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Welcome to the SCM Stream Sponsored by:
Welcome to the SCM Stream
Sponsored by:
Richard den Ouden - Director
Every Angle Software Solutions
Mobile: +31 6 511 84134
“Operational Business Analytics: Tearing Down the Silos in your
SAP enabled Supply Chain”
How do you measure your SCOR metrics? And how do you stimulate “correct” behavior?
Agenda
1. Introduction
2. Live software demonstration
3. Next steps and summary
Every Angle Software Solutions: The Company
• International software company: HQ in the Netherlands
• 80 employees worldwide
• Founded in 1996 by SAP consultants while doing the first R/3 implementation in the Netherlands, in cooperation with the University of Eindhoven and TNO
• Thought leader in "in-memory“ technology and >14 years of
experience in BI
• SAP Certified & Partner since 2001
• Gartner Cool Vendor 2011
What is Every Angle
• “Every Angle” from supply chain perspective
– very flexible solution to help you gain more visibility across your supply chain
– quick “time to value” solution due to built-in logic and out-of-the- box content
• “Every Angle” from technical perspective
– plug & play
– adapt to customer specific processes and data (Z-Tables)
– can be easily enhanced with customer specific fields (Z-Fields)
• Every Angle is not only “another reporting” tool, but an analysis solution meant for operational reporting
Information provisioning for target groups
Define KPIs
and targets 0 Top management
Strategic KPIs
Time &
budget
Different IT for
different purposes
Details,
ad hoc,
variance
Execution
Focused Action Info
Act
3
Evaluate the Past 1
Focus Actions 2
Management
Operational KPIs
Closed
Loop
Challenging to IT & business due to data volume, flexibility and agility to cope with daily changing requirements
BI / BW
Reporting & Analytics Display layer Top management
Strategic KPIs
Focus Actions
Execution
Evaluate the Past
Act
Business
Suite
Operational
management
What is the status of my process ?
How are my orders actually flowing ?
How can we improve the processes?
How are the processes running?
Where are the bottlenecks?
What should we do today to perform ?
Leads to “Self Made“ Solutions (ABAP, Z-reports, Excel, including all related risks (costs, reliability, time, etc)
BI / BW
Reporting & Analytics Display layer Top management
Strategic KPIs
Focus Actions
Execution
Evaluate the Past
Act
ABAP
Z-
reports
RISK SE16
Business
Suite
Operational
management
Maintainable?
Expert
dependent?
Scalable?
Reliable?
Secure?
(Hidden) costs?
Every Angle is a plug & play solution for operational analysis/reporting (out-of-the-box content for SAP ECC)
Z-reports
RISK
Maintainable?
Expert dependent?
Scalable?
Reliable?
Secure?
(Hidden) costs?
Business
Suite
Display layer
BI / BW
Reporting & Analytics Top management
Strategic KPIs
Operational management
Focus Actions
Execution
Evaluate the Past
Act
Business Process
Analysis
Improvement
Action lists
Standard
content
Ad hoc analysis
Clean data
Support
Our Customers are Enthusiastic
Food, Pharma
& Chemicals
Wholesale, Retail
& Fashion
Utilities & Energy
Discrete Manufacturing
Direct and derived value that customers gained with Every Angle
Stock level reduction 16 %
Reduction 2 FTE + 100 days consulting
50% reduction data pollution
Increased end user appreciation of SAP
Stock level reduction 8%
Service level improvement 12%
20% efficiency improvement in production
Reduction of Working Capital with 4%
Big improvement of SAP data reliability
“What it understands and this is the key between Every Angle and
a lot of competition is the cross-process supply chain elements.“ Sean Culey
Customer case 1:
Tommy Hilfiger Characteristics • One European SAP AFS system, • Large data volume (> 150 million SD documents in SAP DB on SKU level) • Long lead times (manufacturing in Africa and Asia) Every Angle usage • Monitor backorders (sales) • Improve master data • Prioritize PO (air freight) and check PO creation and delivery status • Support of new seasons (order book intake => delivery & billing) Benefits • Improved availability => customer satisfaction & reduction lost sales • Less air freight costs • Quote Rudy Boogaard (VP Supply Chain): “We are super happy with the
Every Angle tool. We actual had meeting today with several members of our Senior European management team and they were really impressed with what we have accomplished so far. We now have supply chain transparency we never had before (nor dared to dream of)”
Customer case 2:
Implementation at BASF Characteristics • One Global SAP GTS system • Compliance for all inbound (purchasing) and outbound (sales) • Standard reporting is slow (on-line) and not flexible Every Angle usage • Check master data • Analysis of compliance process • Monitor status of licenses (export) • Provide operational KPIs for management • Support internal compliance processes Benefits • Improved processes • Ad-hoc reporting capabilities • Improve compliance • Significant time savings (replacing old manual data collection &
