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Monday, October 06, 2014

CIM Database PLM: SAP Certifies CONTACT's New ERP Interface

Following certification by the SAP® Integration and Certification Center (SAP ICC), CONTACT Software today announced release of its enhanced ERP standard interface for CIM Database PLM 10.1. Thanks to the changeover to the remote function call functionality of the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform, the interface now also supports the bidirectional multilingual alignment of product data based on the use of Unicode.

The scenario "Cross Application – PLM 4.7" was successfully tested in the categories CAD Data and Document Management, Product Data and Product Lifecycle Management (PDM/PLM), as well as the SAP Solution Manager registration. The new major release of the PLM/ERP interface is available for all current versions of the SAP ERP application.

Beyond the standard scenario, the SAP certification for CONTACT's CIM Database PLM also supports access to other components of SAP ERP, including project system and plant maintenance. Alongside CAD data alignment, product data management covers the service-oriented, process-controlled synchronization of article master data and engineering bills of material (BOMs), including engineering change processes. Because CIM Database PLM 10.1 also maintains the management of factory-specific manufacturing BOMs with its new mBOM Manager, these BOMs can also be transferred in full to the SAP ERP application.

The integration of CIM Database PLM with SAP ERP simplifies enterprise-wide collaboration during the development of both virtual and physical products across teams, departments and enterprise sites worldwide. As a result, it is possible to take account of commercial factors such as current stock levels or the materials prices for parts, as well as of open manufacturing orders and purchase orders already in the design stage. The interconnection of product development and product industrialization supports end-to-end processes and data consistency, reduces sources of error, and also cuts lead times and costs in development and manufacturing companies.

"Seamless, efficient development processes thrive when product data can flow unhindered between tools, enterprise applications, employees and partners," stresses CONTACT's Managing Director Karl Heinz Zachries. "That is why we offer standard integrations and regularly apply for certification whenever is available from the software manufacturer."

With its open component architecture, the apps developed to exploit this, and its standard interfaces to other IT programs, CONTACT Software provides versatile networked solutions for enterprises that want to map their processes end-to-end within a product lifecycle management perspective: from project planning, through development and manufacture, and on to operation, maintenance and re-engineering.

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