inPOWER 2017

PneumaticScaleAngelus (PSA) is part of Barry-Wehmiller, one of Infor’s largest XA customers including 10 operating divisions and 11,000 team members around the world. PSA sells, designs, manufacturers, and services similar-model machines in both their United States and Italian divisions which aligns with 2 XA environments. These 2 environments, created by the need for different inventory valuation, had over the years become disparate from one another in regards to common items and machine bills of materials. This hindered engineering collaboration due to the bill of material silo effect across environments and service parts sales since the same global item could be sold as a service part but may or may not exist in one environment. A global initiative was created to create an automated replication process that would copy newly created and/or changed items and bills of material back and forth from one environment to another. PSA will save thousands of dollars in direct and indirect labor costs by having these common machine bills and items being housed in both environments in similar form as well as using this application as a springboard for the promotion of standardization across structures and processes.

Audience members having a basic knowledge of EPDM and System Link is helpful, but certainly not required to gain valuable insight from this session. You are encouraged to attend and listen and learn from John while he walks you through his experience with the development of this application. You will walk away with the following insights,

• Learn the different replication strategies available in XA.
• Learn how PSA uses EPDM Alternate Bill of Materials to quarantine replicated bills of material.
• Learn how System Link requests can be constructed dynamically through configuration files.