Look here for 28 best Mill Products sessions at SAPPHIRE 2015 and ASUG!!
Join us for the world’s premier business technology conference and the largest SAP customer-driven conference, Tuesday, May 5 th through Thursday, May 7th in Orlando, FL. A variety of sessions and demonstrations have been designed with focus on the needs and interests of Mill Products companies in the Metals, Forest Products, Paper, Packaging, Building Materials, Furniture and Textile Industries.
Summary of Sessions
MP293: Kimberly-Clark Corporation’s SAP Fiori Implementation Success Story Tue 11:00am – 12:00pm
UX250: Using Combining Fiori Launchpad with SAP Screen Personas to Run Simple Tue 1:45pm – 2:45pm
SM537: Using ChaRM, CSOL and Retrofit to support a dual project and Production Tue 1:45pm – 2:45pm
MP596: Evergreen Packaging Simplifies The Shop Floor With ECC 6.0 Tue 3:00pm – 4:00pm
BI747: Improving manufacturing with SAP HANA Predictive Maintenance at Mohawk Tue 3:00pm – 4:00pm
EM634: Mobile asset management: The future is here Tue 3:00pm – 4:00pm
CM2127: Creating Cherished Experience Through Customer 360 Engagement (Mohawk) Wed 12:30pm – 1:30pm
CW701: CPQ Best Practices: How To Configure, Price, and Quote in E-Commerce Wed 12:30pm – 1:30pm
IN20714: Excite Users and Increase Productivity with Personalized User Experiences Wed 1:00pm – 1:45pm
IN20709: Benefit from the Convergence of IT and Operations in the Internet of Things Wed 1:30pm – 1:50pm
Thur 4:30pm-4:50pm
IN20968: Lower TCO in Energy and Natural Resources Wed 2:00pm – 2:45pm
CM1810: From Chaos to Order: How NIBCO Built a Better Quote Process Wed 2:30am –3:30pm
SC1919: How Charlotte Pipe Is Leveraging SAP TM 9.1 to Improve Its Logistics Operations Wed 2:30pm – 3:30pm
MP425: Empowering Mobile Sales Force with SAP Variant Configuration at Thompson Creek Wed 2:30pm – 3:30pm
IN20699: Discover the Benefits of Migrating to the Cloud Wed 4:00pm – 4:20pm
IN20743: Reinvent Your Business with the Real-Time Power of the Internet of Things Wed 4:00pm – 4:20pm
BT546 Case Study: How Woodgrain Millwork Embraced BRFplus Wed 4:15pm – 5:15pm
IN20712: Improve Product Quality,Optimize Manufacturing Using Predictive Maintenance Wed 5:00pm – 5:45pm
SS805: Transition to the cloud – how to transform your on premise solutions to the cloud Thur 8:00am – 9:00am
SC595: Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS) for Production Orders –Evergreen Packaging Thur 8:00am – 9:00am
MP279: CMC Runs SAP BPC with EPM on SAP HANA for Plan Forecast and Consolidation Thur 12:00pm – 1:00pm
LB20989: Improve Safety in Asset-Intensive Industries with Proactive Risk Management Thur 1:00pm – 1:45pm
IN20738: Reinvent Your Business with the Real-Time Power of the Internet of Things Thur 5:00pm – 5:30pm
Demo Area and Discussion Table for Mill Products and Mining
Industries
Campus Energy and Natural Resources Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
Highlighted Demos
- Simplified Commodity Sales Process
- Boost Asset Performance with Predictive Analytics
- Improve Productivity with Better User Experiences
- Align Supply and Demand in Real Time for Profitable Process Industries
Network with your Peers – Mill Products Special Interest Group Annual Session (Wednesday, May 6th)
Mill Products Special Interest Group: Networking Meeting
Network with colleagues from Mill Products companies and the SAP Mill Products IBU, learn about conference sessions of interest to Mill Products
companies, and provide input into future Mill Products SIG events
Date: Wednesday, 4:15-5:15pm Location: Pod 1
Mill Products and Mining Networking Reception
Process Industries (including Mill Products) networking reception
Network with colleagues from Metals, Building Materials, Forest Products, Mining, Oil and Gas and Chemical industry companies as well as experts from the SAP Mill Products and Mining IBU. Networking event will be held after the conference sessions.
