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The most important event of the year for organizations using SAP® solutions for production planning and

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Logistics & SCM, PLM, Manufacturing, and Procurement 2014 provides an unparalleled opportunity to gain a 360-degree perspective on how to ensure innovation, visibility, and operational excellence across your extended supply chain.

Organizations are challenged to be proactive, efficient, and agile in an environment where silos often inhibit cross-functional collaboration and effective change management. From innovation to product and service performance, it is critical that all stakeholders are able to share information and ideas with ease to ensure optimal supply chain management.

Companies that understand how to achieve critical key performance indicators (KPIs), including time-to-market, reduced lead times, real-time shop floor data and improved vendor compliance, require a new level of collaboration, supported by reliable, readily retrievable data to make informed decisions.

Attend Logistics & SCM, PLM, Manufacturing, and Procurement 2014, April 1-4 in Las Vegas, to:

• Capture the latest trends, process and solution updates, and best practices from SAP leaders, customers, field consultants, and independent experts

• Learn how to avoid costly SAP implementation and integration errors• Ensure accurate sales forecasts, optimized inventory levels, and efficient warehouse operations • Streamline and automate master data transfer between SAP systems• Maintain compliance and chain of custody during complex global trade operations• Develop a sustainable and reliable after-market parts and service strategy • And much more!

Optimize the technology you already have and see firsthand the newest capabilities available from SAP to enable end-to-end business processes — from planning and production to storage, delivery, and after-market parts management.

We hope that you will join us, and look forward to seeing you in Las Vegas!

Sincerely,

Thomas OhnemusVP Solution Marketing SAP PLM, SAP Manufacturing, SAP SCM, SAP EAM, SAP Sustainability, SAP 3D Visual Enterprise

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Schedule at a GlancePre-conference

Workshops Main ConferenceMonday, March 31

7:30 am Registration opens

9:00 am Pre-conference workshop sessions

12:00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm Pre-conference workshop sessions

5:00 pm Registration closes

Tuesday, April 1

7:00 am Registration opens and Continental breakfast

8:30 am General session

9:45 am Refreshment break

10:15 am Breakout sessions



1:00 pm Lunch

2:15 pm Breakout sessions

3:30 pm Refreshment break


5:00 pm Welcome reception

5:15 pm Ask-the-Experts

6:30 pm Day concludes

Wednesday, April 2





11:30 am Lunch






5:00 pm Cocktail reception

5:45 pm Ask-the-Experts


Thursday, April 3





11:30 am Lunch


2:00 pm Exhibitor Meet and

Greet





Friday, April 4







12:45 pm Conference concludes

For more information and to register, visit www.mfg2014.com or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700

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Overview

Main Conference, April 1-4

Track 1 Strategies for improved visibility and performance Page 8

Track 2 Production planning and scheduling Page 10

Track 3 Technology innovation and implementations Page 11

Track 4 Plant maintenance and resource utilization Page 13

Track 5 Data and analytics Page 14

Pre-conference Workshops, Monday, March 31

Special three-hour, pre-conference sessions hosted on this day offer you the opportunity to fortify your understanding of key SAP concepts and technologies, explore new trends and strategies, and enhance your learning experience at the main conference. Advance sign-up is required.

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More than 120 educational sessions and forumsExpand your skills and knowledge by learning from the top experts at SAP, independent consul-tants, and your industry counterparts.

Pre-conference WorkshopsSpecial three-hour, pre-conference sessions hosted on this day offer you the opportunity to fortify your understanding of key SAP concepts and technologies, explore new trends and strategies, and enhance your learning experi-ence at the main conference. Advance sign-up is required.

Ask-the-ExpertsPull up a chair in the Ask-the-Experts area of the Exhibit Hall during our Tuesday and Wednesday evening receptions and spend one-on-one time with the top experts. Learn from their real-world expertise and get specific insights on topics and questions that matter to you most.

Live solution demonstrationsSee demonstrations and hear directly from SAP and leading vendors about innovative new solu-tions and their impact on SAP applications you want to extend, develop, or introduce to your employees and customers.

Customer-led case studiesTake away best practices and methodologies taught by the companies that practice them. Learn from highly experienced SAP customers to solidify your own strategies and tactics.

