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    Business Process Automation in SAP S/4HANA with SAP Intelligent RPA

    Unit 4: Process Automation in Manufacturing and


    Supply Chain – Part 1
    Process Automation in Manufacturing and Supply Chain – Part 1
    Innovations in SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing and Supply Chain

    aATP DDMRP pMRP Quality Inventory


    ▪ Customer segmentation ▪ Overcome increasing ▪ Simulate future scenarios
    for the plant to predict
    Management Management
    ▪ Automated mass order volatility in demand and ▪ Defect code proposal ▪ Predict arrival and manage
    processing using shorten lead-time capacity and component
    based on problem delivery delays for stock in
    alternative variants ▪ Keep inventory at optimum demand
    description transit
    ▪ Manage shortages along amount to deal with variation ▪ Closed loop inspection ▪ Pre-built set of inventory
    with business priorities at minimum cost across the planning using failure KPIs for analytics with drill-
    ▪ Improve business rules chain mode and effect analysis down functionality
    ▪ Fast re-plan ▪ Driving replenishment on ▪ Early detection of slow or
    ▪ Plant and material actual demand, not non-moving stock
    substitution forecasts. The best use of ▪ Situation handling for
    assets is to make what is overdue stock in transit
    needed and what sells.
    ▪ Propose decoupling points
    and buffer levels

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    Process Automation in Manufacturing and Supply Chain – Part 1
    Criteria for selecting processes for automating with RPA

    Focus Area Criteria


    ▪ Consolidate and manipulate data from multiple data sources, such as Manual & repetitive
    Excel, vendor portal, SAP systems
    Collect data ▪ Multiple applications touched by the user during process execution,
    e.g. Excel, Outlook, Web application, SAP S/4HANA, ERP, non-SAP
    systems

    High volume
    ▪ Approval follow-up with multiple stakeholders
    Collaborate, ▪ Workflow trigger
    trigger user
    ▪ Automatic service ticket resolution
    action, and
    communicate ▪ Monthly reports
    ▪ Email integration Multiple systems

    ▪ Process can be accelerated and improved by a digital assistant,


    for example, the integration of chat bots and RPA bots to perform
    Improve user operational work on user’s behalf Workaround for
    productivity
    ▪ Part of the processes are completely executed by bots, e.g. 24/7 native integration
    execution

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    Process Automation in Manufacturing and Supply Chain – Part 1
    What is SAP Intelligent RPA?

    Robotic process automation (RPA) accelerates digital transformation of business processes


    by automatically replicating tedious actions where human workers don’t bring any added value.

    Unattended:
    Fully automated process, where robots are working autonomously with human
    supervision only

    Attended:
    Partially automated process, where robots are co-working with humans, also called
    robotic desktop automation (RDA)

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    Process Automation in Manufacturing and Supply Chain – Part 1
    SAP Intelligent RPA architecture

    Developer/Designer Administrator

    R R R

    Desktop Studio Factory

    R
    Application Studio Export Configuration Monitoring

    Deployed
    Package
    Package
    Credentials

    Hierarchies

    Desktop Agent

    R R
    Execution
    Application Agent Orchestration
    Logs

    Client / On-Premise SAP Cloud Platform


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    Process Automation in Manufacturing and Supply Chain – Part 1
    Available RPA bot templates for manufacturing and supply chain*

    Type of
    Scope Source System(s)
    Automation
    Post Goods Movement (4FP) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
    Outbound Delivery – Post Goods Issue for Non-Warehouse Management (4HV) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
    Create Just-In-Time Calls (4HX) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
    Intelligent Production Order Conversion (4HR) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
    Process Order Confirmation (4G7) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
    Production Order Completion (4FF) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
    Maintain Planned Independent Requirements (4FL) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
    Mass Printing of Production Order Picklist (4FZ) SAP S/4HANA Cloud UI
    Production Order Operation Confirmation (49T) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
    Physical Inventory Count – Generate Count List (49R) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
    Physical Inventory Count – Upload Count List (4A8) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API
    Make Usage Decision in Quality Inspection (4G9) SAP S/4HANA Cloud API

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    Thank you.
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