SAP Experience

We help companies to transform all the information coming from the different systems into real knowledge and indispensable for a successful management.

The core purpose of B.I. Is to support and facilitate business decisions.

B.I. Enables organizations to access information that is essential for the success of multiple areas including sales, finance, marketing, and a variety of other fields.
By effectively leveraging SAP business intelligence, organizations can enhance their operations with more accessible data, provide valuable insights into industry trends, and facilitate a more strategic approach.

The Adopted Approach

• Scope of Action

The scope of Stefanini’s intervention is not limited to the implementation of the architecture necessary to achieve the strategic results for the client. We provide support for troubleshooting and performance analysis.
A separate discussion is warranted for HANA: starting from the principle that more data equals more memory used and required, we have developed layered strategies to mitigate HANA memory consumption. This allows for cost savings and postpones the need to purchase new HANA appliances.

• Transition from BW (7.5) to BW4/HANA

The use of HANA also makes, in some cases, the distinction between OLTP (ERP) and OLAP (BW) systems somewhat outdated, as the two functionalities are integrated within HANA, where “embedded analytics” capabilities can be executed. Stefanini supports clients in the conversion of their BW (7.5) system to BW4/HANA.

Stefanini’s Experience

Our consultants possess the necessary expertise to integrate all types of information, creating a cohesive and shared knowledge base that supports decision-making processes and facilitates the connection between those who have the information and those who need it.

We have gained extensive experience and worked on numerous projects based on the main SAP products and solutions (BW, BI, BO, and BPC).

We are the technology partner supporting the customer for infrastructure implementation and management.

SAP Business Technology Platform is the integrated offering from SAP, the new paradigm that allows you to resolve your complex business problems and open your business to innovative goals

SAP B.T.P. includes four portfolios of technology solutions orchestrated to allow SAP solutions to be implemented or extended quickly and effectively. Users will be able to take advantage of SAP technological solutions to transform data into useful information for business development and to implement end-to-end processes. It is the new open, business-centric, unified SAP platform that is critical to your entire SAP ecosystem, a technological enabler that allows users to create value, while also providing the opportunity to extend SAP solutions to effectively respond to evolving business scenarios. Countless HANA, BI, BPC projects, integrations and ongoing maintenance services have allowed and continue to allow customers to focus on the development and adoption of the innovative aspects that the SAP platform provides.

A combination of four technological portfolios, including:

1) Data and Database Management

SAP B.T.P. reduces data redundancy, improves its quality and optimizes its use for analyses using the SAP panoply to develop master data management systems to streamline business processes and obtain a shared, reliable view of master data along the entire value chain.
The tools made available to SAP for this area are:

• SAP HANA
• SAP HANA CLOUD
• SAP Master Data Governance
• SAP Data Intelligence.

To these are added the solutions of SAP partners, in order to expand the features of SAP products:

• SAP Extendend Enterprise Content Management By OpenText
• SAP Advanced Data Migration by Syniti.

2) Smart Technologies

How can smart technologies be profitably used in customers’ SAP ecosystems? How can you get the utmost in terms of performance and innovation from your systems? How can you minimize repetitive activities with little or no added value for your business and reduce operating costs?
SAP’s answer is in the fourth pillar of B.T.P.: with the help of innovative technologies and tools such as predictive analysis, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), the automation of robotic processes and conversational artificial intelligence, this intelligence is incorporated into business processes and transformed into intelligent processes. The complete set helps the customer to support all go-to-market models and innovate the company in every sector with the support of partners using an open platform.
The SAP tools available are:

• SAP IoT
• SAP Edge Services
• AI Business Services
• SAP Conversational AI

3) Application Development and Integration

B.T.P. is the quintessential open system that allows you to integrate, extend and develop smart apps.
The customer can create and integrate business applications, customize the user experience, extend solutions with preconfigured features and, lastly, access partner solutions.
The SAP tools available are:

• SAP Cloud Platform
• SAP Process Orchestration

4) Analyses

Business Intelligence and Data warehousing are SAP’s analytical solutions that allow you to create real-time insights through machine learning features. The complex is enriched by the augmented analysis used to analyze the past, the present and, lastly, simulate future scenarios.
The SAP tools available are:

• SAP Analytic Cloud
• SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (B.I.)
• SAP Datawarehouse Cloud
• SAP Analytics Cloud for planning
• SAP Business Planning Consolidation.

We support our customers with basis configuration and connection of the SAC solution to their data via both Live Data Connection and Import Data Connection. SAP Analytics Cloud is a single platform expressly designed for the cloud world and is the data visualization tool in the SAP Cloud.

