Outline

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IT solutions for Enterprises - PPS to
ERP Automotive Experience Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Rainer Kämpf Bernhard Winkler, Agilas.org
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Goals

• To understand the complexity of ERP systems
• To get in touch with challenges of ERP
  implementations
• To understand internal and external influences to
  ERP implementations

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Automotive Lighting AG

• Some company figures
• Headquater Innsbruck, Austria
• worldwide 21 plants
• 7900 employees

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Products
Headlamps
Adaptive lights
rearlamps
Headlamp leveling
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Manufacturing local and global

• Think global act local!Manufacturing and
  assembly close to the customer (cost of labor
  versus proximity to customer)
• US Market manufacturing sites USA Mexiko
• European Market manufacturing sites in
  Deutschland, Frankreich, Tschechien Italien,
  Spanien
• Asian Market Malaysia, China

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IT-Strategy

• Outsourcing
• Internal application support
• Centralized support team
• Interoperability
• System communication

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Follow the Sun

• IT systems are placed and supported in
  centralised areas.Cenrtralized according to
  the follow the sun priciple

Pacific
Europe
America
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Software

• SAP is the central tool for
• Manufacturing
• Sales and distribution
• Accounts receivable and payable
• Human resources
• Demand planning and purchasing
• MS Office

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Software
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Trading partners

• Different kinds of business partners

customers
suppliers
plants
warehouses
carriers
Special stock partners
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Electronic Data Interchange

• EDI supports business integration and allows a
  high performance supply chain.Using specific
  formats, electronic signals are exchanged with
  business partners. These electronic signals can
  be automatically processed.
• System integration

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EDI-Formats

• Based on the globalization different electronic
  data interchange (EDI) formats have to be
  handled.
• ANSI
• EDIFACT
• ODETTE
• VDA
• XML

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Supply scenarios

• Various kinds of shipping scenarios
• Direct supply to customers
• Supply via external warehouses
• Supply via consignment stocks
• Just in Time and Just in Sequence (JIT/JIS)

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Direct Supply to the customer

• Planning and Scheduling of carriers and freight
  forwarders
• labeling
• Time critical process
• Routing and Time scheduling

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Shipment monitoring
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Shipment information
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External Warehouse

• Integration of external warehouses to the
  IT-environment
• Online access to ERP or
• Interfacing using EDI
• Deliveries and Shipments can be either initiated
  by the external agent or by the shipping
  department itself.

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Consignment process

• Supply to a customer-co-located warehouse
• Inventory management for non on site storage
  location
• EDI signals for
• Goods receipts
• Goods issue
• Stock balance
• Final delivery to customer will be triggered by
  the customer

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JIS supply

• Supply just in sequence.

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Planning

• Decentral planning versus central data
  maintainance
• plants control their manufacturing decentrally
  different planning scenarios on plant levels
• Masterdata will be maintained centrally

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central master data maintainance
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Central master data maintainance
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Bullwhip-Effekt

• Creation of a bullwhip effect based on rounding
  quantities and creation of buckets ? impacts the
  Supply-Chain

Demandplanning
OEM
TIER1
TIER2
Demand 01.11.04 100 St. week 47 500 St. week
48 500 St. week 49 500 St. December 2000 St.
Demand November 1600 St. December 2000 St.
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pmc
Sales
Log
IT
Nachrichten Monitoring WE05 Neukunden-pflege
Übersicht Check aller Nachrichten
Allgem. Briefkasten Kunden Varianten
Allgem. Briefkasten Kunden Varianten
Mais PuS - Prozess
Convert Files
Mais-Einspielung
Partner profile
Lieferplan-findung
Steuertabelle KdT661 EDSDC
Kd.Mat. Für Verp.
Allgem. Briefkasten Kunden Varianten
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Trading partner Hirarchy
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Order processing using EDI
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Challenges

• International company challenges in language
  barriers and different culture (Italy / Czech
  Republic / Thüringen / Baden-Württemberg)
• Function versus process
• Communications-Issues
• Change-Management / Motivation
• Standard versus Advantages
• And many more