Implementing SAP MII (SAP PRESS)

Tap into bi-directional integration and analytics with SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence. With this bestselling guide, get step-by-step instructions for configuring SAP MII, managing external data connections, developing composite applications, and more. Dive into business logic service transactions and use visualization services such as i5 display templates and web reports. Run SAP Overall Equipment Effectiveness Management by mastering activities, dashboards, downtime maintenance, audit log checks, and shop-floor user interfaces. Your nitty-gritty guide to SAP MII is here!

• Configure SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence with step-by-step instructions
• Perform business logic service transactions, use visualization services, and set up the plant information catalog
• Master overall equipment effectiveness and improve manufacturing KPIs

Setup
Follow click-by-click instructions for installing and configuring SAP MII. Connect your system to external data sources through SAP Plant Connectivity and data servers. Use the SAP MII workbench development environment to organize your projects.

Business Logic Service Transactions
Learn how to use custom programs called business logic service (BLS) transactions to execute a specific task. Explore each action block, and then use logic and tracing functions, XML, charts, statistical quality control analysis, and more.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness
Dig into OEE! Configure activities, dashboards, order status description, the audit log, and the application launchpad. Discover analytics functionality for real-time, plant-level, and global reporting.

• Data connections and management
• Message servers
• Composite applications
• Manufacturing data objects
• Business logic service transactions
• Visualization services
• Plant information catalog (PIC)
• SAP Plant Connectivity
• SAP Overall Equipment Effectiveness

Dipankar Saha is the IT architect and service delivery lead for SAP MII and SAP ME at IBM India. He previously worked for SAP Labs India and was involved in the design and development of SAP MII; he co-wrote the SAP PRESS book on SAP MII, Implementing and Configuring SAP MII in 2009.

Chandan Jash is a senior advisory system analyst at IBM India who has been working with SAP solutions for 8 years. He has worked on a number of SAP MII and ME implementation projects in different roles. He has helped build SAP ME competency inside IBM, and currently works as an architect and SME for SAP ME implementation projects.

Sudipta Mukherjee is an application architect at IBM who focuses on SAP MII, SAP ME, OEE, SAP BTP, SAP PAI, and SAP Workflow Management solutions. Full bio to come.

Supriya Malakar is a senior consultant at IBM who works with SAP's digital manufacturing solutions: SAP MII and SAP ME, SAPUI5, SAP DMC, and SAP BTP. Full bio to come.

Abesh Bhattacharjee has experience developing SAP MII composite applications, integrating MII with other UI technologies such as Adobe Flex, and generally playing around with it. The results of his experiments are generally documented on his SDN blog. He moderates the SAP MII forums on SDN and is an SAP Mentor.