Transfering Manufacturing Data to SAP Signavio

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to transfer your manufacturing data from SAP DM to SAP Signavio.

Transfer Manufacturing Data to SAP Signavio

SAP Signavio is a powerful Business Process Management (BPM) solution designed to help organizations analyze, model, optimize, and continuously improve their business processes. Its collaborative tools for Process Modeling, Process Governance, and Process Mining enable businesses to create transparency, identify improvement opportunities, and drive operational excellence.

This is a data flow diagram illustrating the integration and data movement between SAP Signavio, Digital Manufacturing, and SAP Analytics Cloud.

In this guide, we will focus on how to leverage SAP Signavio’s Process Intelligence solution to enable Process Mining using manufacturing data from SAP Digital Manufacturing. This capability is fast-tracked with an Accelerator, which can be downloaded from the Business Collaboration Hub, as depicted in the image below.

This figure shows a SAP Signavio library interface with two listed process accelerators for digital manufacturing.

This accelerator provides a predefined template for building a Process Data Pipeline, to extract, transform, and load (ETL) manufacturing data into SAP Signavio Process Intelligence as well as predefined templates for analytics and process mining. More detailed information on ETL in Signavio can be found in Unit 5 of this Learning Journey.

The next demo will exactly guide you through the necessary steps for setting up a Process Data Pipeline and analyzing your manufacturing processes with SAP Signavio:

  1. Establish a Connection: Set up and configure the integration between your SAP DM and SAP Signavio instances.
  2. Select Data for Import: Define the MDOs to extract from SAP DM that are relevant for your use case.
  3. Set Up a Process Data Model: Prepare and structure the imported data within SAP Signavio using a Process Data Model to enable insightful Process Mining analysis.
  4. Create and Analyze a Process: Use the prepared data in SAP Signavio for analyzing your manufacturing process and uncovering inefficiencies and improvement opportunities.
This figure depicts a four-step data processing pipeline from source to overwriting merge strategy.

How to Load Data from SAP Digital Manufacturing into SAP Signavio for Process Mining use cases

In the following video, you will see how to load data from SAP Digital Manufacturing into SAP Signavio for process mining use cases.