Can any one suggest me the book no for SAP IS-AD module.

Hi All,

i am in the process of performing a site readiness assessment for kicking off the SIT (system integrated testing) phase of the ERP implementation plan.

i am trying to put together a kind of check list of activites such as Testing plan, Data loading, scenario identifications, trainings and other logistics which are pre-requisite for satrting the SIT phase.

My idea is to evaluate if the business is ready to start this phase in a very smooth way by ensuring that all key activities have been performed in order to start the SIT phase.

Hope some of you can help me in sharing some best practice.

Thanks,

Riccardo

Hello All,

Please could someone advise on where to obtain information on the activation of DFPS_LM_GEN, we are on ECC605 with PM handling the maintenance of our current plant and equipment , we have a number of helicopters that in the near future will fall under our direct control regarding flight operations maintenance etc. my understanding is that these functions are integrated with PM Plant Maintenance  of which we use extensively.

I need some information on best practice of the activation of this business function  DFPS_LM_GEN  with Plant Maintenance.

Hoping to hear from someone who has gone through this process for some ideas, have searched the web extensively but have come up with nothing meaningful.

Thanking you

Spencer

Join the discussion on why Big Data matters to the aerospace industry and discover what we have showcased on our Big Data Truck at this year´s Farnborough International Airshow

On January 1, 1914, Abram C. Pheil, former mayor of St.Petersburg, Florida, made a decision that would mark the birth of the global airline industry – to become the first ever paying passenger on a commercial flight which ended up in a 23-minute journey across the bay from St. Petersburg to Tampa, Florida.

Since that historic moment 100 years ago, commercial aviation has transformed the world. Today, over three billion passengers and 50 million tons of cargo reach their destination through the wonder of flight every year, supporting over 57 million jobs and $2.2 trillion in economic activity.

The demand for commercial aircraft is at an all-time high and defense priorities are changing. Airline and defense customers are expecting more for less, including more capable, cost-effective and reliable products to better serve the customers. With all these changes aerospace and defense companies are looking to establish new service based business models based on connected and digital equipment. Furthermore, the industry is entering an era of rapidly changing demographics, where long-time engineers are being replaced by the millennial generation. (Image source: IATA.org)

SAP Big Data Truck to exhibit at Farnborough International Airshow

This year, for the first time, we’ll be taking our big data experts to Farnborough International Airshow from July 14-16 to demonstrate how aerospace and defense organisations can harness the potential of big data to innovate, simplify work, help attract new clients and increase profits.

The aviation industry is ripe for innovation in the form of Big Data and in-memory technology. Aircraft create significant amounts of data during operation, which can, and should, be analysed to increase operational efficiencies, allow proactive maintenance, and ultimately, save industry players time and money – whether they are flying passengers over the Atlantic, seeking to engineer cutting-edge parts, or striving for an efficient supply-chain.

Nils Herzberg, Senior Vice President Global Head of Discrete Industries at SAP said, “The Aerospace and Defense industry is being driven by data, and with some of the innovations coming down the line, this is only going to escalate. We’re always looking for innovative and unconventional ways to reach out to our customers and connect with new user-groups in order to show them how they can extract value from that data and tap into its full potential. This is why - for the first year – we are taking the Big Data truck to our customers’ most important and respected industry event.”

The SAP Big Data platform, applications, analytics, and services can help deliver real business value from the data that is being generated from these operations in real-time. At the show, we’ll be demonstrating this through the SAP Big Data Truck, which will host a number of demo showcases and innovative use-cases which provide real examples of how we’re working with organisations across all industries to harness the power of their data. Examples include equipment health monitoring, understanding why the German soccer team is a world leader in strategy and speed, and viewing an airline operations crew recovery process.

