how to customize sap plant maintenance

GuiXT.com© 2013 Synactive, Inc. GuiXT.com

How to Customize SAP Plant

MaintenanceDeeDee Kato – Director of Marketing

Tony Holland – Solutions Consulting

Manager

Agenda

• Plant Maintenance Challenges

• Liquid UI Platform

• Customer Use Case

• Screen design and tools demo

• WS function concepts– Steps for combining screens

– Screen Combine example

– WS Variables

– Invoking functions

– Interpreting function codes

• Code snippets

• Q & A

The Challenges faced with traditional SAP use

© 2013 Synactive, Inc.

Challenges for Plant Maintenance Technicians, Supervisors, and Schedulers

Inefficient: SAP screens and navigation cause

a reduction in productivity for maintenance

technicians who are not SAP power users

Error-prone: Users do not understand

transaction-based language, data quality

suffers

Negative production performance: Orders

not closed even when the work has been

completed creates a work order backlog

Labor-intensive: Time-consuming

processes impact the need to respond

quickly to plant maintenance issues


• Compliance to Regulatory boards

• Increase production costs

• Unplanned downtime

• Equipment failures

• Laborious scheduling and

monitoring of maintenance

resources

• Uncontrolled inventory

Challenges for company


• Internally developed or acquired solutions

• Silo’d solutions for different interfaces

• Browser-based alternatives with latency issues


And a multitude of SAP solutions

What if you could go from this ……….


25 Screens with less than 4 input fields per screen

To this…..One Screen with all fields plus:


• Intuitive Screen Layout

• One button click to access various lookups

• Data to be entered to screens that are not showing

• Pushbuttons and radio buttons for repetitive search criteria.

And deploy to this …

One development effort, all touchpointsSAP @ Your Fingertips

Statistics – AEI

• Single screen for (Purchase Requisitions) ME51N, ME52N and ME53N.

• Training time reduced by 80%.

• ME51N is now 4 min. vs. 8 min. process.

• Savings of 100K annually just on Create transaction.

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The Active Launchpad

• Notifications and Work Orders queue

• Contextual Menu Bar

Before and After Notifications


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• No tab, no drop down or pop up, simpler menu

• Failure Data section displayed only if needed for cleaner layout

• Browse, update, create, print

Before and After Work Orders


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• No tab, no drop down or pop up, simpler

• Failure Data section displayed only if needed for cleaner layout

• Browse, update

• Wildcard and BOM search for components

• Create emergency work order

• Time confirmation

Statistics

• More time available for actual maintenance work

(Stats for skilled users. For average users gains

are even better)

– Retrieve Notification or Work Order: -70%

– Create Notification or Work Order: -40%

• Less training required and better data quality

– No need of formal sessions. Basic on the job

training is sufficient.

Plant Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Console


Statistics

With approximately

8,000 work orders in

various stages, an

average of 5 mins

per work order was

reduced to 30 secs,

increasing

productivity by 90%.


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• Built on proven GuiXT technology

• Extends your SAP across both desktop

and mobile devices

• Consolidates business related

transactions, fields and tabs

• Start from SAP, Record Once and

Deploy everywhere

• No Java, ABAP programming; No 3rd

party application server required

• Simple scripting to empower a

responsive IT Team

Unified, Non-disruptive Business SolutionLean, Agile Development

Liquid UI PlatformConnects directly to SAP through patented connectivity

Companies running PM powered by GuiXT


Agenda

• Plant Maintenance Challenges

• Liquid UI Platform

• PM - Customer Use Case

• Screen design and tools demo

• WS function concepts– Steps for combining screens


– WS Variables



• Code snippets

• Q & A

GuiXT WS/Mobile/Offlinew/RFID Barcode ScannersSAP Module: PM,QM,WM,MFG

Customer Scenario(Maersk Drilling P3M)

About Maersk

• The largest container ship operator and supply vessel operator in the world since 1996.