Interactive customer discussion forumsThese forums are informal, interactive get-togeth-ers where SAP customers with similar interests, projects, and challenges can gather to talk about specific topics. Each topic will be facilitated by a subject-matter expert. You do not need to sign up in advance to attend, and there is no formal agenda. Just have a great discussion with people who share your concerns and interests.

Exhibit hall receptionsInteract with the best and the brightest minds working with SAP software. Build a lasting network of peers and meet with leading product and service vendors.

SAPexperts LIVEThis popular forum offers attendees the opportunity to meet leading authors from the SAPexperts SCM hub and discuss topics from recent articles. Follow the framework of the article as the author guides you through the most important parts. You’re not just a reader — you’re a participant.

Educational and networking opportunities at the co-located Logistics & SCM, PLM, Manufacturing, and Procurement 2014 event


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Pre-conference Workshops are in-depth, three-hour sessions designed to help build a solid foundation of knowledge in critical topics. Through a combination of demos, lecture, discussions, and Q&A, you’ll develop a comprehensive understanding of important topics quickly.

Our instructors have vast experience in their respective fields. The tips, insights, and best practices that they’ll share with you come from practical, in-the-trenches experiences, not just books and theory. They are also accessible and open to answering questions about your most pressing challenges.

Your Pre-conference Workshop registration fee gives you access to two information-packed sessions; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. You’ll leave both sessions with all the presentation materials, demos, handouts, and any other resources that are prepared by the instructor.

You’ll also leave with greater knowledge and confidence, and you’ll be ready to go further in-depth on these topics throughout the rest of the event.

Join us for Pre-conference Workshops Monday, March 31

Pre-conference Workshops

Pre-conference WorkshopsMorning sessions • 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Updates and guidelines to deciphering the various planning engines in SAP APO Page 6

SAP Supply Chain Management 101: A comprehensive guide to SAP’s operational planning and execution platform

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Lunch • 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Afternoon sessions • 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

The factory of the future: How to ensure continued success in an evolving manufacturing environment Page 7

Driving better and faster decision making: Lessons to assess, improve, and execute an effective analytics strategy for your extended supply chain

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Morning sessions • 9:00 am – 12:00 pm


SAP Supply Chain Management 101: A comprehensive guide to SAP’s operational planning and execution platformAshish Saxena, IBM

Whether you are evaluating SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM), currently implementing, or planning to upgrade or deploy new functionality, this session will prove invaluable to help you understand the full functionality and application history of SAP SCM — both as a standalone solution and in relation to the SAP ERP features it supplements. By attending this session, you will:

y Examine the capabilities and requirements of the core components of SAP SCM, including:

- SAP Advanced Planning and Optimization (SAP APO)

- SAP Supply Network Collaboration (SAP SNC)

- SAP Forecasting and Replenishment

- SAP Event Management

- SAP Extended Warehouse Management (SAP EWM)

y Step through a cost/benefit analysis of a typical SAP SCM implementation and see how it differs based on your existing landscape and deployment approach

y Explore the architecture, technology landscape, dependencies, and requirements associated with implementing one, a few, or all of the SAP SCM applications

y Evaluate business and technical criteria to align SAP SCM functions with business requirements to help prioritize the order in which to deploy various applications

y Examine the requirements and challenges of data conversion from SAP ERP to SAP SCM

y Gain insight to determine if, whether, and how to replace or enhance existing SAP ERP functionality with next-generation releases delivered in SAP SCM

Updates and guidelines to deciphering the various planning engines in SAP APO Søren Skjødt and Thomas Brassøe, Implement Consulting Group

This session provides an in-depth examination of the planning engines in SAP APO — including demand planning (DP), supply net-work planning (SNP), and production planning and detailed scheduling (PP/DS) — and highlights key decisions and guidelines surrounding tool selection, deployment, integration, and business process design. Through lecture, demonstration, use case exam-ples, and interactive exercises, attendees will come away with an understanding of:

y What each planning engine can and can’t do and how each fits into your SAP architecture and existing supply chain processes

y The capabilities and requirements of DP, SNP, and PP/DS and an assessment of the architectural and performance strengths and limitations of each

y Key criteria to map the various planning engines to supply chain projects and requirements

y Which planning tools complement each other and can be used in conjunction, including tips to exploit key integration points

y Possible scenarios for using a combination of DP, SNP, and PP/DS at the same time

y Master data requirements for DP, SNP, and PP/DS, including tips for sourcing and managing data from your SAP ERP system


