SAP is the leading platform for the management of production data.
Central production record with PAM-STORAGE.
Zollner’s product data is managed by means of SAP. Approx. 456,000 material numbers exist in SAP. A lot of structured information in terms of BOMs, drawings and many other documents is linked with these master data. Moreover, unstructured information such as plans, production instructions,
e-mails or general correspondence has to be managed outside the SAP world. This has caused media disruptions in the past which are now eliminated getting the DMS solution PAM-STORAGE.
The DMS solution assures that all those documents are stored in electronic files which are linked to the SAP application on the basis of the material number. Irrespective of data format and data source each document can be transferred into a central electronic production record. There are several opportunities to store new documents in the record: - Method Push: directly from the e-mail application Lotus Notes and Microsoft Office, in which a new menu item transfers the latest document to the PAM-STORAGE DMS Client to be filed in the production record.
- Method Pull: via an import function of the PAM-STORAGE DMS Client. Thus, the user is able to import a file (document) into a production record.
Each document to be stored must be tagged with the SAP material number and the document type. Only if the SAP material number is really available in the SAP, the document will be stored in the electronic production record.
Production files may be called up via a new function in the SAP menu bar. If the user starts the PAM-STORAGE DMS client in the SAP application, the complete electronic file linked with the SAP material number is read out of the archive providing on-screen access.
An overview of files will be achieved through electronic tab pages which ensure a structured view of comprehensive files. A tree-like structure simplifies the navigation within the file considerably and searched documents can be found quickly.
For reasons of quality, the Zollner management also decided to digitize existing/old production files. In the meantime, the electronic production record is filled with 617,000 files. |
