| The price of petro is more and more expensive, the cost of raw material increases higher and higher, a gradual but steady rise in labor costs, on the other hand, lead time is required shorter and shorter, the logistic needs a fast speed and lower cost…Today every company is talking about the reduction of cost, the reduction of storage, how to improve the management skills, the improvement of execution, fast response to the market etc. All these are become rather important to improve the competition. In fact, most of corporations are facing the same situation, a raw material shortage, out of control of producing process, a late delivery, missing part etc.With the development of information technology, more and more corporations start to launch ERP system, by making use of information system, these companies can integrate enterprise resources, and this can improve the process of operation. However any system is only a platform, it needs all kinds of original business data to input to the system. If the original data is right, then ERP can do the data process and output something for decision. If the original data is wrong, then ERP will run a wrong output. When garbage in, then garbage out.As the original data is so important, if it was input manually, it is inefficient and easy to make mistake, therefore so many Auto-Identification technologies come out, such as Barcode, OCR, MBR, RFID etc.Among all these technologies, barcode is the most popular and stable tool. It integrates so many technologies included code, print, identification, data collect and process etc. Barcode is simple to study, fast to scan, the data is more reliable, and lower cost etc, it was used in many fields.Although so many fields use barcode system, but it is rather less investigation regarding the integration of Barcode and SAP system. Because SAP is high cost and difficult to implement, most of SAP users are big companies. In particular the interface between Barcode and SAP is quite complex, such as the material definition and code, process management, the connection of database, language code, script, and ABAP etc. Today more and more entities start to launch SAP system. It is very useful to investigate the integration of SAP & Barcode.Thyssen Elevators Co, Ltd. Start to use SAP in 2007, this article is based on current situation and barcode technology, according to the Systematic Method, the article is focus on how to integrate barcode technology and SAP system, it will cover material, warehouse, workshop, packing & delivery etc, what is the interface and solution, what is the key factor to success, and how does it work. The main content is as below.1. A simple introduction about Thyssen Elevators Co, Ltd, the related knowledge of ERP, SAP and the general knowledge of barcode.2. The research and analysis of the background of barcode system, the article has a simple introduction of current information platform and business operation, then analyze the major problem of the process, why we need to integrate barcode and SAP system.3. This part describes the detailed integration solution. A detailed instruction of SAP interface, and the solution structure, how the solution works, what problem does the solution solve?4. Follow to above parts, this part introduces the implementation, what is the key factor to successful implementation, and the benefits from the solution.5. A summary to the article, further extension and improvement, the new label technology RFID etc. |
