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News Release from: SSA Global | Subject: iBaan for Industrial Machinery and Equipment
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 April 2002
Machinery and heavy equipment makers
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Industrial machinery and equipment IT solution provides better agility and control across the extended enterprise the complex, order-driven industrial goods manufacturing industry.
Baan - the leading enterprise application provider for industrial enterprises and part of Invensys plc - has announced significant growth in the number of new customers for its recently-launched iBaan for Industrial Machinery and Equipment (iBaan for IM and E) solution The new iBaan for IM and E solution provides better agility and control capabilities across the extended enterprise for organizations in the complex, order-driven industrial goods manufacturing industry
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 20 Aug 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Baan has now implemented iBaan for IMandE at a range of major heavy machinery and rolling equipment manufacturers including Andritz and Komatsu.
Andritz (Austria) is a global leader in high-tech production systems and services for the pulp and paper, steel and other specialized industries.
Commenting on the deployment of iBaan for IMandE, Alexander Krasser, CRM Manager from Andritz said: "The implementation of iBaan for IM and E can help us better coordinate our worldwide distribution of customer information.
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This will help us better support our global account management team with 5,000 plus customer touch points per week across all continents, increase our hit rate of our proposals, consolidate all customer data into one source of installed base knowledge and will help us increase our service business." Komatsu Mining Systems HQ in Vernon Hills IL, USA is a US $500 million global manufacturer of construction and mining equipment.
Ken Ryburn, Director IT Development and MIS at Komatsu-Peoria Operations stated the company's reasons for selecting iBaan for its B2B solution.
"By building supplier portals with iBaan to help us better manage supplier relationships, we have been able to reduce time to propagate changes in plans, forecasts and POs from days to real-time; have reduced supplier lead times from 60 days to 30; eliminated 3,000 pages of correspondence per month; and have saved some of our suppliers up to 20 hours per week by enabling them to download changes online." Gildemeister Aktiengesellschaft, Europe's leading lathe and milling machine manufacturer uses Baan's enterprise applications to help manage and control the sales, production, finance and service processes in its Bielefeld (Germany) headquarters, nine production plants and 40 sales and service subsidiaries worldwide.
Founded more than 130 years ago, Gildemeister is one of the most innovative companies in the industrial machinery sector.
61 new machine models were designed and brought to market during the past three years, and 80 per cent of Gildemeister's turnover, which hit the record level of one billion Euro in 2001, are made with machines that have been launched within the last two years.
"Innovation is key in our industry, and we make sure that our production processes are just as innovative as our machines," says Dr.Raimund Klinkner, member of Gildemeister's Board of Directors, responsible for Logistics, Production and IT.
"The Baan system allows us to configure and to manufacture our machines with an extremely high degree of customer-specific customizations.
At the same time, improved data transparency across the supply chain and closer collaboration with our suppliers, who are now integrated electronically in our logistics and production processes, enabled us to reduce the average order execution time by more than 30 per cent since we introduced Baan." Liebherr technology is firmly established in the world of building construction and civil engineering.
Its program of construction machinery includes full-line offerings for construction cranes, excavators, mining trucks, crawler tractors and loaders, pipe layers, concrete mixing plants, and truck mixers.
Erich Rief, Manager of Liebherr's central IT organization department commented: "Together with Baan, we have been working on improving our business since 1996, in areas like manufacturing, finance and supply chain planning.
Our most recent joint achievement has been to simplify the interaction with our major suppliers.
Using Baan's supply chain solutions, we now produce less paper, receive goods earlier, and save cost through simplified order, accounting and payment processes.
As a next step, we are now implementing iBaan E-Procurement, which will streamline procurement of office supplies, tools and spare parts." For the first time, iBaan for IM and E offers industrial enterprise organizations a comprehensive range of applications focused on core business information functions from ERP and CRM, through to Supply Chain Management and Product Lifecycle Management - providing true cross-enterprise analytical capabilities and comprehensive project control to help them closely link their sales, engineering and production operations.
Henk de Ruiter, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Alliances at Baan added: "Baan has been serving the complex industrial goods manufacturing sector with business solutions and services for over 20 years now.
During this time, we have helped major organizations in the construction, plant building, heavy machinery, rolling equipment and professional equipment markets to achieve significantly enhanced customer intimacy, operational excellence and product leadership.
Our new iBaan for IandE solution will further extend our offering to the industry and we are already seeing successful deployments and early ROI at major organizations across the world." Gregory Gorbach, Director of Collaborative Manufacturing Research at ARC Advisory Group, commented: "Organizations in the Industrial Machinery and Equipment sector are increasingly focusing on the collaborative resolution of the key issues affecting their businesses - namely design considerations; time-critical production; moving from equipment to performance; addressing sharp cyclical fluctuations; order-driven networks for complex assembly operations; and dependency on suppliers and sub-contractors.
With the launch of iBaan for IMandE, Baan is utilizing its industry experience to provide these manufacturers with the Collaborative Manufacturing Management solutions and services they require to meet these challenges and drive their enterprise performance." iBaan for Industrial Machinery and Equipment is part of the iBaan suite of Internet-enabled solutions that combines proven Baan technology with new developments to enable customers to take significant steps towards seamlessly integrating systems and processes.
It provides end-users with personalized and easy-to-use information, and empowers businesses to collaborate with their customers and suppliers over the Internet.
Baan helps industrial enterprises optimize their enterprise performance strategies and compete in the knowledge-driven 'networked economy', with its ever-increasing demands for information, integration, and collaboration.
Through its open and powerful iBaan suite of Internet-enabled solutions, Baan is ideally placed to support organizations in the manufacturing, logistics, services, and engineering industries as they move towards tighter integration of their complex processes, closer collaboration throughout their value chain, and greater accessibility of cross-enterprise transactional and analytical information.
Baan has more than 15,000 customer sites worldwide and is part of the Production Management division of Invensys.
Invensys, the international production technology and energy management group, specializes in helping companies to improve efficiency, performance and profitability.
With close to 76,000 employees, Invensys is headquartered in London, England.
Our Production Management businesses work closely with customers in order to drive up performance of their production assets and maximize the return on investments in product technologies.
The division includes Foxboro, Wonderware, Triconex, APV, Eurotherm and Baan and it addresses the oil, gas and chemicals; food beverage and personal healthcare; and discrete and hybrid manufacturing sectors.
Our Energy Management businesses actively work with clients involved in both the supply and consumption of energy and water, developing systems using innovative technologies that improve the management of energy and water costs and the reliability and security of power supplies.
The division includes Energy Solutions, Metering Systems, Home, Appliance and Climate Controls and Powerware and focuses on markets connected with power and energy infrastructure and commercial and residential buildings.
We also serve the specialized rail, windpower and power components markets through Westinghouse Rail Systems, Hansen Transmissions and Lambda respectively.
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