“We are very excited to welcome everyone on board our Big Data Truck at Farnborough International Airshow next week,” said Magnus Bjorendahl, vice president and global head of Aerospace & Defense at SAP.“Big Data is widely talked about within the industry, so I’m pleased to be able to bring it to life with hands-on demo showcases, and it gives us the opportunity to engage with prospects, customers and partners. Being able to support these aerospace and defense organisations in gaining valuable insights from data to help transform their business, and indeed the wider world, is truly exciting.”

The cloud is not the limit at SAP – it is just the beginning!

A video providing more information on the SAP Big Data Truck can be found here

Hi!

We think seriously about deploying GPD and we are working intensely on testing the solution. So far, we resolved all issues we encountered.

However, when it's time toanalyze the distribution costs,we're used to work with CJI3for ultimately billour customers. We had alreadyadded standard fieldssuch as the Vendor's name, doc no. for GR/ IR, etc. ...fields, which withGPDsolution, are no more populated. Someone elseencounteredthis problem? Do you have apossible solutionfor me? Or do you use another transaction?
Thank youin advance!

isabelle

Dear All,

In the structure browser, the dependency objects are not getting displayed in MPD transaction.

What could be the reason?

Please let me know

Regards

Ravi

We are implementing DFPS Personal Equipment in SAP and have business use case requirements for assigning Personal Equipment Entitlements that are ‘Person’ specific, not position/job/unit specific.

1. Accoutrements (ex. rank slides) entitlement. We have an example where the person fulfilling an HR position designated for a Major is actually held by a Captain placed into the position. If the rank slides were to be assigned at the position level, the Captain would incorrectly assume an entitlement for Major rank slides. The goal is to have a process established without significant resourcing to manage entitlement changes manually.
2. Qualification based entitlements. A person holds a position with certain entitlements but also is entitled to more Personal Equipment based on qualifications he/she holds. If the qualification based entitlement is assigned to the position and the current person moves, the extra entitlement would be assumed by the new holder of the position and that person may not have the extra qualification certificate to warrant the extra entitlement. How to assign qualification based entitlements that will follow a specific person through position changes without manual updates with each move?
3. Standard Reports/tcodes for audit, search and management of MPOs and MCs which allows for extracts to excel type format and printing capabilities.

  Would like to hear from other users if they have encountered the above and the solution that has been implemented or lessons learned.

Thanks in advance.

Dear Gurus,

We are implementing SAP PP for Aerospace and Aerostructure industry and not using project based planning. We can meet all our requirements like demand planning with change management, capacity planning etc. Can anyone suggest me the pros and cons of not using project system?

Also I would like to know the type of S&OP to be used for this project.

Thanks in advance,

Ram

Hi All,

We are looking to implement SAP ECC 6 in Aerospace space and it is a greenfield project. Experts, it will be a greatly appreciated if you may  please provide me the OTC best practices along the lines of OTC business processes.

Thanks,

Lisa.

Flying in an aircraft is always fascinating for me and also it is the safest mode of commutation in the earth. The safety is ensured because the aerospace industry is a highly regulated industry where the airline maintenance program (AMP) defines the maintenance requirements for a fleet of aircraft. Aircraft operator must ensure compliance against AMP.

The challenge for the aircraft operator is limited hangar space and the authorized technicians availability. SAP Enhanced Maintenance & Service Planning (EMSP) helps aircraft operators to do long term planning of maintenance of aircraft ensuring maximum aircraft utilization.

There are two ways an aircraft operator can use this solution from SAP

1. Planning of maintenance using SAP SCM only

2. Both planning and execution of maintenance using SAP SCM and SAP ERP

The following picture explains the EMSP business scenario with integration to SAP ERP:

(Note: The planning data from the SAP SCM system is available in SAP BI as well for reporting)

An aircraft is modeled as a functional location and engines or landing gears are normally modeled as an equipment in the SAP ERP system. The maintenance plan is created to fulfill the AMP for the aircraft. All this data can be transferred from SAP ERP to SAP SCM using CIF technology. However if you are using only SAP SCM for planning, then you can create the SAP SCM objects directly without having any link to SAP ERP system as well.

