The industry solution “SAP Dairy Management by msg for SAP S/4HANA” has been supporting our dairy industry customers in the areas of “Raw Material Planning”, “Yield, Gain and Loss”, “Labor and Activity Efficiency”, Activity-Based Costing” and “Affinage” since August 2019.
In Release 2011, you can look forward to the following new topics, among others:
- Export and import scheduling agreement
- Comparison of raw material plan versions
- Working time confirmations directly from SAP PP/PI
- Raw material balance at material level with opening and closing stocks
- Intuitive assignment of processes to phases of the master recipe in the manufacturing process
- Determination of the manufacturing costs using new formulas
- Additional analysis options by defaulting the output parameters (material type and primary cost split)
- Provision of product costing with cost breakdown based on primary cost elements and cost components
- Automatic posting of cost allocation between cost center and internal order
For detailed information on what’s new in Release 2011, visit the SAP Roadmap (registration mandatory) or SAP Help Portal.
The new release of the proven industry solution for dairy factories “SAP Dairy Management by msg for SAP S/4HANA” convinces with new functionalities in the familiar areas:
- Raw Material Planning
- Yield, Gain and Loss
- Labor and Activity Efficiency
- Activity-Based Costing
These modules will be enhanced with a number of useful functionalities in July 2020. The new applications in the “Affinage” area now also map aging-specific business processes.
Highlights of the “Affinage” Module
- Calculation and posting of target losses for aging materials according to their individual master data
- Mapping the increase in value by restoring the previous valuation price after inventory posting
- Tailored reporting functionalities to monitor aging materials during aging
Additional New Highlights
- Planning forecast based on historic component data
- Additional analysis options in existing reports
- Automatic stock correction for raw materials and their components
- Automatic consideration of all secondary component requirements that result from period-oriented finished products planning
- Re-evaluation of the actual performance by using data for actual production quantities and actual overheads
For detailed information on what’s new in Release 2007, visit the SAP Roadmap (registration mandatory) or SAP Help Portal
As of now, the applications “ msg Activity-Based Costing Analysis“ and „msg Integrated Raw Material Plan Balance“ are available free of charge to all companies with a valid SAC license. The sample applications are intended to give potential customers insights into SAC’s reporting capabilities in conjunction with “SAP Dairy Management by msg for SAP S/4HANA”.
The new offer is also available in SAP’s App Center with detailed information. You can also contact those responsible for SAP Dairy Management directly via this channel.
msg Acitivity-Based Costing-Analysis: Benefits & Features
- Discover your product costs
- See the changes in production costs over the years
- Cost by Cost Objects
- Detailed Costs in Company Code Currency
- Cost Overview by Activity-Based Costing Run
msg Integrated Raw Material Plan Balance: Benefits & Features
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Latest information about all raw material flows at a glance
- Cross-plant overview
- Balance mismatches with an integrated toolset
- Overview of the raw material and component situation in selected plants
- Plan Balance – Raw Material
- Plan Balance – Component
msg Switzerland has been awarded a ten-year framework contract at armasuisse. This involves the Federal Office of Armaments of the Swiss Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport (Bundesamt für Rüstung des Schweizer Departements für Verteidigung, Bevölkerungsschutz und Sport (VPS)). msg was one of five technology companies to win the tender. A total of twelve companies had participated.
The framework contract for the five successful bidders amounts to a total of 100 million Swiss francs. This sum is spread unevenly across the areas of project management, engineering and technology, requirements engineering, quality and risk management, security, project support and technical market monitoring. Consulting services are to be provided at the Bern site for various strategic projects in these fields over the term of the contract.
Bidding consortium as door opener
This is msg Switzerland's first framework contract with VPS. On the one hand, the company was awarded the contract due to the excellent price-performance ratio and the persuasive project references from the Defense area of msg in Germany. On the other hand, the bidding consortium with Redguard AG no doubt also played a decisive role. Redguard is a Swiss IT consulting company with a focus on the cyber security sector. The company had already worked for VPS and entered the race for this tender in a bidding consortium with msg in the lead.
For us, it is a huge success to have been considered in this important tender,” explains Michael Peterer, division lead at msg Switzerland. “We are convinced that we will be a reliable consulting partner for VPS and look forward to many exciting projects.”
