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News Release from: Visiprise | Subject: Visiprise Manufacturing 4.3
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 02 April 2007
Latest Visiprise release supports
imports from SAP
First software upgrade to come from Visiprise and SAP's cooperative agreement, providing customers with coordinated release cycles for consistent growth and maturity
Visiprise, a leader in integrated manufacturing operations solutions has announced the immediate availability of Visiprise Manufacturing 4.3 This release builds on the company's SAP integration utilising xMII and further enhances the user experience with improved performance and new production XML messages
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 8 Mar 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The release of Visiprise Manufacturing 4.3 completes the trilogy of product releases related to the Visiprise- SAP partnership.
In January, Visiprise Manufacturing was named an SAP-endorsed business solution, and in February Visiprise announced Visiprise ERP Shop Floor Integration 1.0 packaged composite application achieved "SAP xApps Certified - Powered by SAP NetWeaver" status.
Visiprise Manufacturing 4.3 supports master data imports from SAP to Visiprise.
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In addition, production orders based on planning and created in SAP are delivered to the shop floor by execution orders to Visiprise Manufacturing.
As production progresses, project results are reported back to SAP through quantity and scrap confirmations, closing the loop and tightly integrating the shop floor to the top floor.
This latest version of Visiprise Manufacturing is the first software upgrade to come from Visiprise and SAP's cooperative agreement, providing customers with coordinated release cycles for consistent solution growth and maturity.
Key benefits include:.
* Tight integration through Visiprise ERP Shop Floor Integration of the manufacturing shop floor to the entire enterprise for global visibility into manufacturing operations.
* Inbound and outbound communication between SAP and Visiprise Manufacturing for key manufacturing data - allowing for control of shop-floor processes through SAP.
* Integration through xMII creating a two-way information channel that synchronises enterprise and shop-floor activities, providing real-time visibility as well as up-to-date design and production data.
"Through our continuing cooperative agreement with SAP, we are able to provide our customers with an increasingly integrated enterprise," said Mike Lackey, vice president of industry business units of Visiprise.
"By improving visibility between the shop floor and enterprise, companies are able to easily identify and act upon opportunities to drive increased performance".
In addition, Visiprise Manufacturing includes enhancements for all customers including:.
* New production XML messages for greater efficiency of enabling tight integration to the shop floor.
* Improved performance through extension of the Visiprise Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Web services; provides access to all Visiprise Manufacturing business objects and processes.
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