Production planners, procurement specialists, materials engineers and others in manufacturing access the company's ERP system many times daily. For these employees, the ERP system is vital- without access to parts data, bills of materials (BOMs), inventory and pricing information, they couldn't do their jobs. But what about Design engineers? Or employees in Quality Assurance, or Sales and Marketing? Or your vendors and subcontractors? For them, access to current and prospective product information, including item masters, BOMs and Engineering Change Orders (ECOs), is equally important.

The Agile to Baan Adapter from Mobyz enables an end-user to design a product within the Agile Workplace environment and transfer the product's engineering data to the Baan Enterprise-wide Business System. This integration allows the user to take full advantage of the excellent Engineering Change Management functionality of Agile Anywhere™ - to reduce development time and to operationalize those changes in the Baan ERP system.

How the Agile to Baan Adapter Works

Once a product is fully defined, approved and ready for release, the Agile end-user utilizes the Agile ChangeCAST™ module to publish the new and updated product information. The Agile to Baan Adapter imports the data needed for production management into Baan ERP.

This process significantly decreases engineering change cycle times and prevents duplicate data entry. And the Agile to Baan Adapter verifies and validates the data transfer between the Agile and Baan ERP, providing a status report and error log to the end-user.

Increased Productivity and Faster Time to Market

By providing a quick and easy transfer of a product's engineering data from Agile to Baan, the end user can now focus on additional finance and operational activities that are necessary to turn an engineering product into a production-level product. The bottom line is increased productivity and faster time-to-market.

Agile to Baan Adapter Benefits

Complete integration of Agile Anywhere™ and Baan Enterprise-wide business systems:

• Eliminates barriers to sharing product data
• Turns engineering products into production-level products
• Improves Supply Chain collaboration
• Ensures visibility of impending product changes to planning, procurement and production departments.

Mobyz and Agile Software

Developing partnerships is crucial to the success of businesses today. That's why Mobyz has partnered with industry leaders like Baan and Agile Software Corporation. Our experience, knowledge and people along with Baan's premier Enterprise Resource Planning systems and Agile's Product Data Management solutions, provide clients with the total solution.

About Agile Software Corporation

Agile is a leading supplier of business-to-business collaborative manufacturing commerce solutions. Agile products enable supply chain partners to communicate and collaborate over the Internet about new or changing product content, and then source and procure the required components.