Once the aircraft is modeled and also the maintenance plans are created, SAP SCM provides an interactive planning board to plan and do alterations to the plan manually. Many planners do this activity in chart papers and the EMSP planning board comes as a major relief. Once the planning is done in SAP SCM, the data can be sent back to SAP ERP using CIF (Core Interface) for execution in the form of notifications and revisions.

EMSP simplifies long term planning of aircraft and also helps airline operators to do effective planning with the following benefits:

• Increase the utilization of aircraft
• Identify unused hangar space to acquire new business
• Identify bottleneck situations
• Improve the availability of aaircraft
• Perform what-if analysis

Note: Also EMSP can be used for other complex assets that needs a maintenance facility for the work to be done, like the navy submarines, ships, locomotives, heavy earth moving equipment, etc.

Hi Personas Experts,

   I am new to the personas. I do not have any idea about Java scripting.

I want to ask you a small question....

I created a text box and I want to change the entered text from lower case to upper case and viceversa using single java script.

I can able to do them separately but I am unable to do them in a single scripting.

Please help me in this....

Thanks and Regards,

Geetha

Dear Friends,

Please help me how to create a Flight Order in SAP. Does this come under SAP DFPS ? Also please help us on the relevant configuration. Can we configure Flight Order in EHP 5.0 ?

Need to configure Flight Order for Catering Solution for an Airline.

Thanks in advance.

  I’m new to the SAP community and am trying to get a feel for the aerospace industry and job opportunities in the San Antonio, TX area.

The attached Document explains how Project Manufacturing can be planned to operate as make to stock manufacturing.  Currently, GPD is part of the Aerospace and Defense DIMP solution.  This concept can be used for any Project Manufacturing and would like to expand this into the other industries.

Your are welcome to read this document and look forward to your feedback.

Hank Schrandt

Hi everybody,

- i,ve created a FFFC material type in MM01;

- defined a Manifacturer Part Profile in Customizing;

- created some HERB (interchangeable parts) (in Basic Data 1 view i defined the Manufacturer part Profile for each of these materials);

Now i want to define in PIC01 the HERB material in the FFF class. When i insert the FFFC code this error is shown:

What is my mistake?

Regards

Dear A&D community,

a new additional documentation for Configuration Control is available under SAP note ‘2106827 - Getting started with
Configuration Control’.

The document has the title 'Getting Started With Configuration Control'

Motivation of the document:

• This document is made to arouse the understanding how Configuration Control is
  working.
• Basic modeling skills of the data used for Configuration Control should be provided.
• If available, technical chapters should provide an insight into the coding of the
  application to enable users to adjust the application to their needs.
• Specific chapters provide information on industry specific enhancements of Configuration
  Control e.g. Aerospace & Defense (IS-ADEC).
• This document is making use of the Configuration Control functionality since EhP4.
• This document does not explain the used transactions and the underlying applications
  like LO-VC and the customizing in detail. Explanations are given as far they
  are necessary to understand the basics of configuration control.
• This document does not make an experienced Configuration Control consultant obsolete
  when you want to introduce Configuration Control at your company!

Regards

Robert Hügel

How can GPD improve Defense Manufacturing?

By Hank Schrandt

Aerospace and Defense Product Owner

SAP Labs

The Aerospace and Defense Industry is a contract driven market involving complex manufacturing processes that are highly regulated by the US government.  Reports and documents must be delivered to assure compliance to contracts and government standards.  Parts and services required to complete these contracts can get quite expensive and affects the contractor’s bottom line.

GPD (Grouping, Pegging and Distribution) is a software tool to optimize project manufacturing by grouping material requirements from multiple projects for purchasing and manufacturing parts.  Grouping common parts reduces the number of Purchase Orders and Production Orders.  Better pricing can be negotiated resulting in fewer minimum quantity purchases when collectively purchasing materials for multiple projects.  Also, fewer production orders with larger quantities yield greater efficiencies reducing the “per unit” cost.  A relationship table is maintained that defines which project WBS elements are allowed to participate in the Group.  Also, more than 1 Group can be used for the projects depending on the part number and the location on the BOM tree.  This will be discussed later.

