MII BBP and Ownership

[adnanmaqbool]

Hi All

Can anyone confirm, in which phase we usually implement MII (i.e. it can be implemented in parallel to Production Planning, Plant Maintenance or needs to be implemented in second phase ) and who is the owner of MII ( Functional or Technical Team ). is there any need to prepare Business Blue Print document for MII.

[agentry_src · Accepted solution]

Well Adnan, I would recommend spending some time reading up on how folks have used it in the past. Yes, you can retrieve data from the production floor using PCo/MII via multiple intermediate data stores, edge devices, data brokers, historians and others.

Or reach out to SAP MII experts for their suggestions. I will point out that one reason to have MII do the confirmations in real time and directly triggered by production data is to avoid entry errors. Same can be done for recording quality test results, generating PM notifications from downed equipment, making goods movements (both GI and GR) from confirmations, and much more.

Cheers, Mike

[adnanmaqbool · Accepted solution]

Hi Mike

Will it be possible for you , to write steps of any one process.

For-Example.

1. PCO trigger Notification to MII on completion of 20 counters ( counters are receiving directly from sensor ),
2. MII Transaction calls Confirmation BAPI ,
3. ERP Updated the confirmation

[agentry_src · Accepted solution]

Unfortunately I do not have access to a PCo system with my current client, so I can't really do that for you just going off my memory. Perhaps someone else could provide it.

Cheers, Mike

[agentry_src]

short answer?

It depends and both.

longer answer:

You have provided absolutely no details on what you would be using MII for. There needs to be a specific need to be addressed before your question can be answered. And yes, it does matter.

As for who is the owner, you need both Functional and Technical Team. MII requires a Java stack NetWeaver platform which is generally implemented by the Technical Team. In that platform is an underlying database, so depending on who is responsible for databases in your organization, it could be a separate group of DBAs. MII also usually has a separate database (which I will call the Application Database). That does not need to be on the same server as NW. That database is unformed initially. It can be built by the Functional team. Most MII Developers have some level of expertise in DB scripting. The better ones generally create and index tables, create, test, and document programmatic objects including Stored Procedures, Views, Functions, Triggers, Indices, etc.

[adnanmaqbool]

Thanks Mike for a detailed answered.

Actually client wants to avoid any kind of data entry within PP Module and wants to fetch data from shop floor machine sensors. In short main objective is to avoid any kind of data entry.

[agentry_src]

So my guess is that they want to perform Confirmations based on shop floor data without human intervention. So without getting into any of the details, I would urge you to do a BBP for MII as you will need the definition of the interfaces written and followed by whomever does your development. And if you wish to push data to the shop floor (like order numbers, quantities, batch numbers, inspection lot numbers and measurement points), these would also need to be defined. One other item, don't get too much into the how this is done, just set the objectives. There are often several different ways to accomplish the same result.

Also figure out what your naming conventions are going to be within the MII landscape and in the application database. There are lots of different ones that can be used. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT, put query templates into a folder named Query and DO NOT put transactions in a folder name Transaction. DO Put them together in folders based on the functions performed such as Production Confirmations or Quality Results Recording.

[adnanmaqbool]

Thanks Mike

Can you share some business cases for MII. We have only ERP , no ME is there. I have idea that data can be retrieved from Machine using PCO/MII and can be presented in reports and visualization but what is the use of creating production confirmations using MII as users can do these confirmation using SAP GUI from shop floor.