ERP & SYSTEM INTEGRATION
Two systems, two versions of the truth
The ERP knows what was ordered and what was booked. The floor knows what was made. When those two are connected only by a person typing numbers from one into the other, they diverge — and the divergence is discovered at month end, when reconciling them is somebody's least favourite job. The deeper problem is that the ERP holds the work order but has no visibility below it, so it cannot tell you whether an order is achievable, only whether it was achieved.
Connecting L3 to L4
Production reported upward
Actual output, measured from the machines, made available to the ERP — so the business reports on the same numbers the plant runs on.
Orders and targets brought down
Work orders and production targets taken from the ERP into the MES, so the plan the floor executes is the plan the business set.
SAP and other ERP systems
Integration built to the interface your ERP actually offers, rather than requiring a particular product or a specific module on your side.
Reporting and export
Structured export to Excel and reporting tools for the analysis people will always want to do outside any system, however good the dashboards are.
Reconciliation, not re-keying
Where numbers must be compared, the comparison is made by the system, and differences are surfaced rather than quietly absorbed.
Existing systems respected
Historians, quality systems and laboratory instruments you already run can be integrated rather than replaced.
How it works
Agree the boundary
We establish which system owns what — usually the ERP owns orders and materials, the MES owns execution and process data — so integration clarifies responsibility rather than blurring it.
Define the interface
We work with the interface your ERP supports and with your IT team's standards for it, rather than proposing a route that will not pass review.
Integrate and reconcile
Data flows both ways on an agreed schedule, with differences reported rather than silently overwritten.
Technical detail
Integration is built against the interfaces your ERP exposes and agreed with your IT function as part of scoping. Production data originates in the MES database, so the ERP receives figures derived from machine measurement rather than from manual entry. Export to Excel and reporting tools is available throughout for analysis outside either system.
ONE SET OF NUMBERS
Tell us what ERP you run and how production data reaches it today.