SAP Demonstrates New Level of Industry-Specific Manufacturing Excellence.MADRID Madrid (mədrĭd`, Span. mäthhrēth`), city (1990 pop. 3,120,732), capital of Spain and of Madrid prov., central Spain, and the focus of its own autonomous region, on the Manzanares River. , Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 22, 1998-- Customers Endorse To sign a paper or document, thereby making it possible for the rights represented therein to pass to another individual. Also spelled indorse. endorse (indorse) v. Comprehensive Manufacturing Solution Supporting the Unique Demands Of the Discrete and Process Manufacturing The manufacturing industry that uses process control systems. See process control. Industries At its European European emanating from or pertaining to Europe. European bat lyssavirus see lyssavirus. European beech tree fagussylvaticus. European blastomycosis see cryptococcosis. user conference SAPPHIRE(r) Madrid, SAP AG (company) SAP AG - (Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung - German for "Systems, Applications and Products in Data Processing") A company from Germany that sells the leading suite of client-server business software. The US branch is called SAP America. today introduced SAP(TM) R/3(TM) Release 4.5, which complements R/3 Release 4.0 in delivering a new dimension of industry-specific manufacturing excellence. With the delivery of the R/3 Release 4 family of products (Releases 4.0 and 4.5), SAP introduced specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. manufacturing functionality and best practices to meet the most advanced manufacturing requirements of process and discrete industries. Based on R/3 Release 4, SAP industry solutions (Aerospace and Defense, Automotive, Engineering and Construction, High Tech, Chemical, Pharmaceutical, and Consumer Products) enable customers to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. highly dynamic manufacturing processes with cost-efficient Adj. 1. cost-efficient - productive relative to the cost cost-effective efficient - being effective without wasting time or effort or expense; "an efficient production manager"; "efficient engines save gas" standard business applications. "SAP is clearly the leader in delivering comprehensive manufacturing solutions with more than 5,000 installations currently deploying our manufacturing applications. Now, with the R/3 Release 4 family, SAP has raised the bar with best manufacturing practices for deep industry functionality to handle complex manufacturing operations Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizations. in industries such as aerospace and defense," said Dr. Peter Zencke, executive board member of SAP AG. "Excellence in manufacturing is the cornerstone cornerstone Ceremonial building block, dated or otherwise inscribed, usually placed in an outer wall of a building to commemorate its dedication. Often the stone is hollowed out to contain newspapers, photographs, or other documents reflecting current customs, with a view to of the successful introduction of an advanced supply chain management solution, such as SAP SCOPE." Raising the Level of Manufacturing Excellence With Industry Solutions Manufacturers face a host of unique challenges within their respective industries, from production planning Production planning The function of a manufacturing enterprise responsible for the efficient planning, scheduling, and coordination of all production activities. and assembly-line a. 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling an assembly line; as, an assembly-line process; also used metaphorically, as an assembly-line educational system s>. control to order processing and delivery scheduling. Mix-and-match solutions for these business processes have traditionally provided specialized functionality at the expense of enterprisewide visibility and integration. With R/3 Release 4, manufacturers no longer need to make this trade-off because SAP has delivered best-in-class See best-of-class. , industry-specific manufacturing solutions both integrating the enterprise and across the supply chain. "SAP leads the pack in meeting the needs of manufacturers," said Harry Tse, director, the Yankee Group (the Yankee Group, Boston, MA, www.yankeegroup.com) A major market research, analysis and consulting firm founded in 1970 by Howard Anderson. It provides general consulting and strategic planning in the computer and communications field. . "Its comprehensive R/3 solution supports the requirements of demanding and sophisticated manufacturing industries manufacturing industries npl → industrias fpl manufactureras manufacturing industries npl → industries fpl de transformation , from automotive and high-technology to chemical and pharmaceutical, especially when coupled with the open SAP Business Framework(TM) component architecture." New