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Index
About
Manufacturing
Why
Scriptura?
Requirements
Issues
Solution
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Discrete manufacturing
Consumer products
B2B
Just-in-time production
Continuous production
Investment products
B2B
Bulk manufacturing
Discrete manufacturing
Investment products
B2B
Continuous production
Consumer products
B2B
Bulk manufacturing
4. Review 2015
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• Inbound J.I.T. or stock
• Plant continuous or discrete
small quantities or bulk
• Outbound made-to-order or stock
• Sales BtB or BtC
• Personnel lowly or highly qualified
5. Manufacturing – Departments - Documents
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• Inbound warehouse
• Internal distribution
• Production
• Packaging
• Outbound logistics
• Research & Development
• Product Management
• Marketing
• Sales
• Support
• Human Resource
• QA forms
• Stock lists
• Shipping lists
• Labels
• Documentation
• Offers, orders and
contracts
• Invoices
• Direct mails and
campaigns
• Response letters
• Personnel administration
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Requirements in Manufacturing
• Often data from SAP
• Data is a mix of XML, RDI, OTF (SAPspool) and others
• Document composition for print, PDF and email
Simple stock lists
Complex quotes and contracts
• Adding supplements like documentation, manuals, etc.
• Electronic forms for quality assurance processes
• Business-critical printing for 1,000‘s of label printers (and more)
• Re-print of documents, sometimes days after the job
• Connection to archive
7. Typical for Manufacturing
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• Very conservative industry segment – many applications and
technologies are 20+ years old (or even worse...)
• Very SAP-oriented
• Slow pace for innovation
Still much printing, email is seen as an innovation
Paper forms instead of electronic ones
• IT-oriented initiatives and decissions
• Global approach (centralised, hub-and-spoke)
• Strongy price-oriented
8. Islands of Solutions
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MS Word
SAP
Output
SAP
SmartForms
Lasersoft
(o.a.o.o.t.)
Integrated
tool
Zebra
toolsAdobe
Forms
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Solution Scheme
SAP
PP/MM/SD/CRM
other
standard
applications
custom-made
applications
Centralized
Document
Forms and
Label
Generation
centralised
print
output
email
output
distributed
print
output
archive
and DMS
11. Certified Input interfaces
such as BC-RDI, BC-XSF,
BC-XFP, BC-XI, BC-XOM, etc.
„pull“ interfaces such as
ABAP-method, FuBa, stored
procedure
Proprietary output formats:
• OTF (SAPspool)
• RDI (simple, full)
• SmartForms
Where are the twerks?
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Archive interface (IXOS)
Workflow integration
GUI integration
Writing data back into SAP
and others
Etc
Etc
Distributed Print:
• manage printer farms
• add new printers
• automatically update
printer firmware
• automatically re-route
print jobs
• print external documents
Data Input Data Output As well as ......
12. Solving the Input Issues
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SAP
PP/MM/SD/CRM
SCRIPTURA
OUTPUT
BC-XXX
Custom-made
SAP
PP/MM/SD/CRM
SCRIPTURA
OUTPUT
BC-XOM
3rd Party BC-XOM Interface
SAP
PP/MM/SD/CRM
SCRIPTURA
OUTPUT
ABAP Method
„Pull“ Interface
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Solving the Output Issues
SAP
PP/MM/SD/CRM
Scriptura
Print
Management
Network printers, MFP‘s
Label printers
Automated firmware updates
Automated re-routing
Add new printers
Synchronise printer
definitions with SAP
14. Why Scriptura Engage
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• Offers innovation
digital communication (email, push-notifications, electronic forms, ...
add graphics and charts
Dynamic layout (e.g. tables, supplements, ...)
• Offers the required standard output channels e.g. PCL, ZPL
• XML data formats are becoming more common and accepted
• Integration with existing or new print mgt tools
• Deployable throughout the organisation
+sales, +marketing, +HR (e.g. with LiveDocs)
15. Pricing
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• Pricing is a sensitive issue in manufacturing
• Cost reduction is the main driver
• Price level lower than e.g. FSI
• Focus on
reduction of manpower in IT
reduction of overhead costs of MS Word,
SAPscript and other existing archaic tools
innovation needs in (digital) communication
production risk reduction
simplification of processes, e.g. simultaneous
document archiving
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What You Need To Do
• Try to learn and understand the manufacturing industry – how they work,
how they think (start with Wikipedia)
• Understand what they use now to generate documents
• Learn SAP parleance – know the words!
• Keep discussions rather technical
• Know our references in the industry – manufacturing is very sensitive on this
17. More info? Contact us:
EU phone: +32 3 425 40 00
US phone: 011 32 3 425 40 00
email: info@scripturaengage.com
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