Confidential
TreeHouse – Getting Started with SAP
MII
May 2013
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Introductions
Jay Monahan – Dell – Global Perfect Plant Lead
Description: Over 16 years systems design experience across multiple ERP package platforms (SAP &
Custom), with experience in multiple industries ranging Automotive, Metals, Chemicals, Food, Internet
Applications, High Tech & Logistics Services. As the SAP Global Perfect Plant Lead, Mr. Monahan is
responsible for the end to end design and deployment of core service offerings and customer engagements,
leveraging SAP MII and ME.
Phone: 412.606.8001
E-mail: [email protected]
Mark Lisinski – Enterprise Applications, TreeHouse Foods, Inc.
Description: Information Technology executive with 25 years of experience in Application Software, Process
Reengineering and Management Consulting. Broad industry experience, from start-ups to Fortune 500
companies and non-profit organizations, process and discrete manufacturing, distribution, third-party fulfillment
(3PF), healthcare, and consumer-packaged goods (CPG) experience, including food, retail, and printing &
packaging.
E-mail: [email protected]
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Company Background: Introduction
TreeHouse Foods
Founded in 2005, TreeHouse has
expanded its operations through
acquisitions to create a product
portfolio which includes:
• Non-dairy coffee creamer
• Canned soup
• Salad dressings
• Sugar-free drink mixes
• Instant oatmeal and hot cereals
• Macaroni and cheese
• Skillet dinners and other value-
added side dishes and salads
• Salsa and Mexican sauces
• Jams and pie fillings
• Pickles
• Aseptic sauces
• Refrigerated salad dressings
Revenue in 2012: $2.2 B
Employees: 4,300
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Company Background: Use Case
Ongoing SAP Implementation:
• 6 of 17 plants live
• 4 of 6 major distribution centers live
• All back office functions
• Various other legacy systems
supporting non-live locations
• Strong desire to leverage the data captured in
SAP to drive plant operational improvement.
• Show that additional transactional intensity of
SAP can drive business value.
Shop Floor Background:
• Several shop floor information systems unevenly deployed.
• Corporate initiative to use a single set of consistently calculated operational metrics:
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), Schedule Adherence and Attainment,
Quality, etc..
• Given uneven data capabilities at locations and disparate calculation approach, there was
not a lot of confidence in the manually calculated numbers.
• Any solution needs to be agnostic to whether the location is live on SAP or which shop
floor systems are deployed.
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Project Overview: SAP MII Phase I (20 weeks)
Scope of Initiative — Utilize SAP and existing systems to build a near real-time,
accurate, and standardized look at plant performance
metrics.
• Resources:
• TreeHouse Foods - 2 Functional and 3 Technical
• Dell - 4 SAP MII Technical Architects and 1 SAP MII Functional Architects
• Phase 1 Scope:
• Detailed Functional/Technical Specifications, Coding, Testing, Training &
Hypercare
• Key Design Points:
• Business driven. What reporting is needed to drive performance
improvement at the plants?
• Create baseline template for rollout (i.e. All Plants)
• Leave “real-estate” for items not currently in Phase 1, but planned in future
phases.
• SAP MII 12.2
• Phase 1 went live January 2013
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Project Overview: Reporting Scope
5 Major Screens:
• Enterprise Level Metrics
• OEE
• Production Quantity
• By Product Category and Plant
• Plant Scorecard – Monthly performance metrics by plant
• Plant Snapshot – Daily performance metrics by plant
• Line Scorecard – Daily or Shift line performance
• Line Snapshot – Current line status/performance
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Old System
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Plant Scoreboard Report
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Plant Snapshot Report
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Line Scoreboard Report
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Line Snapshot
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Benefits
• Enabler to Operational Improvement: Facilitates actionable meetings of
timely information with personnel who can drive improvement
• Rapid Template Deployment: Application can be configured to each plant
thus avoiding need for new custom development and maintenance hassles
• Flexible Platform for Future Functionality: Ongoing plans to add
additional types of data and reporting on Phase 1 infrastructure
• Platform Independent : Application is built on GPL open source jQuery
plugins which eliminates the need for specific browser and Java versions
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