Best Practices for Chemical Industry

I am searching for documentation for Best Practices Package for Chemical Industry
e.g. file SMB18_XK15_O002_Q36_01.TXT but could not find it on SAP Marketplace.
Can someone hint me where i can get those files.

Yogesh,
I suspect that the exact file you are looking for was part of an earlier release.
Why not just download the latest version?
https://websmp210.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_FRAME=CONTAINER&_OBJECT=011000358700001465742009E
US version/zip file format..
Best Regards,
DB49

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BI Best Practice for Chemical Industry

Hello,
I would like to know if anyone is aware of SAP BI Best Practice for Chemicals.And if so can anyone please post a link aswell.
Thanks

Hi Naser,
Below information will helps you in detail explanation regarding Chemical industry....
SAP Best Practices packages support best business practices that quickly turn your SAP ERP application into a valuable tool used by the entire business. You can evaluate and implement specific business processes quickly u2013 without extensive Customization of your SAP software. As a result, you realize the benefits with less Effort and at a lower cost than ever before. This helps you improve operational efficiency while providing the flexibility you need to be successful in highly demanding markets. SAP Best Practices packages can benefit companies of all sizes, including global enterprises creating a corporate template for their subsidiaries.
Extending beyond the boundaries of conventional corporate divisions and functions, the SAP Best Practices for Chemicals package is based on SAP ERP; the SAP Environment, Health & Safety (SAP EH&S) application; and the SAP Recipe Management application. The business processes supported by SAP Best Practices for Chemicals encompass a wide range of activities typically found in a chemical industry
Practice:
u2022 Sales and marketing
u2013 Sales order processing
u2013 Presales and contracts
u2013 Sales and distribution (including returns, returnables, and rebates, with quality management)
u2013 Inter- and intracompany processes
u2013 Cross-company sales
u2013 Third-party processing
u2013 Samples processing
u2013 Foreign trade
u2013 Active-ingredient processing
u2013 Totes handling
u2013 Tank-trailer processing
u2013 Vendor-managed inventory
u2013 Consignment processing
u2013 Outbound logistics
u2022 Supply chain planning and execution Supply and demand planning
u2022 Manufacturing planning and execution
u2013 Manufacturing execution (including quality management)
u2013 Subcontracting
u2013 Blending
u2013 Repackaging
u2013 Relabeling
u2013 Samples processing
u2022 Quality management and compliance
u2013 EH&S dangerous goods management
u2013 EH&S product safety
u2013 EH&S business compliance services
u2013 EH&S industrial hygiene and safety
u2013 EH&S waste management
u2022 Research and development Transformation of general recipes
u2022 Supplier collaboration
u2013 Procurement of materials and services (Including quality management)
u2013 Storage tank management
u2013 E-commerce (Chemical Industry Data Exchange)
u2022 Enterprise management and support
u2013 Plant maintenance
u2013 Investment management
u2013 Integration of the SAP NetWeaver Portal component
u2022 Profitability analysis
More Details
This section details the most common business scenarios u2013 those that benefit most from the application of best practices.
Sales and Marketing
SAP Best Practices for Chemicals supports the following sales and marketingu2013related business processes:
Sales order processing u2013 In this scenario, SAP Best Practices for Chemicals supports order entry, delivery, and billing. Chemical industry functions include the following:
u2022 Triggering an available-to-promise (ATP) inventory check on bulk orders after sales order entry and automatically creating a filling order (Note: an ATP check is triggered for packaged material.)
u2022 Selecting batches according to customer requirements:
u2022 Processing internal sales activities that involve different organizational units
Third-party and additional internal processing u2013 In this area, the SAP Best Practices for Chemicals package provides an additional batch production step that can be applied to products previously produced by either continuous or batch processing. The following example is based on further internal processing of plastic granules:
u2022 Purchase order creation, staging, execution, and completion
u2022 In-process and post process control
u2022 Batch assignment from bulk to finished materials
u2022 Repackaging of bulk material
SAP Best Practices for Chemicals features several tools that help you take advantage of chemical industry best practices. For example, it provides a fully documented and reusable prototype that you can turn into a productive solution quickly. It also provides a variety of tools, descriptions of business scenarios, and proven configuration of SAP software based on more than 35 years of working with the
Chemical industry.
SAP Functions in Detail u2013 SAP Best Practices for Chemicals
The package can also be used to support external toll processing such as that required for additional treatment or repackaging.
Tank-trailer processing u2013 In this scenario, SAP Best Practices for Chemicals helps handle the selling of bulk material, liquid or granular. It covers the process that automatically adjusts the differences between the original order quantities and the actual quantities filled in the truck. To determine the quantity actually filled, the tank trailer is weighed before and after loading. The delta weight u2013 or quantity filled u2013 is transmitted to the SAP software via an order confirmation. When the delivery for the sales order is created, the software automatically adjusts the order quantity with the confirmed filling quantity.The customer is invoiced for the precise quantity filled and delivered.
Supply Chain Planning and Execution
SAP Best Practices for Chemicals supports supply chain planning as well as supply chain execution processes:
Supply and demand planning u2013 Via the SAP Best Practices for Chemicals package, SAP enables complete support for commercial and supply-chain processes in the chemical industry, including support for integrated sales and operations planning, planning strategies for bulk material, and a variety of filling processes with corresponding packaging units. The package maps the entire supply chain u2013 from sales planning to material requirements planning to transportation procurement.
Supplier Collaboration
In the procurement arena, best practices are most important in the following
Scenario:
Procurement of materials and services:
In this scenario, SAP Best Practices for Chemicals describes a range of purchasing processes, including the following:
u2022 Selection of delivery schedules by vendor
u2022 Interplant stock transfer orders
u2022 Quality inspections for raw materials, including sampling requests triggered
by goods receipt
Manufacturing Scenarios
SAP Best Practices for Chemicals supports the following sales and
Manufacturingu2013related business processes:
Continuous production u2013 In a continuous production scenario, SAP Best Practices for Chemicals typifies the practice used by basic or commodity chemical producers. For example, in the continuous production of plastic granules, production order processing is based on run-schedule headers. This best-practice package also describes batch and quality management in continuous production. Other processes it supports include handling of byproducts,co-products, and the blending process.
Batch production u2013 For batch production,
SAP Best Practices for Chemicals typifies the best practice used by specialty
chemical producers. The following example demonstrates batch production
of paint, which includes the following business processes:
u2022 Process order creation, execution, and completion
u2022 In-process and post process control
u2022 Paperless manufacturing using XMLbased Process integration sheets
u2022 Alerts and events
u2022 Batch derivation from bulk to finished materials
Enterprise Management and Support
SAP Best Practices for Chemicals also supports a range of scenarios in this
area:
Plant maintenance u2013 SAP Best Practices for Chemicals allows for management
of your technical systems. Once the assets are set up in the system, it focuses on preventive and emergency maintenance. Tools and information support the setup of a production plant with assets and buildings.Revenue and cost controlling u2013 The package supports the functions that help you meet product-costing requirements in the industry. It describes how cost centers can be defined, attached
to activity types, and then linked to logistics. It also supports costing and settlement of production orders for batch and continuous production. And it includes information and tools that help you analyze sales and actual costs in a margin contribution report.
The SAP Best Practices for Chemicals package supports numerous integrated
business processes typical of the chemical industry, including the following:
u2022 Quality management u2013 Supports integration of quality management concepts across the entire supplychain (procurement, production, and sales), including batch recall and complaint handling
u2022 Batch management u2013 Helps generate batches based on deliveries from vendors or because of company production or filling, with information and tools for total management of batch production and associated processes including batch derivation, batch information cockpit, and a batchwhere- used list
u2022 Warehouse management u2013 Enables you to identify locations where materials
or batch lots are stored, recording details such as bin location and other storage information on dangerous goods to help capture all information needed to show compliance with legal requirements
Regards
Sudheer

