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 material (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.

Full Integration of PDM with Baan Enterprise-wide Business Systems

The bi-directional Universal PDM Adapter enables an end-user to design a product within any third party PDM application and transfer the product's engineering data to Baan Enterprise-wide business System. The integration of PDM and Baan allows users to not only rapidly develop a product in its engineering cycle, but to rapidly deploy and manage its delivery.

By providing a quick and easy transfer of product's engineering data from the PDM application 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.

How the Universal PDM Adapter Works

Once a product is fully defined, the PDM user can utilize the PDM module to create an immediate transfer file with the new and changed product information. Then the Universal PDM Adapter:

• Verifies / Validates the accuracy of the PDM data being imported
• Creates the appropriate Baan intermediate database tables (as needed)
• Imports PDM data into Baan database in preparation for use in the production environment
• Provides a Status Report, Error Log, and e-mail notification of the results back to the end user

Universal PDM Adapter Benefits

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