Raw materials ordering for production

As it was done before

The engineers ordered the raw materials for production one by one in SAP, based on the bill of materials. 

This is what happens today

Based on the planned production quantities and the bill of materials, the robot creates a proposal for ordering raw materials in Excel. The shift supervisors only have to check and, if necessary, modify the table containing the article numbers of the raw materials and their quantities. On the basis of the finalised excel data, the robot places the orders in SAP and updates a list of the processing results.

Customer benefit

Automation has reduced the time needed to place each order from an hour to a few minutes. This saves the customer at least working 6 hours a day.