Business Scenarios in Consumer Products Industry -- need help

Hello Experts,
I need Scenarios in Consumer Products Industry say for example --P&G what are the practical scenarios available.
Can anybody help on this. I really appreciate the help.
Thanks
Regards
Mahesh

Hi Nilson,
The business processes mentioned can be used for any industry. There is not restriction as such.
These business processes are more relevant for those industry.
e.g. Outsourced Manufacturing / WO Collaboration is extensively used by High-Tech companies. Even the recent enhancement requirements have come from High-Tech companies.
Similarly, Kanban / SMI is extensively used by Automotive. But SMI is also popular with High-Tech.
CP industry is biggest consumer of Responsive Replenishment process.
Regards,
Sandeep

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What exactly is process flow of Consumer Products (fmcg industry ) Can any body give me cycle of Consumer products industry ??
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FMCG is not as simple - I don't think anyone can explain this in one reply at the forum.
What FMCG stands for is FAST MOVING CONSUMER GOODS, because it is fast moving there are improved SAP functionality to address this specific business requirement.
I suggest you read the help files on help.sap.com SAP Retail for example.

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Could you guys please tell me what are the business scenarios (in sap sd) i should use while implementing in plastic industry (as if someone already worked on implementation project at plastic industry).....
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MTS
Batch management
Third party etc....
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Still stuck with the same old producer consumer weight problem need help

Hello All,
This is the problem I am stuck with right now.
I have two array lists one producer array list and one consumer array list denoted by a and b
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
5 6 7 8 9
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5
2 3 4 5 6
Now we find all those producer consumer pairs which satisfy the criteria Pi>=Ci
We have the following sets
(5,2)(6,2)(7,2),(8,2),(9,2)
(5,3)(6,3)(7,3),(8,3),(9,3)
(5,4)(6,4)(7,4),(8,4),(9,4)
(5,5)(6,5)(7,5),(8,5),(9,5)
(6,6)(7,6)(8,6),(9,6)
Let us done each of them with Si
so we have S1,S2,S3,S4,S5
we assign a third parameter called weight to each element in Si which has satisfied the condition Pi>=Ci;
so we we will have
(5,2,ai),(6,2,bi),(7,2,ci)....etc for S1
similarly for S2 and so on.
We need to find in each set Si the the pair which has the smallest weight.
if we have (5,2,3) and (6,2,4) then 5,2,3 should be chosen.We should make sure that there is only one pair in every set which is finally chosen on the basis of weight.
Suppose we get a pair (5,2,3) in S1 and (5,2,3) in S2 we should see that (5,2,3) is not used to compare to compare with any other elements in the same set S2,
Finally we should arrive at the best element pair in each set.They should be non repeating in other sets.
Given a problem
P0 P1 P2 P3 P4
9 5 2 2 8
6 5 4 5 3
C0 C1 C2 C3 C4
we have So as (P0,C0) and (P4,C0)
assuming that the one with the smaller index has lesser weight PO is selected.In the program I have used random weights.from set S1 we select the pair PO,CO
S1 =(P0,C1),(P1,C1) and (P4,C1)
since P0 and P4 are already used in previous set we dont use them for checking in S1 so we have (P1,C1) as best.
S2=(P0,C2),(P1,C2) and (P4,C2) so we dont use P0,C2 and P1 and C2 because PO and P1 are already used in S1.
So we choose P4,C2
in S3 and S4 ae have (P0,C3),(P1,C3),(P4,C3) so we dont choose anything
and same in S4 also.
So answer is
(P0,C0),(P1,C1) and (P4,C2).
My program is trying to assign weights and I am trying to print the weights along with the sets.It doesnt work fine.I need help to write this program to do this.
Thanks.
Regards.
NP
What I have tried till now.
I have one more question could you help me with this.
I have an array list of this form.
package mypackage1;
import java.util.*;
public class DD
private int P;
private int C;
private int weight;
public void set_p(int P1)
P=P1;
public void set_c(int C1)
C=C1;
public void set_weight(int W1)
weight=W1;
public int get_p()
return P;
public int get_c()
return C;
public int get_x()
return weight;
public static void main(String args[])
ArrayList a=new ArrayList();
ArrayList min_weights_int=new ArrayList();
ArrayList rows=new ArrayList();
ArrayList temp=new ArrayList();
Hashtable h=new Hashtable();
String v;
int o=0;
DD[] d=new DD[5];
for(int i=0;i<4;i++)
d=new DD();
for(int i=0;i<4;i++)
d[i].set_p(((int)(StrictMath.random()*10 + 1)));
d[i].set_c((int)(StrictMath.random()*10 + 1));
d[i].set_weight(0);
System.out.println("Producers");
for(int i=0;i<4;i++)
System.out.println(d[i].get_p());
System.out.println("Consumers");
for(int i=0;i<4;i++)
System.out.println(d[i].get_c());
System.out.println("Weights");
for(int i=0;i<4;i++)
System.out.println(d[i].get_x());
for(int i=0;i<4;i++ )
int bi =d[i].get_c();
ArrayList row=new ArrayList();
for(int j=0;j<4;j++)
if( d[j].get_p() >=bi)
d[j].set_weight((int)(StrictMath.random()*10 + 1));
row.add("(" + bi + "," + d[j].get_p() + "," +d[j].get_x() + ")");
else
d[j].set_weight(0);
row.add("null");
rows.add(row);
System.out.println(rows);
int f=0;
for(Iterator p=rows.iterator();p.hasNext();)
temp=(ArrayList)p.next();
String S="S" +f;
h.put(S,temp);
String tt=new String();
for(int j=0;j<4;j++)
if(temp.get(j).toString() !="null")
// System.out.println("In if loop");
//System.out.println(temp.get(j).toString());
String l=temp.get(j).toString();
System.out.println(l);
//System.out.println("Comma matches" + l.lastIndexOf(","));
//System.out.println(min_weights);
f++;
for(Enumeration e=h.keys();e.hasMoreElements();)
//System.out.println("I am here");
int ii=0;
int smallest=0;
String key=(String)e.nextElement();
System.out.println("key=" + key);
temp=(ArrayList)h.get(key);
System.out.println("Array List" + temp);
for( int j=0;j<4;j++)
String l=(temp.get(j).toString());
if(l!="null")
System.out.println("l=" +l);
[\code]

