The NLINK® MES to SAP® Solution is a pre-built out-of-the-box solution that integrates Manufacturing Execution System (MES) applications to SAP R/3 or SAP ECC systems. The SAP Certified NLINK MES to SAP Solution supports any MES that has a web services B2MML compliant API and comes with a comprehensive list of pre-built SAP transactions. The NLINK MES Solution provides freedom from being locked into predefined transactions that can not be changed.

THE PROBLEM
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MESs) come in a wide variety of flavors and successfully connecting them to your SAP system is a difficult, intimidating and expensive prospect. How do you do this without hiring expensive SAP consultants and without writing custom code or modifying your SAP system?

THE SOLUTION
The NLINK MES to SAP Solution provides a set of pre-built B2MML-based SAP interfaces to connect your MES to SAP. For a fixed price, we deploy the NLINK MES to SAP solution providing a real-time, bi-directional connectivity between your MES and your SAP system.

Closing the loop between enterprise and plant systems is an essential requirement in today's competitive environment. The NLINK MES to SAP Solution allows companies to leverage our experience of connecting MES's to SAP while creating an environment to improve plant operations on a real-time basis. This is what enables true plant to enterprise transformation.

• Standards Based - The NLINK MES to SAP Solution is built upon the ISA-95 / B2MML standard. It comes with a rich set of pre-built SAP MES transactions that can be extended, modified and managed without writing any code.

• No Coding - The NLINK MES to SAP Solution is a configuration-based system. No custom coding is required to deploy the NLINK MES to SAP Solution. Guaranteed.

• Non-Invasive - Absolutely nothing is installed into the SAP landscape and no additional SAP components or modules are needed to make it work.

• Comprehensive - The NLINK MES to SAP Solution supports all major versions of SAP R/3 and SAP ECC, from SAP R/3 3.1 all the way up to ECC 6.0. What's more, the NLINK MES to SAP Solution is a supported product that will continue to evolve as you upgrade your SAP systems.

• Extensible - The NLINK MES to SAP Solution comes with a variety of pre-built SAP interfaces but can easily and quickly be extended to support the specific needs of your Manufacturing environment.

• Store and Forward. MES transactions are critical but connectivity to the SAP system may not always be reliable. It's our beleif that any MES integration solution that does not provide built-in Store & Forward should not be deployed in a Manufacturing or process industry environment.

• Transaction Scheduler. In addition to processing transactions in an event driven manner, transactions can also be batched or scheduled to be posted to the SAP system periodically.

• Combination Transaction Support. Use transactions that meet the business need of the MES. One logical MES transaction can trigger multiple transactions in the SAP system.

VIDEO PRESENTATIONS
There`s really only so much information you can absorb by reading about an enterprise software product like the NLINK MES to SAP Solution. At some point you need to see the software in action and that`s what the NLINK MES to SAP Solution Video Presentations are all about.

B2MML WHITEPAPER
Learn more about the role of B2MML and other industry standards in integrating Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) to SAP. Successful solutions must not only be standards-based but also maintain enough flexibility to meet the almost infinite variation in requirements and deployment scenarios that are encountered in the SAP world. View the White Paper.

REQUEST AN NLINK MES TO SAP DEMO
If you have already seen the Video Presentations and reviewed the B2MML White Paper and would like to learn more by scheduling a WebEx demonstration of the NLINK MES to SAP Solution, please click here.


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