • Important, predefined key figures are already offered in the standard
  • Functionalities for user-friendly evaluation of the key figures: drill-down, graphical display variants
  • Installed on BW system

Monitors and cockpits in SAP offer significant added value under both SAP WM and SAP EWM:

  • Access to all relevant information on a monitor
  • Navigation with meaningful icons
  • Common functions are integrated directly in the monitor, no manual jumping into the SAP standard transactions is necessary
  • Detailed information is available to the user in compressed form
  • Overview through traffic light system
  • Adaptation to customer-specific requirements
  • Additional fields can optionally be shown
  • Control tables for locations, stations, scenarios, products, etc.
  • Creation of additional monitors with the same look and feel
  • Integration of existing customer logic or transfer from customer programs
  • Connection of external systems
  • Calling up additional SAP transactions directly in the monitor according to customer processes

Extract from our References

SEB

Wayand AG

  • Automotive industry
  • Turnover: 51 Mio. € (2013)
  • Employees: 355 (2013)

Success Story Wayand

Continental AG

  • Automotive Supplier
  • Turnover: 44 Mrd. € (2017)
  • Employees: 235.000 (2017)

Success Story Continental

SKF

  • Mechanical engineering
  • Turnover: 63.597 Mio. SEK (2013/2014)
  • Employees: 48.401 (2013)

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SERKEM Success Story Wayand