Many manufacturers of complex and highly regulated products deploying SAP adopt alternative third-party or in-house developed shop-floor execution systems because SAP ERP is perceived as having a weak shop floor interface and system reliability. Axon has developed a low-cost, simple to deploy SAP add-on which brings the power of SAP to shop floor personnel in an easy, user friendly, and highly configurable portal. Axon’s SAP manufacturing execution portal has the following features:

• Low implementation cost: no additional hardware, re-uses existing SAP license, two to four week deployment timeframe
• Consistent look and feel including SAP’s new signature graphical user interface: users can jump between Axon Manufacturing Execution and SAP ERP transactions seamlessly and without knowing
• Improved user interface: all data and functions needed by the shop floor - including electronic work instructions, digital signature, as-built recording, part issues, returns and swaps, inspection results recording, documentation display, qualifications check and labor recording – are made available in one configurable portal
• Out of the box support for complex manufacturing industry requirements and SAP solutions such as project/engineer to order, variant configuration, parameter effectivity, SAP’s Aerospace and Defense industry solution add-on, batch/serial traceability, UID, order change management, collective orders, manufacturer’s part numbering
• Support production, maintenance, service and refurbishment order types. Presents the same user interface regardless whether production or maintenance orders and notifications are being manipulated in the background
• Real-time seamless integration without data replication or mapping required between two differently architected systems

Download Axon's Manufacturing Execution System publication.