Best Practices for Chemical Industry - US or Germany

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We are at the initial stage of implementation. The Client is US based but having presence across the globe. This is going to be phasewise implementation and NA is 1st region to Go-Live next year, followed by LA, APAC and EU. Now the dilema is to which BP for Chemicals to be implemented - US or Germany. Is there any way to weigh the pros and cons for these two. How do one decide on this? Sorry if this sounds very simple or basic question.
rgds..Ameet

Hello fox,
I had a dream of connecting the ERP system with the SCADA with the PLC and get a real time information from the production floor.
I have encountered several SCADA solution on SAP, that solution follows like this;
SAP - SCADA - OPC - PLC.
My question is that, why do we need to install the OPC ?
All the necessary information (kg. meter, labour cost, electricity) is already placed in PLC. However, quantities are expressed, kg. meter and hours, kw, in PLC.
So, in order to interpret those into amount we need another device, which is I believe, SCADA.
So, once the all the quantities are interpreted into amount in SCADA we can transfer them into cost centers in SAP.
What is the role of SCADA ? They can get the information from PLC directly and transfer it to SAP.
And also I assume that all the consumption go to the necessary cost centers. Am I right ?
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Electricity Costs   $5
Labour Costs       $7
Raw Material       $10
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Bayram

What is the Best practice for ceramic industry?

