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Nordic Winshuttle User Group October 2013

• Who am I?
• Meneta Aps.
• MAT Holdings Inc.

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Karsten Salin

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Australian / Danish background

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1984 Electronic technician Danish Navy

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1984 – 2004 Various positions in service and maintenance of electronic equipment

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2005 SAP business analyst logistics modules

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2005 SAP business analyst MAT Holdings Inc. Main responsibility as PP analyst, but also support MM, SD, WM, QM, PM and CO. Winshuttle script developer and supporter for the MAT group.

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Accessories Shim Back plate

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SAP since 1997 ECC 6 from January 2010 Modules in use: FI, CO, MM, PP, SD, WM, PM, QM, COPA, DIMP. RF technology used in warehousing and production. In and outbound data with EDI Customized foundry MES 10.000+ employees, 800+ SAP licenses

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• The first major data load
• Winshuttle first time
• CATT’s, ECATT’s and LSMW’s

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The plan was to use LSMW

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LSMW scripts kept failing

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US ABAP programmer working EU hours to help

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Ended up loading material master data for 22.000 materials in 11 plants using CATT’s.

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Nerve recking, great fun and good experience!

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Downloaded and tried a demo version

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Couldn’t gain support or interest from corporate SAP management at the time

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Thought well of it

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Winshuttle on hold

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 CATT

– Computer Aided Test Tool

 ECATT

• Extended CATT – Computer Aided Test Tool

 LSMW

• Legacy System Migration Workbench

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Complex interfaces. Not sutible for end users.

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Recording more complex.

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Needs to be transported to be available in all SAP instances.

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Line numbers need to be inserted manually in the load sheets.

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Error messages and error processing complex.

• Evaluating products for mass managing data in SAP
• The final choice and why
• Going local

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Initially 4 programs were considered

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3 programs were looked at in more detail

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Direct comparison tests between Winshuttle and XYZ

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User interfaces

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Functionality / features

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Documentation

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Support

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Documen entatio ion

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One of the main differences between Winshuttle and XYZ is the access method to

• documentation. For Winshuttle it is web based, for XYZ it is embedded in the program.

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Winshuttle

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All documentation is easy to find and easily accessible via http://www.winshuttle.com/.

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A product manual, and step by step guides for a number of transactions exists. The quality is really good. Another nice feature is a knowledge database. Also a quick Q&A function is

• available. On Youtube there is material to be found on Winshuttle.

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XYZ

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Going in through XYZ portal http://www.xyz.com/ doesn’t give you very much help if you are a user looking for help. Most information here seems to be product/sales related. On Youtube there is no material to be found on XYZ.

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The embedded documentation is good. Walk troughs are general but ok.

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Conclusion on documentation:

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I would say that Winshuttle is the better of the two. There is just more of it, and it is easier to

• navigate. Also the knowledge base is useful, and more information can be found on the

internet than for XYZ. I would also have to assume, that online information is in general more up to date than embedded.

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Usage: ge: Winshuttle XYZ Validation option Y N Backup option Y N Run from Excel Y N

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 Although Winshuttle was determined to be the desired

product, a decision to purchase and use at a corporate level could not be reached at the time.

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 Permission was granted for Meneta to purchase a developers

license locally.

 RBDK liked what they saw and purchased a Runner license

locally.

 Meneta purchased an extra Runner license.  India purchased a Runner license.  MAT purchased a Runner license for one of the companiesat

corporate HQ.

The obvious case Online demo The initial multi transaction linked script, that was created with the help of Adsotech, that has saved countless hours of work, and justified the first developers license.

3200 7564000 MHQ only.xlsm

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The maybe not so obvious case Case at RBDK, where license costs might not be covered by transaction hours saved, but how a runner license made the company more than happy because it has all but eliminated a bottle neck in master data maintenance, and helper streamline the process of master data creation. The comment from the user:

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 ”Normally software is something I feel we pay too much for.

Winshuttle is the first software I have used where I feel I’m getting my monies worth.”

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• MAT expanded the use of Winshuttle to India and the US
• MAT IT wiki site (tour) MAT IT wiki
• Improved master data quality due to fewer keying errors
• Faster updating / maintenance of data
• MAT plans to expand the use of Winshuttle in the US and India.
• A possible corporate change to a central solution integrated with SharePoint
• A possible reduction in the number of SAP license required?

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Karsten Salin: What did you think of loading new materials this way? Was it practical for you? Was it easy? Did you save any time?

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Lokesh Sharma: Actually it is saving the time a lot...it took 2-3 minutes instead of 1-2 hours

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Lokesh Sharma: and easy too

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Karsten,

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It worked great and saved a lot of time. Thank you!

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Sincerely,

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Gill

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Thanks for all your help. You are really making my life much easier as these adjustments would take me a few days I would imagine.

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Kevin

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