Date: Wednesday, 6:30-8:00pm Location: The Hilton Orlando, Lake Sheen room
Mill Products -Related Sessions
MP292: Kimberly-Clark Corporation embarked on a program to enhance their end user experience with SAP by implementing Fiori. As an Early Adopter, they joined the SAP Early Adoption program, SAP General Availability Care (GA Care) for Fiori. Hear firsthand how end users at KCC are adopting Fiori and making their daily business processes simple and easy.
Speaker: Dale Van Sluytman – KCC, Jennifer Ingle – SAP
Learn how mining customers have energized their users and transformed their opinion of SAP through the use of standard and custom Fiori applications.
More importantly travel with them on the journey from defining their business
challenges, to building their new to-be processes. Learn about the pitfalls and
common mistakes, and share the successes.
Date: Tuesday, 11:00pm – 12:00pm Location: ASUG Mill Products Track, S322
BI473: Improve Efficiency by Extending Transactional and Analytical Applications with SAP HANA Spatial Capabilities
Speaker: Balaji Krishna SAP
Geospatial is one of the current important technologies, and with the addition of GIS processing with the SAP HANA Platform, you can now run advanced
spatial processing like executing Geoprocessing tasks using ST_Buffer ST_Intersect, and many other GIS capabilities. In this session, learn how SAP HANA delivers these to build a new generation of apps.
Date: Tuesday 11:00am – 12:00pm Location: ASUG BI Track, S330E
SC292: Improve Integrated Business Planning Overview and Preview of the New Demand Application
Speaker: Tod Stenger SAP
Geospatial Receive an introduction to SAP’s Supply Chain strategy for Integrated Business Planning (IBP). . This will include an overview of each of the IBP modules with a more detailed overview of the new Demand module. Learn the benefits of SAP’s IBP offering and how it can help bring an integrated business planning process to your company.
Date: Tuesday 11:00am – 12:00pm Location: ASUG Supply Chain Track, S330H
UX250: Using Combining Fiori Launchpad with SAP Screen Personas to Run Simple
Speaker: Peter Spielvogel, Tobias Queck SAP
The Fiori Launchpad is a single starting point to launch role-based, simple Fiori apps and SAP Screen Personas flavors. This seamless integration lets you simplify business process, streamline decision making, and standardize SAP usage. We will demo the technical integration and discuss how these products work together and when to choose which.
Date: Tuesday 1:45pm – 2:45pm Location: ASUG User Experience Track, S210C
SM537: Using ChaRM, CSOL and Retrofit to support a dual project and Production
Speaker: Lovnish Mahajan, Novelis
Case study of how effectively Novelis is using ChaRM, CSOL and Retrofit functionality of Solman to support multiple global projects roll-outs, upgrades and Production support .This presentation reviews the practices, experiences and ROI of successful Change management.
Date: Tuesday 1:45pm – 2:45pm Location: ASUG Solution Manager Track, S320B
MP596: Evergreen Packaging Simplifies The Shop Floor With ECC 6.0
Speaker: Jason Dyer – Evergreen Packaging
Faced with an aging shop floor system, little time, and a budget that didn’t allow for new technology investment, Evergreen delivered an all ECC solution that streamlined material flow and provided a simplified user experience, with minimal training. This presentation will discuss the approach and show examples of the tools and benefits delivered.
Date: Tuesday 3:00pm – 4:00pm Location: ASUG Mill Products Track, S322
BI747: Improving manufacturing processes with SAP HANA Predictive Maintenance at Mohawk Industries
Speaker: Jana Kanyadan Mohawk; Oliver Mainka SAP
Learn how Mohawk, the world’s leading flooring manufacturer, uses SAP HANA and predictive analytics in the “Predictive Maintenance” program to increase product quality by improving its manufacturing process parameters, including many millions of sensor data readings. Also learn about SAP’s related customer co-innovation program.
Date: Tuesday 3:00pm – 4:00pm Location: ASUG BI Track, S330H
EM634: Mobile asset management: The future is here
Speaker: Karsten Hauschild SAP
Mobility is becoming a necessity for companies in asset intensive industries. The session will elaborate on business cases and benefits, scenarios and use cases, SAP’s mobility and GIS strategy and roadmap in an asset management business context. Current and upcoming mobile solutions including augmented reality scenarios will be highlighted.