features in R/3 Release 4 deliver extended manufacturing and logistics functionality for customers across multiple industries. Key highlights include support for greater control over materials management Materials management is the branch of logistics that deals with the tangible components of a supply chain. Specifically, this covers the acquisition of spare parts and replacements, quality control of purchasing and ordering such parts, and the standards involved in ordering, , repairs processing, plant maintenance, flow manufacturing, high-volume order management, trend analysis, project cost forecasting, and environmental health and safety. "We operate in close, networked cooperation with several midsize manufacturers. With R/3 Release 4, SAP has proved its superiority in delivering the specific manufacturing functionality we need as a parts supplier for the automotive industry The automotive industry is the industry involved in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and sale of motor vehicles. In 2006, more than 69 million motor vehicles, including cars and commercial vehicles were produced worldwide. , with all the benefits of full system integration," said Dr. Lothar Dietrich, IT area manager at Erbsloeh AG. "Also, SAP helped us to go live on Release 4.0 with virtually no disruption disruption /dis·rup·tion/ (dis-rup´shun) a morphologic defect resulting from the extrinsic breakdown of, or interference with, a developmental process. in our operations." Erbsloeh AG supplies aluminum parts such as luggage LUGGAGE. Such things as are carried by a traveller, generally for his personal accommodation; baggage. In England this word is generally used in the same sense that baggage is used in the United States. See Baggage. racks to automotive manufacturers. New manufacturing features are leveraged in SAP industry solutions, including: -0-
SAP Aerospace and Defense R/3 Release 4 introduces significant
new functionality to support aerospace and defense needs including:
-- Configurable task list
-- Rework orders
-- Serial number effectivity
-- Serial number traceability
-- Product Data Management (PDM) document browser
-- Interactive interface between PDM and project system
-- Resource-related billing
-- Order change management
-- Order progress reporting
-- Engineering workbench
-- Cost forecast on projects (cost to complete)
-- Milestone trend analysis
-- Project simulation
-- Planned cash flows in projects
SAP Automotive leverages significant new offerings from Release 4:
-- Flow manufacturing
- Line design
- Sequencing
- Kanban calculation
-- Outbound Just-in-Time (JIT) shipping schedule to suppliers
-- Production lot planning, also known as preplanned SEIBAN in
Japan
-- Global ATP (Available-to-Promise) Server
-- High-volume backflushing
-- Delivery order processing (MAIS Pick-Up Sheet)
-- Enhanced Evaluated Receipt Settlement (ERS)
-- Material Requirements Planning (MRP) area
-- Grouped JIT call functions
"For our next implementation step in 1999, we plan to use R/3
Release 4.0 to support the business processes of the production parts
logistics in our BMW plant in Rosslyn, South Africa," said Hans Nowak,
process/information technology manager, SAP Steering at BMW Logistics.
"The R/3 implementation at our Rosslyn plant will coincide with
the use of R/3 at our plant in Spartanburg, S.C., U.S.A., helping to
standardize our business processes and systems." BMW is among the
world's foremost manufacturers of luxury automobiles, motorcycles and
other automotive products.
SAP Engineering and Construction customers will leverage specific
functionality in R/3 Release 4 such as the following:
-- Project simulation
-- Product Data Management (PDM) document browser
-- Interactive interface between PDM and project system
-- Engineering change management
-- Engineering workbench
-- Planned cash flows in projects
-- Project-related orders received/order backlog
-- Quotation costing with projects
-- Milestone trend analysis
-- Valuated project stock
-- Order change management
-- Order progress reporting
-- High-volume order management
-- Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS)
-- Cost forecast on projects (cost to complete)
-- Deliveries with projects
-- Redesign resource related billing
"SAP R/3 has served as a strong infrastructure for Heidelberger
Druckmaschinen, providing robust functionality and innovative
technology to meet our demanding manufacturing requirements," said Dr.
Herbert Meyer, member of the board at Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG.
"We feel strongly that R/3 Release 4.5 will further strengthen
our manufacturing processes by delivering improvements in
manufacturing core capabilities, costs, production throughput and
competitiveness." Heidelberger Druckmaschinen is the leading provider
of machinery for the printing industry.