• A.P. Moller – Maersk Group is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, with subsidiaries and offices in more than 135 countries worldwide and around 108,000 employees.

• It ranked 147 on the Fortune Global 500 list for 2010, down from 106 in 2009

• Revenue US$60.4 billion (2010)

• Operating income US $11.42 billion (2010)

• Employees 108,110 (average, 2010)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maersk

Business Case – Large Drilling Company

• No current support to access SAP during VSAT downtime (offline mode)

No existing handheld application being used in the drilling rigs offshore for maintenance of rigs.

Problem Statement

• Previous project with another vendor did not get deployed successfully and got lost in the pipeline. (Cost to develop $1.3Million USD)

• Synactive Offline solution was more for less (relatively a fraction of the cost, but more functionality)

• Support for offline VSAT

Synactive’s Approach

• Develop an offline application to handle PM process in SAP

• Successfully download records from SAP through VSAT connection

• Perform rig maintenance on Mobile Devices in offline mode

• Successfully synchronize data into SAP eliminating redundant data entry

Synactive Solution

• Mobile Application works with both Stylus and Keypad.

• User has help screens to guide through each screen built into the application.

• Added easy navigation through context-menus.

• First implementation for synchronizing through high latency VSAT

Process Flow of Customer PM Use Case

Screen Cam

Download Metrics Through VSAT (750ms Latency)

Notification Records VSAT (mm:ss) Land Line (mm:ss)

318 1:36 0:26

319 1:30 0:25

Before / After Screen Performance Improvements

Screens

• Work Order Display

• Notification Display

• Create Notification

• Create Work Order

% Time Spent

• 71%

• 69%

• 40%

• 37%

Native SAP

• 35 Seconds

• 35 Seconds

• 250 Seconds

• 330 Seconds

Guixt

• 10 Seconds

• 11 Seconds

• 150 Seconds

• 210 Seconds

Screen design and tools demo

WS function concepts

• WS function concepts

– Steps for combining screens (Using Designer)


– WS Variables



Screen Combine – 5 Step Process

1. Record business process

2. Turn off the recording and save the recorded function

3. Design the interface

4. Make changes to the recorded function

5. Attach the function to a Pushbutton or a UIEvent

• Launch designer and toggle to the script mode.

• Click on the record option

• Complete steps involved in the business process

Step 1: Record Business Process

Screen Combine

Screen Combine – Create Material MM01


• Click “Select Views”

Screen Combine

Step 1: Record Business Process • Select Views

– Basic Data 1

– Sales Org. Data 1

– Sales: General/Plant Data

– MRP 1, MRP 2, MRP 3

• Click “Organizational levels”

• Enter: Plant, Stor. Location, Sales Org, Division

• Press Enter

Screen Combine

• Enter “Material description”

• Enter “Base unit of measure”

• Enter “Material group”

• Click on “Sales: sales Org.1”tab


Screen Combine


• Enter “Tax Classification”

• Click on

“Sales: General/Plant” Tab

Screen Combine


• Enter “Trans. Grp”

• Enter “LoadingGrp”

• Click on “MRP 1” Tab

Screen Combine

Step 1: Record Business Process• Enter “MRP type”

• Click on “MRP 2” tab

• Check “Bulk material”

• Enter “SchedMargin key”

• Click on “MRP 3” tab

Screen Combine


• Enter “Availability check”

• Click on “Save” to create material

• Click “Yes” to create material

Screen Combine


• Material created

• Turn off recording

• Step 2: Save the script recording as a function in the same script file or a different script file

Screen Combine

Screen Combine

• Delete unwanted fields

• Default values in fields

• Create radio buttons for “Plant” to limit user choices

• Select Text control to change Inputfield label

• Specify label for the Inputfield

• Step 3: Design Screen Interface Using Designer

Screen Combine

• Double click on edit field

• Specify size of the Inputfield

• Select ‘Parameters’ to specify name of the variable. User input is stored in this variable