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Driving better and faster decision making: Lessons to assess, improve, and execute an effective analytics strategy for your extended supply chain Ganesh Iyer and Ramji Mani, Cognizant

This three-hour session provides expert guidelines, key criteria, and proven strategies to establish an effective supply chain analytics program that exploits SAP analytics functionality to gain greater insight into your supply chain, make smarter forecasting decisions, and measure their results. Attend to:

y Get expert recommendations for prioritizing your objectives and defining a set of goals for a new and improved supply chain analytics program

y Obtain techniques to ensure that the data feeding your reports is of the utmost quality and consistency

y Explore technical prerequisites for leveraging the various analysis tools, including data extraction and integration considerations

y Receive best practices to track key metrics, such as order fill rate level, to provide insights that drive actionable analysis, including tips to identify patterns and predict trends

y Get an overview of reporting capabilities delivered in SAP and evaluate key criteria to determine which tool, or combination of tools, best supports your supply chain reporting needs

Come away empowered to determine and deploy an optimal supply chain analysis roadmap that supports your organization’s deci-sion-making requirements, including critical strategy, integration, design, and process decisions.

Afternoon sessions • 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

The factory of the future: How to ensure continued success in an evolving manufacturing environmentMike Lackey, SAP Labs

This special three-hour session examines the future of manufacturing and provides expert guidance, recommendations, and best practices for driving continued success in an ever-changing production environment. By attending this session, you will obtain:

y Product instruction and guidance for leveraging SAP manufacturing solutions to respond to production environment changes and thrive in the "factory of the future"

y Key success factors to gain a competitive advantage in production, including the importance of supporting more strategic initiatives and enabling better decision making

y Lessons to gain better visibility into manufacturing intelligence and drive more informed decision making by capturing data on the strategic, tactical, and operational level

y New ideas to extend your manufacturing capabilities using SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII)

y Insight into how and where the latest functions delivered in SAP Manufacturing Execution 6.1 can be used to improve the operation of your manufacturing facilities

Come away with an architectural model and decision framework to implement and maintain world-class production, quality, and maintenance processes.


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Track 1

Strategies for improved visibility and performance

One size does not fit all: Lessons to segment your supply chain to improve agility, cost allocation, and responsiveness Søren Skjødt, Implement Consulting GroupAs supply chains become more complex, the “one-size-fits-all” model is decreasing in effi-ciency. Attend this session to understand the benefits of a segmented supply chain and learn how to implement one in your organiza-tion, including lessons to:

y Determine quantitative elements, such as cost of lost sales or holding costs, to model a demand-driven supply network that enables allocation of costs to critical business decisions

y Segment the operational and execution layers of your supply chain, and see how this enables better alignment of incentives, priorities, and targets

y Leverage key inputs, such as SKU behavior or order history, to differentiate types of demands in order to improve responsiveness to the main objective of each product or service

Customer panelCustomer lessons to optimize your next SAP SCM initiative Moderator: Matthew Campbell, SCMO2Panelists: Simon Parkinson, Coca-Cola Refreshments; Pete Tews, Spectrum Brands; and Jeff Mayne, Newell Rubbermaid

y Participate in this interactive panel discussion for strategies and insights into successful SAP SCM projects based on real-world customer experiences. Join your peers, industry experts, and leading customers for lessons to:

y Gain further advantages from your current SAP SCM solution or to establish a roadmap and strategy to get started

y Build a best-in-class support team that can provide guidance to and engage with users throughout each phase of the project, including change management support

y Exchange ideas for addressing the integration challenges between SAP SCM and SAP ERP and examine different deployment options

Breaking down functional silos to drive integrated supply chain execution Patrice Matthias, Reveal USAThe term “change management” typically refers to the initial post-go-live timeframe, though it is just as important as it pertains to maintaining and optimizing business pro-cesses. In this session, you will explore an innovative approach to take your business processes to the next level by breaking down functional silos to drive an integrated supply chain. Attend for lessons and new ideas to:

y Identify the organizational, governance, and structural changes required to optimize tangible business value using current supply chain functionality

y Leverage process aligned team (PAT) to add value to the bottom line by reducing inventories and operational costs, while simultaneously increasing service levels

