The process enables you to design a line, determine number of operations per takt and the calculation of takt times.

Demand Planning delivers flexible interactive planning possibilities, to create a demand plan on any level of detail based on forecast and actual demand. Different forecasting algorithms and flexible macros, to carry out any kind of calculation or check, are offered as well as collaboration possibilities.

The demand can be used for KANBAN calculation, production leveling and determination of time fences.

Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM) enables you to define, select, and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), giving you an integrated, comprehensive view of performance across the supply chain. SCPM with SAP SCM includes a large number of predefined KPIs based on the Supply Chain Operations Reference model (SCOR) covering all supply chain activities including source, plan, make, deliver, and return.

It allows to indentify waste and control the progress of continous improvements in the process performance

The Heijunka process is employed for production smoothing (leveling) purposes and propagates level demand across all the operations all the way to the supplier

Focus of lean execution is to increase productivity, reduce work in process & inventories, eliminate defects and variations, enhance production capacity and eliminate waste.

Lean execution allows  rate-based, lean production based on production and assembly lines. The takt times determines the speed if a line. Backflush of labor and material at reporting points support the lean execution process.

KANBAN ensures replenishment of materials.

Lean execution is seamless intergrated into inventory management and costing.

The KANBAN process supports pull method for controlling production and material flow on the shop floor using Kanbans in control cycles. Replenishment of a material is only triggered when a higher production level actually requires the material.

The process allows calculation of number of Kanbans and Kanban quantity based on actual and future demand.

It supports several replenishment methods e.g. for in-house production, procurement and stock transfer from warehouse also leveraging the Internet. 

The KANBAN process is seamless integrated in lean execution, inventory management and costing.

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
• Message mapping between MES, SFA, legacy apps. and the ERP system based on industry standards (like ISA-S95, ...)
• Manufacturing Intelligence: Near real-time analytics engine that aggregates and delivers unified visualization of events, alerts, KPIs and decision support to production personnel.

Quality assurance and control involves inspections at all stages, continuous monitoring, and quick intervention to deal with unexpected events. Quality inspections can be triggered by various events such as order release or goods movements, but also by manual actions. The process support the goal of six sigma to increase profits by eliminating variability, defects and waste that undermine customer loyalty.

Prepares the product for shipment after a successful inspection, and monitors dismantling if necessary. Prepares shipping documents, notifies authorities if necessary, and packs the product for shipment. Sends the product and posts the goods issue. Uses the resulting freight charges for comparison with the planned costs.

Initiates billing according to the procedures stated in the order. Allows for both resource-related and fixed price-related billing. Maps down payments appropriately, including those involving security deposits. Creates invoices for partial delivery; for example, preliminary acceptance by the customer following a successful start-up that triggers the payment of an installment as stipulated in the contract. Determines and updates shared overhead costs. Calculates the project's interest rates based on payment and cost information. Determines the costs of sales, and assigns them to the revenues incurred and to the stocks of goods in process or in provision using various methods, including results analysis based on the determined percentage of completion. Creates completion confirmations from all elements of the project within the framework of a central planning and controlling system. Guarantees complete entry of all in-house and external deliveries and services, and avoids double entries.