RLINK for SAP PPPI Overview

Interface to SAP R/3 PP/PPPI (Production Planning - Process Industries)

RLINK PPPI interface is a bi-directional gateway between PI and SAP PP/PPPI.

The SAP PPPI module feeds data to SAP for production orders and costing based on material consumption and production. It provides the planned orders back to the plant floor for execution. OSIsoft's gateway to PPPI provides the following capabilities:

• Supports all standard SAP instructions
• Displays recipe and operational information in PI ProcessBook graphics environment
• Extensive error checking
• Integrates with batch execution systems
• Pull and push of recipes from SAP
• Alias for SAP instructions
• Extendable with ad-hoc messages and general SAP transaction support
• Interfaces via PI-PCS (Process Instruction - Process Control System) RFC and BAPI Library

PI ProcessBook can be used with RLINK to display recipes and operational data received from SAP PP-PI together with summary production data transferred from the plant to SAP R/3.