Teamcenter Gateway for SAP Business Suite Siemens PLM Software

Siemens PLM Software
Teamcenter Gateway for SAP
Business Suite
Providing reliable, flexible and efficient bi-directional integration
Benefits
• Provides transparent,
controlled access to
information
• Shortens innovation cycles
• Enables flexibility to adapt
to changing environments
• Provides consistent
company-wide data and
optimized processes
• Facilitates better decisionmaking
Summary
Teamcenter® Gateway for SAP Business
Suite® software is the powerful standard
solution for the seamless integration of
Teamcenter software from Siemens PLM
Software and the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system from SAP. Teamcenter
Gateway for SAP Business Suite provides
you with an intuitive and highly flexible
way to integrate engineering data and processes managed in Teamcenter with
product information and enterprise processes controlled by SAP® ERP. Teamcenter
Gateway for SAP Business Suite provides a
familiar work environment that enables
users to access all relevant data without
having to leave the Teamcenter graphical
user interface (GUI) regardless of where the
data resides. Processes become transparent
to users as engineering changes or release
workflows are no longer confined by
system boundaries. You can start and end
processes in Teamcenter or SAP ERP, wherever it makes sense for your business.
Teamcenter Gateway for SAP Business Suite
is an integral element of Siemens PLM
Software’s Active Integration product suite.
Consistent data
Using Teamcenter Gateway for SAP
Business Suite enables you to develop and
distribute consistent data across functional
divisions, avoiding time-consuming and
error-prone duplicate data entry and ensuring excellent data quality across your
enterprise. It provides:
• Controlled data sharing – Data is shared
and updated across system boundaries
whenever it is mature enough, with
precisely the content that the users of
the other system need and expect
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Active integration
Teamcenter Gateway for SAP Business Suite
Features
• Provides consistent data
• Enables flexible
configuration
• Allows central access to
Teamcenter Gateway for
SAP Business Suite data
• Ensures data integrity
• Provides extension to
integrate additional
enterprise applications
• Intelligent data mapping – Configurable
rules ensure that data is mapped properly
between systems. Error handling
capabilities track potential and actual
issues as they occur
Flexible configuration
Teamcenter Gateway for SAP Business Suite
provides you with the information that you
need the way that you need it:
• Federated content – Display both
Teamcenter and SAP ERP content in the
same Teamcenter window based on user
type, organizational groups, etc.
• Flexible data handling – Transfer data
between systems, or use the query
function to display live SAP ERP data
available in Teamcenter
Process Integration
With the Teamcenter Gateway for SAP
Business Suite, users experience a different
way of working: fast, efficiently and freely
configurable to:
• Workflow support – Use handlers and
triggers at any point in Teamcenter
workflows to transfer data to SAP ERP in
a way that is transparent to users
• Batch Processes – Use the Teamcenter
Gateway for SAP Business Suite batch
server to bi-directionally transfer or
synchronize data in the background
Better decision making
Teamcenter Gateway for SAP Business Suite
allows you to conveniently search for SAP
ERP objects from the familiar Teamcenter
GUI. It’s now easier than ever to find the
information you need, no matter where it is
stored:
• Remote query – Allows users to search
for SAP data and have the results
displayed in the same window with
related Teamcenter information. Search
results (e.g. items) can be easily
imported with a single right mouse click.
Remote query even supports wild card
functionality
• SAP data view – Graphical features, such
as checkbox, table support and colors,
provide an intuitive look-and-feel that
helps you to quickly spot important
information, enabling you to swiftly
make the right decisions
Central access to status information
Teamcenter Gateway for SAP Business Suite
provides a web-based administration environment that allows you to get detailed
information about an application’s status
wherever you are:
• Teamcenter Gateway for SAP Business
Suite dashboard – Collects transfer and
system status overview information
• Transaction, session and batch log files –
Shows the status of each transfer step of
a transaction, an entire user session or a
batch job
• Multi-language support – The
Teamcenter Gateway for SAP Business
Suite web administrative GUI can be
displayed in the following languages:
English, German, Spanish, French,
Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian and
Chinese
Active integration
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Batch-processing environment
Teamcenter Gateway for SAP Business Suite comes with an
integrated batch-processing environment to run asynchronous transfers:
Reliability and data integrity
Teamcenter Gateway for SAP Business Suite is designed to
run in a 24/7 environment so that information can always
flow reliably:
• Central batch queue – All batch jobs can be created in a
central queue of the background service processor
• Health-status monitoring – Teamcenter Gateway for SAP
Business Suite processes are constantly monitored and
appropriate actions are taken if a problem occurs
(automatic process restart, alerts, etc.)
