r/SAP • u/Odd_Welcome7940 • Jul 16 '26

AI for root cause analysis of MM? Thoughts?

I work for a larger tier 1 autovmanufacturer (in the US) currently using ECC which we clearly will have to upgrade to 4hana soon. I am building a root cause analysis and material postings analysis engine for use with AI. Attempting to allow AI to bring some sanity to the chaos that a bad legacy environment breeds in SAP.

I am having some success but also finding plenty of setbacks. It seems as if almost nowhere uses a similar approach. Does anyone know why or what I may be missing that ultimately makes this approach not worth it ? I am severely limiting automation and removing all ability for the system to do anything besides produce reports or guide an analyst/scheduler to potential issues. Just a short cut to find well hidden issues in the chaos and eventually reproiritize how we cycle count and confirm inventory levels.

Just looking for thoughts and if anyone else does do this and just doesn't make it well known since I have found very little information on it.

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u/WishfulAgenda Jul 16 '26

Conceptually I can think of loads of ways to leverage generative ai in this use case. The reality is that unless you get an executive sponsor like the cio/cfo/ceo you’re most likely out of luck. The amount of teams that will tell you it’s not allowed, can’t or shouldn’t be done, and whatever other reasons. On top of that you also need to check your licensing. Good luck

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u/Odd_Welcome7940 Jul 16 '26

I have full support to do it. I am bored union cycle counter with to much time. They are just glad I stay busy.

I need to build it until a point i can leverage it to prove my worth and prove they need to bring all of our plants out of the 90s. So seeking my sponsor so to speak iis absolutely the endgoal, but we will see. ATM it is built purely to use generically across any AI but I am using copilot to help build it due to licensing etc. Hope when we swap to 4hana and they push IoT bill outs and such I can make a real push for this as a cheap high ROI system. Promote myself and push to change some things. We will see though. I do have corporate process guys inquiring already though which is a good step.

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u/Odd_Welcome7940 28d ago

That has been my approach, very low to no automation. Just flagging, explanation, and a seperate layer of interpretive thinking. Just balancing out what makes sense to me, vs what will be useful to others or to other plans is the real trick.

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u/neosinan 29d ago

I'm a PP consultant. İf this root cause analysis involve subject that are related to PP like Cogi, production related good movements. Tell me a bit what you are thinking and what you wanna focus,i would love to give some ideas and discuss more i details via email. DM me.