SAP Shop Floor Execution
Real-time shop floor. Straight into SAP. No interface to build.
A digital operator app where your team clocks in and out on production orders, so SAP reflects the floor as it happens. Actual labor and machine time replace planned estimates, supervisors see late orders before they slip, and it all posts through standard SAP interfaces. No custom middleware to build or maintain.
- Built for manufacturing
- SOC 2 Type II
- ISO 27001
- ECC & S/4HANA
- 01Slip captured on the floorscan, photo, or batch uploadREAD 98.7%
- 02Order & operation matchedorder, operation, work centerOP 0020
- 03Validated against SAPyield + scrap, within toleranceVALID
- 04Confirmation postedtime, qty & goods movementCONF 12000934
- Operators clock in/out on their assigned orders: live to SAP
- Actual production cost, not planned estimates
- Supervisor dashboard flags late orders in real time
- Posts natively via SAP OData / BAPI: no interface project
Business case
See what manual confirmation entry is costing you.
Adjust the numbers to match your shop floor. The estimate updates instantly.
Your confirmation volume
Based on fully-loaded admin cost and the keying time saved per slip.
Estimated annual savings
$72,000
- Hours returned per year
- 2,880 hrs
- Admin capacity freed
- 1.4 FTE
- Typical payback
- 3 months
Directional estimate. Assumes 12 months. Excludes the harder-to-price value of accurate WIP and on-time order costing, we'll model both on the demo call.
The shop-floor / SAP gap
Most floor systems don't really talk to SAP.
Shop-floor and machine-data systems promise real-time production, but getting that data into SAP usually means a custom integration project: middleware to build, map, and maintain, and a bill that grows every time SAP or the floor system changes. Many plants give up and keep re-keying confirmations by hand.
Artificio is built the other way around. Posting to SAP is the product. The operator app writes confirmations straight into SAP PP through standard interfaces, so there's no interface to build and nothing brittle to maintain.
The usual way
Floor system → custom middleware → SAP. A six-figure interface project, ongoing maintenance, and breakage at every upgrade.
With Artificio
Operator app → standard OData / BAPI → SAP PP. Native posting, no middleware, live on your existing SAP with no ABAP.
The operator app
Clock in, do the work, check out. SAP keeps up.
Every operator gets a simple screen, on a shared terminal, tablet, or phone. They see the orders assigned to them, pick one, and start. The clock runs while they work; when the quantity's done they check out. Behind the scenes, the actual time and quantity post to SAP as a production-order confirmation.
My assigned orders
- Order 60003417 · Op 0020Housing, aluminum · qty 50RUNNING
- Order 60003452 · Op 0010Bracket, steel · qty 120START
- Order 60003390 · Op 0030Due today · qty 30START
- See
Their assigned orders
Operators see only what's assigned to them and their work center. No hunting through SAP.- Order, operation, and quantity
- Priority and due date
- Work instructions attached
- Do
Start & stop the clock
One tap to start, one to check out. The system records real setup, labor, and machine time.- Actual start / stop timestamps
- Good quantity & scrap at check-out
- Pause / resume for interruptions
- Flag
Raise a quality issue
Hit a problem? The operator logs a defect and raises a SAP QM quality notification on the spot.- Defect type & reason codes
- Photo of the issue
- Posts a QM notification to SAP
Actual vs planned
Cost your orders on what really happened.
Most SAP shops confirm production against planned times, then discover the real cost at month-end: too late to act. Because operators clock actual time on every order, Artificio feeds SAP the real activity data, so controlling sees true cost as production happens.
See where actual labor and machine time diverge from standard, which orders and work centers run hot, and where margin is really going, order by order.
The supervisor dashboard
See what's running late: while you can still fix it.
Because every order is being clocked live, the supervisor view shows real progress against plan in real time. Orders trending late surface early, so a supervisor can reassign, expedite, or escalate before a due date is blown, instead of finding out after.
- Order 60003417 · HousingMILL-02 · J. MartinezON TRACK
- Order 60003452 · BracketPRESS-01 · A. ChenBEHIND PACE
- Order 60003390 · ManifoldWELD-03 · unassignedLATE · DUE TODAY
- Order 60003501 · FlangeLATHE-02 · R. OkoyeON TRACK
The confirmation
One slip. A complete, validated PP confirmation.
Artificio doesn't just read the ticket. It builds the full confirmation SAP expects. It matches the order and operation, applies your yield and scrap logic, triggers the backflush and goods receipt, and posts it all as one clean confirmation against the production order.
- Production order60003417
- Operation0020 · Mill
- Machine / labor2.4h / 2.0h
- Yield / scrap48 / 2
- PostedCONF 12000934 ✓
The problem with paper on the floor
The shop floor still runs on paper. SAP finds out later.