Controlling the supply chain in real time through integrated business planning Martin Barkman, SAPThis strategic session explores new and inno-vative ideas for empowering supply chain leaders to contribute to integrated business planning with SAP solutions in analytics, plan-ning, and optimization.

y Gain visibility into supply chain performance through comprehensive supply chain monitoring

y Elevate sales, inventory, and operations planning capability with real time information through latest SAP collaboration, optimization, and analysis technology

y Drive out excess working capital and cost-to-serve while meeting or exceeding customer service level targets

How to build a logistics control tower for improved supply chain visibility Christian Titze, Gartner Find out how you can get controlled access to and transparency into accurate, timely, and complete events and data within and across organizations and services. Attend this session to understand:

y The concept of end-to-end supply chain visibility and the opportunities a control tower creates

y How a visibility framework provides critical insight into business partner collaboration as well as the processes, data, and technologies that are most relevant

y How to build an application layer on top of your SAP ERP landscape that connects with partners and systems to enhance collaboration in the extended value chain


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Track 1: Strategies for improved visibility and performance

Supply chain modeling techniques proven to uncover “hidden” bottom-line savings Toby Brzoznowski, LLamasoftAttend this session for insight into modeling strategies proven to optimize the supply chain for significant improvements in cost, service, sustainability, and risk mitigation. You will:

y Walk through examples of key modeling techniques proven effective at “finding” money in the supply chain, including product flow-path optimization, demand segmentation and inventory right-sizing, production footprint analysis, and transportation route optimization

y Review enabling technology from SAP that can be used to apply these techniques to your supply chain, as well as lessons for the proper integration of existing SCM data

Take home a white paper outlining real-world use case scenarios identifying how procure-ment teams have captured corporate-wide bottom-line savings with the modeling tech-niques taught in this session.

Leveraging standard SAP transactions and reports to improve purchasing, production, and sales execution processes Joseph Grobler, Reveal USAThis session explores often-overlooked SAP functionality that sets the direction for plant-to-plant and B2B interdependency and increases visibility across your supply chain. By attending, you will:

y Identify the most useful tools and reports delivered in SAP ERP and see how to leverage them to gain insight into purchase order status, inventory levels, and production status

y Learn how to analyze the findings via dashboards and real-time alerts that provide insight into the impacts and trade-offs across your supply chain

y See how your SAP ERP system supports the setting and monitoring of KPIs as a way to measure performance improvements at an organizational and departmental level


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Track 2

Production planning and scheduling

Production planning and execution techniques for real-time responsive manufacturing Andy Macaleer, SAPAttend this session for an overview of tools and techniques to optimize SAP materials requirement planning (MRP) on SAP HANA to gain real-time business insight and identify material flow issues faster than ever before. Attend this session to:

y Get ideas for providing improved service to your customers by matching demand and supply more efficiently

y Learn how production orders can be planned across the internal and external manufacturing network with lean planning capabilities

y See how production orders can be scheduled on specific routes and equipment and executed efficiently with visual instructions and tracking all assembly details

SAP production execution with proximityMichael Golden, JaveLLin SolutionsProximity Production Execution is designed as an extension of shop floor control func-tionality of the production planning module that provides both supervisors and operators a dedicated option to engage directly within SAP to perform their respective tasks. Man-ufacturing companies running SAP ERP can perform MES-like functions directly within SAP using the Proximity Production Execution application. Attend this session to see how this application:

y Extends the production planning module for dedicated supervisor and operator work queues

y Installs quickly and efficiently in a similar manner as SAP Notes

y Affords mobility functionality using browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) or an iOS app

y Enables paperless or paper-lite shop floor job packages


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A comprehensive guide to assemble-to-order methodology and the latest rapid-deployment solutions for SAP SCMLois Bruckner, SAP AmericaThis session explores SAP's assemble-to-order approach (A2O) and suite of rapid-deploy-ment solutions (RDS) as a means to reduce implementation time. Learn about the latest enhancements and business scenarios that draw the most value from an A2O and RDS implementation approach. Attend for:

y Detailed insight into how a supply chain A2O and RDS implementation differs from a traditional SAP SCM deployment

y Guidance to prepare for a supply chain initiative utilizing A2O and RDS, including tips to determine whether to start at production planning or forecasting

y Key criteria to help determine if deploying SCM functionality via an RDS approach is right for your organization