In your example you selected the pair with the greatest
distance from the first set, and the pair with the least
distance from the second. I don't see how the distance
function was used.
Also it's not clear to me that there is always a solution,
and, if there is, whether consistently choosing the
furthest or the closest pairs will always work.
The most obvious approach is to systematically try
all possibilities until the answer is reached, or there
are no possibilities left. This means backtracking whenever
a point is reached where you cannot continue. In this case
backtrack one step and try another possibility at this
step. After all possible choices of the previous step,
backtrack one more step and so on.
This seems rather involved, and it probably is.
Interestingly, if you know Prolog, it is ridiculously
easy because Prolog does all the backtracking for you.
In Java, you can implement the algorithm in much the same
way as Prolog implementations do it--keep a list of all the
choice points and work through them until success or there
are none left.
If you do know Prolog, you could generate lots of random
problems and see if there is always a solution.

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(From the link: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/webcontent/uuid/4f0f6717-0b01-0010-949b-9ab68dd45fec [original link is broken])
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I have yet to figure this out, and probably need to go back to my Integration Repository setup since my problems may start there. This screenshot shows my Repository objects.
http://webpages.charter.net/kpwendel/intProcess.jpg
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(4) Created PANResponseToBPM_MessageInterface (outbound async) for interface back into XI from partner. Is this needed?
(5) Created PANHotkeySync_to_Async_IntProc Integration Process to handle sync to async bridge.
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(6) Created two Message Mappings to handle RFC data to XML mappings (outbound RFC-> XML and inbound XML -> RFC).
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