Ceramic and brick industries

[Former Member]

HI all,

I just started working on the building industry for a ceramic and brick company, and I was looking for particular scenarios or common practices used in it. I read that companies like RAK implemented and maybe this could be a good start to have a sort of industry template, or maybe a start for an industry solution,

Would you happen to have any tips or informacion on industry common, or recomended practices?

For example:

Batch and batch characteristics to keep track of Tone and Caliber (from what I saw so far on my client, this is a key point to locate on warehouse and to the the picking on SD; my first guess is that using batch could work,)

Use of WM for location?

use of HU?

Is variant configuration recommended? (the material numbers used seem to identify the atributes of the material (not a subsequent number) but could a standard number be used and use Product Hierarchy?

Thank you all in advance for your time

[folkert_haag · Accepted solution]

Hi Mr. Torres,

there is no specific template from SAP for the ceramic and brick industry. However there are in some countries SAP partners who can provide such a template.

Additionally many processes should be covered with SAP Best Practices. There are preconfigured processes for manufacturing and sales etc.

Yes, I would definitely recommend batch managed materials also for coating/coloring tiles etc.

Warehousing depends on your requirements. I would recommend to also look into SAP EWM, which can handle all warehouse tasks and can work in a separate, local instance, if required.

Variant configuration is only needed, if you have many, many SKUs and you want to reduce them. Otherwise material variants are fine as well. I also would refrain from putting any logic into the material numbers as you have described it.

Hope this helps,

Folkert

Sources

SAP Best Practices: link

https://service.sap.com/rds (login required - only SAP customers)

SAP Building Products Value Map:

https://solutionexplorer.sap.com/solexp/ui/vlm/is_millprod_bp/vlm/is_millprod_bp-ind-is_millprod_bp

[Former Member]

Folkert, Thank you very much for your answer.