GPD Pegging with the help of MRP Pegging defines which project WBS Elements share ownership of Planned Orders, Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders and Production Orders. MRP uses the stock quantities first to fulfil the earliest requirements and then uses FIFO to align the open orders to the remaining demand requirements.  GPD Pegging does the same.  Unlike MRP Pegging, GPD Pegging accounts for closed orders of parts no longer in stock to keep the Project Costs solution whole. These parts can be components one or more levels down on a WIP Production Order or waiting for a Planned Order yet to be converted to a Production Order.  If MRP Pegging sees a change to these open orders, GPD Pegging will see the same changes to these open orders and to all of their components below at all levels.

The GPD Pegging table is the road map as to how cost is distributed.  Not only does this table define the “MRP” Project WBS Elements that owns the costs for the parts by knowing the order numbers and quantities; this table can instruct GPD Distribution to direct the costs to go somewhere else via the value in the Break Point field, such as a WBS Element or Network.  This comes in handy when major subassembly costs are tracked separately.  For the sake of this white paper, I will treat project costs and GPD costs as non-valuated (actual costs which ignores costs on Material Masters and the General Ledger is unaffected) and gets expensed to the Project WBS Elements.

GPD is a tool to enable Project Manufacturing to operate like commercial manufacturing using MRP with the Production Planning module by combining project requirements.  Typical Project Manufacturing seldom looks beyond its project for purchasing and assembling parts.  Also, Project Manufacturing is performed in Project Systems within a project structure. When transferring parts between Project WBS Elements, a separate process is needed to move the associated costs which can take time gathering data and processing costs.  When transferring parts between Groups in GPD, the costs associated with the parts will be move automatically by GPD Distribution to the appropriate Project WBS Elements.

The key to GPD providing a smarter Project Manufacturing solution is the Grouping Strategy.  One must understand the cost reporting requirements and know how to build the Project and Group structures to support it.  Allow the system to provide the data flow and don’t try swimming across the current. 

First, need to understand the types of parts that are consumed in products across all contracts. The most common parts like nuts, bolts and screws can be treated as Valuated Plant Stock or Non-Valuated Common GPD Group stock (as a Common Group for several projects).  The costs of plant stock do not appear on the projects until the parts are issued to GPD relevant Production Orders and Distribution then moves the costs from the orders to the Project WBS Elements. Costs of Non-Valuated GPD Group Stock gets expensed to the projects at the time of the Goods Receipt or Invoice Receipt.  If costs cannot be billed to the customer until the parts are part of “WIP” (which means issued from stock), then recommend using Plant Stock (Weighted Average Cost or Standard Cost).  If costs can be billed but not claim as “Earned” for Earned Value, then the parts can be in a Common GPD Group and reporting can show that the costs are yet to be earned.

For other purchased parts that don’t figure into the Parameter Effectivity for Model Unit scenario, they can also be in a Common GPD Group Stock.  If costs cannot be billed to the customer until the parts are part of “WIP” (which means issued from stock), then recommend using Plant Stock (Weighted Average Cost or Standard Cost).  If costs can be billed but not claim as “Earned” for Earned Value, then the parts can be in a Common GPD Group.

For make parts that don’t figure into the Parameter Effectivity for Model Unit scenario, they can also be in a Common GPD Group Stock, Common GPD Mfg Group Stock or any other GPD Group which can be shared by multiple contracts.  Truly common parts in Common GPD Groups would not be for specific contracts but in a pool to support all participating projects.  A truly common part should meet the criteria of having the same Form, Fit and Function.