Dear All;
i would like to ask two questions:
1- which manufacturing category (process or discrete) fit ceramic industry?
2- what is the Best practice for ceramic industry?
please note from the below link
[https://websmp103.sap-ag.de/~form/sapnet?_FRAME=CONTAINER&_OBJECT=011000358700000409682008E ]
i recognized that ceramic industry is under category called building material which in turn under mill product and mining
but there is no best practices for building material or even mill product and only fabricated meta and mining best practices is available.
thanks in advance

Hi,
I understand that you refer to production of ceramic tiles. The solution for PP was process, with these setps: raw materials preparation (glazes and frits), dry pressing (I don't know extrusion process), glazing, firing (single fire), sorting and packing. In Spain, usually are All-in-one solutions (R/3 o ECC solutions). Perhaps the production of decors have fast firing and additional processes.
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I hope this helps you
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Eduardo

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SAP best Practice for Construction industry in GCC countries

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Pleas let me now the link for the SAP Best Practice document for Construction industry in GCC countries.
Thanks & regards
Rajaram

Hi,
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http://help.sap.com/bp_bl603/BL_AE/html/index.htm
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Best Practice for manufacturing Industrial Machinery in batch size

Dear Sir,
We have a scenario where we need to manufacture Industrial Machine in a Batch Size of 10 nos . These machines have multi level BOM and total manufacturing cycle time is approx 3 months .
We request you to kindly suggest us about the best manufacturing practices related process we should follow to address this scenario .
At present , we have been manufacturing these Machines on individual basis ( It means MRP run is done for individual machne and production orders generated are also on individual machine manufacturing basis) .
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Dear ,
Please use the following functionality in your case :
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JH

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Basic Strategy / Best Practices for System Monitoring with Solution Manager

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Best practice for invoice posting inSRM

Dear expert,
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thanks and regards,
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Ranjan,
As a SAP customer we use invoice entry in ERP using MIRO and FB60 as these are the most efficient for our busines.
1. Invoice entry using MIRO tcode is faster as it can be done with minimal use of the mouse. Invoice entry is slower in SRM as browser response and interactions with the backed ERP system slows the systems reponse to the user input. Repeated use of a mouse in the SRM browser is detrimental to fast input.
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Please follow basic Netiquette and post the DDL we need to answer this. Follow industry and ANSI/ISO standards in your data. You should follow ISO-11179 rules for naming data elements. You should follow ISO-8601 rules for displaying temporal data. We need
to know the data types, keys and constraints on the table. Avoid dialect in favor of ANSI/ISO Standard SQL. And you need to read and download the PDF for:
https://www.simple-talk.com/books/sql-books/119-sql-code-smells/
>> My final data table contains a two key columns unique key constraint. [unh? one two-column key or two one column keys? Sure wish you posted DDL] I insert data into this table from a daily capture table (which also contains the two columns that make
up the key in the final data table but are not constrained (not unique) in the daily capture table). <<
Then the "capture table" is not a table at all! Remember the fist day of your RDBMS class? A table has to have a key. You need to fix this error. What ETL tool do you use?
>> I don't want to insert rows from daily capture which already exists in final data table (based on the two key columns). <<
MERGE statement; Google it. And do not use temp tables.
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Good day
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Hi,
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SAP Best Practice for Chemicals in an oil refinery

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Hi Oded,
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Seeking advice on Best Practices for XML Storage Options - XMLTYPE

Sparc64
11.2.0.2
During OOW12 I tried to attend every xml session I could. There was one where a Mr. Drake was explaining something about not using clob
as an attribute to storing the xml and that "it will break your application."
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--i've dummied this down to protect company assets
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TABLESPACE "####_####_DATA" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 16384 RETENTION
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{code}
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Any help/advice would be appreciated.
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Hi,
I suggest you read this paper : Oracle XML DB : Choosing the Best XMLType Storage Option for Your Use Case
It is available on the XML DB home page along with other documents you may be interested in.
To sum up, the storage method you need depends on the requirement, i.e. how XML data is accessed.
There was one where a Mr. Drake was explaining something about not using clob as an attribute to storing the xml and that "it will break your application."I think the message Mark Drake wanted to convey is that CLOB storage is now deprecated and shouldn't be used anymore (though still supported for backward compatibility).
The default XMLType storage starting with version 11.2.0.2 is now Binary XML, a posted-parsed binary format that optimizes both storage size and data access (via XQuery), so you should at least use it instead of the BASICFILE CLOB.
Schema-based Binary XML is also available, it adds another layer of "awareness" for Oracle to manage instance documents.
To use this feature, the XML schema must be registered with "options => dbms_xmlschema.REGISTER_BINARYXML".
The other common approach for schema-based XML is Object-Relational storage.
BTW... you may want to post here next time, in the dedicated forum : {forum:id=34}
Mark Drake is one of the regular user, along with Marco Gralike you've probably seen too at OOW.
Edited by: odie_63 on 18 oct. 2012 21:55

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