• Batch clients – Batch clients can be installed in a
decentralized fashion, and automatically registered at
the central batch queue controller
• Easy configuration – During the batch client
configuration, filters can be used to define which jobs
are executed
• Out-of-the-box jobs – Several out-of-the-box batch job
templates are available for data synchronization between
Teamcenter and SAP ERP
Mapping configuration
Teamcenter Gateway for SAP Business Suite includes a GUI
for mapping configuration as well as the flexibility of using
a scripting language to ensure that any Teamcenter/SAP ERP
integration meets the functional requirements of your
business:
• Data mapping – Define your data mapping between
Teamcenter and SAP ERP for each transfer
• Business logic – Define additional business rules in
Teamcenter Gateway for SAP Business Suite mapping to
drive process flow
• Customer-specific transactions – Run customer-specific
SAP ERP functions as part of any transaction
• Quick verification – Execute mapping tests before
deploying the configuration into a production
environment
• Error reporting – Errors are reported directly to the user
(for user-level and workflow-based transactions), and/or
are logged in detail (for workflow-based and background
transactions) so that the cause of any transfer failure can
be quickly corrected
• Email notification – Automatic email alerts inform you
right away about errors in the workflow
• Proven reliability – Teamcenter Gateway for SAP Business
Suite was released in 2003 and is currently in production
at over 300 companies around the world
Transparent, controlled access to information
Teamcenter Gateway for SAP Business Suite facilitates data
sharing between all departments that are responsible for
bringing a product to market:
• Shorten innovation cycles – Using Teamcenter Gateway
for SAP Business Suite ensures that all stakeholders are
up-to-date on product changes
• Increase efficiency – Facilitate effortless data sharing
through business process automation
• Information at your fingertips – Access information
wherever it resides
Active integration
Flexibility to adapt to changing
environments
Teamcenter Gateway for SAP Business Suite
was developed specifically to provide customers in manufacturing with an intelligent
solution for company-wide consistent data
and optimized processes. It fulfills even the
most sophisticated requirements to make
certain that your business needs determine
how the integration operates, not the integration software capabilities:
• Flexible configuration – The open
mapping configuration file allows
modification whenever necessary
• Flexible updates – Update Teamcenter
and SAP ERP independently whenever
necessary
• Highly extensible – Connect other
databases, including marketing,
manufacturing execution systems (MES),
customer relationship management
(CRM) and supply chain management
(SCM) with Teamcenter Gateway
Extension Package software
• Data migration – Provide openness to
support data migration from one system
to another
Enhancing business process integration
The solutions based on the Siemens PLM
Software Active Integration framework are
aligned and configured quickly by consultants that are experts in both Teamcenter
and ERP applications like SAP Business Suite
• Implementing your use cases – Siemens
PLM Software enterprise integration
consultants work with your stakeholders
to ensure that an SAP ERP integration
project accurately incorporates your
business processes and integration use
cases
• Optimizing enterprise processes – We
incorporate industry best practices to
define a user-interaction model that is
seamless and largely transparent. At the
same time, everything that we do
translates to an integration that is easily
modifiable and upgradable, so it can
grow and change as your business does.
Teamcenter Gateway Extension Package
Teamcenter Gateway Extension Package
extends existing integrated Teamcenter
landscapes to enterprise applications other
than SAP, providing seamless integration
with legacy systems, subsidiaries, newly
acquired businesses, etc.
• Highly extensible – Teamcenter Gateway
Extension Package provides connectivity
to other (non-SAP) ERP systems, such as
MES, CRM, etc.
• Legacy systems integration – Incorporate
data exchange and workflows with
legacy systems
• Suitable for mergers and acquisitions –
Integrate newly acquired businesses that
may run their enterprise processes
(temporarily) on systems that do not
conform to corporate standards
• Design your IT landscape around
Teamcenter PLM – Provide endless
possibilities for designing your IT
environment
Contact
Siemens Industry Software
Americas
+1 314 264 8499
+44 (0) 1276 413200
Europe
Asia-Pacific +852 2230 3308
www.siemens.com/plm
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