Date: Tuesday 3:00pm – 4:00pm Location: ASUG EAM Plant Maintenance Track, S320F
CM2127: Creating Cherished Experience Through Customer 360 Engagement
Speaker: Jana Kanyadan Mohawk Industries
Hear how the world’s largest flooring company, Mohawk Industries, is creating cherished customer experiences through seamless, integrated, and multi-channel experiences in the social, digital, and physical environments among all three constituents – end consumers, channel partners and internal sales, and marketing and customer service functions.
Date: Wednesday 12:30pm – 1:30pm Location: ASUG Customer Management Track, S320D
CW701: CPQ Best Practices: How To Configure, Price, and Quote in E-Commerce and for Internal Sales
Speaker: Harald Reitz, Steve Lenz SAP
Offering custom-tailored products and solution bundles, in E-Commerce and by internal sales, is critical for industrial manufacturers. Lean how SAP Configure, Price and Quote (SAP CPQ) based on hybris enables sales teams, customers, and channel partners to configure, price, quote, and order products and solutions more accurately and efficiently.
Date: Wednesday 12:30pm – 1:30pm Location: ASUG Configuration Workgroup Track, S331D
IN20714 Excite Users and Increase Productivity with Personalized User Experiences
This discussion shows how your energy and natural resources company can energize users and promote positive attitudes through the use of applications
with personalized user interfaces. Learn how to define business challenges, build new processes, and avoid common mistakes. Hear how to use the SAP Screen Personas software and SAP Fiori UX.
Date: Wednesday 1:00pm – 1:45pm Location: Industries Microforum IN106
IN20709: Benefit from the Convergence of IT and Operations in the Internet of Things
Speaker: SAP
Take advantage of the Internet of Things and of the new analytical and predictive capabilities that result from the integration of smart data from various devices. Use the SAP HANA database to make the most of real-time data that spans both operational technology and information technology areas
throughout the enterprise.
Date: Wednesday, 1:30pm – 1:50pm Location: Industries Demo Theater IN101
Date: Thursday, 4:30pm-4:50pm Location: Industries Demo Theater IN101
IN20968: Lower TCO in Energy and Natural Resources
Speaker: Microforum
Take advantage of the Internet of Things and of the new analytical and predictive capabilities that result from the integration of smart data from various devices. Use the SAP HANA database to make the most of real-time data that spans both operational technology and information technology areas
throughout the enterprise.
Date: Wednesday, 2:00pm – 2:45pm Location: Industries Microforum IN105
MP425: Empowering Mobile Sales Force with SAP Variant Configuration at Thompson Creek
Speaker: Dan Pletcher, Thompson Creek; Daniel Naus, ConfigAir
Thompson Creek (TC) is a quality windows and gutters manufacturer in the U.S. midatlantic region. Find out how TC transitioned its mobile sales force from paper quotations to a fully automated mobile iPad app. TC developed SAP Variant Configuration models and partnered with ConfigAir to deploy the mobile application based on ConfigAir Mobile Sales.
Date: Wednesday 2:30pm – 3:30pm Location: ASUG Mill Products Track, S322
CM1810: From Chaos to Order: How NIBCO Built a Better Quote Process
Speaker: Steve Kemp NIBCO
Quoting prices is where the rubber meets the road. In an ideal world you want your quoting process to be data-driven and aligned with your price strategy. Steve Kemp, Director of Pricing at NIBCO, will share best practices for transforming into a disciplined quoting process that optimizes deal cycle time and drives better price decisions.
Date: Wednesday 2:30pm – 3:30pm Location: ASUG Customer Management Track, S320C
SC1919: How Charlotte Pipe Is Leveraging SAP Transportation Management 9.1 to Improve Its Logistics Operations
Speaker: Bjorn Bernard Novigo
When Charlotte Pipe–a trusted manufacturer of plumbing systems since 1901–decided to deploy SAP Transportation Management (SAP TM) 9.1, it started
an initiative to replace long-standing legacy applications which helped run their business for a long time. Looking for standard software and processes,
Charlotte Pipe engaged SAP Partner Novigo to deploy the solution.
Date: Wednesday 2:30pm – 3:30pm Location: ASUG Supply Chain Track, S330A
IN20699: Discover the Benefits of Migrating to the Cloud
Speaker: SAP
Explore business and IT advantages of moving to the cloud. Learn why a large steel company is taking its data center and its SAP applications to a virtual private cloud. Hear about other cloud migrations involving the implementation of SuccessFactors HR solutions and the use of SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions to improve sales.