On most floors, operators record what they did: hours worked, good and scrap quantities, operations completed, on paper tickets and travelers. Those slips get collected, batched, and typed into SAP by an admin at the end of a shift or the next morning. Until then, SAP is out of date: production orders look unconfirmed, WIP is wrong, capacity and scheduling run on stale numbers, and payroll or costing waits on a keypunch backlog. Artificio removes the keypunch step entirely. The paper still works for operators, but it flows into SAP PP as confirmations automatically.
- Capture
From the floor, as it happens
- Handwritten time tickets & job cards
- Production & confirmation slips
- Travelers / routing sheets
- Scan, mobile photo, or batch upload
- Understand
Read & matched to the order
- Order, operation, and work center
- Setup / labor / machine time
- Yield, scrap, and reason codes
- Validated against the SAP order
- Confirm
Posted as a PP confirmation
- Time & quantity confirmation to the order
- Auto goods receipt / backflush
- Exceptions routed to a supervisor
- Full audit trail on every posting
How it fits
From the operator's tap to a SAP confirmation.
A straight line from the floor into SAP PP: no middleware in between.
Why Artificio
The real-time floor of an MES, without the integration project.
Dedicated floor systems can capture production, but connecting them to SAP is a build-and-maintain effort of its own. Manual confirmation keeps SAP a day behind. Artificio gives you live capture and native SAP posting together.
| Capability | Manual confirmation | Floor system + interface | Artificio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real-time capture at the source | ✗ end of shift | ✓ | ✓ |
| Posts natively to SAP PP | by hand | ✗ custom interface | ✓ OData/BAPI |
| Custom SAP interface to build | none | ✗ six-figure | none |
| Actual (not planned) costing | ✗ | if integrated | ✓ |
| Live late-order alerts | ✗ | own silo | ✓ |
| On-floor SAP quality notifications | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| New floor hardware required | none | ✗ often | runs on tablets |
| Runs on existing ECC, no ABAP | n/a | varies | ✓ |
Two ways onto the floor
Digital app or paper capture: same SAP result.
Not every plant wants to change how operators work on day one. Artificio supports both routes into SAP PP.
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Digital operator app
Operators clock in and out live on a tablet or terminal. Real-time status, actual costing, and supervisor dashboard. - alternative
Paper capture → SAP
Keep your existing time tickets and confirmation slips. Artificio reads them and posts the PP confirmations. See SAP PP paper capture →
Implementation
Live in weeks: no interface project, no floor hardware.
Because it posts through standard SAP interfaces, there's no middleware to build and nothing to install on the machines.
- 1Week 1
Connect SAP PP
Secure OData / RFC connection. Read production orders, operations, work centers, and activity types. No core changes.
- 2Week 2
Configure the floor
Set up work centers, operator badges, order assignment, and your confirmation, backflush, and costing rules.
- 3Week 3
Pilot one line
Operators clock live on a single line or work center. Supervisors watch the dashboard and validate confirmations to SAP.
- 4Week 4
Roll out
Extend across lines. Confirmations, quality notifications, and actual costs flow to SAP in real time.
For SAP teams
Native SAP posting: the integration is the product, not a project.
(BAPI_PRODORDCONF_CREATE_TT), with process-order and repetitive equivalents. Actual activity times post against the order's activity types so CO gets real cost; quality events raise QM notifications (BAPI_QNOTIFICATION_CREATE). No custom middleware, no ABAP, no changes to your PP or CO configuration, and a full audit trail on every posting.What this looks like in practice
A live floor, real costs, and no SAP interface to maintain.
A manufacturer put the operator app on tablets at each work center. Operators clock on and off their assigned orders, confirmations post to SAP PP in real time, controlling sees actual cost as it happens, and supervisors head off late orders from the live dashboard. All without building a single SAP interface.
- Real-time
- order status in SAP
- Actual
- cost per order, live
- Zero
- custom SAP middleware
Questions ops & SAP teams ask
Answers before the demo.
Do we have to build an interface to SAP?
How is this different from an MES?
How does actual costing work?
What can the supervisor dashboard actually do?
Can operators raise quality issues?
Does it run on our existing SAP and hardware?
What if we're not ready to change how operators work?
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Security & compliance
Enterprise security across every solution
ISO 27001:2013 certified, SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, GDPR and HIPAA ready. Every agent action is logged, auditable, and runs in isolated environments.
- ISO 27001:2013
- SOC 2 Type II
- GDPR ready
- HIPAA ready
Live demo
See the operator app confirm into your own SAP.
We'll walk your ops and SAP teams through the operator clock-in, the live supervisor dashboard, and a real-time confirmation posting into a SAP sandbox. No interface required.