When dealing with parts that are controlled by Model and Unit Parameter Effectivity and to assure that parts for specific Model and Unit has the appropriate difference/changes as defined by the Change Document; these parts should be in a “Project Level” GPD Group to assure that the costs postings to the project reflect the hardware being provided to the customer as the screen shot below shows by the RED square.. If a “Common” GPD Group was used, there are no assurances that the parts with the changes will be pegged to the appropriate project to receive the correct costs.  Parameter Effectivity does not support GPD which is why those BOM levels involved should be handled within the “Project” Group.

Another option to Parameter Effectivity is to use WBS/Material BOMS and WBS/Material Routings.  Since there is no getting around “Project” Groups, the Project Group WBS Element can have its own set of BOMS and Routings for the same Assembly Material Numbers and is a less complicated process.  There is an MRP configuration setting to include WBS related master data.    

This graphic above shows different Grouping Strategies that can be used.  Each oval represents a GPD Group WBS Element.  One strategy not shown is the ability to have Assemblies at the top of the BOM tree to be executed and completed in Project Systems using Network Activities or Production Orders with a Project WBS Element on the Account Assignment in Production Planning module.

The Parameter Effectivity example above shows changes to multiple parts depending on the customer. Having a pool of parts in a Common GPD Group WBS Element makes it impossible to insure that the  costs for the changed parts gets pegged to the Project that received the hardware.

This image represents how Valuated Plant Stock supports GPD Grouping strategy.  GPD can have one or more Group WBS Elements supporting parts along the BOM tree.

The above image shows non-GPD BOM nodes at the top of the BOM structure.  Recommend using Project specific GPD Group at the top of the BOM including Parameter Effectivity BOM levels in the event when parts need to be transferred between projects so that their costs can be automatically moved via GPD Distribution.

It is recommended that project specific GPD Group WBS Elements be included in the Project Structure so that Parameter Effectivity, Parts, Production Orders, Purchase and Part reservations with their dates, statuses and costs can appear on standard Project Systems reports used by the Control Account Managers in the Program Offices.  Recommend placing the Project specific GPD Group WBS Elements not under the Billing WBS Element.  Only GPD Distributed costs should be billed to the customer. The Group WBS Elements should have zero costs after GPD Distribution is run, but may not if there are problems.

In summary:

1. The GPD Pegging Strategy is the foundation to optimize project manufacturing.  Work smarter and don’t swim across the current.
2. Know the manufacturing cost reporting requirements to the projects.  This defines the Project WBS Elements which MRP will see and where Break Points need to be defined.
3. Know the parts in the BOM structure.  Which parts are critical to the product and may be subject to Parameter Effectivity (PE)? They should be in project specific groups.  Recommend using WBS/Material BOMS and Routings for Change Control instead of PE for easy processing.
4. Are the costs of purchase parts sitting in stock allowed to be billed to the customer?  If no, these parts should be in a pool as Valuated Plant Stock.  If yes, these parts should be in a pool as non-Valuated Common GPD Group Stock if not project specific Parameter Effectivity parts.
5. Include Project GPD Groups in the Project structure not under Billing WBS Elements. Common GPD Groups can be part of a Common GPD Project Structure which is usually owned by the Manufacturing Organization.

I can be contacted at 215-704-6075 if you have any questions or would like discuss ideas on the use of GPD.

Hank Schrandt

A&D Indusrty Solutions Product Owner

Hello A&D Community

please read our latest series of blogs on aerospace use cases for Big Data and Internet Of Things:

Why big data can help to keep planes in the air  by Thomas Pohl

Commercializing Big Data Opportunities in A&D  by Magnus Bjorendahl

Uncovering the Business Value of Equipment Health Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance Technologies  by Chris MacLuckie

What´s Your Internet Of Things Strategy in Aerospace and Defense?  by Thomas Pohl

More topics will be discussed soon in our new blog series for Aerospace & Defense industry. If you have an interesting topic as well please share it with us. We are happy for any new submissions on the latest trends & technologies relevant to aerospace.

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So how can you jettison complexity and sail ahead of the competition?

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