Benefits deriving from the Use of SAC

SAP offers a comprehensive solution for Business Intelligence. Accessible online in SaaS mode, SAC is destined to become the reference tool of the SAP Cloud suite. The continuous development of the integration of the data visualization part of SAC in other SAP Cloud solutions uniforms report styles and facilitates their use irrespective of the tool. SAP’s strategy is to prioritize cloud solutions for planning tools. The use of SAP Analytics Cloud is recommended for planning of a single, usable cloud environment. Its collaborative planning tools provide tangible added value for updating forecasts in every division of the company and its integration with SAP S/4HANA allows for easy data blending.

The Goal of SAC

Make collaborative business planning and business intelligence more efficient. It is a unique solution, made even more powerful thanks to machine learning and predictive analytics. In so doing, SAP Analytics Cloud enables companies to make smart decisions and achieve better results. The recovery of data from the customer’s systems, while browsing reports, takes place in real time through Live Data Connections. Subsequently, Import Data Connections allow data replication within the cloud platform. Thanks to these factors, the use of data is always fast, simple and, above all, highly reliable. This allows companies to effectively focus on their business. Furthermore, thanks to the management of data ownership, the highest level of Data Privacy is guaranteed.

We offer all our experience and know-how to support the organizations to accurately implement and manage their Process Integration.

Stefanini Provides you with support in all technological areas related to the solution: release upgrades, instance split, configuration, security measures, performance and migrations

SAP Process Orchestration supports various integration scenarios and customer process applications. It models, implements, integrates and monitors your processes and scenarios quickly and flexibly. By creating leaner and more adaptable processes, you can innovate faster and better respond to changing needs.

SAP PO is one of the steps in the evolution of the “application integration middleware” SW as seen by SAP; evolution started with eXchange Infrastructure and came into being in on premise solutions (PI and PO) and cloud implementations (HCI and CPI):

SAP PO is a combination of different products, in addition to those already present in SAP PI, which have been packaged together:

• Business Process Management (BPM)
• Business Rule Management (BRM)
• Enterprise Service Repository (ESR)
• Process Integration (PI)
• B2B Collaboration
• Cloud Integration

Benefits:

• The system allows you to integrate SAP with other SAP and non-SAP systems, as well as build and run A2A and B2B interfaces using synchronous and asynchronous communication techniques.
• All running exclusively on the SAP netweaver JAVA platform (developments for SAP PO will exclusively involve the Java stack).
• It improves the speed and flexibility of operations by creating customized process applications, lowers development costs thanks to the use of a unified solution and strengthens compliance through the use of rules and orchestrated processes.

We support customers in the architecture setup, implementation, monitoring and safety, managing the production process of a company in an integrated and efficient manner.

An MES system was created to respond to the fundamental need to connect the corporate management system (ERP) to the control systems of the machines in the production and logistics departments, in order to optimize these processes by improving the control of resources and the quality of the goods produced.

Information is provided in real time to the offices involved so that they can get a comprehensive view of the progress of orders, the physical status of the resources and materials used, progress in terms of quantity and time and warehouse receiving, as well as a direct connection to the machinery to collect information that can be used to integrate the execution of production, i.e. to produce information for the control of production itself.

SAP ME (Manufacturing Execution) is the MES of SAP

SAP ME is a standalone system, integrated with countless features that ensure control over manufacturing operations, the correct execution of operations, the traceability of components, the optimization of the reduction of cycle and inventory times. It provides a global vision regarding lines, systems and plants. It allows the identification of defects before the end of production, promptly intervening with corrective measures to save time and money. SAP standard MES module that provides standard integration with the customer’s SAP ecosystem and supports countless standards.

SAP MII (Manufaturing Integration and Intelligence)

The platform is based on NetWeaver Java. Its function is that of a data hub between SAP ERP and applications deployed in the field, it synchronizes production operations with the back office since it acts as a central information interface to and from SAP ERP. It guarantees real-time visibility for all production information including orders, materials, quantities, costs and product quality.

SAP MII vertically integrates systems deployed in the field and collects data in real time by connecting them to the SAP ERP system. Each device can be used to view SAP MII data on production progress. SAP MII provides significant, intelligent improvements regarding the productivity and effectiveness of tools. Indeed, thanks to the use of SAP MII, you will be able to view exactly what you wish to monitor, the planned production progress, energy consumption, costs and production waste, since all data from the field is of fundamental importance.

SAP PCo (Plant Connectivity)

The PCo component is closely related to the ME/MII world. Through it, SAP provides a SW component that enables the exchange of data between a SAP system (MII, ME, EWM, ERP, ESP) and process control systems, SPC systems. Thanks to it, the customer receives notifications/events of connected source systems in automatic mode or on request, forwarding them to the related SAP system connected.                                             The advantages of using PCo:

• Speed of configuration
• Opportunity to communicate with other software systems
• A single PCo System can be configured for one or more locations

Stefanini’s Experience

Significant, continuous multi-year experience in countless production contexts (from corporate to medium-sized enterprises) allows Stefanini to support its customers in setting-up architecture, its implementation, monitoring and safety measures. We manage MII systems on different platforms, not least on HANA DB.