Overall information solution for SAP Steel Industry

Steel EnterprisesInformatizationIt has been around the world for decades. So far, for level 1, level 2, and level 3SystemFor example, the technical routes adopted by steel enterprises are basically the same and there is no big difference. Among them, level 1 and level 2 systems are often provided by electrical equipment suppliers, or will be provided along with the purchase of new equipment. Third-level systems are generally developed based on their own needs. At present, some mature commercial software is used as the basis, and some self-developed technical routes are also emerging. For the development of level 4 and Level 5 systems, different steel enterprises have taken completely different technical routes. So far, there have been three technical routes to be followed. Among them, Model 1 represents the United States steel, Model 2 represents the Pohang Iron, and model 3 represents the thyssinkrupp group.

Overall technical route suggestions

For steel enterprisesInformatizationThe overall technical route we suggest is:

 

1) level 4 and Level 5System:ImplementationUnified sap steel industry solutions.

2) Level 3System: You can use a unified third-level system commercial software and a small number of development technical routes based on the actual situation; or self-developed third-level systems, or improve the existing third-level system, establish a three-level system that is integrated with sap.

3) level 1 and level 2System: Use software provided by electrical equipment suppliers or self-developed and improved some systems.

Why?ImplementationThe SAP steel version is a unified level 4 and 5ManagementThe information platform does not use other commercial software for the following three reasons:

1) steel enterprises are larger in size than general enterprises,ManagementComplex and comprehensive features. Not only does it have high requirements for traditional management of finance, production, sales, and supply, high requirements for equipment maintenance, quality management, project management, and human resource management. We need to build a unified platform to manage all aspects of the iron and steel enterprises, rather than level 4 and Level 5 Integrated on a large scale.SystemTo achieve comprehensive management. Currently, only the sap steel version can achieve this in the world. Only by using the sap steel version can enterprises avoid large-scale integration.

2) production, quality and materials of Steel EnterprisesManagementIt has special requirements. Although other commercial software has modules such as production, sales, supply, and quality, it cannot meet the specific requirements of steel enterprise flow program production and material description, therefore, it cannot be well applied in steel enterprises, or even forced enterprises to develop on their own. Pohang is a good example. SAP's steel industry solutions fully consider the production and material description features of process-based production enterprises, and completely solve the key problems that traditional management software cannot adapt to the steel industry. Therefore, only the steel version of SAP can effectively avoid taking the road of developing a large number of core production, sales and quality management systems in Pohang.

3) the SAP system has been used by more than 900 iron and steel metallurgical enterprises worldwide and is a proven system. Thysankrupp is also in the whole groupImplementationThe SAP system.

Figure: Software System Solution

 

ImplementationInformatizationManagementThe system is to build an information management system. For steel enterprises, a unified, comprehensive, integrated, and real-time sharing management information platform should be built to solve the problem of information transmission and sharing. Then, relying on this platform, we will build a management system based on information management. Specifically, sap can be used to build a platform and seven major management systems.

One platform: a unified, comprehensive, integrated, and real-time sharedManagementInformation Platform.

Seven major systems: an integrated production and sales operating system, product lifecycle management system, asset lifecycle management system, human resource management system, core financial management system, marketing system, and supply system.

By constructing such a management system, enterprises can integrate internal resources to achieve close integration of internal logistics, capital flow and information flow. On this basis, through the establishment of customer relationship management system, Supplier Relationship Management System and supply chain management system to achieve management upstream and downstream extension. At the same time, an enterprise management cockpit is set up to build an enterprise-level decision support system.

The product lifecycle management system can manage the entire process from product R & D. The R & D process includes data collection, document management, product data management (materials, BOM, formula, and process routes), quality management, project management, and test production management. SAP provides a complete set of product R & D lifecycle management solutions, including the above. These functions are fully integrated in the corresponding modules.

Module structure

Currently, the complete sap product is named mysap business suite. It mainly includes mysap ERP (mysap R/3 system) (Finance and cost management, sales and distribution management, material management, production planning and management, quality management, factory maintenance, project management, and human resources management), advanced plan and optimizer (mysap APO), Customer Relationship Management (mysap CRM), Supplier Relationship Management (mysap SRM), business intelligence and decision support system (mysap bw/SEM) and the Steel Industry Enhancement component (mysap dimp ).

The steel industry solution provided by SAP is a comprehensive, complete, and integrated system, its functions cover finance, cost, production, sales, supply, inventory, quality, project management, equipment maintenance, human resource management, supply chain management, customer relationship management, supplier relationship management, and decision-making. support and other steel enterprisesInformatizationManagement requirements