AutoTime and SAP R/3 - a perfect fit
Complex Shop Floor Data Collection and SAP Integration
Requirements Drive Decision for Selection of AutoTime
In August
of 2000 Goodrich Aerostructures, the largest division of Goodrich
Corporation, made a strategic decision to replace its legacy systems
with SAP R/3. The implementation would cover six large facilities:
four in North America and two in Europe and close to 5,000
employees. Furthermore, Goodrich established an extremely aggressive
"go live" date of January 1, 2002, for all modules. Just a little
over one year from start to finish.
Soon after Goodrich began mapping its requirements it determined
that it would need to complement R/3 with a robust shop floor data
collection system that would provide real time visibility of labor
against projects and production orders and calculate gross pay.
Goodrich's current system, custom developed over 20 years, had been
fine tuned to meet Goodrich's precise requirements.
Goodrich
determined that the new system, at a minimum, must have the
following:
- Provide Real Time Labor Collection and Costing
- Capture Multiple, Simultaneous Labor Events
- Allow for Group Labor Reporting
- Configure to Complex Union and Work Rules
(Payroll)
- Support Multiple Clients (e.g., RF, PCs, Shop
Floor)
- Create a Net Audit Trail for the DCAA
The Goodrich team evaluated several options in the marketplace
but quickly came to a unanimous conclusion: the AutoTime solution
was the only one that could meet Goodrich's demanding functional
requirements and had a proven and stable bi-directional SAP R/3
interface to Production Planning, Project Systems, and Plant
Maintenance modules. Eight months later Goodrich went live with SAP
R/3 and AutoTime in one of the largest, most complex implementations
ever in A&D.
If you would like to learn more about how Kaba Workforce
Solutions Workforce Management solutions can enhance your SAP R/3
system, call us.
|