transformation processes)
Customer case 3:
Live Demo at Swarovski Characteristics • One large global SAP ECC system (> 2 million material numbers) • SAP was implemented more than 15 years ago • “Gap” between global headquarters (Austria) and local business
departments (knowledge, SAP usage, priorities) Every Angle usage (2 week Live Demo in January 2013) • Windows server was provided by Swarovski IT in SAP data center • 1 day installation • Data extraction from SAP Q-system (copy of PRD) • Data quality checks (master data, order pollution) • Analysis of supply chain processes • Interactive workshops with business process experts / process owners • Workshop/presentation for management, IT & process owners Next steps • Start of Every Angle implementation in March 2013 • Linkage of Every Angle to SAP PRD
Agenda
1. Introduction
2. Live software demonstration
3. Next steps and summary
Every Angle Architecture
Characteristics of Every Angle Architecture
• EAXtractor: data extraction using SAP Certified Function Module
• EAServer: Built-in business process logic and SAP ERP knowledge
• EAClient: Thin-client desktop Windows application
• ZEA03: display of Angles in SAP GUI (view only)
• EA DLL: Automatic export (i.e. SAP BW/BO/BI) and ODBC interface
SAP R/3
or
SAP ECC
(virtual) Windows Server
Every Angle
Extractor
Every Angle
Server
Every Angle
Clients
EA DLL
XLS, SQL, CSV
ODBC
SAP GUI ZEA03
Server: Live Intelligent Objects
Object: Customer - number, name, - address, telephone - district, office, ..
Object: Material - number, description - material type/group - planning parameters
Object: Plant
Object: SD Item - Item category - Status
Object: SD Schedule line
Server RAM
Objects and Pointers
Object: SD header - Number - created on/by - document type -
Windows
server
Extractor
Server
EA-
client Business Suite
SAP GUI ZEA03
Every Angle Order Network Calculation Supply/Demand matching (like SAP MD04)
SITE 1200 - Dresden SITE 1000 - Hamburg
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rob
lem
PO
Raw materials
WO
Final product
WO
Packaging Sales order
Box
Leaflet
Flask … Raw materials
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Dis
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tom
ers
?
End-to-End Supply Chain
Analysis
on thousands of detailed order lines
ZEA03: Angle Tree (viewing users)
ZEA03: Angle Display in ALV grid
Demonstration
Master data • Address info (vendors, customers) • Material master Stock • Overall stock values (split by stock status. Location, material type, etc.) • Stock allocation (needed? demand?) Sales • Open orders • Lost sales (cancelled orders) • Closed sales orders (qty/value and delivery reliability in %) Sourcing and planning processes • Purchasing • Production • Quality inspection Backorders and priorities !!
Agenda
1. Introduction
2. Live software demonstration
3. Next steps and summary
Summary
• Every Angle is a standard solution for operational analysis based on SAP ERP
– 99% out-of-the-box => plug & play within 1 day
– No modeling => Every Angle derives the business processes directly from SAP customizing
– Focus on “end-to-end” supply chain processes
– Built-in SAP ERP knowledge & business process logic (i.e. bottlenecks)
– “Solution for Business” and to enable better decisions on operational questions (ad-hoc ) and to
become proactive (= preventing issues), rather than reactive (= solving issues)
• Replacing
– Static (expensive) ABAP Reports or SE16, running directly on SAP ERP
• Advantages
Business IT
• Supply chain performance improvement (service level, inventory level, flexibility)
• Efficiency improvement (less time for corrections and low value adding activities)
• Transparency on detailed level • Become independent from IT
• Standard solution (no risk/impact) • Improves SAP DB performance
(reduction online query load) • Increase COMPLIANCE • Supports “Single Source of Truth” • No Data Manipulation as no data
modelling • Free up time to focus on IT related
topics
Potential next steps
Purpose • Proof point for technical
promises (up-and-running
in 3 days)
• Proof point for functional
promises (visibility across
supply chain in SAP ERP)
• Proof point for enhancing
data, data models and
calculated fields
• Proof point that Every
Angle is for the business
and creates value to the
business
Purpose • Evaluate the value of Every
Angle against clear defined
USE CASES
• USE CASES create direct
or derived added value for
organization which
supports a Business Case
• Business can work with
Every Angle and will use it
in daily operations
• Create the foundation for a
BUY / NO BUY decision
Purpose • Embed Every Angle as
standard solution for
operational analysis across
the organization
• Roll-out to all interested
divisions, affiliates and
production sites
Stage I
Live Demo
(2 weeks)
Stage III
Roll-out and embedding
(ongoing)
Stage II
Implement
(2 months)
Thanks for your time
Richard den Ouden
Director
Every Angle Software Solutions
Mobile: +31 6 511 84 134
Email: [email protected]
