TAKE believes in integrating business processes as fully  as possible to the client’s ERP, rather than watering down a client’s needs to the lowest common denominator of several ERP  systems.

Summary:

Companies considering supply chain execution systems to integrate shop floor radio-frequency (RF) scanners and barcoding within their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems face a fundamental decision: which data model will serve as the primary system of record for manufacturing and distribution transactions? Regardless of the terminology used or marketing hype, supply chain execution systems must store their data to and drive their business processes from a primary database. To do this, there are only two options:

1. Transactions are processed direction against the ERP as the system of record
2. Transactions are processed against a separate data model and then batch updated to the ERP

TAKE firmly believes in the first option, using the ERP as the system of record for all transactions. In fact, TAKE has built its business around it. TAKE’s Gemini Series™ is designed to fully leverage the ERP data model, which is exactly why customers invested in their ERP system in the first place.

This paper outlines the impact the choice of system architecture has on these critical aspects of running the supply chain and maximizing the ERP investment