Date: Wednesday, 4:00pm – 4:20pm Location: Industries Campus, Theater 5
IN20743: Streamline Configure, Price, and Quote in E-Commerce and Internal Sales
Speaker: SAP
See how your sales teams, dealers, distributors, and customers can accurately and efficiently configure, price, quote, and order complex products and solutions. Do all this while improving customer service levels, reducing quote-to-order cycle times, and increasing sales efficiency.
Date: Wednesday, 4:00pm – 4:20pm Location: Industries Demo Theater IN101
Date: Thursday, 4:00pm – 4:20pm Location: Industries Demo Theater IN101
BT546: Case Study: How Woodgrain Millwork Embraced BRFplus to Manage Custom Business Rules within Its SAP Landscape
Speaker: Eric Halbur Woodgrain Millwork, Anton Karnaukhov BestXperts
Find out how Woodgrain utilizes SAP Business Rule Framework Plus (BRFplus) to manage a wide range of custom business logic within a number of SAP systems and modules. Learn how you can make the switch and take advantage of BRFplus as the technology of choice for business rules management within your organization.
Date: Wednesday, 4:15pm – 5:15pm Location: ASUG Business Integration Technology Infrastructure Track S331B
IN20712: Improve Product Quality and Optimize Manufacturing Using Predictive Maintenance
Speaker: Jana Kanyadan Mohawk; Oliver Mainka SAP
This discussion addresses ways you can improve manufacturing process parameters by using predictive analytics. Manage many millions of sensor data
readings. Hear real-world experiences from flooring manufacturer Mohawk on its use of SAP HANA software for predictive maintenance.
Date: Wednesday, 5:00pm – 5:45pm Location: Industries Campus Microforum IN106
SS805: Transition to the cloud – how to transform your on premise solutions to the cloud
Speaker: Steffen Von Berg SAP
Do you plan to transform your IT to the cloud? How should you prepare for such a process? What are expereinces from our customers? What can SAP offer
to help in such a process? We will try to give some Guidelines how to plan such a process, how to manage SAP in a hybrid world and discuss with the Auditorium upon their plans to go to the cloud.
Date: Thursday 8:00am – 9:00am Location: ASUG Service and Support track, S310H
SC595: Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS) for Production Orders – Evergreen Packaging Success Story!
Speaker: Sanjay Srivastava Evergreen Packaging, Vadivel Ranganathan NTT Data
Evergreen Packaging was seeking business solution to enhance Production Order confirmations with HR setup. Chose to implement Cross Application Time
Sheet for Production orders, not possible by standard means. Presenting our story on thought process, solution approach, alternatives, Production &
Efficiency reporting in never-seen-before dimensions.
Date: Thursday 8:00am – 9:00am Location: ASUG Supply Chain track, S330H
MP279: CMC Runs SAP Business Planning & Consolidation 10.1 with the EPM Add-In on SAP HANA for Plan Forecast and Consolidation
Speaker: James Knowles, Kumar Kalidindi – Commercial Metals Company
The session will cover CMC’s decision to implement SAP Business Planning & Consolidation 10.1 with the EPM Add-In on SAP HANA for Financial
Planning and Consolidations, the implementation approach, and the key design decisions that were made during the project. The session will follow with a
demo and lessons learned from project implementation.
Date: Thursday 12:00pm – 1:00pm Location: ASUG Mill Products track, S322
LB20989: Improve Safety in Asset-Intensive Industries with Proactive Risk Management
Speaker: Microforum
This discussion examines how you can improve operating results by managing environment, health, and safety risks proactively. Hear how energy and
manufacturing companies identify, assess, and control risks to prevent incidents and accidents, and learn about the best practices employed by a global energy producer.
Date: Thursday, 1:00pm – 1:45pm Location: Line of Business Campus Microforum LB221
IN20738: Reinvent Your Business with the Real-Time Power of theInternet of Things
Speaker: Panel
Embrace the power of the industrial Internet of Things to change and transform all aspects of design, manufacturing, sourcing, after-sales services, and business models. Hear how your peers plan to reap the benefits of the connected world.
Date: Thursday 5:00pm – 5:30pm Location: Discrete Manufacturing, Panel Discussion Theater 3