Case studyHow Colgate-Palmolive ensures continuity of business with SAP MIIJoseph Jeffs, Colgate-PalmoliveCome hear how Colgate-Palmolive is uti-lizing SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) as part of a larger MES strategy to provide continued operations for its plants when SAP infrastructure is not avail-able. By attending this session, you will:

y Review the types of functionality Colgate-Palmolive’s SAP MII solution supports

y Learn how Colgate Palmolive uses iDoc and remote function calls to communicate between SAP ECC systems and SAP MII

y Review the operator interface technologies and some of the challenges of designing Web pages for various handheld devices

Embracing technology innovation to enable a more strategic manufacturing organization Frank Platt, SAPThis session provides proven strategies for enabling SAP functionality to incorporate innovative technology and ideas into your manufacturing processes. Attend this session to gain strategies to:

y Provide connected engineering and manufacturing teams with a visual and paperless continuous information exchange

y Decrease manufacturing cycle times and increase effective data stewardship utilizing 3D visualization from engineering to work instructions

y Enable rapid handover of information with efficient mappings of engineering to manufacturing bills of materials, routings, and production instructions

Case studyHow Medtronic achieves compliance by leveraging SAP manufacturing solutionsDean Kossila, Medtronic Hear firsthand how Medtronic leverages SAP to manage complex operations in a heavily regulated industry. Attend to:

y Review the SAP Manufacturing Execution and SAP MII solutions for compliant manufacturing

y Learn how Medtronic is leveraging SAP HANA and cloud solutions to complement SAP ECC to achieve their business goals

y See how the company provides traceability and as-built configurations, quality, and production order management with “one source of the truth” master data

Best practices for maintaining and sustaining your global SAP ME implementationKim Brookshire, AtosThis session provides a proven methodology based on a template approach and several real-world SAP Manufacturing Execution (SAP ME) deployments. Attend to receive:

y Guidelines for employing a phased template approach for multi-site SAP ME implementations

y Lessons to manage multiple simultaneous deployments and considerations for using an integration tool, such as SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII)

y Tips to maintain, as well as locally sustain, your site deployments and ensure future success as SAP ME functionality expands

Track 3

Technology innovation and implementations



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Track 3: Technology innovation and implementations

A guide to SAP solutions and strategies for achieving a demand-driven supply networkMark David, SAPThis session provides an overview of SAP's solution strategy and roadmap for driving supply chain excellence through optimal demand management, response orches-tration, and manufacturing and materials planning. Attend for updated insight into:

y Capabilities to analyze downstream demand signals and adapt to changing customer and market variability

y Solution extensions from SAP that can be used to better adapt demand and supply plans to dynamic market and business conditions

y SAP HANA-based functionality that enables real-time decision support to improve demand management and planning

Come away with an understanding of the SAP technology roadmap and planned invest-ments in the area of demand-driven supply chain.

Supply Chain Integrity: A guided tour of SAP's new solution strat-egy for managing supply chain disruptionsStephen Cloughley, SAP LabsThis session introduces Supply Chain Integrity, SAP's new solution strategy designed to close the loop between order processing, produc-tion, and distribution to ensure that the right products reach your customers at the right time. Attend this session for insight into:

y Enhanced architectural capabilities that integrate data from SAP and non-SAP source systems into a unified data model

y Recommended strategies and tools for dealing with product issues and business process roadblocks, including enhanced genealogy and traceability capabilities, to better identify and manage those product issues

See a demo that illustrates how functional-ity delivered in Supply Chain Integrity bridges the gap between manufacturing genealogy and supply chain traceability.

