Brass

Digitization to optimize brass machining

The brass production, processing and machining industry is strongly influenced by volatile raw material prices. For companies in the industry, it is becoming increasingly strategic to maximize processing margin to maintain competitiveness in the global marketplace.
To overcome these challenges, it is essential to have an integrated view of business processes, monitoring costs, margins and production performance in real time. With our industry experience, we offer customized SAP solutions to optimize operational management, improve efficiency and proactively respond to market demands.

Advanced processing account management

Purchasing (mechanical companies)

  • Full-price purchase contract management
  • Raw material purchase management at full price or in processing
  • Scrap stock management at drawing mills, with definition of yields and drops
  • Supplier sheets with summary of scrap loading and unloading

Sales (wire drawing mills)

  • Full-price and processing account sales contract management
  • Goods revenue of customer’s scrap with yield definition
  • Customer files with summary of scrap loading and unloading
  • Checks coverages and automatic offloading of full-price contracts or customer’s raw material, upon shipment of finished product

Raw material purchase

  • Extralega purchase management
  • Purchase full price
  • Purchase on account of processing

Wheelbarrow weighing

  • Supports inbound and outbound logistics of manufacturing companies
  • Fully integrated with SAP S/4HANA back-end for managing the entire traffic of vehicles requiring weight control, both incoming and outgoing
  • Constant dialogue between the ERP system and the apps used by weighbridge operators

Production

  • Production order management dashboard (production sequence definitions, print tooling labels, extract production parameters, monitor progress)
  • Management of production order merging with common extrusion
  • Centralized operation sequence and cycle time management by product type
  • Mold and die management
  • Cutting card management dashboard
  • Finite capacity scheduling using the SAP PPDS solution
  • Interfacing with external schedulers

MES

  • SAP-MES submission: production orders, sales orders, deliveries to customer and subcontractor, purchased material stock
  • MES-SAP submission: material pickups for delivery to customer, time and quantity advances production orders
  • Location-based warehouse management, with movement of materials using radio frequency terminals
  • Interface with machine terminals and PLCs for sending production order data and signal detection (quantities, times, temperatures, mechanical characteristics, etc.)

Quality

  • Production and management of certificates of analysis (Standard EN10204:2004 types 2.2 and 3.1)
  • Automatic determination of European description according to UNI _EN standard
  • Measuring instrument management
  • Quality data recording of incoming material
  • Acceptance control management

Warehouse

  • Batch management by product characteristics
  • Separate valuation of items
  • Print pick list and load list
  • Goods Entry Bulletin
  • Work account management with waste and scrap return from supplier
  • Management UM different alternatives for each batch of the same product

Sales

  • Configurable list management with price extras
  • Sales account budget management
  • Product Configurator

Finance and controlling

  • Tracking of structure and process costs, timely calculation of product cost to anticipate the expected margin from sales at the product/customer level
  • Determining the marginality derived from the raw material and the value added generated by the production process or ancillary services
  • Comparison of planned values with actuals and analysis of deviations to take quick action on inefficiencies
  • Planning sales, production, and purchasing in an integrated system, leveraging a consistent database for an effective and reliable planning process
  • Preparation of consolidated financial statements, ensuring regulatory compliance and facilitating strategic decisions
  • Development of sustainability report and calculation of Carbon Footprint, to turn legislative obligations into competitive advantages

Digitize your brass production.

Streamline purchasing, sales and tracking management with digital solutions designed for the industry.