Third-Party Integration

The proliferation of web-based catalogs has provided manufacturers with an easy and effective tool to locate items with the desired specifications at the lowest cost. The traditional catalog function now comes in a variety of forms to improve business to business communication between systems. Examples include component supplier management systems, market site aggregators, independent trading exchanges, and traditional catalog providers with new web interfaces. These systems benefit the design and purchasing of new products by accelerating item location, maximizing design reuse, and reducing acquisition costs.

The PeopleSoft Manufacturing system provides an EIP to these systems, which maximizes the ease of importing item data into the PeopleSoft database. Using PeopleSoft Application Messaging technology, you can keep item and supplier/item information synchronized within the PeopleSoft system. In particular, you can launch, search, and import supplier/item information from the item content provider into the PeopleSoft database.

Product data management (PDM) systems effectively and quickly track and implement new product introductions and product changes. These systems provide engineering-centric software that often pulls together CAD and product documentation, BOM and item information, ECOs, and workflow.

PeopleSoft Manufacturing enables ongoing, one-way transfer of items, item revisions, and BOMs from a third-party PDM system to a PeopleSoft system. Using PeopleSoft Application Messaging technology, a third-party system can publish PDM messages to the PeopleSoft system.

You can now send item, revision, and manufacturing BOM information using product life cycle management (PLM) applications to manage new product introductions and change orders externally from PeopleSoft using the product data exchange (PDX) version 1.0 XML format.

See Understanding the PDX Integration.

You can use an MES to enable the optimization of production activities from production order launch to completion of finished goods. MES functions include:

• Resource Allocation and Status

• Operations/Detail Scheduling

• Dispatching Production Units

• Document Control

• Data Collection/Acquisition

• Labor Management

• Quality Management

• Process Management

• Maintenance Management

• Product Tracking and Genealogy

• Performance Analysis

To facilitate the flow of information between PeopleSoft and the MES, a group of EIPs provides a flexible link between the two systems. With PeopleSoft Manufacturing, you can:

• Communicate production orders and production schedules from the PeopleSoft system to the MES.

• Communicate item revision information from the PeopleSoft system to the MES.

• Send operation and order completion and scrap information from the MES to the PeopleSoft system.

• Send component item usage from the MES to the PeopleSoft system.

• Analyze production performance in either the PeopleSoft system or the MES.

  If you are looking for more detailed operational information, use the MES to gather this information.

You continue to use PeopleSoft Manufacturing for planning, material movement into WIP, validation of completion data, and production costing functions. The PeopleSoft system is the system of record for setup information, including item masters, BOMs, and routings.

PeopleSoft Manufacturing and PeopleSoft Flow Production enable you to use a bar code scanner, wedge connected to a PC, or radio frequency device to scan data. The PeopleSoft system provides EIPs that feed data from PeopleSoft Manufacturing and PeopleSoft Flow Production. You can use electronic data collection with these transactions:

• Actual Hours

• Completions

• Component Issue/Returns

• Multiple Output Completions

• Kit Issues/Returns

• Production Picking

• Manual Replenishment Requests

• Kanban Transfers

• Kanban Completions

• Kanban Receiving

You can also print bar coded labels for completed items and bar code-enabled reports.