End-to-end connection of business processes in design and production

With the 3DEXPERIENCE platform from Dassault Systèmes and SAP S/4HANA, Nurol Makina opted for modern cloud solutions early on - since 2018. However, important potential of the applications remained untapped as there was hardly any data exchange between the design, production planning and service/support departments. Processes were limited to individual departments and could hardly be optimized to save costs.

For this reason, we started the project by clarifying the basic meanings and functions of the end-to-end process chains. We designed the workflows of each process according to previously defined structures and objectives and redefined the management requirements of the departments in favor of a federated approach. It had to be taken into account that Nurol Makina had previously worked with different providers for its PLM/ERP environment.

Within the project work, the focus was on drafting a "Big PLM Picture", which defined objectives in relation to processes and individual use cases. These were then assigned to individual project phases and the IT components required for implementation were determined. We ensured digital maturity for cross-platform process management with our two solutions, the 3DEXPERIENCE-SAP integration and cenitCONNECT Advanced Process Management. "We made sure that the processes became transparent," explains Michael Drews from CENIT, Senior Account Executive SAP Solutions.