CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
16 April 2008
Product News
SAP AG Certifies Latest CONTACT Software ERP Interface
CONTACT Software GmbH has been a SAP AG Software Partner since 1997. In the course of its ongoing development strategy, the Bremen-based company recently had its PDM/PLM CIM DATABASE interface with SAP's® ERP system software re-certified. The test procedure in Walldorf was performed according to a "Cross Application – Product Life-Cycle Management" scenario encompassing the categories Computer Aided Design, Document Management, Product Data Management and Product Lifecycle Management. In each of these categories, the CIM DATABASE Gateway for SAP® supports the validated, bi-directional reconciliation of data and documents between both platforms and now bears the "SAP® Certified Integration" certificate. CONTACT's latest interface is available for the versions SAP® R/3 Enterprise 4.7, SAP® ERP ECC 5.0 and 6.0.
Integration development and layout were performed in close collaboration with IDS Scheer AG's Product Lifecycle Management and Automotive Business Development departments. With the CIM DATABASE Gateway for SAP®, CONTACT Software addresses enterprises that value both the integral development of the virtual and physical product and the support of collaborative design processes.
Best-in-Class Strategy
ERP developers like SAP respond with component-orientated architectures to customer demand for flexible and dynamic composite solutions. The business prerogative and highly interoperable component and SOA-based solutions such as SAP NetWeaver® underline such an approach.
Functionality, flexibility and integration in SAP are based on the SAP-PLM interface and the CIM DATABASE services Shared Object Management and ERP ACCESS. These services deliver complete data just in time from the product development process to product planning and logistics in SAP.
Such a best-in-class strategy comprehensively supports the complete product history according to Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) specifications: from project definition, development and production right down to operation, servicing and end-of-life recycling. Thanks to the deeply embedded PDM/ERP application environment, cost-related parameters like stock levels or material prices may be accounted for in the early development stages and production-related data forwarded to downstream services such as production engineering and quality assurance (QA) in due time . This enables a cost-conscious and production friendly product design, linked with a markedly improved reduction of start-up costs and stock outages.
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