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News Release from: SSA Global | Subject: iBaan for CRM, iBaan for PLM and iBaan for SCM
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 24 April 2002
Internet-enabled solutions are more
focused
Baan has extended its iBaan suite of Internet-enabled solutions to support aerospace and defence, automotive, industrial machinery and equipment, electronics, and process manufacturing.
Baan - the leading enterprise application provider for industrial enterprises and part of Invensys plc - has extended the development of its iBaan suite of Internet-enabled solutions to further support Industrial Enterprise organizations in the company's target markets of Aerospace and Defense, Automotive, Industrial Machinery and Equipment, Electronics, and Process Manufacturing The development of the company's iBaan for CRM, iBaan for PLM and iBaan for SCM solutions will help these global organizations address industry-specific challenges and continue to drive their operational excellence, customer intimacy and product leadership strategies
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 1 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Henk de Ruiter, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Alliances at Baan added: "We are firmly focussed on delivering solutions and services that directly address our customers' demands and that can help them to compete in their respective markets.
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"Traditionally, the customer sends weekly requirements (forecasts) to the supplier, with some giving daily updates, utilizing EDI.
However, as you get further down the supply chain, EDI frequently isn't an option for transmission, leaving fax and phone calls as the usual communication method.
Today's Just-In-Time environments need a better infrastructure.
"Now with iBaan's supply chain visibility, Tier One suppliers can continue to provide forecasting data but with the added benefit of opening up their system - through a portal or other Internet tool - allowing their own suppliers to view inventory information online.
This now allows the supplier to essentially manage their inventory at the customer site." iBaan solutions for the Aerospace and Defense industry - integrating the supply chain Edward Talerico, Baan's Industry Director - Aerospace and Defense commented: "The Aerospace and Defense industry faces a number of key issues centering on commercialization, consolidation, globalization, and the reduction of costs.
It also has the ongoing need to meet legislative requirements.
The deregulation of airlines, the end of the cold war and the telecommunications boom were major events that shaped the industry into what we see today.
These events created a number of industry drivers to which companies have to respond on a strategic level - drivers such as business process reengineering, locking in customers after the initial sale, reducing the number of suppliers, and increased integration of the supply chain.
"iBaan offers A and D organizations a host of industry-specific solutions to address key processes such as project management, project monitoring, engineering, material procurement, product configuration and production," he continued.
iBaan solutions for the Electronics industry - decreasing time to market Arsenin Rodriguez, Baan's Industry Director - Electronics said: "Electronics manufacturers in today's market have some serious time-to-market issues.
Due to the fact that innovations happen on a continuous basis and that the window for profitability is small, go-to-market with innovations can be key.
Improving their products with new technology and/or innovation and fast, is vital.
Sharing design information across the organization and enterprise is a way to decrease time from initial concept to profitability.
"iBaan for PLM provides a solution to help companies decrease the time-to-market, supporting the engineering process and sharing engineering information across the enterprise and supply chain.
Introducing automatic and more informed ways of incorporating engineering changes can reduce cost and time.
iBaan for PLM can also help to offer better control over part numbers and can help reduce the amount of part numbers in the organization, increasing the efficiencies accordingly." iBaan solutions for the Industrial Machinery and Equipment industry - Internet technologies enable collaboration Ren? Hollebrandse, Baan's Industry Director - Industrial Machinery and Equipment commented: "In the world of Industrial Machinery and Equipment, new production chains are arising due to adoption of more and more 'new' technologies provided by specialised suppliers - such as sensor technology, microelectronics, laser technology and industrial image processing, with many needing special software - while in some regions the trend of outsourcing the more standardised components to lower wage countries can be observed.
Collaboration based on Internet technologies is therefore increasingly becoming an essential function to remain competitive in this field.
"iBaan solutions recognize the triangle between Sales - Engineering - and Production, since sales configurations can be transferred into manufacturing configurations, all the while linked to engineering data via the PLM solution.
The solution also supports product lifecycle data in every stage of production through a PLM solution." iBaan solutions for the Process manufacturing industry - addressing requirements of Food and Beverage and Metals and Paper producers Jay Galasso, Vice President, Marketing, Baan Process Solutions, said: "Process manufacturers face a dizzying array of challenges to remain competitive in markets such as Food and Beverage, Metals and Paper.
For Food and Beverage producers, the conflicting demands on their business include ever-changing consumer patterns, retail and food service customer needs; the inconsistency of incoming ingredients; and the opening of new markets.
For manufacturers in Metals and Paper, the challenges they face include the need to manage inventory, maintain customer loyalty and streamline the supply chain.
"iBaan solutions better enable Food and Beverage producers to set the trends in their shifting markets, develop customer solutions to meet customer initiatives, and control formula management and operations to handle material variability and meet quality standards and regulations.
iBaan can also help Metals and Paper manufacturers better position themselves to control and lower costs to be profitable in a market where there is a lot of pressure on prices because of overcapacity and the products becoming a commodity.
iBaan also help Metals and Paper producers to exceed customer expectations and maintain customer loyalty" added Jay Galasso.
The iBaan suite of Internet-enabled solutions 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.
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