1. Sappi: Efficiently Managing Variable Production Costs with SAP® Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence
Company
Sappi
Headquarters
Johannesburg, South Africa
Industry
Mill products
Products and Services
Paper products, pulp, specialized cellulose, and forest and timber products
Employees
12,800
Web Site
Partner
EOH Mthombo (Pty) Ltd.
Large-scale mill and forest product producer, Sappi needed a new IT system that would provide greater visibility into consumption and cost against budget. Working with EOH, it quickly deployed the SAP® Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) application across all its mills in South Africa. Now it can better manage costs and improve profitability.
Real-time
Visibility into consumption and costs
Fast
Reaction to nonconformance
Better
Budgeting and recipe management
Objectives
Replace legacy system reporting with a standard SAP® solution for manufacturing at all mill production plants
Provide a platform for continuous behavioral improvement
Improve cost visibility to measure consumption and cost across plants
Why SAP and EOH
Ability of SAP MII, based on the SAP ERP application, to manage consumption and costs against budget
Real-time transparency into consumption cost, helping prevent nonconformance
Fast implementation and quick wins by leveraging a generic toolset
Platform for recipe and bills of material refinement
Benefits
Better decision making based on real-time cost insight
Improvement in profitability analysis and budgeting
Standardized solution that enables enterprise-wide reporting
Fast and simple rollout across mills in South Africa
“In a competitive market with ever increasing input costs, it is crucial that we actively manage our production costs. With SAP MII, we have achieved real-time insight into our consumption and costs against budget – enabling us to effectively manage and control our variable costs and improve profitability.”
Joanne Boyd, Project Lead, Sappi
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