An Indian home appliances manufacturer reduces supply chain constraints using SAP Production Planning with Maventic
Maventic
MaventicAbout Client
The client is a home appliances manufacturer with six manufacturing plants across India. It produces laundry, kitchen, living and industrial products, and additives and accessories.
Business Scenario
Before partnering with Maventic, the client relied on siloed applications and manual processes across its manufacturing plants for material planning.
Challenges
The existing business processes resulted in
Solution
The client decided that the best course of action was to digitize its supply chain to improve its manufacturing capabilities. After evaluating a few SAP partners, they selected Maventic’s proposal to utilize the SAP PP module’s functionalities of MRP (Material Requirement Planning) and Capacity Leveling to forecast demand ahead of time and manage inventory effectively.
The client can now automatically generate
Additionally, through the SAP PP - Capacity Leveling functionality, the client can balance the load on a work center if it exceeds 100% by changing the schedule dates or shifting the work to other work centers undertaking similar operations, free at the same time.
The technologies utilized for this project were SAP PP, SAP MM and SAP ABAP for reports.
Benefits
With SAP PP - MRP implemented, the client is now able to manually input demand into the planning tool as per their marketing schedule weekly, and then quickly initiate procurement and production processes while taking full advantage of the following benefits:
