SAP MII – Platform for Manufacturing Integration & Intelligence


What is SAP MII?

SAP MII (Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence) is a platform that helps manufacturers connect their business operations to the factory floor in real-time. SAP MII interfaces with your existing ERP and other shop-floor applications delivering ‘intelligence’ to production personnel.

SAP MII delivers:

• Manufacturing Integration: A single ISA-95-compliant layer enabling SAP ERP connectivity into real-time plant floor apps (MES, SCADA, legacy apps.) to drive plant-to-Manufacturing Intelligence enterprise business process inter-operability.

• Manufacturing Intelligence: A real-time analytics engine that aggregates and delivers unified visualization of events, alerts, KPIs, and decision support to production personnel through role-based dashboards.

 


What does SAP MII have to offer to a manufacturing company?

Manufacturers today operate in highly complex and distributed environments, facing unprecedented pressures to cut operating costs, deliver on time and optimize use of available assets, while complying with regulatory and customer requirements.

Addressing these challenges requires seamless integration and synchronization between the supply chain and production operations. In most enterprises though, connectivity of ERP and shop-floor systems is implemented only through manual batch data entry. But what manufacturers need is real-time data acquisition and analysis in order to support decision making. This requires visibility into all aspects of production operations in the context of every role (production manager, technical manager, etc).

SAP MII acts as a bridge between business and shop-floor systems, delivering  real-time production information regarding production orders, materials, inventory, equipment, production costs, product quality, traceability, etc. SAP MII helps manufacturing companies respond quickly to unplanned events (customer requests, materials shortages, equipment failure, product recalls, etc).


What kind of system is SAP MII?

SAP MII is not an MES (Manufacturing Execution System). While a typical MES, such as Tracer Factory, offers specific applications (Traceability, Scheduling, Quality Control, etc), SAP MII offers the framework to build your own applications.

SAP MII is not an ERP. By contrast, it is a manufacturing platform. By seamlessly communicating with your ERP, SAP MII enables shop-floor and supply chain synchronization. SAP MII complies to ISA-95 and B2MML, the industry standards for business-to-manufacturing integration.

SAP MII will not replace your existing IT infrastructure. It will leverage and flexibly integrate it with shop floor systems (MES, SCADA, Historian, PLCs, etc) in order to build a unified picture of manufacturing operations. SAP MII achieves this with specialized and easily customizable connectors (OPC, ODBC, etc).

 

SAP MII Architecture

SAP MII Functionalities