Integrating PLM and ERP: Introducing New Teamcenter Integration with SAP
In a study UGS co-sponsored with AberdeenGroup, Enabling Product Innovation: the Roles of ERP and PLM in the Product Lifecycle, research found that best-in-class manufacturers are four times more likely to have integrated systems for data, process automation and collaboration to support innovation, including PLM and ERP.
This month, UGS announced the Teamcenter™ Gateway for SAP, a bi-directional, collaborative framework between Teamcenter Engineering and the mySAP™ Business Suite. UGS partner TESIS PLMware, the developer of Teamcenter Gateway, received SAP® certification for the software that links Teamcenter Engineering to mySAP. This SAP certification validates the importance of best-in-class PLM solutions like Teamcenter.
The Teamcenter Gateway is a giant leap forward in extending Teamcenter as the single point of access for enabling product and process management from design through production. The Gateway is a complete, out-of-the-box integration between Teamcenter and mySAP™ Business Suite for typical best practice workflows and includes standard handlers and data mappings. It is also flexible enough to support very complex processes that may have been customized in the customers' PLM or ERP implementation.
Open solution enhances manufacturing
Comprehensive and accurate interfaces between PLM and ERP systems are critical to product quality, cost and time-to-market considerations for manufacturers worldwide. As part of its PLM Open business model, UGS has designed its Teamcenter software portfolio to work in concert with all of the industry's leading ERP applications. The latest release of Teamcenter Gateway is a logical evolution of the Teamcenter-SAP integrations UGS has been delivering for more than 10 years.
The interface is designed to link the virtual environment of innovation with the physical environment of execution and includes collaborative functionality for engineering and manufacturing use cases as information moves back and forth between Teamcenter to mySAP Business Suite.
In the new release, the software now allows data to be shared and synchronized and/or ownership to be handed off between Teamcenter and mySAP Business Suite as appropriate throughout the entire product lifecycle. A newly developed component, for example, may have its part ID assigned initially in Teamcenter by engineering, while as part of the production release process, ERP would take ownership and add additional information according to enterprise standards. For part attributes, such as net weight, Teamcenter can remain as the master throughout the process while still other attributes that are originating in mySAP Business Suite, such as cost or stock level, are available to the engineer in Teamcenter as runtime properties, always reflecting their actual value in mySAP Business Suite.
Ask your UGS sales representative for more information about the Teamcenter Gateway for SAP.
