SAP Business Process Expert Community - Mining & Metal

Podcast: Asset Visibility and Performance for Mining

2 Aug 2009 08:50:41 GMT

Listen to this 5-minute podcast, as Mark Pyatt, SAP Global Marketing Director for Mining, talks to Kieran O'Connor about a value scenario in detail called "Asset Visibility and Performance" and how it resolves to address specific pain points within the mining value chain.

Energy Management Through Policy Deployment

2 Aug 2009 08:50:38 GMT

Anticipating ISOs formulation of energy management standards, due for release at the end of 2010, Anbazhagan Sam Venkatesan provides a brief procedural framework for industry to guide energy management policies. He concludes: "a management system for deploying the [energy management] policy, to derive benefit on a continuous basis is a systematic way to manage energy."

New Year Resolution Revisited: Keep Our Manufacturing Plan Stable

2 Aug 2009 08:50:42 GMT

Stefan Weisenberger is Solution Management Director with Industry Business Unit (IBU) Mill Products and Mining at SAP. Here, he takes a look at the reintroduction of Production Order Split, functionality designed to accommodate and enable dynamic production processes, such as those commonplace in the metals industry.

IVN for Mining - Agile Cooperative Development and Integration

2 Aug 2009 08:50:37 GMT

Agile cooperative development is a hallmark of the Industry Value Network (IVN) for Mining and underpins plans for its continued development. Anja Strothkaemper, Director of the Primary Metals and Mining Industry Unit at SAP AG, examines this with respect to one key IVN partner - Runge.

BPX Podcast - Runge and the IVN for Mining

2 Aug 2009 08:50:37 GMT

Runge is one of the key players in the IVN for Mining. Their industry-specific experience and applications greatly enhance the community's portfolio of end-to-end solutions. Here in a 13-minute BPX podcast, Tony Kinnane, Managing Director of Runge, together with Brindusa Radulescu, SAP Lead of the IVN, talk to Kieran O'Connor about joint developments for Mining.

Work-in-Process Batch

13 Nov 2009 05:56:00 GMT

Stefan Weisenberger once again delves into process illustrations from the metals industry, proposing the work-in-process batch as a "new modeling alternative that allows 'brown field' implementations to gain more visibility into intermediate products..." And just in case you miss the final comment, Stefan mentions an upcoming Webcast looking at WIP batches.

Partner Solutions on SAP EcoHub

2 Aug 2009 08:50:44 GMT

Discover SAP partner offerings relevant to your industry:

Ecosystem Solutions for Mill Products

Ecosystem Solutions for Mining