Screen Combine


• No field for

– “Availability check”, default to “01”

– “SchedMargin, default to “000”

• Create Checkbox for “Bulk Material”

• Specify name of variable for the checkbox

Screen Combine

• Step 3: Design Screen Interface - Result screen

• Step 4: Modify Recorded Script

Screen Combine

• Replace recorded values with variables

Screen Combine

• Add code to select table rows (Select Views). These are not recorded by the script recorder

• Step 4: Modify Recorded Script

• Create Pushbutton with icon

• Check “Process” checkbox

• Specify function name

• Step 5: Link the recorded function to Pushbutton

Screen Combine

• Result Screen

Screen Combine

Designer Screen SAPGUI Screen

Code snippets – PM Launchpad

Code snippets -SAPLSMTR_NAVIGATION.E0100.sjs

• title('Launchpad: Powered by GuiXT');• clearscreen();

• productName = "LiquidUI:";

• MainDir = "d3=C:\\GALA";

• PMUTIL2012Dir = "d3=C:\\GALA\\UTIL-2012\\PM";

• MMVASDirN = "d3=C:\\GALA\\UTIL-2012\\MMC-Trial";• MMVASDir = "C:\\GALA\\UTIL-2012\\MMC-Trial";

• PMCTrial = "d3=C:\\GALA\\UTIL-2012\\PMC-Trial";

• load("globalFunctions.sjs");

• box([0,0],[5,44],'Plant Maintenance - Packages');• pushbutton([1,2],"PMC - Trial","/nsession_manager/"+PMCTrial, {"size":[2,40]});• pushbutton([3,2],"Plant Maintenance","/nzguixt/"+PMUTIL2012Dir, {"size":[2,40]});

• box([0,46],[5,90],'Material Managment - Packages');• pushbutton([1,48],"MMC - Trial","/nsession_manager/"+MMVASDirN, {"size":[2,40]});

• set('V[Z_LOAD_FILES]','');

Code snippets – PM Launchpad

Code snippets -SAPLSMTR_NAVIGATION.E0100.sjs

• function isBlank(jvar){ //checks the value of a variable• if(typeof jvar == 'string') {• jvar = jvar.trim();• }• return(jvar == null || jvar == "" || jvar == void 0);• }

• String.prototype.trim = function() { return this.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "");} //Creates a string prototype function

• title('Consoles: Powered by GuiXT WS Platform');• if(<'P[Create role]'>.isValid) del('P[Create role]');• if(<'P[Assign users]'>.isValid) del('P[Assign users]');• if(<'P[Documentation]'>.isValid) del('P[Documentation]');• if(<'P[Move Favorites down]'>.isValid) del('P[Move Favorites down]');• if(<'P[Move Favorites up]'>.isValid) del('P[Move Favorites up]');• if(<'P[Add to Favorites]'>.isValid) del('P[Add to Favorites]');• if(<'P[Delete Favorites]'>.isValid) del('P[Delete Favorites]');• if(<'P[Change Favorites]'>.isValid) del('P[Change Favorites]');• if(<'P[Other menu]'>.isValid) del('P[Other menu]');• if(<'P[User menu]'>.isValid) del('P[User menu]');• if(<'P[SAP menu]'>.isValid) del('P[SAP menu]');• if(<'P[SAP Business Workplace]'>.isValid) del('P[SAP Business Workplace]');

• pos('X[IMAGE_CONTAINER]',[8,0]);• pushbutton([TOOLBAR], '@2M@Main',"/nsession_manager/"+MainDir);

• box([0,0],[7,40],'PM Consoles');• pushbutton([1,1], '@5W@Planner', '/niw47',{"size":[2,39]});• pushbutton([3,1], '@KJ@Scheduler', '/nmb52', {"size":[2,39]});• pushbutton([5,1], '@CK@Supervisor', '/niw28', {"size":[2,39]});

Planner Console: iW47

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