BMAX Solution Implementation for the Automation of Master Data Processes

leverx group

Customer

Entegris is a global leader in advanced materials science. Their SAP PLM journey began back in 2015 and continued with enhancements to their platform via LeverX Group’s BOM/Material Master Extension and Allocation Tool Solution (BMAX) described below.

CHALLENGE

Improving the time to value was a key business driver in the decision to implement the BMAX tool solution. Entegris desired a cost-effective, easily configurable tool that works within the SAP PLM suite vs. a stand-alone solution.

SOLUTION

With a core emphasis on increasing the speed of new product launches while reducing the process of Material creation and extension from days to minutes, Entegris turned to the BMAX tool solution from LeverX Group.

In the initial PLM implementation, the focus was on eliminating system silos and isolated information that was causing errors and lost time within product development. With a successful SAP PLM system established, it was now time to focus on improving business processes around the solution via BMAX.

Solution Description

BMAX is a tool that, with the help of a rules engine, automates the creation and extension of Material Master and BOMs in operations. Once you define rules per governance, BMAX executes them with a single click.

The solution allowed the client to save about 15 minutes per Material.

Solution’s Description

Leverx Group works with companies and organizations to address the complex challenges of today's business world. Each of our partners is an experienced, innovative, and proven leader in their respective fields.

Automotive

SAP PLM is a solid basis for the automotive industry. This solution helps digitize and automate manufacturing processes and work more efficiently with suppliers and partners.

Aerospace & Defense

The solution allows aerospace and defense companies to reduce the time to market for innovations without compromising safety while simulating innovation scenarios along a complex value chain.

Food & Beverage

SAP PLM provides the food & beverage industry with all the required technologies that help to develop sustainable, traceable, high-quality products within a shorter time.

Consumer Goods

With SAP PLM, this industry can exceed the diverse expectations of consumers and enable sustainably and profitably growth for the business.

Pharma

SAP PLM helps to make pharmaceutical production more effective and with lower risk.

Key Benefits of BMAX Implementation for the Client

Key benefits Entegris has achieved from BMAX:

Allowed them to immediately roll out data field changes across the organization with rule changes.

Automated the Master Master creation AND extension process which was formerly time-consuming and open to error.

Driven down the time it takes to create material.

Built data governance controls into the Material Master creation process.

SAP PLM helps to make pharmaceutical production more effective and with lower risk.

It is possible with mobile maintenance scenarios and two SAP solutions, SAP Work Manager (SAP WM) и SAP Asset Manager (SAP AM). They provide access to information on asset statuses and allow you to maintain them comprehensively.

SAP WM is a mobile application with wider functionality that offers both on-premise and cloud hosting capabilities.

SAP AM is a more modern cloud-based solution that can be integrated with innovative SAP Cloud Platform IoT.

Both solutions help to improve enterprise asset productivity with constant monitoring, analytics, and timely diagnostics.

Technologies Used

BMAX

Document Management

Document Release
Material Master Release and Extension
Sales Order Release
Manufacturing Instruction Release

Request Management

Procurement Request
Tooling Change Request
Shop Floor Issue Request
Customer Issue Request
Plant Maintenance Work Request
Request for Quote

BMAX has allowed engineers to get a Material Number in SAP in a matter of seconds if needed. This PLM journey has brought agility to the production process, with a dramatic decrease in time lost due to creating and extending Materials; and a decrease in error due to the wrong people entering the wrong info at the wrong time. BMAX has allowed Entegris to automate data creation in a decentralized fashion, supporting the entry of the right data by the right people at the right time. Centralized data entry departments are a thing of the past; Entegris can now work in a parallel process. After a successful implementation in 2018, Entegris rolled out BMAX Worldwide to more than 15 plants, affecting over a hundred users.

The implementation of BMAX was just a first step in an overarching strategy to optimize our client’s product creation/change process. In the next phase, Entegris plans on rolling out the LeverX Group Integrated Process Solution (IPS), with BMAX integrated inside as a ‘subroutine’ or task that will be driven by a LeverX Group IPS, work-flow ticket.