Integration of New and Repair (Aftermarket) Business

[former_member1143517]

The Manufacturing Company I work for is 1-year into our 2-year journey of implementing SAP ECC from our homegrown 30+ year old MRP system. The way we run our business is new business and repair business are combined within our work centers, and even in our support functions like Sales, Supply Chain, Eng, etc. When we go to SAP, new production will be processed via ME and the current solution has Repair running through Aftermarket ECC. This would mean our operators would need to access two platforms for managing work. I am trying to understand what options are available for integrating new and repair business for the purpose of user interface, shared capacity planning, shared parts planning, etc.

I would like to know if there are any best practices out there for Businesses who operate under this same integrated model.

We are exploring "pushing" Aftermarket data into ME, but the solutions being offered are very clunky, that is, inspection would still need to be done in ECC, then execution in ME. Part of the transaction for Sales would be done in ECC, which part of execution would be done through ME and costs would need to be settled. In all proposed solutions, the operators have to utilize two systems/interfaces for managing the work, which is not at all ideal. The goal is to have the operators effectively manage new and repair work together, as well as be able to order parts, manage routings, charge time, manage documents, etc in the same way.

I have to believe there is a better solution and best practice out there, please help! Thanks in advance.

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