Customer Case Study - St. James Hospital
St. James Hospital (SJH) has multiple storehouses in the hospital. When the inventory falls below a certain level, users log on to SAP and create a Reservation that outlines all of their material requirements for stock managed goods. The MM Department then creates automatic Purchase Requisition to maintain the level of inventory required to support SJH.
The SJH SAP GuiXT Wireless Project initiative was tasked with the responsibility to implement and integrate the SAP GuiXT solution for SJH. The requirement was to create SAP Material Reservations using Windows CE portable devices, which are connected to SAP via the SJH wireless network.
The transaction for CE devices was created using the GuiXT Designer, and is a reduced form of the standard SAP transaction, MB21. The GuiXT screens overlay the basic functionality of the MB21 transaction and remove any screen elements that are either not used or can be specified as a constant. Moreover, users can use scanners to do inventory checks. Barcodes are scanned, and the fields get populated automatically, removing the need for manual data entry. Once the data is entered on the mobile device, the transaction returns the SAP Material Reservation Number. The Goods Issue Officer performs the Goods Issue based on the Material Reservation Number.
With the help of a Synactive consultant, SJH was able to utilize GuiXT Mobile to simplify MB21, MIGO and ME51N transactions, making them all work seamlessly through one consistent interface.
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