Why xMII Matters

Before I why xMII is important lets us first see what it is;

The SAP xApp Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (SAP xMII), the world's first Manufacturing Intelligence Portal™, helps companies transform themselves into e-manufacturers by:

• Web-enabling all existing manufacturing and information systems to provide a common interface to all users in the enterprise

• Directly supporting the wireless revolution allowing employees, customers, and supply chain partners to monitor critical information through personal digital assistants (PDAs), phones, and other internet appliances

• XML-enabling all plant floor systems to simplify integration into e-business applications such as ERP, CRM, and supply chain optimization through emerging standards such as Microsoft's BizTalk, Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and others

• Enabling real-time views into the "make" portion of the supply chain to enable better decision making and available-to-promise (ATP) capabilities

The SAP xMII leverages advanced Web server technology to extract data from multiple data sources, aggregate the data at the server, transform it into a business context, and personalize and deliver results to users.  The user community can include existing personal computers running Internet browsers, wireless PDAs, or other business applications. The SAP xMII is logically constructed as shown below.

The SAP xMII leverages existing legacy systems and unlocks data for casual users throughout the enterprise. By exposing data from existing databases, the SAP xMII provides an environment to allow users to correlate data from multiple systems via a simple browser interface. The software does not need to be managed at the client site and no requirement for complex data warehouses or data models exist with an SAP xMII implementation.

Take this example,

“If we had 30 minutes of downtime in a factory because we could not access the screens, it would back up our operations to the extent that the senior vice president of manufacturing would have to shut down the factories. We would not be able to make cans because we could not track or account for them and there is no manual back-up.”

Well to solve this problem we are now using this software.

xMII serves as a middle layer for tying plant-level information from partner systems with enterprise data and business context from the ERP level. It provides prebuilt, standards-compliant connectors between the shop floor and enterprise systems, and a configurable dashboard.

So go ahead and find the new world.

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