Shortfacts - February 2017

Goodbye Excel

Orbis is introducing its Product Cost Calculator (PCC) add-on at L'Orange, a manufacturer of fuel injection systems. This enables L'Orange to fully integrate the calculation of production costs into the existing SAP ERP system.

By switching to the PCC, which replaces the calculation with Microsoft Excel, the company is expecting a wide range of business benefits when calculating manufacturing costs in the course of the new and further development of its injection systems for large engines.

As the add-on enables direct access to prices, rates, overhead rates, bills of materials and routings in SAP ERP, the costing processes can be carried out with IT support on a uniform database and therefore with high quality and precision.

PCC automatically uses the latest figures and data from SAP so that all calculations can be flexibly adapted and continuously refined with little effort during the calculation process.

Previously, all figures and data for the calculation had to be laboriously read out manually from SAP ERP, transferred to Excel, compared and copied back and forth between the applications.

In addition, every calculation created with the add-on is stored in the SAP software. It can therefore be reused together with the associated SAP master data and the expertise acquired can be used to calculate costing variants.