Model Group streamlines with ERP and Artioscad

Swiss-based Model Group will integrate Sap's enterprise resource planning (ERP) application with Eskoartwork's Artioscad software to streamline its multi-site operations into a unified database.

Cenit AG, a global systems integrator and official Sap development partner, will help with the installation, as will Dr Lauterbach and Partner, the Sap Business Partner and supplier of ERP solutions for the packaging industry.

The parties set up a bidirectional online interface between Sap's ERP solutions and Eskoartwork's Artioscad.

As a result, Sap will manage all data - including meta-data as well as ARD and MFG data, Artioscad's native file format.

Cad X, the Active X component of Artioscad, is used in Web and Com services that build the interface, resulting in greater productivity and efficiency.

Sap remains the central controlling unit for general data structure and processes.

The Sap online integration project calls for simplified and speeded-up processes.

Other requirements include: a direct paperless workflow, a central data structure organised and managed under Sap's content server, no data redundancies and a future-oriented solution using Sap standard components.

Once the project is completed, operators from all plants and departments of Model Group will retrieve their CAD data directly from the ordering process system without having to look up or recreate structural design.

While Cenit AG implements Sap's ERP introduction and project management, Lauterbach's modular hardware and software microprocessor development tools will support all the elements within the Model Group's multi-site networked environment.

Eskoartwork will handle the packaging pre-production solutions.

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