Teradata

Every manufacturing enterprise shares a common competitive component – time. The shorter the time to decision, the faster the time to market – and the faster you can build a critical competitive advantage.

Yet manufacturers who are faced with increasing data volumes, user requirements, and query complexities, waste precious time with business intelligence (BI) infrastructures that can’t keep pace with growing demands. This results in end users not having access to the information they need to solve problems efficiently. What’s worse, these users will often spend up to 80% of their time searching for data they can convert into actionable information. That leaves just 20% of their time available for more crucial concerns, such as decision making and taking corrective actions.

Today’s environment of increasing manufacturing complexity and tightening margins has escalated the need for an operational intelligence infrastructure that provides insight into your supply chain and allows for timely decisions and actions to mitigate risk and manage costs.

This environment has led to:

• Data and analysis latency issues that impact time to decision.
• An inability to relate detailed manufacturing data with operational metrics.
• Inefficient use of resources, adding time and complexity to efforts to identify and resolve issues.
• High TCO for your BI infrastructure for maintaining and developing new tools.

Teradata Corporation can help you meet and solve those challenges. The Teradata® Manufacturing Analytics Platform (MAP) gives you and your business added insight into all aspects of your supply chain, including detailed manufacturing data, and enables you to use those data to impact operational metrics. It’s a solution that moves data management right into your database, freeing up your BI infrastructure and providing you with the scalability you need as your business expands.

A Teradata MAP solution leverages Teradata Database’s unique parallel processing architecture, allowing you to load, reduce, and analyze data within your warehouse, eliminating data and analysis latencies.

Teradata MAP provides a BI platform integrating operational and manufacturing data. This platform:

• Allows you to consolidate data marts for operational, business, and manufacturing data.
• Supports the integration of both SAP® (BW) and non-SAP data.
• Supplies an analytical engine with in-database triggered analytics and data management stages.

Some applications the platform supports include:

• Supply Chain Risk Management
• Yield Management, Monitoring, and Root Cause Analysis
• Quality Lifecycle Analysis (QLA)
• Customer Returns Analysis
• Warranty and Claims Analysis
• Predictive Asset Management (PAM)
• Material Traceability for Forecast and Inventory management 

The solution provides in-database analytics and workflows, triggering statistical workflows whenever new detailed data reach the warehouse. This keeps your enterprise information up to date with your supply chain and makes the information available to your entire enterprise on demand for faster analysis and better supply chain visibility.
 

It also lets you ask the next level of questions. We’ll show you how to move from questions such as:

• How is each supplier performing to on-time delivery?
• What is my Yield for a given product?
• How many parts do I have at this point in the line?

To key questions such as:

• Which supplier is not meeting my manufacturing goals of yield and cycle time?
• What is the impact of a manufacturing anomaly on my operational performance?

Because it dramatically reduces the time required to resolve supply chain issues, the Teradata MAP solution lets you act on cost reduction opportunities faster than ever, cutting your problem-solving cycle time while improving your confidence levels in correlations, hypotheses, and decisions.
 

The solution’s specific components include:

Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family – The Teradata MAP solution can run on any member of the Teradata Purpose-Built Platform Family, including Teradata Extreme Data Appliance and Teradata Active Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). Each platform family member runs the Teradata Database, the most robust analytical engine in the industry. Teradata platforms are powerful, affordable, and easy to deploy. Each Teradata platform has the kind of built-in functionality that makes it easy to manage and ready to deliver rapid time to value. And it’s easy to migrate from one platform to another without changing ETL, data models, or underlying structures.

Teradata Manufacturing Logical and Physical Data Model – This robust conceptual architecture describes data relationships and maps out manufacturing data, focusing on item, item instance, and work process events. Focusing on your specific manufacturing operations areas, it provides a clear foundation for better analysis and more accurate decision making. And it lets you build faster and smarter. You’ll save vital development time – and development dollars – while you minimize the risks associated with implementing a data warehouse.

Our physical data model further reduces the time to implementation with embedded analytics statistical workflow and statistical group management that enable analysis across detailed manufacturing and operational data.

ELT and Master Data Management – Teradata MAP provides a complete ELT solution to meet your data quality and data loading service level agreements. Teradata FastLoad and TPump ELT tools enable the loading of all necessary data into the data model. These ELT tools work in conjunction with our Master Data Management (MDM) tools to synchronize product, customer, and other information in your data warehouse, enabling a true enterprise view of data. Our approach to master data governance employs powerful workflow and excellent security that allows you to track requests, approvals, actions, and master data history. Teradata MDM also strengthens your ability to manage relationships within master data, including cross-references (for the single view) and master data hierarchies, with full workflow and visualization of relationships.

In-situ Statistical Group Management and Workflows – The solution architecture allows you to define and control statistical workflows and groups across master data elements and integrate them into the physical data model and front-end visualization and analysis tools. It’s a configuration that offers you an efficient platform for integrating traceability, as well as both manufacturing and operational data across hierarchies. It also includes PDM enhancements, such as statistical groups, pre-defined analytical procedures and views for integration to third-party analysis tools, integration of master data concepts for statistical groups, and analytics management implemented by Teradata Professional Services consultants.

Teradata MAP is a critical first step for accelerating decision making, improving product margins, reducing operational expenditures, and maintaining your BI infrastructure. You’ll feel its impact immediately with:

• Reduced decision time through faster problem identification and resolution.
• Increased revenue and reduced manufacturing costs through improved quality and manufacturing performance.
• Reduced operational expenditures by consolidating data marts across your manufacturing line.
• Improved operational efficiency providing more time to analyze data instead of searching for them.