Global parts management in the SMS groupCase study

The SMS group has been using the Strategic Parts Manage-ment PARTsolutions from the German software manufactu-rer CADENAS since 2006. As a globally operating compa-ny, SMS has the target to orient its parts management more internationally and to integrate all SMS companies worldwi-de with its catalog parts, manufacturers and standards into SAP by 2020.

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SMS GROUP

The SMS group, under the roof of SMS Holding GmbH, is a group of global players in machinery and plant const-ruction for the steel and nonferrous metals industry. More than 14,000 employees generate global sales of some EUR 3.4 billion.

Parts management in the SMS group in numbers

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> 55,000 standard parts in SAP

> 83,000 catalog parts im SAP

> 2,400 manufacturers

1,500 - 2,000 requests for parts/month (of which approx. 1/5 standard parts)

> 48,000 standard parts

> 43,000 catalog parts

Status: February 2016

There is a central department at the SMS group responsible for all tasks around the topic of „parts management“. With the help of PARTsolutions the company’s design engineers are provided with, amongst other things, currently updated manufacturer catalogs and capable catalog parts with multi CAD. These are provided in many CAD formats including: Creo Parametric, Autodesk Inventor and Auto CAD.Moreover, SMS internal catalog and standard parts are crea-ted with their specific requirement as 3D CAD geometries

Internal process for requesting a standard or catalog part

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Examinethe request

Creating of masterdata in SAPNo geometry

required

Geometry required

Creating of geometry in eCATALOGsolutions

DEPT. OF PARTS MANAGEMENT

Request

Design engineerof the SMS group

Feedback:geometry created & assigned SAP number

Feedback:SAP numberassigned

and made available in the Parts Management System from CADENAS. In addition, the department of parts manage-ment at the SMS group is responsible for the system and the updating of the ERP material master data of standard and catalog parts in SAP. Besides other important tasks, the department also conducts the testing and release of the components requested by the design engineers.

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SMS GROUP

Parts management department provides high quality data

Especially with the international orientation of parts ma-nagement, the SMS group currently faces a number of challenges. A parts management department is being es-tablished in India at this time. This means that, above all, the language barrier must be overcome. Previously most of the regulations for parts management have been in Ger-man, but now English is required. The same applies to the standards and data sheets as well as to the folder names, which must also be made available in English. In addition, international standards must be updated and, for example, sizes and dimensions given in international measuring units.

„Foreign sites are not to merely be extended workbenches in the future, thus our company has the target of integrating all SMS group companies in SAP by the year 2020. This means a change to the ERP system for all newly integrated locations, which will involve a number of challenges. For each conversion, all standard and purchase parts must be matched. Moreover, numerous new standards and new manufacturers at every location must be set up in SAP,” says Bernd Postaremczak, SMS group GmbH.

Central access to all locations for identical parts information

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SMS GROUP

Numerous locations of the SMS group worldwide alrea-dy access the Strategic Parts Management PARTsolutions. Parts information used to be stored at individual locations and were updated and made available only after hours on end. Parts data of the SMS group have been centrally stored on one server, the PARTapplication, since March 2015. Thus, all locations now have access to the same

parts data, which are made available to design engineers much faster. „We are one of the first customers to use the CADENAS web service for the quick distribution of data to distant company locations. We are excited how well everything works,“ says Bernd Postaremczak, SMS group GmbH.

Challenges for parts management in a globally operating company

» We are one of the first customers to use the CADENAS web service for the quick distribution of data to distant company locations. We are excited about how well everything works. «

Bernd Postaremczak

Head of

Parts Management

SMS group GmbH

Branch

with PARTsolutions

Branch without

PARTsolutions yet

Overview of the catalogs in PARTsolutions by the SMS group

All important component information at a glance

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SMS GROUP

They are aware at SMS that effective parts management is a continuous task. „When we first started using the Strategic Parts Management PARTsolutions, our goal was to redu-ce the diversity of parts at the company. Meanwhile, we have had to realize that it’s not possible as long as new SMS companies, with their parts, manufacturers and standards,

are being integrated into SAP,“ says Bernd Postaremczak, SMS group GmbH. „PARTsolutions enables us to improve data quality considerably, in that duplicates are avoided to a large extent and existing 3D data sets can be found easily and quickly.”

Avoiding duplicates and the best possible data quality

Examples for the use of PARTsolutions in the SMS group

Company description

CADENAS GmbH

CADENAS is a leading software manufacturer in the areas of strategic parts management and parts reduction (PARTS-solution) as well as electronic CAD product catalog (eCA-TALOGsolutions). Included are the numerous innovative search functions such as the Geometric Similarity search GEOsearch, which is termed Intelligent Finding and is offe-red as an alternative and supplement to the traditional clas-sified parts master. With its tailor-made software solutions, CADENAS provides a link between component manufac-turers and their products as well as their customers. The company thus supports worldwide over 10,000 customers in 40 countries. With more than 300 employees at 17 inter-national locations, CADENAS stands for success, creativity, consultancy and process optimization since 1992. www.cadenas.de/en

SMS group

The SMS group, under the roof of SMS Holding GmbH, is a group of global players in machinery and plant construc-tion for the steel and nonferrous metals industry. More than 14,000 employees generate global sales of some EUR 3.4 billion.

The SMS group is a family company with clear goals and structures. Responsibility, innovation and determined ori-entation towards the expectations of our customers have helped us to grow successfully for over 140 years. The SMS group symbol is a uniform hallmark of our activities.

www.sms-group.com

CADENAS GmbH AugsburgBerliner Allee 28 b+cD-86153 AugsburgPhone: + 49 821 2 58 58 0 - 0Fax: + 49 821 2 58 58 0 - 999E-Mail: Info@cadenas.dewww.cadenas.de/en

The platform improves the communication to external suppliers.

The Supplier Portal

Sustainable cost reduction of standard, supplier and company parts for engineers and purchasers.

The Strategic Parts Management

Find available CAD geometries in a smartway and classify them semi-automatically.

The Geometric Similarity Search

The software solution to create and promote Electronic CAD Product Catalogs.

The Electronic Product Catalog

The PURCHINEERING Concept

Improves the cooperation between purchasing and engineering.

Market your technical products in a sexy and innovative way.

The Trade Show Entertainment Package

CADENAS unitesmanufacturers & suppliers

of components with the industry!

CADENAS solutions for manufacturers & suppliers of components

CADENAS solutions for industrial buyers of components

Know who and where your customers are: Offer products at the right time, right place and to the right people.

The Smart Sales Solution

Numerous online marketplaces with millions of users to multiply your Electronic CAD Product Catalog.

The Vertical Marketplaces

The Intelligent CAD Models

More than geometry: Optimal product and engineering data with the maximum comfort and functionality.

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SMS GROUP