SAP Manufacturing Execution

Score8.6 out of 10

6 Reviews and Ratings

What is SAP Manufacturing Execution?

SAP Manufacturing Execution is the company's MES designed to digitally control, monitor, and automate manufacturing operations.

Categories & Use Cases

API for custom integration
An API (application programming interface) provides a standard programming interface for connecting third-party systems to the software for data creation, access, updating and/or deletion.
Category average: 7.6
Single sign-on capability
The software system supports a centralized authentication mechanism allowing the user to access multiple systems with a single, centrally managed password.
Category average: 8.3
Role-based user permissions
Permissions to perform actions or access or modify data are assigned to roles, which are then assigned to users, reducing complexity of administration.
Category average: 8

Work Execution
Monitor procution status, manage work orders for standard and non-standard production, enforce tight controls on serialized products
Category average: 7.5
Standard reports
The software offers pre-built reports with metrics standard to the category.
Category average: 7.5
Dashboards
Users can create, customize and share dashboards, which provide an overview of the most important metrics.
Category average: 7.7

Pradip Ray View profile

COE - SAP ME in Information Technology at Medtronic (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

Visual routing ensures the production line layout is as appropriate as shown on the application.
Production house needs a lot of data to do an in-process inspection of the product. ERP might not need that. SAP ME provides that place to do every data collection.
Nonconformance functionality ensures when needed the product goes to the appropriate station to get repaired. Also, data collection can raise NC and can move the product to a particular station to get an issue corrected.
All the information is well integrated with SAP ERP and makes SAP ME more valuable for the organization.
SAP MII also comes along with SAP ME helps to get the application well integrated with the shop floor equipment.

Cons

ODS or the BI part of the ME needed more improvement.
The archiving job needs to be more robust.
Database indexes need to me more analyzed and setup as per the organization requirement.
SAP MII UI integration plugin to be developed for increased usability of this application.

Return on Investment

Production house is more efficient now.
Less paperwork improved means less unproductive work on the shop floor.
Regulatory audits are more efficient.

Alternatives Considered

SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence

Other Software Used

SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence, Dynatrace Application Monitoring, Toad for Oracle, Fieldglass VMS, Box