The newly defined SAP solution roadmap and strategy for manufacturing innovationFrank Platt, SAPThis session presents SAP's current and future vision for innovation in manufacturing ana-lytics, mobility, cloud, in-memory computing, and line-of-business applications. Attend to:

y Step through product demos that illustrate the best ways to leverage new capabilities to enable flexible, responsive manufacturing to enhance the end-to-end value chain

y Obtain new ideas to define your strategies and plans with innovative design thinking

y View examples that show how to quickly incorporate these next-generation offerings without disruption using the SAP assemble-to-order (A2O) project approach and SAP rapid deployment solutions

Case studyHow Caterpillar utilizes SAP for the manufacturing of heavy equipmentPeter Xu, CaterpillarThis session explores how Caterpillar utilizes SAP Manufacturing to provide visual instruc-tions to shop floor workers, track as-built production, and seamlessly integrate manu-facturing information to the business systems. By attending, you will:

y Understand how Caterpillar is using SAP Manufacturing Execution and SAP MII in their manufacturing processes for heavy equipment

y Learn how the company is leveraging SAP MII for the integration between SAP ECC and SAP Manufacturing Execution to improve customer responsiveness

Meet the finalists: SAP Innovation Challenge for Mobile Manufacturing Solutions 2014Sam Castro, SAPHear from three finalists of the SAP Innovation Challenge for Mobile Manufacturing Solutions 2014 contest and view live demonstrations of the innovations before placing your vote for the winner. By attending, you will:

y Learn from early adopters and get new ideas for using mobile applications to improve the flexibility and timeliness of your manufacturing processes

y Get real-world customer insight into the best practices to adopt and worst practices to avoid when it comes to mobilizing your manufacturing processes

Come away with new and innovative ideas for leveraging mobile capabilities to enhance productivity in core manufacturing processes.


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Tools and techniques for boosting manufacturing performance and asset utilization Sam Castro, SAPAttend this session for lessons to use real-time operations monitoring, 3D visualization capabilities, and SAP HANA-powered Over-all Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to integrate real-time plant information into business systems for a holistic view of equipment per-formance. By attending, you will learn to:

y Avoid revenue loss, reduce manufacturing costs, and optimize inventory by gaining better insights into operational performance

y Quickly pinpoint root causes of problems and identify and act on a resolution

y Achieve real-time visibility into yield and performance, inventory and delivery, and production responsiveness to enable operational alignment and to help drive business goals

Cost-effective techniques to manage capacity constraints through the S&OP process Sean Elliffe, Reveal USAThis session provides new options for exploit-ing key functionality in the SAP ERP system you already own to manage capacity con-straints through your sales and operations planning (S&OP) process. Attendees will obtain:

y Lessons to implement a best-practice governance process to protect supply chain performance, drive data integrity, and ensure key planning rules are followed

y Tips to address ongoing competitive priorities and increase upper-quartile performance

y Techniques to control and guide customer demand — such as establishing manufacturing, product, or distribution hierarchies supported by product allocation and available-to-promise

Setting up unlimited resource capacity pools in an assembly manufacturing environment David B. Diehl, DeloitteThis session offers best practices for leverag-ing a pooled capacities approach to improve manufacturing resource utilization and opti-mize assembly schedules. Gain tips and techniques to:

y Set up one work center for each assembly work station that enables an unlimited number of resource pools to be included at that one installation point

y Enable concise work station planning for your complex assembly area

y Identify which capacity planning tools should be used for specific instances and how to configure the tools for your manufacturing operations

Strategies to improve maintenance operations through more efficient work center management and scheduling Rajiv Kane, PwCThis session provides product instruction and undocumented techniques for leveraging SAP Multiresource Scheduling to streamline work center management and scheduling. Attend to:

y Discover how to bypass SAP ERP HCM organizational management when modeling the resource planning structure and how this streamlines maintenance work scheduling by reducing dependency on HR

y Understand what’s required to create and change maintenance work centers in order to increase the flexibility of maintenance work scheduling

y See how dispatched work in SAP Multiresource Management can be deployed on mobile devices using SAP Work Manager

Exploring mass processing functions for planned and production orders David B. Diehl, DeloitteThis session explores specific business scenar-ios that would benefit from the powerful and often overlooked mass processing functions in SAP ERP. Attend to:

y Explore the mass processing functions in SAP ERP and how to leverage them to streamline mass processing of order conversion, ATP checking, order release, scheduling, and more

y Understand what’s required to use mass processing results interactively to enhance your planning functions

Come away with a matrix of correlations between the different business scenarios and your specific requirements to see where mass processing would add the most value.

