Every hour someone works on the shop floor has to end up somewhere in SAP. It has to land on the order, the project or the cost centre that caused it, otherwise the costing is wrong and nobody can tell what a part really costs to make. In SAP, the...
In our last SAP DMS article, we pulled technical drawings out of the SAP Document Management System and put them on a shop floor screen. That covers the reading side: the operator sees the current, released drawing for the part in front of them. But the shop floor also produces...
SAP doesn’t just store master data and transactions; it also manages documents through its Document Management System (DMS). These documents are often technical drawings, but they can just as easily be work instructions, assembly guides, inspection sheets, or quality certificates. Each one is linked to the business objects it belongs...
Every manufacturing company has the same treasure lying around unused: a CAD system full of 3D models that describe every single part in the plant down to the last chamfer. And every manufacturing company has the same problem at the assembly station: the worker gets a printed sheet with a...
Kanban is a lean, pull-based method for controlling material flow on the shop floor. Instead of producing or replenishing to a forecast, each container (or “box”) of parts is only refilled once it runs empty, which keeps inventory low and signals demand in real time. SAP implements this concept through...
Many people have been using Peakboard Hub as a file management system. And with Peakboard version 4.1, you can now use Hub files directly in your Peakboard applications, with the new Hub files data source. This opens the door to a wide array of exciting possibilities! In today’s article, we’re...
We’ve covered many different ways of integrating SAP with Peakboard on this blog. In this article, we’ll look at SAP’s physical inventory component—which lets warehouse staff do a physical inventory count, and then record the numbers in SAP. In the past, workers had to carry around paper lists to do...
In our last article, we explained what an auditing app is and how the underlying tables work. The audit definitions are stored in the AuditTemplateHeader and AuditTemplateItem tables. And the audit run data is stored in the AuditHeader and AuditItem tables. We also discussed the sample data that is necessary...
This article is the first part of our two-part series on how to build an auditing app with Peakboard. In this article, we explain the architecture of an auditing app, including how the audit definition and audit data tables work. In the second part of this series, we discuss how...
In the last article we built a shop floor terminal that posts hours into the SAP Cross-Application Time Sheet. Three fields, one button, and the time is in CATS with the right cost centre and activity type behind it. That is half of a time sheet. The other half is...