{"id":2084,"date":"2025-10-29T12:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qppd.info\/?page_id=2084"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:20:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:20:58","slug":"metals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/qppd.info\/en\/metals\/","title":{"rendered":"metals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Efficiency, quality and a head start for the metal industry<\/h4>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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The metal industry operates in an environment that goes far beyond standard ERP processes. Materials are rarely simple catalog products – they are defined by complex properties such as chemical compositions, mechanical strength or tight tolerance specifications. Added to this are individual customer requirements for packaging, labeling or testing, which must be precisely taken into account in every order. <\/p>\n

Different business models face different challenges:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Manufacturing plants<\/strong> have to control complex metallurgical production processes from crude steel to the finished product – from melting and rolling processes to special heat treatments. Service centers<\/strong> focus on the efficient procurement, warehousing and further processing of commercial materials with flexible processing capacities such as cutting, bending or surface treatment.<\/p>\n

Processes in for SAP S\/4HANA\u00ae<\/strong> already form a powerful basis for this. However, it becomes evident that additional support is particularly helpful in the metal industry.<\/p>\n

We have gained our experience through many industry-specific customer projects and have developed a “best practice” metal solution<\/strong> as a result. This solution is tailored to the requirements of the metal industry and covers the needs of both service centers and manufacturing plants.<\/p>\n

The QPPD framework<\/strong> integrates seamlessly into existing SAP systems. It specifically extends the standard <\/strong>with additional data and functionalities and increases the degree of process automation<\/strong>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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With QPPD, master data can be managed centrally and in a structured manner. Individual data structures can be flexibly mapped and directly linked to each other – for example material standards with matching tolerance standards. This creates a consistent database (“single source of truth”) that can be used in all areas of the company. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Master data can be managed with QPPD<\/strong>. The QPPD Object Designer enables the modeling of individual data structures, allowing for a solution that is precisely tailored to the needs of each company. It is also possible to link the corresponding objects directly. For example, material standards can contain a link to a separate tolerance standard object.<\/p>

Status and versioning concepts ensure clean and traceable data management. As all master data can be linked with each other, a single source of truth<\/strong> is created that provides consistent product data for all areas of the company. <\/p>

Combined with the BRF+ framework, business rules can be defined directly by the business users \u2014 eliminating the need for IT involvement. This enables data validation, automatic assignment of default values, and even complex calculations \u2014 for example, chemical analysis formulas. This significantly increases the quality and reliability of data storage.<\/p>

By integrating with sales, production, purchasing, and quality management, even the most complex product information can be mapped in a structured and consistent way. This provides transparency into product complexity and makes it controllable across all processes.<\/p>

Our Metal Solution provides a predefined data model<\/strong> based on our many years of experience in the metal industry. It is designed in such a way that it already comprehensively depicts the typical structures and characteristics of metal products. This allows industry-specific requirements to be taken into account directly.<\/p>

Included are for example:<\/p>