Data processing system and method for supply chain management

US7730022B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Udo Laub · Hambrücken, DE
• Manfred Metz · Ditzingen, DE
• Ralf Kühner · Stuttgart, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 17, 2004
• Grant date: Jun 1, 2010
• Expiry date: Jan 11, 2028

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/087
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

The data processing system has an online transactional processing (OLTP) system for receiving of reporting data from work centers of a production line. The production line is logically divided into shop areas. At the exits of each shop area where an intermediate product is completed one reporting point serves as exit point in order to report the completion of an intermediate production step. This data is stored in the OLTP system and retrieved at a later point of time in order to generate a table containing aggregated intermediate product quantities per shop area. This table is transferred to a financial data server for calculation of the value of work in progress.