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Track 4: Plant maintenance and resource utilization

Leveraging standard SAP transactions and reports to improve purchasing, production, and sales execution processesJoseph Grobler, Reveal USA

This session explores often-overlooked SAP func-tionality that sets the direction for plant-to-plant and B2B interdependency and increases visibility across your supply chain. By attending, you will:

y Identify the most useful tools and reports delivered in SAP ERP and see how to leverage them to gain insight into purchase order status, inventory levels, and production status

y Learn how to analyze the findings via dashboards and real-time alerts that provide insight into the impacts and trade-offs across your supply chain

y See how your SAP ERP system supports the setting and monitoring of KPIs as a way to measure performance improvements at an organizational and departmental level


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Best practices for using 3D visual software from SAP to drive enhanced decision support for your design-to-sell process Robert Merlo, SAPThis session explores 3D visualization func-tionality from SAP and examines how to integrate it with business data across your value chain to accelerate decision making across all lines of business. Attend to:

y Take a guided tour of the latest technological and customer engagement innovations in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise applications

y Understand the technology requirements and dependencies required to use SAP Visual Enterprise

y Discover how every piece of data contained within the graphic is accessible from a single, user-friendly visual interface

Leading practices for automating your SAP APO master data and ensuring error-free planningManish Mishra, PwCThis session will provide expert advice that will enable your business owners and func-tional team to spend more time on data analysis rather than data correction. Hear tips on how to:

y Create automated workflows for your planning master data so it can be transferred across systems

y Stabilize your supply chain by eliminating manual master data correction by leveraging your existing ERP system

y Perform end-to-end master data integration and validation checks

An innovative approach for deriving actionable intelligence from the shop floor Ajay Malempati, SEAL ConsultingThis session examines how to derive near real-time visibility into the shop floor by inte-grating SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII), SAP ERP, and Google Maps. Attendees will:

y Examine key integration points between SAP MII, SAP ERP, and Google Maps technology

y Obtain strategies to streamline disparate shop floor data and present it in a report or dashboard to analyze the mapping of assembly steps and ensure shop floor efficiencies

y Find out how to create role-based and industry-specific analysis of manufacturing plant data

Practical techniques to derive ongoing value from supply chain master data Joseph Grobler, Reveal USAThis session provides expert guidelines to leverage supply chain data as a foundation for process optimization across your organization. You will come away empowered to:

y Ensure that your supply chain master data is governed properly, with tips to establish business rules and standards

y Measure data accuracy, relevance, and effectiveness across various supply chain functions

y Identify the most common causes of poor master data quality across the supply chain

y Evaluate the pros and cons of centralized versus decentralized master data management

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Assess, improve, and execute an effective reporting strategy for your extended supply chainTodd Smith, PwCThis session provides expert guidance to help define or refine your supply chain analytics strategy with standard SAP reporting tools. Attend for expert recommendations and product instruction to:

y Determine which tool, or combination of tools, best supports your supply chain reporting needs and understand the impact of tool selection on system performance

y Exploit key integration points between logistics and supply chain functionality and planning, reporting, and analysis solutions

y Deploy KPIs and alerts via dashboards to provide insights that support improved decision making

Support critical business decisions and requirements with actionable supply chain analysis Christian Titze, GartnerThis session provides expert guidance to capture intelligence and actionable analy-sis of your supply chain application portfolio, including how it aligns with key business processes.

y Get an overview of SAP SCM and SAP ERP functionality that supports critical business requirements and examine key criteria of each, such as process overhead, deployment costs, and master data impacts

y Map the capabilities of each solution to business requirements in various application areas, from warehouse management and event management to supplier collaboration

y See how to leverage this insight to prioritize and guide future investments and business initiatives that impact the innovation-to-delivery process

Leading practices to measure, monitor, and model supply chain metrics with SAP Supply Chain Performance Management Todd Smith, PwCThis session explores the best ways to use SAP Supply Chain Performance Management to enable detailed analyses and better decision making across your supply chain. Attendees will:

y See how to extract critical supply chain metrics to model “what-if” scenarios and grasp the trickle-down impacts when even one causal factor is modified

y Obtain best practices for leveraging data extraction and transformation functionality to streamline integration with transactional systems

y Find out how to utilize proactive diagnostics to get better insight into operational drivers, opportunity discovery, and deviations from performance targets

Track 5: Data and analytics


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March 31-April 4, 2014

Conference OnlyApril 1-4, 2014

Pre-conference Workshop Sessions

OnlyMarch 31, 2014

Pay by March 30, 2014SAVE up to $100 $2,499 $2,199 $799

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