End-to-end processes: Sharpening your competitive edge
Compared to individual, isolated processes, end-to-end processes offer you a 360° view of your business processes, boost your agility and reduce your error risk. They give you comprehensive, cross-board management and control of all phases of the product development process and provide the means for optimizing them as you go. The benefits that businesses gain from implementing end-to-end processes include improved process transparency and traceability, shorter development cycles and greater flexibility. These factors all contribute to higher product quality and increased customer satisfaction while simultaneously letting you cut costs.
Your must-have: A smooth flow of data and information
To make end-to-end processes a success factor in product creation, you need to satisfy the preconditions for a fast, efficient and error-free flow of data and information. 3DEXPERIENCE and SAP play a key role in this context.
3DEXPERIENCE supports your product development and your management of the entire product lifecycle (PLM), while SAP is deployed primarily for enterprise resource planning (ERP), covering aspects such as finance, purchasing and production. Seamless integration of the two systems interconnects the entire range of business processes and lets you maximize all the strengths of both 3DEXPERIENCE and SAP.
Making it happen: System integration across all levels
An optimal integration of 3DEXPERIENCE and SAP should cover several levels:
- Integrating data: All relevant information within the two systems must be synchronized consistently and in real time. This guarantees that your teams can access the latest data at all times and thus have the ideal decision-making basis.
- Integrating applications: Linking the many different software applications deployed throughout your business gives you the means for automating workflows and thus ensuring seamless collaboration between different business units and systems.
- Integrating business processes: Your ultimate goal is to harmonize and optimize all your business processes across system boundaries so that your processes become more efficient. In this way, you minimize errors caused by manual data transmission and task handling.
The above three types of integration are mutually supportive. To achieve true end-to-end support for your business and gain the desired boost in efficiency and quality, you must implement all of them simultaneously.
Ready-to-Connect delivers total integration
For successful system integration of SAP and 3DEXPERIENCE, CENIT relies on the deployment service Ready-to-Connect. This pre-configured solution implements all three types of integration, giving you the digital continuity and seamless data and process flows that are key to end-to-end product creation processes. Ready-to-Connect lets businesses map a wide variety of scenarios, e.g. processes in product development or simulation prior to physical implementation. Long-term planning, e.g. timely ordering of components with lengthy delivery times, can likewise be integrated efficiently into the product creation process.
Variable conditions, a single flexible solution
Ready-to-Connect enables bi-directional communication between SAP and the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The integration of the two systems can therefore be adapted flexibly to a wide array of processes, taking individual requirements and the existing infrastructure into account. The integration solution is thus the right choice for any type of business, from small- and medium-scale companies to large international corporations.
Integration can also be adapted to reflect different production strategies such as engineer to order (ETO), configure to order (CTO), make to stock (MTS) or make to order (MTO). In developing the solution, CENIT took the very latest technologies into account, meaning that Ready-to-Connect supports all relevant IT infrastructures, i.e. on-cloud, on-premise as well as hybrid scenarios. Moreover, the integration process can incorporate existing technologies like SAP ECC.
How end-to-end integration pays off
Seamless integration of SAP and 3DEXPERIENCE with the aid of Ready-to-Connect offers businesses a wide range of benefits. Particularly in product development and production, our clients profit from:
- Increased efficiency: Seamless integration optimizes data flows and avoids redundant process steps. Different teams can access identical data in real time, accelerating decision-making and streamlining workflows.
- Transparency and control: Integration boosts transparency across the entire product creation process, offering clear overviews of the current status of projects as well as tools that permit rapid responses to changes.
- Cost efficiency: Automated and optimized processes reduce your operating costs. They minimize error sources rooted in manual workflows and thereby bring sustainable gains in product quality.
- Customer satisfaction: Accelerated product development and production processes contribute to faster product introduction, which in turn boosts customer satisfaction.
Ready-to-Connect offers an infrastructure that lets you fully exploit these benefits and lift your product development to a new level of excellence.
Improve your agility, cost efficiency and product quality by implementing end-to-end product creation processes throughout your enterprise. Ready-to-Connect gives you all you need to react flexibly to changing market requirements and gain long-term competitive benefits.