SAP High Tech benefits from a range of new functionality in R/3
Release 4, including:
-- Flow manufacturing
- Line design
- Sequencing
- KANBAN management
-- Global ATP (Available-to-Promise) Server
-- Standalone product Data Management (PDM) system
-- Enhanced service management
- Enhanced contract management with value and master
contracts
- Management of the installed base (as built, as sold, as
serviced)
- Return Material Processing (RMA)
- Refurbishment
- Enhanced scheduling and dispatch with paging
- Call Center
- Flexible costing and billing for service
-- Software maintenance procedures
-- Sales Configuration Engine (SCE) and R/3 SCE knowledge base
maintenance
-- Manufacturer Part Number (MPN)
-- Material stock management for single units (material serial
number)
-- High-volume order management
-- Material Requirements Planning (MRP) area
-- Manufacturing Execution Solution (MES) for semiconductor
industry
-- Foreign trade
SAP Chemicals and SAP Pharmaceuticals solutions have been
enhanced with the following new capabilities:
-- Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) - dangerous goods
management
-- Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) - occupational health
-- Process Flow Scheduler (PFS)
-- Additional Process Control Systems (PCS) integration models
-- Meeting General Maintenance Practices (GMP) requirements
-- Regulated manufacturing (GMP requirements)
- Digital signature
- Electronic batch record
- Approval of inspection plans
-- Batch processing
-- Co-products functionality
-- Transfer pricing
SAP Consumer Products is enhanced significantly with R/3 Release
4, taking advantage of new functionality in several key areas:
-- Payment card processing
-- Free goods management
-- Freight calculation and settlement
-- Distribution resource planning
-- Promotions
-- Vendor-managed inventory
-- Outbound processing of data using the PRICAT protocol
-- Mass maintenance as a central tool
-0- Customers Pleased With Faster Upgrade Times, New Functionality of Release 4.0 R/3 Release 4.5 builds on the success of Release 4.0, which has already been embraced by more than 800 customers. By delivering this enhanced functionality as a new release rather than as revisions to Release 4.0, SAP allows customers the freedom to add new functionality at their own pace. New tools such as AcceleratedSAP(TM) for Upgrades have made upgrading to Release 4.0 easier, faster and more cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. than previous releases, requiring only about one-third the downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. involved in moving from Release 2.2 to 3.x. In addition, stringent quality assurance as well as advanced delta training programs have lowered the time and cost of the upgrade process significantly. Based on these promising experiences, SAP anticipates that R/3 Release 4.5 will be deployed even more smoothly and efficiently. "SAP's new process enabled us to upgrade Release 3.1 to Release 4.0 in two days; it normally takes four or five," said Steve Schumacher, director, project enterprise, GPU GPU: see secret police. (Graphics Processing Unit) A specialized logic chip devoted to rendering 2D or 3D images. Display adapters contain one or more GPUs for fast graphics rendering. Energy in Reading, Pa. "We are very pleased with the speed and quality of the upgrade process to Release 4.0." GPU Energy is an electric utility that serves more than 2 million customers in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (pĕnsəlvā`nyə), one of the Middle Atlantic states of the United States. It is bordered by New Jersey, across the Delaware River (E), Delaware (SE), Maryland (S), West Virginia (SW), Ohio (W), and Lake Erie and New York , New Jersey and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Availability and Support R/3 Release 4.5 is scheduled for first customer shipment in the third quarter of 1998, with general availability in the second quarter of 1999. With the addition of R/3 Release 4.5, SAP will continue to maintain all currently supported releases. "It's great that SAP is applying a consistent, reliable approach to upgrading its R/3 functionality," said Patrick McGinty, director of information technology services, storage products group, Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. . "We expect to use a lot of the new functionality in Release 4.5, but we also appreciate being allowed to migrate to it gradually." Texas Instruments provides technologies for customers in such markets as computers, wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. , Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , digital motor control and mass storage. SAPPHIRE Madrid With more than 8,000 attendees, the annual SAP European user conference, SAPPHIRE Madrid, is a forum for discussion, networking, communication and interaction focused on innovative business solutions in the world of information technology. About SAP SAP is a market and technology leader in client/server enterprise application software, providing comprehensive solutions for companies of all sizes and all industry sectors. Cultivating innovative technologies on a solid foundation of business experience, SAP delivers scalable solutions that enable its customers to continually con·tin·u·al adj. 1. Recurring regularly or frequently: the continual need to pay the mortgage. 2. improve upon best business practices. SAP products This presents a list of products of the enterprise software company SAP AG. Enterprise Applications
Founded in 1972, SAP is based in Walldorf, Germany, and employs more than 15,000 people at offices in more than 50 countries who are dedicated to providing a high level of support and service for the more than 15,000 installations of R/3 worldwide. The SAP World Wide Web site can be found at http://www.sap.com. Note to Editors: SAP, SAPPHIRE, R/3, SAP Automotive, SAP Business Framework, AcceleratedSAP and all SAP product and service names referenced herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. CONTACT: SAP America Narina Sippy, 781/672-6646 narina.sippy@sap-ag.de or SAP AG Gerhard Rickes, +49 6227 74-4217 gerhard.rickes@sap-ag.de or Waggener Edstrom Mike Fisher, 503/245-0905 michaelf@wagged.com |
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