Discrete manufacturing: Mapping BP Analytics key figures to system status

More than 5 years ago we wrote a blog on how to best monitor a discrete manufacturing process. Back then key figures like "Production/Process Orders overdue for Release" and "Production/Process Orders overdue for Technical Closure" have been described. Some other key figures, that describe process steps in-between, were left out back at that time. Such key figures as
    

• Production/Process Orders Released without first Confirmation
• Production/Process Orders overdue for Final Confirmation
• Production/Process Orders overdue for Delivery Completed

All those key figures were optimized from a technical runtime perspective, i.e. those key figures are only reading from tables AUFK, AFKO and AFPO and do not select data from the status table JEST, which is typically huge.

Customers are usually so used/trained on looking at system status (e.g. CRTD, REL, PCNF, CNF, PDLV, DLV) for a production/process orders, that those users are having difficulties to understand what the above mentioned key figures are measuring. This  blog shall help to bridge this gap and shall explain how the key figures in Business Process Analytics map to the system status in a production/process order.

Mapping Business Process Analytics key figures to system status in order

I will explain the key figures in the logical order of a discrete manufacturing process

1. Production/Process Orders overdue for Release
   • measures those orders which have been created (status CRTD) and where the scheduled release date already lies x days in the past, but where no actual release took place (i.e. status REL not yet reached)
2. Production/Process Orders Released without first Confirmation
   • measures those orders which have been released (status REL) and where the actual release date lies x days in the past, but where no initial confirmation took place (i.e. status PCNF not yet reached)
3. Production/Process Orders overdue for Final Confirmation
   • measures those orders which have been released (status REL) and where the scheduled end date already lies x days in the past, but where no final confirmation took place (i.e. status CNF not yet reached)
4. Production/Process Orders overdue for Delivery Completed
   • measures those orders which have been released and at least initially confirmed (status REL & PCNF) and where the scheduled end date already lies x days in the past, but where no delivery completed flag was set (i.e. status DLV not yet reached)
5. Production/Process Orders overdue for Technical Closure
   • measures those orders which have been released, initially confirmed and are complete regarding delivery (status REL & PCNF & DLV) and where the scheduled end date already lies x days in the past but where no technical completion took place (i.e. status TECO not yet reached)

Let's summarize it in a short table:

Further reading

Frequently Asked Questions about Business Process Monitoring and Business Process Analytics are answered under http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SM/FAQ+Business+Process+Monitoring and

http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/SM/FAQ+Business+Process+Analytics respectively.

The following blogs (in chronological order) provide further details about Business Process Analytics and Business Process Monitoring functionalities within the SAP Solution Manager.

• New Business Process Monitoring functionalities in SAP Solution Manager – ALE / IDoc Monitoring
• New Business Process Monitoring functionalities in SAP Solution Manager – qRFC Monitoring
• Best Practice: Business Process Monitoring for Manufacturing
• Best Practice: Business Process Monitoring for Procure to Pay
• Best Practice: Business Process Monitoring for Order to Cash
• Typical Use Cases for Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager
• New key figure catalog for Business Process Monitoring available
• Why SAP offers different tools for Business Process Monitoring & Business Process Optimization
• Create your own auto-reaction messages in Business Process Monitoring via BAdI exit
• Protect your SAP ERP investment & improve your core business processes
• Create your own customer-specific key figure for Business Process Monitoring within 5 minutes
• Best Practice: BW Process Chain monitoring with SAP Solution Manager - Part 1
• New key figures for Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager, especially for CRM Marketing
• New functionality "Business Process Analytics" - how to improve your business processes
• New key figures for Business Process Monitoring in SAP Solution Manager, especially Lead Time measurements
• Traditional Business KPI approach vs Business Process Monitoring
• Systematic errors vs real exceptions or improving efficiency vs effectiveness
• Before you get started with SAP HANA...you should also consider cleaning-up your backend system first
• Best Practice: Business Process Monitoring for CRM Sales
• Business Process Operations dashboards - ALL AT A GLANCE
• Customer testimonials on Business Process Analytics
• Customer Exit: Create your own key figure for BPMon AND Business Process Analytics
• Heads-up: Setup environment of BPMon & Analytics changes with SolMan 7.1 SP5
• New key figures for BPMon & BP Analytics, especially for working capital improvement
• New Business Process Monitoring functionalities in SAP Solution Manager - BPMon Alert Reporting Analysis
• New Business Process Analytics features with SAP SolMan 7.1 SP5
• New Business Process Analytics - The filter sequence makes the difference
• New key figures: Analyzing/Monitoring exceptions during delivery due processing
• New key figure: Analyzing/Monitoring exceptions during billing due processing
• Enhanced key figures: Analyzing/monitoring SD invoices not transferred to FI
• New key figures: Analyzing/monitoring exceptions in CRM Sales or Service documents, Business Activities or Tasks
• New keyfigures: Analyzing/monitoring exceptions from APO planning runs
• New key figures for BPMon & BP Analytics - new exception and automation rate key figures for ERP plus new content for FSCM, APO and CRM
• New key figures: Analyzing/monitoring exceptions during Period End Closing
• New key figures: Analyzing/monitoring exceptions in Controlling (CO-PC)
• Enhanced key figures: Bridging the organizational gap between SD and FI-AR
• Business Process Analytics: Types of key figures and their respective use cases
• Business Process Analytics: Types of functions and their respective features & purposes
• New key figures for BPMon & BP Analytics - new content for Travel & Expense Management, Banking and Utilities
• SAP Business Process Analytics" available for download in Apple's App Store